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Not to forget that James Darren ( Tony ) had also made a big impression as the Singer and Bar Owner Fontaine in STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE 9- All the songs from there are to be found in a different arrangement on the CD JAMES DARREN: THIS ONE FROM THE HEART. Listening ion it is like sitting together with Worf and the Doctor on the Holodeck ::)
They attempted a reboot/remake back in 2002 but it didn't get past the pilot stage. The pilot was unaired...if you do a search around the internet you might find a copy of it.
I was just a little boy when this show was on. I still remember that my favorite episode was the one regarding the Titanic. Didn't know it was the first one though. Glad it was your favorite as well. Thanks for a nice memory of my childhood.
My favourite episode is The Day the sky Fell In. In that episode, Doug & Tony find themselves in Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, just before the Japanese attack. Tony wants to warn authorities that the attack is coming. Doug wants to stop Tony from rewriting history. In the end, Tony gets to the authorities and warns them, but they don't believe him and the attack happens anyway. In my head, a kind of remake of this would be perfect for a Time Tunnel movie, only instead of Pear Harbour on 7 December 1941, they arrive in New York on 11 September 2001
What a great show! I was 10 years old when it premiered and remember being intimidated by the scope of the Tunnel complex. Enjoyed the vid. RIP Irwin Allen.
I really don't remember many of the episodes. Loved the music and the special effects of that time. The one I remember the most is Tony meeting his dad the day before Pearl Harbor and trying to figure out if he should save his dad or not. Gripping stuff to a kid back then.
One of my favorite episodes. Years later Quantum Leap had a similar storyline in which Sam Beckett leaps into his teenaged self and later into one of his brother's Navy SEALS friends to save his brother from dying in Vietnam ("The Leap Home" pts. 1&2). I always thought the Pearl Harbor episode inspired the QL The Leap Home episodes because you had James Darren's character seeing his dad before Pearl Harbor and warning his father and then Scott Bakula's character first warning his brother not to go to Vietnam at the family farm in Indiana, and later becoming one of his brother's SEALS buddies to make another attempt to save his brother in Vietnam.
I remember watching THE TIME TUNNEL when I was 7 years old. I remember this episode! I remember i believe it was at school the Monday after this the teacher of my class made reference to this episode of THE TIME TUNNEL of how Tony facing himself as a child! In fact if my memory serves me right I believe my Sunday School teacher said something about it too! But I do know it definitely was brought up!
"Voyagers" had a story in which Jeffrey Jones tried to prevent the Titanic disaster. Phineas Bogg warned, "We can't do that! I know it seems unfair, but history is cruel that way. We must be here for something else."
I learned about Krakatoa from that episode as a kid. I love history and geography and that show held my interest. I was like 8 or 9 when it was on, and I didn't get to see every episode at the time. For some reason it was shown on Sunday afternoons in the Cleveland, Ohio market instead of the evening, which may have had something to do with the poor ratings that led to it's cancellation after only 30 episodes. There were some pretty cheesy ones, especially when they went far into the future and and dealt with hostile aliens out to destroy the Earth. It's tough to make the premise work and keep it fresh long term. Perhaps it should have been aimed more at the youth market, and played on making historic events more fun to learn?
I always found that a bit of an anomaly in the series. As you say in the first episode, we see Doug take senator Clark hundreds of stories down, making it appear that the Time Tunnel is in the basement of the underground complex. However, in the episode where they accidently retrieve a pirate instead of Doug and Tony, the pirate abducts Ann and threatens to throw her off a ledge 100's of stories down to her death. But in order for this to be true, the Time Tunnel would have to be on the highest point in the complex rather than the lowest one.
It was a fun show. I liked the episode where they end up in Pearl Harbour and Tony gets to see his dad and his younger self. Have you considered The Champions. One of my favourite shows from that period.
Little details, like the actors' introductions at the top of the episode, where one the stars would be in the foreground with the other two a distance behind them, and in the next shot a different one now in that spot really impressed me; it was the kind of creativity American shows of that period simply lacked.
Me too, I was born in 1955 and really experienced 1st hand the glory days of tv. I love science fiction and when I started seeing the show "The Champions" I was very elated. It didn't last very long. I marveled at their super powers. And it stared one future cast member of the soap General Hospital.
You didn’t even mention that Robert Duval was the villain in Chase Through Time! Amazing that one season was of 30 episodes! Now days we are lucky to get 10-12. Some of the TT episodes were almost the same (low) quality as those of Lost in Space and it would have been interesting to see what another season would have brought. Thanks for the flashback!
I shared your fascination with Halley's Comet based on the Time Tunnel episode. I couldn't wait for the comet to reappear in 1986! Imagine my disappointment when it appeared much smaller in the night sky than the blazing menace shown on the episode! A good friend and I still laugh about it. Thanks for this great lineup that matches my top 5!
The Halley's Comet of c.1910 was intense at the time. I remember my late grandmother of South Dakota telling me that some people put on white robes, climbed up on their roof tops, and were waiting to be ascended into the Heavens. Must have been a big let down when they finally decided to climb back down. 🙄
In all fairness, everybody believed that comets "burned." An episode of Lost in Space ("The Derelict") made that mistake when Major West spotted a comet and said, "It's heat could burn us to a crisp!" But back then, that was considered accurate. It wasn't until 1975 that somebody figured this out: If a comet "burned," then the exhaust would curve along with the comet and its orbit. Instead, the tail of a comet always points AWAY from the sun, thereby proving that it is actually melting and crumbling. That became the "Dirty Snowball" theory we know today.
