Land of the Giants by the builder, as well as a working door. Most of the model kit was molded in the same bright red-orange as the ship itself, while the interior was molded in a light green which could be painted. Deanna Lund (Valerie Scott) co-wrote a series of short stories based on the series, under the collective title "Valerie in Giant Land". MeTV began airing "Land Of The Giants" in September 2016 to complement its Saturday night Sci-Fi line-up of other Irwin Allen series: "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", "Lost In Space" and "The Time Tunnel". Prior to debuting on
Land of the Giants the part of Dan Ericson, credited his previous football, track and pole vaulting work for helping him with the stunts required. Elements of Allen's "Lost in Space" series recur in "Land of the Giants", notably the relationship between foolish, greedy, on-the-run bank robber Alexander B. Fitzhugh (Kurt Kasznar) and the young boy Barry Lockridge (Stefan Arngrim), paralleling the relationship on "Lost in Space" between Doctor Smith and the young Will Robinson. Also, for main cast billing, Kasznar was treated contractually in the same manner as Jonathan Harris had been on "Lost In Space": billed in last place on the opening