Gulliver, Irwin Allen, Outer Limits, & REAL LIFE?

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Ross Mitchell: “Here’s what you missed on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.”

George Noory: ”Very small UFO type craft ... that seems to be landing all over Malaysia ... with three to six inch tall creatures ... running all over the place.

I would love to capture one of these little, tiny, extraterrestrials ... If we could teach him how to speak ... you know, ...

You could, like, ask him a question, and he’d say ‘eeed-eedeebie eeeb-bee’ or something like that.

I don’t think a three inch alien would have a deep voice.
But, you never know.”

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Real life inspires television fiction?

From: December 30th, 1963:
The OUTER LIMITS: “The Zanti Misfits”

Actors: Michael Tolan (Steve Grave) Olive Deering (Lisa)

The U.S. government has come to a coerced arrangement with the government of the alien planet Zanti. The Zanti are ethically bound not to kill members of their own species, and so have sent a shipload of prisoners to a cordoned-off desert area on Earth. They have threatened total annihilation if anyone intrudes. The military tries to seal off the area, but Ben, a psychopath, and his rich neurotic girlfriend Lisa joy ride into the area and come across the first ship. Ben is killed by the Regent of Prisoners - a insectoid alien no more than a foot long, but with vaguely humanoid features. One of the army personnel, a historian named Grave, arrives and saves Lisa, but the other prisoners launch an attack on the military command post. In a fierce hand-to-hand fight, the Zanti prisoners are wiped out. The military fears retaliation, but the Zanti authorities instead reassure them that there will be no punishment. They knew that the Earthlings would never tolerate aliens in their midst, and thus would kill their prisoners for them.


Broadcast date: 30-Dec-1963
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Director: Leonard Horn

SYNOPSIS...
An alien prison ship is sent to Earth. A man and woman break into it's desert landing site. When the man investigates the beehive-shaped spaceship, a large, ant-like alien kills him.

A historian, working for the military, rescues the woman. He brings her back to a military base in a ghost town. The alien spaceship lands in the town.

The ant-like aliens attack. Some humans are killed, but soon all the alien creatures are dead. Aliens, via radio from their home planet, thank the military for killing their criminals for them.

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In Irwin Allen’s “Land of the Giants”, ... a 1960's sci-fi TV version of "Gulliver's Travels" ...a collection of unwilling astronauts from Earth arrive on an Earth like planet, where everything is more or less identical to the Earth that they came from, ... except for the simple fact that they are only a few inches tall when compared to everything, and everyone around them.

Welcome to the Irwin Allen’s “Land of the Giants” guide at TV Tome.

http://www.tvtome.com/LandoftheGiants/

This two-season series details the adventures of the three crew and four passengers of the sub-orbital spacecraft Spindrift. They are drawn through a space warp that crashes them onto a planet where everything is 12 times normal size. The castaways struggle to repair their damaged craft and somehow get back to Earth while being hunted by the totalitarian government that rule the planet.

Despite the inherent scientific impossibilities (something 12 times as large would weigh 144 times as much, making it impossible for the "giants" to move), Land of the Giants, the last of Irwin Allen's four 60's s.f. programs, was highly-budgeted (about $250,000 an episode: a record for the time), features some decent characterization, and is another of the 60's shows to feature a competent African-American in a leading role.


First Aired September 1968
Last Aired September 1970
Status Canceled/Ended
Running Time 60 min
Country United States
Network ABC

Cast:
Gary Conway - Captain Steve Burton
Don Marshall - Dan Erickson
Don Matheson - Mark Wilson
Deanna Lund - Valerie Ames Scott
Heather Young (I) - Betty Hamilton
Stefan Arngrim - Barry Lockridge
Kurt Kasznar - Commander Alexander B. Fitzhugh

http://www.iann.net/giants/

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One of the "Crash at Corona" legends that has been talked about on Art Bell's program on several occasions, involved 6 to 8 inch tall "human beings" who had died from exposure to heat, inside of a crashed disc.

There's some text material involved with this story on-line someplace ...