I like the episodes Secret Weapon with Nemiah Persoff (he was an incredible actor) where the Soviets have a Time Tunnel decades before; the other one is Visitors from Beyond the Stars that precedes the concept of Cowboys versus Aliens decades earlier, and finally Town of Terror the last chapter.
The Time Tunnel was a great TV show. I remember the Titanic and Pearl Harbor episodes very well. The series blended history and science so well and the episodes were full of tension. It's a shame only one season was made.
I was born in '55. I loved this show. I was so young and so worried when bad things happened even though I knew it was TV...."Oh No!!! How will the get out of this!!!!". Loved how they could see things in it, the funky going in and out of it. Everything was so corny but it was so cool, just like most shows that time. I've got to find some episodes here on YT or elsewhere. What a memory....thanks!!!!!! Edit.....Just checked, full episodes are here on YT!!!!!! Gotta watch'em!!
@@Tazzman225 Duvall did a lot of TV at the start of his career; I remember one Voyage/Sea episode where he's some sort of humanoid recovered from a capsule on the ocean floor; when he's first freed from the capsule, the way he talks (hesitant at first, then more confidently) conveys that he's learning English even as he's beginning to speak it - a very cool bit of acting that always impressed me.
In the first ever episode of the time tunnel they where aboard the titanic, the actor who played the captain was micheal rennie....my nan's second cousin !!!!!......ah fame at last 😁
I just remember really liking this show which got me into studying history. The great theme song was the famous John Williams. I really don't remember these episodes at all and I'm glad they were more science fiction that just adventure. I only remember when they wound up at the Alamo and at the town of Jericho when it was captured by the Hebrews. I know it was only on for one season since Irwin Allen was supposedly running out of stock footage.
I seem to recall an episode where Tony and Doug ended up getting intercepted and deposited into a different Time Tunnel, one under construction by the Nazis in like 1944. They dressed the regular tunnel room sets with Nazi flags and the like. I seem to recall one of the plot points was that the Germans were still focused on using a metal pod to enclose the humans sent through time, to protect them from any harmful effects, and how Tony especially knew from his experience on his own project that this was a blind alley. I recall Tony the scientist being torn between fixing the equipment and setting them straight, and realizing who they were and the need to destroy the Nazi project. Am I remembering an actual episode, or was this is in a fanfiction book or even a comic book adaptation? I was like 11 years old when the show ran, and while I saw every episode except the one where the guys were zapped from One Million AD to One Million BC, I'll admit that adding nearly six decades of memories on top of that time of my life has tended to fuzz up the recall function quite a bit. 🙂 Let's call out the adjustment calibrations, shall we? "Milliseconds!" "Check!" Microseconds!" "Check!" "Nanoseconds!" "Check!" "Picoseconds!" "Check! All go!"
That's another great episode, @DougVanDorn. It's called 'Secret Weapon' and was the 11th episode. It was really hard for me to pick my top 5 eps and I considered that one for the list but ultimately I had to pick and that one fell just below the five. It would've made my top ten list though!
funny because of today's special effects this would be 1' of the easiest shows to bring back to TV and indirectly in other formats they did but time tunnel would be nice to see on TV again
One of my childhood favorites, too. The big computer in the show was re-used in many other shows and movies. I wonder that impressive prop is still around. It showed up last in an episode of Lost. And I always thought it was too bad that Irwin Allen didn't spend some money and make just one more episode to bring Tony and Doug home. And...John Williams of Star Wars fame wrote the theme song for Time Tunnel. Ah, the memories.
Lots of props, buildings on the back lots and film footages were recycled a lot. The village set that was used for Mayberry on “The Andy Griffith Show”, with the help of a few extras wearing German uniforms, some Third Reich flags & banners and a few 1930s era cars, became Heidelberg on “Hogan’s Heroes”. With a few Italian signs posted, a donkey and ox cart added instead, it became an Italian village scene in “McHALE’S Navy” (final season).
The props that were used and reused by Irwin Allen for his shows were components of the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer systems that supported the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system in the early 1960s. The vacuum tube computers were obsolete by the mid-1960s.
I totally agree that the pilot episode is my favorite for a number of reasons, one of which is a lifelong fasination with the Titanic, plus it is the only time we are really shown what the Tik-Tok complex looks like, with the vary similar look to the Krell underground from Forbidden Planet....
I remember this show, and watching it without fail every week, but I can't recall the individual episodes. My city's public library has a pretty good selection of old TV show collections on DVD, I'll have to see if this series in available. FWIW - that shot from the initial episode looking down into that 'atrium' with the missile-type device (a nuke reactor?) looks familiar and reminds me of other movies - Total Recall, the Fifth Element, Colossus, The Forbin Project (cheesy as can be!), The Matrix, to name a few.
Thanks for this Rich! I had forgotten all about The Time Tunnel too!! I enjoyed it when it was on. I believe they pretty much decided on most episodes NOT to mess with history, because that would cause them to have to write out a "make-believe future". No one would like that.
