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World of Giants
World of Giants is an American 30-minute black-and-white science fiction spy-fi television series that aired in syndication from September 5, 1959, until November 28, 1959. The series starred Marshall Thompson. It was aimed to be aired on CBS but a sponsor could not be found although the series aired on Australian television in 1959, and syndicated in select U.S. markets starting in 1961.
American spy Mel Hunter, while on a covert mission, is shrunk to a height of six inches after exposure to a strange radiation. The Federal Counter-Espionage Agent used his small size to infiltrate areas that a full-sized man could not. When not on assignment, he lives in a specially outfitted dollhouse-like miniature. The series co-starred Arthur Franz as his full-sized partner, Agent Bill Winters.[citation needed]
Thompson set up the premise in the show's opening voiceover:
It was up to me to be careful 3600 seconds of every hour. I couldn't expect the rest of the world to live my way. To the rest of the world, my problems are not a matter of life and death. The Bureau guards many fantastic secrets. But none quite so fantastic as Mel Hunter—-me. Following my escape from a nightmare behind the Iron Curtain six months ago, I watched along with 14 doctors and 17 scientists and saw myself shrink to the size of a six-inch ruler. The shrinking had stopped. The scientists were still hoping, still working on my case, and I was still a special agent... a kind of special special agent.
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.[citation needed]
A 1958 article in Variety magazine stated that CBS would be scheduling the series to be shown on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. The article described the series about a six-inch tall man by saying "Whether it is the turning on of a hose, a tipped bottle of glue, the closing of an ice box, the turning on of an electric light – each in its way is a monster or a monstrous situation for the 'little man'."
It was a high-budget program, and used sets and props built for the 1957 film The Incredible Shrinking Man.
The series was not picked up for broadcast by a major network, and a 1961 issue of Sponsor magazine stated that CBS was putting World of Giants into syndication, with a June 19, 1961 release. The series was available until at least 1964, for an entertainment industry yearbook published that year reported that CBS Films was offering the series for world-wide distribution.
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World of Giants
World of Giants is an American 30-minute black-and-white science fiction spy-fi television series that aired in syndication from September 5, 1959, until November 28, 1959. The series starred Marshall Thompson. It was aimed to be aired on CBS but a sponsor could not be found although the series aired on Australian television in 1959, and syndicated in select U.S. markets starting in 1961.
American spy Mel Hunter, while on a covert mission, is shrunk to a height of six inches after exposure to a strange radiation. The Federal Counter-Espionage Agent used his small size to infiltrate areas that a full-sized man could not. When not on assignment, he lives in a specially outfitted dollhouse-like miniature. The series co-starred Arthur Franz as his full-sized partner, Agent Bill Winters.[citation needed]
Thompson set up the premise in the show's opening voiceover:
It was up to me to be careful 3600 seconds of every hour. I couldn't expect the rest of the world to live my way. To the rest of the world, my problems are not a matter of life and death. The Bureau guards many fantastic secrets. But none quite so fantastic as Mel Hunter—-me. Following my escape from a nightmare behind the Iron Curtain six months ago, I watched along with 14 doctors and 17 scientists and saw myself shrink to the size of a six-inch ruler. The shrinking had stopped. The scientists were still hoping, still working on my case, and I was still a special agent... a kind of special special agent.
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.[citation needed]
A 1958 article in Variety magazine stated that CBS would be scheduling the series to be shown on Wednesdays from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. The article described the series about a six-inch tall man by saying "Whether it is the turning on of a hose, a tipped bottle of glue, the closing of an ice box, the turning on of an electric light – each in its way is a monster or a monstrous situation for the 'little man'."
It was a high-budget program, and used sets and props built for the 1957 film The Incredible Shrinking Man.
The series was not picked up for broadcast by a major network, and a 1961 issue of Sponsor magazine stated that CBS was putting World of Giants into syndication, with a June 19, 1961 release. The series was available until at least 1964, for an entertainment industry yearbook published that year reported that CBS Films was offering the series for world-wide distribution.