THE TIME TUNNEL SEASON 1 V1
One of the first, and best, time travel TV series out
there! Starring James Darren, Whit Bissell, Lee Meriwether
& Robert Colbert!
The basic cruxt of the series is two guys who go into a
device that transports them to different times in history!
Oh, and they can't get back to their time!
EPISODE # 1: RENDEZVOUS WITH YESTERDAY(Sept. 09, 1966):
After pressure from a Senator, Tony decides to take the
first trip through the Time Tunnell, and winds up on The
Titanic!!
Guesst stararing here is the incomparable Michael Rennie
(The Day The Earth Stood Still), Wesley Lau(Perry Mason),
Gary Merrill(Mysterious Island[1960], Clambake, Earth
II), John Winston(Star Trek: TOS[11 episodes, Star Trek II:
The Wrath Of Khan, Star Trek: TNV episode "Come What May")! A
EPISODE # 2: ONE WAY TO THE MOON(Sept. 16, 1966):
The boys find themselves in 1978 on a ship headed for Mars in this
one!
Guest starring here is Warren Stevens(Star Trek: TOS episode
"By Any Other Name", Forbidden Planet)! A-
EPISODE # 3: END OF THE WORLD(Sept. 23, 1966):
The twp guys wind up this time in 1910 at a mine that caves in!
They also have to contend with the fact that Haley's Comet is causing
terror in the area!!
Guest starring another Star Trek Alumn, Paul Fix(Dr.
Piper in the TOS episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before",
also starred in The Riffleman) along with Paul Carr
(also in the TOS episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"!)! A
EPISODE # 4: THE DAY THE SKY FELL IN(Sept. 30, 1966):
December 6, 1941, a day that will live in infamy, also just
happens to be where our boys are in this episode!
Guest starring Sheldon Collins(Star Trek: TOS episode "A
Piece Of The Action"!) A
EPISODE # 5: THE LAST PATROL(Oct. 07, 1966):
We're now in 1815 and the boys are confronted with the British
just before they attack General Jackson!!
Guest starring here are Carroll O'Connor(All In The Family) and
John Winston(11 episodes of Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: TNV episode
"Come What May", Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan)! A
EPISODE # 6: CRACK OF DOOM(Oct. 14, 1966):
Now at Krakatoa, in the year 1883, just before the volcano
erupts!! A
EPISODE # 7: REVENGE OF THE GODS(Oct. 21, 1966):
Here we find our daunting duo in 1200BC, where they meet up
with Ulysses, Paris and Helen Of Troy! Oh, and a REALLY big
horse!!
Paul Carr returns! Also here are Joseph Ruskin(Star Trek: TOS
episode "The Gamesters Of Triskalian", three episodes of Star
Trek: DS9, Star Trek 9: Insurrection, Star Trek: Voyager episode
"Gravity", Star Trek: ENT episode "Broken Bow, Part 1"), John
Doucette(Paradise, Hawaiian Style, Lock Up, Batman And
Robin[1949])! A
EPISODE # 8: MASSACRE(Oct. 28, 1966):
This is in 1876, just in time for Custer's last stand!!
Guest starring Paul Comi(Star Trek: TOS episode "Balance Of
Terror", Ripcord), Lawrence Montaigne(Star Trrk: TOS epsiodes
"Amok Time" & "Balance Of Terror", The Great Escape)! A
EPISODE # 9: DEVIL'S ISLAND(Nov. 11, 1966):
Yup, that Devil's Island, in 1895!
Guest starring here: Theodore Marcuse(Star Trek: TOS episode
"Catspaw", Harum Scarum)! C
EPISODE # 10: REIGN OF TERROR(Nov. 18, 1966):
1793: France! And Tony and Doug run into big trouble with
the French revolution!!
Guest starring David Opatoshu(Star Trek: TOS episode
"A Taste Of Armageddon")! A
EPISODE # 11: SECRET WEAPON(Nov. 25, 1967):
1956 - Russia! And another Time Tunnel!
Nehemiah Persoff(Star Trek: TNG episode "The Most Toys", Some
Like It Hot), Michael Ansara(Star Trek: TOS episode "Day Of The
Dove", Star Trek: DS9 [2 episodes], Star Trek: VOY episode
"Flashback", Babylon 5 episode "The Geometry Of Shadows", Batman:
The Animated Series as Mr. Freeze)! A
EPISODE # 12: THE DEATH TRAP(Dec. 02, 1966):
1861 and in the middle of an assassination attempt on
President Elect Abrahm Linoln!
Guest Starring: Tom Skerritt(Contact, M*A*S*H, Top Gun, Poison
Ivy, Wild Orchid II), R.G. Armstrong(Dick Tracy[1990], T.H.E.