Chase Through Time was especially notable for its guest star, future Oscar winner Robert Duvall. I’d replace One Way To The Moon and End Of The World with Secret Weapon and The Kidnappers. Secret Weapon was more of an espionage thriller, with Doug and Tony deliberately sent to that time period and charged with spying on the Communist Time Tunnel and determining if the chief scientist behind it could be trusted in the present as he tried to defect. It was a nice change of pace from the usual peril of being dropped into dangerous situations through sheer bad luck- why did they never end up on Tahiti to be treated like gods by the natives? (Answer: it doesn’t make for very exciting television, and Doug and Tony might request that they just be left there, lol!) The Kidnappers was a typically silly alien plot, but reunited Doug and Tony with Dr. Ann MacGregor, at least for the episode. It gave Robert Colbert and James Darren a chance to actually work with one of their other costars, the wonderful Lee Merriwether, since otherwise the others were necessarily restricted to the Tunnel complex with no need or opportunity to make an appearance on the same set with them. (Whit Bissell got the chance to portray his ancestor in Reign Of Terror, but he was not playing their friend and colleague, General Kirk. I wonder if there’s any truth to the rumor that General Kirk was from Iowa and one of his descendants would have quite a career in sci-fi himself?) Honorable mention goes to Crack Of Doom and Merlin The Magician, for getting Tony and then both Tony and Doug back to the Tunnel complex, even for a short bit, although Tony got back in between two frozen moments in time and had to return and Tony and Doug were in a frozen limbo and not aware of where they were. It was still a thrill as a young child to see that they did get back, sort of.
What I love best about this overview is recognizing the notable character actors like Whitlike Bissel, Garry Merrill, and for good measure, Robert Duvall.
I remember the show fondly.I was 10 yrs old.The first episode with Titanic is the one I remember most.BTW the answer to the question should you change historical events is no.Cpt Kirk knew that when he let Edith Keiller die in the car accident lol
My favorite TV show when I was 7 years old...and I still love it...my top 5: Raiders From Outer Space, Chase Through Time, The Kidnappers, Visitors From Beyond The Stars, Secret Weapon
I was a little kid when this aired, and the episode I liked the best was one where they showed various characters walking around inside the tunnel set, because I was trying to figure out how it worked, and this was pretty much the only time we got to see it up close, and not from the head-on angle. Little kids aren't all that interested in narrative. The one you mentioned that ended in the beehive also made a huge impression on me, and stayed in my memory even as I forgot what it was from. And I remember liking the Pearl Harbor one a lot too.
A few years ago, two scripts' for never filmed lost in space episodes were adapted into comics. There must be as well, some long forgotten last scripts' made for the TT out there. Such a shame that this show didn't go for another 4 or 5 years.
Great show for great times of a kid going up in the 60's. I loved the Irwin Allen series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. (also the Thunderbirds (and yes, I know that was not Irwin Allen's, It was just the times.)
Nice choices but I was hoping you would mention the neat tag at the end of "End of the World," where Tony time travels to the outside of the Tunnel complex, just 10 years before. Doug & Tony don't know each other. Even when Tony disappears yet again, Jiggs (who should be aware of Project TikTok) looks totally stupefied. I always loved Merlin the Magician, one of the rare times Tony & Doug find both of themselves (albeit frozen in time) back in the Tunnel complex. I like Christopher Cary and his "knows it all" attitude about the future, the past, and time travel. "Kill Two by Two" with Tony & Doug transferred to a Japanese island with a Japanese soldier who can't face up to an act of cowardice. Mako does a fine job with this role, as hints of "The Most Dangerous Game" is played out. Icing on the cake is the soldier's father coming to the complex & seeing these events of the past pan out. "Secret Weapon" shows us another earlier model of what came before the Time Tunnel. Brilliant Nehemiah Persoff and the always reliable Michael Ansara deliver bravura performances as we see the past & present played out. Rendevous with Yesterday will always be my #1, and The Day the Sky Fell In will always be a close second (one of those rare moments that Irwin Allen allowed emotion to carry the episode). How much greater would this show have been if he would have allowed more emotion than flat out history to be center-staged.
For another TV series that used costumes and stock footage from the studio's own history, try 'The Champions' a British TV series will William Gaunt and Alexandra Bastedo. You won't be sorry, she's a beauty. - and the series isn't bad, either.
No matter what time or place, everyone spoke English. In the episode about the Trojan war the names of the gods are referred to by both Greek and Roman names.
Lee Meriwether later was a guest star on Star Trek ("That Which Survives"). During the filming of one scene, she had a huge mouthful of technobabble that was giving her difficulty, and she mistakenly said 'force field' and interrupted herself, "It's that Time Tunnel talk!"
Just recently,I was able to watch the whole show again, and some episodes still work really well. I loved this series when I was young, so bad, I was in front of the TV half an hour before the show started. End of the World for example is brilliant. But I also liked Attack of the Barbarians, Reign of Terror (with a young Napoleon), and the Custer episode, can’t remember the name, was it Massacre? And Rendevous is also my favorite.
That final image of "Chase Through Time" is seared into my brain since childhood - Robert Duvall, unable to travel through time to escape the giant bee hive, covers himself with a blanket as we hear the sound of the swarm of giant bees approaching. I felt sorry for him as I imagined the kind of fate and painful death that awaited him
My son and I have watched Time tunnel for years now. We own a DVD set and also own a prime video online copy as well. Funny enough, my favorite episode is Rendezvous with Yesterday also and my son's is Chase Through Time, which appears number three here. So we're right with you! Thanks for the look back!
