Brobdingnag Brobdingnag Brobdingnag is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels" occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown land. In the second preface to the book, Gulliver laments that this is a misspelling introduced by the publisher and the land is actually called Brobdingrag. The adjective "Brobdingnagian" has come to describe anything of colossal size. Swift describes the location of Brobdingnag, and its geography, in the text of Part II of "Gullivers Travels", and
Land of the Giants the first episode, "The Crash," take place (footage from the pilot, where "Spindrift" becomes lost, is included in this episode), creating a "Twilight Zone"-style twist ending, with the impression of a recurring cycle of inevitable events. This episode would have been more effective as the final episode of the season, mirroring Irwin Allen's earlier series "The Time Tunnel," in which the events of the final episode return the characters to their starting point in the pilot episode, "Rendezvous with Yesterday"; and "Land of the Giants" makes more sense with "Wild Journey" switched for "Graveyard of Fools" in reruns. The first