Cat), Scott Marlow(Star Trek: TNG episode "Ensign Ro") A
EPISODE # 13: THE ALAMO(Dec. 09, 1966)
Pretty obvious what this one's about!
Guest starring here is Jim Davis(Dallas), Rhodes Reason(Star
Trek: TOS episode "Bread And Circuses"), John Lupton(Broken
Arrow)! B+
EPISODE # 14: NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES(Dec. 16, 1966):
We are now in India/Afghanistan in the year 1886 where the
boys meet Rudyard Kipling!
Guest starring here is Malachi Throne(It Takes A Thief,
Star Trek: TOS [3 episodes], Star Trek: TNG[2 episodes],
Star Trek TNV: episode "In Harm's Way", Babylon 5 Episode
"The Coming Of Shadows")! A
EPISODE # 15: INVASION(Dec. 23, 1966):
One of the most hated type of shows for me, mind control
making a friend an enimy!!!!!! This one's in German occupied
France in 1944! D
THE TIME TUNNEL SEASON 1 V2
EPISODE # 16: THE REVENGE OF ROBIN HOOD(Dec. 30, 1966):
Never guess where we are now!!! Yup, 1215 in and around
Sherwood Forest! The boys get to meet Robin Hood!! B-
EPISODE # 17: KILL TWO BY TWO(Jan. 06, 1967):
Back to WW II, a small island off of Iwo Jima in 1945!! B
EPISODE # 18: VISITORS FROM BEYOND THE STARS(Jan. 13, 1967):
The duo are beamed aboard a space ship in the year 1885!!
Guest starring here is Ross Elliott(The Virginian)! A
EPISODE # 19: THE GHOST OF NERO(Jan. 20, 1967):
Ok, we go from aliens to ghosts! The boys wind up in 1915 during
WW I are in an old house that's being bombed! Eventually they make
their way up through a secret door, threby starting their next
adventure!! A
EPISODE # 20: THE WALLS OF JERICHO(Jab. 27, 1967):
Pretty obvious what this one is about! The boys meet up
with Joahua and the others from the story about Jericho!
Rhodes Reason returns! Also here is Arnold Moss(Star Trek:
TOS episode "The Conscience Of The King")! A
EPISODE # 21: IDOL OF DEATH(Feb. 03, 1967):
1519 - Mexico! And Tony and Doug come up against Cortez
and his search for the golden mask of the gods that
the local tribe worship! A
EPISODE # 22: BILLY THE KID(Feb. 10, 1967):
Ok, pretty obvious what this one's about: the boys
meet up with Billy the Kik and Pat Garret in the year
1881 in New Mexico!
Guest starring here is Robert Walker Jr.(Star Trek: TOS
episode "Charlie X", A
EPISODE # 23: PIRATES OF DEADMAN'S ISLAND(Feb. 17, 1967)
Now on the Barbary Coast with the pirate Capt. Beal(I've never
heard of him) in the year 1895!!
Guest starring here is Victor Jory(a former resident of Salem
Oregon, he has a park, road and hill named for him there)
(Gone With The Wind, The Green Archer, Papillon, Manhunt,
The Shadow[1940]), Regis Toomey(His Girl Friday, The Big
Sleep, Spellbound, Change Of Habit, Burk's Law), Robert
Duvall(Deep Impact, The Natural, The Godfather parts I & II)! B+
EPISODE # 24: CHASE THROUGH TIME(Feb. 24, 1967):
A sabotour kills a scientist, then plans a neuclear bomb
in the TT! The boys are tasked with tracking down the man
as he has gone through the TT to escape being captured
the boys wind up going through several time zones in this,
including 1547, 1,000,000 years AD and BC!!
Robert Duvall returns! A
EPISODE # 25: THE DEATH MERCHANT(Mar. 03, 1967):
The guys land in 1863 in the middle of the battle at Gettysberg!
Tony loses his memory and plays for the other side! In a
weird twist(as if time travel isn't weird enough), the time
tunnel picks up Machiavelli as well, dropping him in the mix!
Malachi Throne returns! A
EPISODE # 26: ATTACK OF THE BARBARIANS(Mar. 10, 1967):
The time: 1287, The Place: Babylo, oops wrong series,
The Place East Asia, the people: Khan and his followers!