I loved the series as a kid. I was 5 when it came out. My cousins and I would play a game like the Time Tunnel tumbling on the floor and landing in a Historical setting meeting one of the series's characters or traveling with Tony and Doug. Now as an adult, I think the 1st 15 episodes were very good, but I think some of the last 15 episodes weren't very good. It's a shame, the series wasn't renewed for a second season and the network replaced the series with "Custer of the West" a series lasting only two seasons. The rumor was the series was going to be renewed but wasn't because studio executives didn't like how History was being mixed with Science Fiction where aliens appeared in a few episodes, especially the last two episodes "Raiders from Outer Space" and "Town of Terror". I think the other problem for the show was the inability to bring Tony and Doug back home, but they would always bring some Historical figure through the tunnel to the present day and then send them back to their point in time. "Merlin the Magician" was a terrible episode. Merlin appears at the time tunnel complex, brings Tony and Doug home, and brings them to assist a future King Arthur in defeating his foes. Tony and Doug really don't do anything in this episode and Merlin has to reverse time to save Arthur after being killed by an arrow. I liked the episode as a kid, but as an adult, I think it's really bad. I think these 3 out of the last 4 episodes were the reason why the show was canceled by the execs. I like the show for the nostalgia, but I think the show had run its course. Irwin Allen had three shows on TV simultaneously. "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (VBS) from 1964 to 1968 on ABC, "Lost in Space" from 1965 to 1968 on CBS, and "The Time Tunnel" from 1966 to 1967 on ABC. The Irony in VBS's first season was more of a Spy/Cold War theme, but then seasons 2 through 4 were mostly about sci-fi with sea monsters and aliens. Yet the network renewed VBS for seasons 3 and 4, but the network canceled "The Time Tunnel" for that very reason.
I have loved this show since I was in middle school. Thanks for covering it. I just wish they had been able to end the series with them getting home. Then they could go on other, planned trips in a new season. So I dreamed.
@@RerunZoneI like 3 of your picks,I would have put The walls of Jericho and Secret Weapon too bad there wasn't a 2nd season the show can be seen on Metv 4:am sunday morning James Darrin had a recurring role on Star Trek DS9 as a 1960s holo deck vegas type singer who gave advice,It was great to see him again on a series on a regular basis
The two episodes that I mainly recall as a young boy was the first episode involving the Titanic's sinking and an episode where Doug and Tony are transported to the Time Tunnels project, but only 10 years beforehand. No body on US base knows who they are.
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Loved this as a kid, Time travel one of those great mysteries of possibilities . Could easily watch this series now as a 50 year old ❤️
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Back then Irwin Allen owned the evening sci-fi scene. If you didn't have one of his shows lunch boxes you weren't cool.
Doug Phillips and Tony Newman, Always together.
Not to forget that James Darren ( Tony ) had also made a big impression as the Singer and Bar Owner Fontaine in STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE 9- All the songs from there are to be found in a different arrangement on the CD JAMES DARREN: THIS ONE FROM THE HEART. Listening ion it is like sitting together with Worf and the Doctor on the Holodeck ::)
And today September fifth 2024, together again.☯️❤️
Don't forget, Whit Bissell (General Kirk) was in the movie The Time Machine (1960), as one of George's (the inventor of the time machine) friends.
He was also in Classics llustrated version of The Time Machine with John Beck and Priscilla Barnes
Awesome show. I loved the episode about Krakatoa. I really wish they would do a reboot.
I remember watching this as a child...only one season..what a shame..MeTV has it on late night weekends...great stuff
They attempted a reboot/remake back in 2002 but it didn't get past the pilot stage. The pilot was unaired...if you do a search around the internet you might find a copy of it.
They tried a reboot, but it didnt take off,people want to see shooting each other,or boring lawyer shoes!
I was just a little boy when this show was on. I still remember that my favorite episode was the one regarding the Titanic. Didn't know it was the first one though. Glad it was your favorite as well. Thanks for a nice memory of my childhood.
Irwin Allen's Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel, so intrigued me as a kid. I will watch reruns of these shows anytime.
My favourite episode is The Day the sky Fell In. In that episode, Doug & Tony find themselves in Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, just before the Japanese attack. Tony wants to warn authorities that the attack is coming. Doug wants to stop Tony from rewriting history.
In the end, Tony gets to the authorities and warns them, but they don't believe him and the attack happens anyway.
In my head, a kind of remake of this would be perfect for a Time Tunnel movie, only instead of Pear Harbour on 7 December 1941, they arrive in New York on 11 September 2001
There is a minor error in it, having given a different birth year date in another episode for Tony.
It was weird seeing Tony interact with his younger self in that episode.@@jmen4ever257
and meeting his Father, heart warming stuff
What a great show! I was 10 years old when it premiered and remember being intimidated by the scope of the Tunnel complex. Enjoyed the vid. RIP Irwin Allen.
I liked the pilot with the Titanic.
It was a wonderful series and for me as a child then, added to my love of history.
It was a pity that there was never more episodes.
I really don't remember many of the episodes. Loved the music and the special effects of that time. The one I remember the most is Tony meeting his dad the day before Pearl Harbor and trying to figure out if he should save his dad or not. Gripping stuff to a kid back then.
One of my favorite episodes. Years later Quantum Leap had a similar storyline in which Sam Beckett leaps into his teenaged self and later into one of his brother's Navy SEALS friends to save his brother from dying in Vietnam ("The Leap Home" pts. 1&2). I always thought the Pearl Harbor episode inspired the QL The Leap Home episodes because you had James Darren's character seeing his dad before Pearl Harbor and warning his father and then Scott Bakula's character first warning his brother not to go to Vietnam at the family farm in Indiana, and later becoming one of his brother's SEALS buddies to make another attempt to save his brother in Vietnam.
I remember watching THE TIME TUNNEL when I was 7 years old. I remember this episode!
I remember i believe it was at school the Monday after this the teacher of my class made reference to this episode of THE TIME TUNNEL of how Tony facing himself as a child!
In fact if my memory serves me right I believe my Sunday School teacher said something about it too! But I do know it definitely was brought up!
"Voyagers" had a story in which Jeffrey Jones tried to prevent the Titanic disaster. Phineas Bogg warned, "We can't do that! I know it seems unfair, but history is cruel that way. We must be here for something else."
