Genius at Work

Genius At Work is the 21st episode in the series. It aired March 9, 1969.

Plot
Barry and Fitzhugh encounter Jodar, a boy genius, who has developed a serum that increases the size of anything that eats it. When Chipper eats it and grows to giant size, Fitzhugh discovers what it does and eats it himself. Growing to the size of the Giants, he steals some clothes and acts obnoxious to everyone he meets, intimidating every giant he comes across. However, because of the clothes he took, he's confused with a giant who terrorized some boys and he's arrested by the police. When they find him with Earth money in his pocket, Inspector Kobick is called on to check him out. Meanwhile, Steve locates Jodar and convinces him to work on an antidote to restore Fitzhugh to normal. While he works on it, Steve takes the growth formula himself to pose as Fitzhugh's attorney to try to get him released, but Kobick's suspicions become roused when he doesn't buy Steve's identity doesn't match the ,an from whom it was taken.

Cast

 * Gary Conway as Captain Steve Burton
 * Don Marshall as Dan Erickson
 * Heather Young as Betty Hamilton
 * Don Matheson as Mark Wilson
 * Deanna Lund as Valerie Scott
 * Stefan Arngrim as Barry Lockridge
 * Kurt Kasznar as Alexander Fitzhugh

Supporting Cast

 * Kevin Hagen as Inspector Kobick
 * Ron Howard as Jodar
 * Jacques Aubuchon as Zurpin
 * Paul Trinka as Police Officer
 * Vic Perrin as Giant Man
 * Patrick Culliton as Policeman
 * Rusty Jones as Boy Witness

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode is a re-working of the 1965 film "Village of the Giants" which starred Tommy Kirk, Beau Bridges, Joy Harmon and Ron Howard.