John Saxon(Beverly Hills Cop III, The Last Samurai, Planet
Earth, The Bold Ones[The New Doctors]), Arthur Batentides
Star Trek: TOS episode "That Which Survives"), Police
Acadamy 2, 3, 4 & 6)! A
EPISODE # 27: MERLIN THE MAGICIAN(Mar. 17, 1967):
Merlin(yup, that Merlin) shows up in the "present" to intercept
Doug and Tony to get them to help him and Arthur defeat some
Vikings in 544! A
EPISODE # 28: THE KIDNAPPERS(Mar. 24, 1967):
Methinks the producers where pressured to make the show more
science fictionish!! In this one we now have time travelers
from another planet kidnap Ann and take her to their planet!
They send Tony and Doug after her!! The year: 8433!
Michael Ansara returns! A
EPISODE # 29: RAIDERS FROM OUTER SPACE(Mar. 31, 1967):
More aliens, and they're out to destroy the Earth in the
year 1883 in Sudan!!
Guest starring here is Kevin Hagen(Little House On The
Prarie, Yancy Derringer)! A
EPISODE # 30: TOWN OF TERROR(Apr. 07, 1967):
The last episode of the series(sadly)!
Even more aliens, this time they want to steal all the
oxygen from the planet! NOt only is the air supply in
danger where the boys are, but it also is affectin the
air supply in the Time Tunnel!! The place: Maine, the
Year: 1977! A
SPECIAL FEATURES:
IRWIN ALLEN'S HOME MOVIES:
(No Audio)!
FX CAMERA TEST
(No Audio)
STILL GALLERIES
INTERVIEWS:
James Darren
Whit Bissell
Robert Colbert
Lee Meriwether
THE UNAIRED PILOT FOR THE 2002
PROPOSED TV SERIES!
Oh boy, this is terrible, nothing more than a
war story, and I hate war movies!! F
TIME TRAVELERS:
Another series proposed by Irwin Allen that never
saw the light of day, or TV!!
As for the story, two dudes(a doctor and a scientist)
go back to 1881 to old Chicago looking for a doctor
to help them with a epidemic in the present! This had
possibilities but the two main actors where not the
best, and the story seems to drag! Still, not terrible,
and certainly not as bad as the TT remake in 2002!
The only known actor his is Richar Basehart(Voyage
To The Bottom Of The Sea)! B
From a reviewer at IMDb.com on Time Tunnel(1966):
Loved it so much I rewatch it every so often. I wish
it had more seasons. The new Roswell they remade is a
huge let down and does no justice. This show had heart,
great writing and drew you in. The new one is a really
pushy in your face show that I do not like. Jason Katims
needs to help them write the new version of Roswell because
he did amazing on this one. - nicolesgameaccunt
From a reviewer at IMDb.com on Time Tunnel(2002/2006):
This 2002 abortive attempt to revive "The Time Tunnel"
plays much like a Sci-Fi Channel movie-of-the-week. It
has nothing to do with the classic TV series, other
than lifting a few character names and a brief "sampling"
of the original theme. Rather, it comes out like a bad
copy of "Stargate". For the most part poorly and cheaply
made, it is just as well the pilot was unsuccessful.
However, there are some very interesting ideas going on.
In this one, scientists accidentally create a "time
tunnel" when trying to make "hot fusion". Instead, they
cause a storm in the time stream, and it takes them
four hours (240 minutes) to lock down one end of it.
The other end sweeps through time. After the "two-forty",
random changes have been made to history, and the
scientists in the fusion complex are the only ones left
who know what the correct history of the world is supposed
to be. Now they must send teams back in time via the
"time tunnel" and try to correct the errors. Teams (a
la "Stargate"), can go back in time, but are limited
to random time limits in which they can stay there (a
la "Sliders"). Unlike the classic series, the teams
can return to the present whenever they wish by
activating a small laptop-type device.
The World War 2 battle stuff is really pretty good.
It plays well for the most part. Things get stupid
when newly-recruited team member Doug Phillips meets
his grandfather in the trenches and they have a heart-to
heart talk. Further lapses in logic occur when the team
consists of two women dressed as GIs, one of whom is
black (units were not integrated at this point in WW2,
let alone allow for women in combat). And then there's
the whole element of mission control being able to see,
hear, talk with, and translate languages for the
travelers via a magic computer chip injected into
them.
Interesting to see once, but not if you're expecting
a classic "Time Tunnel" update. The music is incredibly
annoying, and the CGI very weak (it looks more "early
'90s" quality than 2002).
Available as an extra on "The Time Tunnel, Vol. 2" US
DVD set. - mooncity
From a reviewer at IMDb.com on Time Traveler:
This is the second attempt by Irwin Allen to do a
series about time travel. The only thing that would
have been different about this proposed series is
that the travelers wouldn't have been lost in time
as they were in the "Time Tunnel". All in all this
was a pretty decent show, too bad it never did make
it to series. I would have loved to have seen what
interesting stories they would have come up with. - Sargebri