My favourite was the episode involving the eruption of Krakatoa, the biggest explosion of modern times.
I learned about Krakatoa from that episode as a kid. I love history and geography and that show held my interest. I was like 8 or 9 when it was on, and I didn't get to see every episode at the time. For some reason it was shown on Sunday afternoons in the Cleveland, Ohio market instead of the evening, which may have had something to do with the poor ratings that led to it's cancellation after only 30 episodes. There were some pretty cheesy ones, especially when they went far into the future and and dealt with hostile aliens out to destroy the Earth. It's tough to make the premise work and keep it fresh long term. Perhaps it should have been aimed more at the youth market, and played on making historic events more fun to learn?
Those shots of the facility going down hundreds of stories are pretty impressive SFX for 1967!
I always found that a bit of an anomaly in the series. As you say in the first episode, we see Doug take senator Clark hundreds of stories down, making it appear that the Time Tunnel is in the basement of the underground complex. However, in the episode where they accidently retrieve a pirate instead of Doug and Tony, the pirate abducts Ann and threatens to throw her off a ledge 100's of stories down to her death. But in order for this to be true, the Time Tunnel would have to be on the highest point in the complex rather than the lowest one.
@@10Steve good point! I never noticed that plot hole before.
My favorite episode is the ghost of nero
I love this series. Irwin Allen has that special feel to story telling. Wish we would got season 2 and 3
It was a fun show. I liked the episode where they end up in Pearl Harbour and Tony gets to see his dad and his younger self. Have you considered The Champions. One of my favourite shows from that period.
Yes - one of many Brit shows of the period that were syndicated in the US, one of my favorites.
Here in the UK they still show "The Champions" repeats or re-runs as you Americans say.
Little details, like the actors' introductions at the top of the episode, where one the stars would be in the foreground with the other two a distance behind them, and in the next shot a different one now in that spot really impressed me; it was the kind of creativity American shows of that period simply lacked.
Me too, I was born in 1955 and really experienced 1st hand the glory days of tv. I love science fiction and when I started seeing the show "The Champions" I was very elated. It didn't last very long. I marveled at their super powers. And it stared one future cast member of the soap General Hospital.
You didn’t even mention that Robert Duval was the villain in Chase Through Time! Amazing that one season was of 30 episodes! Now days we are lucky to get 10-12. Some of the TT episodes were almost the same (low) quality as those of Lost in Space and it would have been interesting to see what another season would have brought. Thanks for the flashback!
I liked the episode where Doug and Tony meet Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett
I shared your fascination with Halley's Comet based on the Time Tunnel episode. I couldn't wait for the comet to reappear in 1986! Imagine my disappointment when it appeared much smaller in the night sky than the blazing menace shown on the episode! A good friend and I still laugh about it. Thanks for this great lineup that matches my top 5!
The Halley's Comet of c.1910 was intense at the time. I remember my late grandmother of South Dakota telling me that some people put on white robes, climbed up on their roof tops, and were waiting to be ascended into the Heavens.
Must have been a big let down when they finally decided to climb back down. 🙄
In all fairness, everybody believed that comets "burned." An episode of Lost in Space ("The Derelict") made that mistake when Major West spotted a comet and said, "It's heat could burn us to a crisp!" But back then, that was considered accurate. It wasn't until 1975 that somebody figured this out: If a comet "burned," then the exhaust would curve along with the comet and its orbit. Instead, the tail of a comet always points AWAY from the sun, thereby proving that it is actually melting and crumbling. That became the "Dirty Snowball" theory we know today.
Day the Sky Fell In is my favorite and James Darren's One of the few episodes with emotional depth perfectly blending war footage and live action
Agreed
Yes this one affected me a lot when I was an impressionable young person! So emotional, I never forgot it.
One of the saddest lines ever said in an Irwin Allen production: "At least now we know why we never found his body."
I like the episodes Secret Weapon with Nemiah Persoff (he was an incredible actor) where the Soviets have a Time Tunnel decades before; the other one is Visitors from Beyond the Stars that precedes the concept of Cowboys versus Aliens decades earlier, and finally Town of Terror the last chapter.
the setting for that was 1956 some ten years before 😑
I also love the episode: secret weapon ❤
I liked the Krakatoa episode myself.
So glad i got to meet James Darren & Lee Meriwether @ a convention 😊😊😊😊😊
That's a great memory, @Victor-gi3dy!
The Time Tunnel was a great TV show. I remember the Titanic and Pearl Harbor episodes very well. The series blended history and science so well and the episodes were full of tension. It's a shame only one season was made.
I cant believe I remember this series. I didn't even know I had forgotten it.
My thoughts exactly!! 😮
@tradde11 OMG Fireball xl5 I had completely forgotten that one too. Thanks.
I was born in '55. I loved this show. I was so young and so worried when bad things happened even though I knew it was TV...."Oh No!!! How will the get out of this!!!!". Loved how they could see things in it, the funky going in and out of it. Everything was so corny but it was so cool, just like most shows that time. I've got to find some episodes here on YT or elsewhere. What a memory....thanks!!!!!! Edit.....Just checked, full episodes are here on YT!!!!!! Gotta watch'em!!
I WAS WORRIED TOO
I was born 1955 and grew up watching the show also.....good times .... Now I have the show on DVD complete series....how fun!!!😅
Even though I was a little kid at the time, I remembered liking this show a lot.
I noticed Robert Duvall in one of the episodes.
That was Chase Through Time. He got his at the end.
