Land of the Giants: Graveyard of Fools (1970)
Season 2, Episode 25
5/10
The Final Episode
9 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
There's not much to this episode, and what's in it doesn't make much sense.

A scientist sends Steve, Val, Dan and Fitz to the other side of the world in a remote control model airplane. In fact, it's the plane from "A Small War".

When there's trouble with the plane, the giant scientist and his twin brother, waiting the little people's arrival at the Graveyard of Fools, use an alien machine to teleport the humans and the plane to the place. Why he didn't just use the teleporter in the first place is a mystery.

The whole plan was to get a tiny part to the brother, who would then have the little people fix the alien machine so it could increase its operation to full power mode. But for some reason he couldn't just place them in the machine. They had to stumble into it after a series of deadly "tests".

Um, OK.

Valeria screams a lot. Her low cut dress gets a fabric cover to raise the bust line, but in some scenes it's missing.

Mark fixes the scientists giant remote power station, remote control so he can use the plane to get Steve and the gang home. But then, again, the plane is barely in the air before the alien machine teleports them back to their side of the world.

At one point, Mark is held in a a triangle force field cell. But somehow he and Betty pass between two of the pylons without getting vaporized. Mark then shorts out the cell so he can walk back through way he and Betty were already able to pass before Mark shorted the cell.

In the end, the alien machine blows up. It causes the scientist's gear, at the other side of the world, to blow up, presumably because of a power transfer.

The humans run back into the forest towards their camp. That's the last of Land of the Giants.

They never got home. There were no remakes or movies.

Betty kind of saves Mark, even though they move freely between the pylons even before they're shorted. Poor Barry and Chipper have nothing to do but stand around waiting for the others.

The alien compound containing the machine is pretty nifty.
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