World of Giants


World of Giants is an American black-and-white science fiction spy-fi television series that aired in syndication from September 5, 1959 until November 28, 1959. It starred Marshall Thompson and Arthur Franz.

Premise

American spy Mel Hunter, while on a covert mission, is shrunk to a height of six inches after an accident.
This series stars Marshall Thompson as Federal Counter-Espionage Agent Mel Hunter, who uses 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-stars Arthur Franz as his full-sized partner, Agent Bill Winters.
Thompson set up the premise in the show's opening voiceover:

Cast

Production

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 successful CBS TV series Daktari.

In popular culture

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 to that series, an animated TV show called Tom of T.H.U.M.B., aired as a part of The King Kong Show. In 1973 the Hanna-Barbera's animated series Inch High, Private Eye, about a similarly small detective, premiered on NBC, airing for only one season.