@@Tazzman225 Duvall did a lot of TV at the start of his career; I remember one Voyage/Sea episode where he's some sort of humanoid recovered from a capsule on the ocean floor; when he's first freed from the capsule, the way he talks (hesitant at first, then more confidently) conveys that he's learning English even as he's beginning to speak it - a very cool bit of acting that always impressed me.
Season 1 episode 6 'The Crack Of Doom' about the volcanic explosion of the island of Krakatoa in the year 1883, was one of my favorites.
In the first ever episode of the time tunnel they where aboard the titanic, the actor who played the captain was micheal rennie....my nan's second cousin !!!!!......ah fame at last 😁
I remembered they were on the Titanic, and got away just before the ship sank.
I have all episodes on DVD. Has the movie as well. Very cool.
I just remember really liking this show which got me into studying history. The great theme song was the famous John Williams. I really don't remember these episodes at all and I'm glad they were more science fiction that just adventure. I only remember when they wound up at the Alamo and at the town of Jericho when it was captured by the Hebrews. I know it was only on for one season since Irwin Allen was supposedly running out of stock footage.
When Irwin Allen ran out of stock footage the show switched over to more sci-fi, alien stuff. Still cool but I really liked the historical stuff.
I seem to recall an episode where Tony and Doug ended up getting intercepted and deposited into a different Time Tunnel, one under construction by the Nazis in like 1944. They dressed the regular tunnel room sets with Nazi flags and the like. I seem to recall one of the plot points was that the Germans were still focused on using a metal pod to enclose the humans sent through time, to protect them from any harmful effects, and how Tony especially knew from his experience on his own project that this was a blind alley. I recall Tony the scientist being torn between fixing the equipment and setting them straight, and realizing who they were and the need to destroy the Nazi project. Am I remembering an actual episode, or was this is in a fanfiction book or even a comic book adaptation? I was like 11 years old when the show ran, and while I saw every episode except the one where the guys were zapped from One Million AD to One Million BC, I'll admit that adding nearly six decades of memories on top of that time of my life has tended to fuzz up the recall function quite a bit. 🙂 Let's call out the adjustment calibrations, shall we? "Milliseconds!" "Check!" Microseconds!" "Check!" "Nanoseconds!" "Check!" "Picoseconds!" "Check! All go!"
That's another great episode, @DougVanDorn. It's called 'Secret Weapon' and was the 11th episode. It was really hard for me to pick my top 5 eps and I considered that one for the list but ultimately I had to pick and that one fell just below the five. It would've made my top ten list though!
Communists, not Nazis
I rather had thought it had been better to do it with " NAZIS " instead with " RUSSIANS "
And later we had The Man in the High Castle!
Thanks for bringing back some great memories! It's amazing how ground-breaking this series really was.
funny because of today's special effects
this would be 1' of the easiest shows to bring back to TV and indirectly in other formats they did but time tunnel would be nice to see on TV again
One of my childhood favorites, too. The big computer in the show was re-used in many other shows and movies. I wonder that impressive prop is still around. It showed up last in an episode of Lost. And I always thought it was too bad that Irwin Allen didn't spend some money and make just one more episode to bring Tony and Doug home. And...John Williams of Star Wars fame wrote the theme song for Time Tunnel. Ah, the memories.
Irwin Allen reused a lot of props on his shows. He was a master of saving money on production costs.
Lots of props, buildings on the back lots and film footages were recycled a lot.
The village set that was used for Mayberry on “The Andy Griffith Show”, with the help of a few extras wearing German uniforms, some Third Reich flags & banners and a few 1930s era cars, became Heidelberg on “Hogan’s Heroes”.
With a few Italian signs posted, a donkey and ox cart added instead, it became an Italian village scene in “McHALE’S Navy” (final season).
@@RerunZone --- I heard ABC wanted Irwin to cut back as it was to costly and he refused so they cancelled the show. Same thing with Lost In Space.
The props that were used and reused by Irwin Allen for his shows were components of the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer systems that supported the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system in the early 1960s. The vacuum tube computers were obsolete by the mid-1960s.
@@Mikey300 Thanx - I always wondered where that hardware came from - you really did your homework!
My favourite show as a kid...
The Pearl Harbor episode gets my vote for #1.
I totally agree that the pilot episode is my favorite for a number of reasons, one of which is a lifelong fasination with the Titanic, plus it is the only time we are really shown what the Tik-Tok complex looks like, with the vary similar look to the Krell underground from Forbidden Planet....
Best thing about Time Tunnel? Lee Meriwether. Wish I could go back to the year I was born and get an autograph. ;O)
She was very beautiful!
Aunque sólo tuvo 30 capítulos, ninguna otra serie relacionada con los viajes supera ésta producción de Irwin Allen.
I remember this show, and watching it without fail every week, but I can't recall the individual episodes. My city's public library has a pretty good selection of old TV show collections on DVD, I'll have to see if this series in available.
FWIW - that shot from the initial episode looking down into that 'atrium' with the missile-type device (a nuke reactor?) looks familiar and reminds me of other movies - Total Recall, the Fifth Element, Colossus, The Forbin Project (cheesy as can be!), The Matrix, to name a few.
the public library: where is it (country,city, town) ?
Remember Land Of The Giants .... The FlimFlam Man .... ? 😊
Watched with my mum every week
Watched after school with lost in space here in Australia - the good old days!
Thanks for this Rich! I had forgotten all about The Time Tunnel too!! I enjoyed it when it was on. I believe they pretty much decided on most episodes NOT to mess with history, because that would cause them to have to write out a "make-believe future". No one would like that.
My personal favorite was the one where Tony and Doug found themselves on the Titanic, the night it struck the iceberg.
