I never heard of "Wait till..." or Wacky Races before this thread. Land of the Giants I never heard of until IMWAN sometime in the last 15 years or whatever it's been by now (holy hell it's almost 20).

It amazes me that Land Of The Giants is so obscure! It held the record for being the most expensive TV series ever produced for many years (because of all the giant set pieces that had to be built from scratch). I assumed it'd be well known over there.

WTYFGH was on TV here for years, as were things like Mr. Ed, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, My Favourite Martian, F-Troop, Petticoat Junction and...well, a hundred other things. I grew up with so many American and UK television shows, as well as stuff from here and New Zealand.

Oh now all those other shows were in heavy rotation in reruns when I was a kid! I suspect because they fit into nice after cartoon (but before the evening news) half hour blocks, and ran for many more seasons. Land of the Giants was only two seasons, one hour episodes, so would not have been regularly syndicated on US independent TV stations back in those days. Clearly not the case when it came to exporting it elsewhere though!

That makes sense.

I always loved LOTG, though. I'd watch it again even now.

I never knew about it as a kid. When I heard about as an adult, I confused it in my mind with Space Giants, which was a Japanese export along the lines of Ultraman. We used to get reruns of that.

A Blu-ray set of the complete Huckleberry Hound series is being released on Tuesday:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJMP9M6M/?tag=imwan-20

I enjoyed watching The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants back to back on (Sunday, I think) nights. I think there
were reruns, though, filling that hour time slot. Like Jeff says, though, you really needed three seasons of a show
to get into regular rerun time slots in America in the 70s/80s. Sure, they were more hard up for anything to fill time
slots earlier, so I got to watch shows like My Mother the Car, but that show only had one season. Still, a season of
those was still 30 episodes; that could hold a weekly morning slot for six weeks, or a Saturday morning slot for
a year with reruns of the reruns. With most of us having just 3 or 4 channels (and maybe PBS), I was glad to have
even these short run shows to watch over the course of a year.