The murder in the titular “Unexpected Murder,” episode 12 of World of Giants (WOG) is so unexpected that, unless I blinked and missed it, it didn’t happen at all! Nevertheless, I enjoyed this as the  penultimate episode of the series. Mel (Marshall Thompson) is sick, and when Bill (Arthur Franz) goes to the drug store…

There’s an amusing sequence in episode 11 (‘Off Beat’) of World of Giants (WOG). Miniature Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) climbs inside a piano to look for stolen Egyptian art treasures that might have been placed inside for hiding. Jazz pianist Chick Crescent (Johnny Silver) is nervous about his part in the robbery, so he sits…

Before becoming a scapegoat for the demise of once-popular television shows (Star Trek, Space: 1999, and The Six Million Dollar Man), Fred Freiberger was a prolific writer of television westerns who had a couple of big-screen genre credits. He co-wrote The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Beginning of the End (1957.) He also wrote…

So far, episode nine of World of Giants (WOG), ‘Rainbow of Fire,’ has been my least favorite… by far. Our trio of heroes, Bill Winters (Arthur Franz), Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson), and Dorothy “Brownie” Brown (Marcia Henderson) head to South America to search for a crashed missile. I missed what specifically it is they need…

Something I like about World of Giants (WOG) is that the subplot of a potential romance between Bill Winters (Arthur Franz) and Dorothy Brown (Marcia Henderson) is progressing naturally as the series continues, but without making a big deal about it. Any implied tension between the two last week becomes physical this week when, to…

My hopes of tiny Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) riding on the back of a pigeon in flight were dashed in episode seven of World of Giants (WOG), ‘Feathered Foe.’ After riding a zip line from the top of a telephone pole to the roof of the bad guy’s lair, it’s only to release the birds,…

With William Alland now producing, Dorothy Brown (Marcia Henderson) is becoming a more important character in World of Giants (WOG). In ‘Chemical Story,’ she gets to travel with Mel (Marshall Thompson) and Bill (Arthur Franz) to Washington D.C. to visit the commissioner. (This begs the question, where do our heroes live? I always assumed the…

We have a new producer of World of Giants (WOG) with the fifth episode, ‘Gambling Story,’ William Alland. The name should be familiar. He produced many of our favorites from the 1950s: It Came from Outer Space (1953), all three Creature from the Black Lagoon films, This Island Earth (1955), Tarantula (1955), The Mole People…

When a car runs our heroes off the road and their car flips on its side, the briefcase containing Mel (Marshall Thompson) is thrown from the moving vehicle and Bill (Arthur Franz) lies unconscious. As Mel follows protocol in “cases like this,” he attempts to get clear of the accident and find a place of…

Patterns seem to be forming in episode three of World of Giants (WOG.) Two episodes in a row have opened with a scene in ‘the bureau’s’ office with, not a recap of how Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) was shrunk to six inches tall, but how he’s doing in the aftermath. For the second week, we…