Thank you for a very nice retrospective.
My favorite episode was The Day the Sky Fell In.
Chase Through Time was especially notable for its guest star, future Oscar winner Robert Duvall.
I’d replace One Way To The Moon and End Of The World with Secret Weapon and The Kidnappers.
Secret Weapon was more of an espionage thriller, with Doug and Tony deliberately sent to that time period and charged with spying on the Communist Time Tunnel and determining if the chief scientist behind it could be trusted in the present as he tried to defect. It was a nice change of pace from the usual peril of being dropped into dangerous situations through sheer bad luck- why did they never end up on Tahiti to be treated like gods by the natives? (Answer: it doesn’t make for very exciting television, and Doug and Tony might request that they just be left there, lol!)
The Kidnappers was a typically silly alien plot, but reunited Doug and Tony with Dr. Ann MacGregor, at least for the episode. It gave Robert Colbert and James Darren a chance to actually work with one of their other costars, the wonderful Lee Merriwether, since otherwise the others were necessarily restricted to the Tunnel complex with no need or opportunity to make an appearance on the same set with them. (Whit Bissell got the chance to portray his ancestor in Reign Of Terror, but he was not playing their friend and colleague, General Kirk. I wonder if there’s any truth to the rumor that General Kirk was from Iowa and one of his descendants would have quite a career in sci-fi himself?)
Honorable mention goes to Crack Of Doom and Merlin The Magician, for getting Tony and then both Tony and Doug back to the Tunnel complex, even for a short bit, although Tony got back in between two frozen moments in time and had to return and Tony and Doug were in a frozen limbo and not aware of where they were. It was still a thrill as a young child to see that they did get back, sort of.
I had a crush on Lee Meriwether. Something about a brunette in a lab coat
2:21 Wait a minute. Did you say, "General Kirk?"
That's right: General Kirk, played by the ubiquitous Whit Bissel.
What I love best about this overview is recognizing the notable character actors like Whitlike Bissel, Garry Merrill, and for good measure, Robert Duvall.
As a kid…I loved this show
My favorite episode is when Doug and Tony get to meet Joshua before his battle at Jericho. . . .and he speaks perfect English!
I remember the show fondly.I was 10 yrs old.The first episode with Titanic is the one I remember most.BTW the answer to the question should you change historical events is no.Cpt Kirk knew that when he let Edith Keiller die in the car accident lol
My favorite TV show when I was 7 years old...and I still love it...my top 5: Raiders From Outer Space, Chase Through Time, The Kidnappers, Visitors From Beyond The Stars, Secret Weapon
I was a little kid when this aired, and the episode I liked the best was one where they showed various characters walking around inside the tunnel set, because I was trying to figure out how it worked, and this was pretty much the only time we got to see it up close, and not from the head-on angle. Little kids aren't all that interested in narrative. The one you mentioned that ended in the beehive also made a huge impression on me, and stayed in my memory even as I forgot what it was from. And I remember liking the Pearl Harbor one a lot too.
One of my faves! I guess it was ahead of its time...
A few years ago, two scripts' for never filmed lost in space episodes were adapted into comics. There must be as well, some long forgotten last scripts' made for the TT out there. Such a shame that this show didn't go for another 4 or 5 years.
Love Time Tunnel. It helps that I'm a history nut but can't beat this era of Irwin Allen
パールハーバーに行って hiroshimaに行かなかったのは悪意がある 一瞬に75000人が亡くなった
The Great Adventure was my favorite historical series of the 60's. Alas, it was for only one season, But, what a great theme song!
Good show.
Oh, and that’s a short “a” in Halley’s Comet as opposed to a long “a” in Bill Haley and the Comets.
Great show for great times of a kid going up in the 60's. I loved the Irwin Allen series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. (also the Thunderbirds (and yes, I know that was not Irwin Allen's, It was just the times.)
Nice choices but I was hoping you would mention the neat tag at the end of "End of the World," where Tony time travels to the outside of the Tunnel complex, just 10 years before. Doug & Tony don't know each other. Even when Tony disappears yet again, Jiggs (who should be aware of Project TikTok) looks totally stupefied. I always loved Merlin the Magician, one of the rare times Tony & Doug find both of themselves (albeit frozen in time) back in the Tunnel complex. I like Christopher Cary and his "knows it all" attitude about the future, the past, and time travel. "Kill Two by Two" with Tony & Doug transferred to a Japanese island with a Japanese soldier who can't face up to an act of cowardice. Mako does a fine job with this role, as hints of "The Most Dangerous Game" is played out. Icing on the cake is the soldier's father coming to the complex & seeing these events of the past pan out. "Secret Weapon" shows us another earlier model of what came before the Time Tunnel. Brilliant Nehemiah Persoff and the always reliable Michael Ansara deliver bravura performances as we see the past & present played out. Rendevous with Yesterday will always be my #1, and The Day the Sky Fell In will always be a close second (one of those rare moments that Irwin Allen allowed emotion to carry the episode). How much greater would this show have been if he would have allowed more emotion than flat out history to be center-staged.
I agree - the first episode was very good.
For another TV series that used costumes and stock footage from the studio's own history, try 'The Champions' a British TV series will William Gaunt and Alexandra Bastedo.
You won't be sorry, she's a beauty. - and the series isn't bad, either.
Vaguely remember Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution......that's all I got!
I was in love with Lee Meriwether.
I Wish I Could Have a Porsche 928 Time Machine & Be Young Again.
This is very helpful, as it saves a lot of time looking for the best episodes. Could you do the same thing with The Outer Limits? Many thanks!
