The Golden Cage is the 12th episode in the series. It aired December 29, 1968.
Plot[]
Mark discovers and falls for a beautiful woman named Marna trapped inside a jar and becomes obsessed with saving her, but Steve believes she might be being used as a trap to capture them and warns him to stay away from her. Ignoring his warning, Mark goes to rescue her anyway and learns she is the daughter of a former colleague whose spaceship disappeared fifteen years earlier. She takes him to see her miniaturized home and attempts to convince him to live with her and the giants who have caring for her since she was a child. Mark instead rejects the idea of living like a lab rat in a doll house, leaving heartbroken and escapes. Meanwhile, Fitzhugh tries to slay a giant turkey for food.
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[]
- Celeste Yarnall as Marna Whelan
- Douglas Bank as Giant Scientist
- Dawson Palmer as Giant Scientist
- Page Slattery as Giant Scientist)
Notes & Trivia[]
- In this episode, the giants are portrayed as the lumbering, limited language brutes they were in the pilot, suggesting this episode was meant for far earlier in the schedule.