World of Giants full-sized partner, Agent Bill Winters. Thompson set up the premise in the show's opening voiceover: "World of Giants" was produced by Ziv Television Programs, the company responsible for such hit TV series as "Highway Patrol", "Sea Hunt", and "Bat Masterson". Not a success, this series only lasted through its initial production order of 13 episodes. Thompson later went on to star in the (much more) successful CBS TV series "Daktari" (1966-1969). Nearly a decade later, in 1968, a similarly-themed Irwin Allen TV series, entitled "Land of the Giants", starring Gary Conway and Don Marshall, ran on ABC. Two years prior
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea novel. The cover submarine's bow is opaque, and her "Observation Room" is a rearward projection from the base of the conning tower. The basic shape of her hull resembles that of USS "Skipjack" (SSN-585), the first American nuclear-powered submarine with an "Albacore hull", including the cruciform stern and single propeller. A submarine design very similar to the craft on the 1961 cover, and its mission to save the world, shows up in a Dell Comics series called "Voyage to the Deep" in 1962 to capitalize on the movie's popularity. Its mission also took it to the Mariana Trench to stop