Thanks for the memories...Cold War plots anyone?!😦💖💙💜💯🤍👍!
Hi, one of my favorite Sci Fi programs. Mr Allan love sparks and explosions. Lee Merriweather is very yummy.
I watched this show as a kid in the early 1980’s and I learned a lot and enjoyed learning about historical events.
This is still shown on ME-TV sat 3 AM CST. I watch it from time to time.
My favourite Nero!
From: Myron Ralph - One of the GREATEST science fiction shows, (if not the best), ever brought to television! Right up there with STAR TREK ! 😊
They have travelled through time until...2024....!
Oh wow. I'd forgotten about time tunnel. Thanks for the memory.
No matter what time or place, everyone spoke English. In the episode about the Trojan war the names of the gods are referred to by both Greek and Roman names.
Lee Meriwether later was a guest star on Star Trek ("That Which Survives"). During the filming of one scene, she had a huge mouthful of technobabble that was giving her difficulty, and she mistakenly said 'force field' and interrupted herself, "It's that Time Tunnel talk!"
Lee got to flex her acting muscles in 'The Kidnappers', one of my favorite "Time Tunnel" episodes.
Loved this series, but hated how it ended.
Loved the time tunnel when it was shown over here in UKland. One small thing though it's Halley's comet not hailey's comet Halley as in ally.
One of my favorites was the episode surrounding the eruption of Krakatoa!
Just recently,I was able to watch the whole show again, and some episodes still work really well. I loved this series when I was young, so bad, I was in front of the TV half an hour before the show started. End of the World for example is brilliant. But I also liked Attack of the Barbarians, Reign of Terror (with a young Napoleon), and the Custer episode, can’t remember the name, was it Massacre? And Rendevous is also my favorite.
Halley’s Comet rhymes with “Valley”, not “Daily”.
That final image of "Chase Through Time" is seared into my brain since childhood - Robert Duvall, unable to travel through time to escape the giant bee hive, covers himself with a blanket as we hear the sound of the swarm of giant bees approaching. I felt sorry for him as I imagined the kind of fate and painful death that awaited him
Yeah. I remember that closing scene well. Still gives me a chill now.
My son and I have watched Time tunnel for years now. We own a DVD set and also own a prime video online copy as well. Funny enough, my favorite episode is Rendezvous with Yesterday also and my son's is Chase Through Time, which appears number three here. So we're right with you! Thanks for the look back!
3:47 Is that Robert Duval?
Yep
Very nice job Thank you. Oh to go back ( that sounds appropriate ) to 1966 when I was eleven. Thanks for the blast from the past.
I like how the time tunnel always returns their clothes every time they disappear with some different clothes on from where ever they wind up in.
I loved the series as a kid. I was 5 when it came out. My cousins and I would play a game like the Time Tunnel tumbling on the floor and landing in a Historical setting meeting one of the series's characters or traveling with Tony and Doug. Now as an adult, I think the 1st 15 episodes were very good, but I think some of the last 15 episodes weren't very good. It's a shame, the series wasn't renewed for a second season and the network replaced the series with "Custer of the West" a series lasting only two seasons.
The rumor was the series was going to be renewed but wasn't because studio executives didn't like how History was being mixed with Science Fiction where aliens appeared in a few episodes, especially the last two episodes "Raiders from Outer Space" and "Town of Terror". I think the other problem for the show was the inability to bring Tony and Doug back home, but they would always bring some Historical figure through the tunnel to the present day and then send them back to their point in time.
"Merlin the Magician" was a terrible episode. Merlin appears at the time tunnel complex, brings Tony and Doug home, and brings them to assist a future King Arthur in defeating his foes. Tony and Doug really don't do anything in this episode and Merlin has to reverse time to save Arthur after being killed by an arrow. I liked the episode as a kid, but as an adult, I think it's really bad. I think these 3 out of the last 4 episodes were the reason why the show was canceled by the execs. I like the show for the nostalgia, but I think the show had run its course. Irwin Allen had three shows on TV simultaneously. "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (VBS) from 1964 to 1968 on ABC, "Lost in Space" from 1965 to 1968 on CBS, and "The Time Tunnel" from 1966 to 1967 on ABC. The Irony in VBS's first season was more of a Spy/Cold War theme, but then seasons 2 through 4 were mostly about sci-fi with sea monsters and aliens. Yet the network renewed VBS for seasons 3 and 4, but the network canceled "The Time Tunnel" for that very reason.
The Timme Túnel in american Series. For irving Allen.......
I have loved this show since I was in middle school. Thanks for covering it. I just wish they had been able to end the series with them getting home. Then they could go on other, planned trips in a new season. So I dreamed.
They're still somewhere, traveling in time!
@@RerunZone - and probably both in their 80's or 90's! (Oh wait, I forgot - like most pop culture fictional characters they never age)
@@RerunZoneI like 3 of your picks,I would have put The walls of Jericho and Secret Weapon too bad there wasn't a 2nd season the show can be seen on Metv 4:am sunday morning James Darrin had a recurring role on Star Trek DS9 as a 1960s holo deck vegas type singer who gave advice,It was great to see him again on a series on a regular basis
The two episodes that I mainly recall as a young boy was the first episode involving the Titanic's sinking and an episode where Doug and Tony are transported to the Time Tunnels project, but only 10 years beforehand. No body on US base knows who they are.
As a kid, I loved this show.
Why did it only have 30 episodes? Didn't they have enough time to do more? 😂
My memories of Time Tunnel? Lee Meriwether. Level = hot.
In “The Day the Sky Fell In”, Tony’s father was communications on the base not assigned to a ship.