I do remember this series. Mel traveled in a briefcase with a special chair (and later a door built into the same briefcase so he could come and go without the case being left open).
Back in Chicago circa 1965, I'm pretty sure Channel 7 (ABC) would run World of Giants episodes in the half-hour before they ran some sort of (heavily chopped-up) SF flick. My recall is that this was on Thursday afternoons at either 3:30 or 4, and the SF flick would be over by 5:30, in time for all the kids out there to have supper.
Remember this show and was glued to the TV every week it came on. If it was on in1959 I was 5 so a lot of specifics have escaped me.
I remember this show! I grew up near Chicago and WGN, Ch 9, reran this show after school.
Like the rest of you, I'm happy to know that I didn't hallucinate seeing this show. I don't know if it was during the show opening or maybe during promos for the show, but I distinctly remember and eerie, echo-y voice saying "WOG" (vocalizing the W.
For years, I remembered my father and I watching episodes of this series when I was very young. The main titles opened on a blotchy gray and white screen when suddenly something rapidly came out of the distance, and then shattered across the screen.
I was very young when this series was on television but still remember it. I think that very few people actually saw it since it only lasted for 13 episodes and it was in the days when many areas only had a tiny handful of channels to choose from.
World of Giants.
From a child's point of view, I loved this show. I have very few memories of the actual episodes but instead, like other reviewers, have little memory flashes of individual scenes.
