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The Time Tunnel Facts and Goofs
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- In this video we explore The Time Tunnel facts and goofs from the classic 1960's television series starring James Darren, Robert Colbert, John Zaremba, Whit Bissell, and Lee Meriwether who was also Catwoman on the 1966 Batman and starred on Barnaby Jones throughout the 70's.
The Time Tunnel goofs may actually go alongside the time travel elements of the series, with a little imagination. In fact, the series main characters, Tony Newman and Doug Phillips, having been lost in time the entire time, may have caused some issues to the space time continuum which showed up in the form of TV goofs we saw onscreen.
After the goofs, find out what other TV shows and projects the stars have been up to over the years. Finally, look at The Time Tunnel reboot that almost was had the pilot even aired. I look at where it failed and succeeded and what tweaks might have made it a great show, if it had been given a chance.
Go into the past into World War II of the 40's, pre-historic times, and back again, and what was Archie Bunker doing on the Time Tunnel in this video.
Plus, you may not know what other famous classic TV icon that Lee Meriwether played in the 80's for three years, that no one really associates her with. Hint, it was a monstrous role and required green makeup.
#timetravel #goofs #classictv #classictelevision #scifi #sciencefiction #60s
0:00 Intro
0:27 What series got The Time Tunnel canceled
0:40 Premise of the show
0:58 Goofs
2:22 Pearl Harbor episode
3:04 Archie Bunker's wrist watch
4:18 Shared costumes with Lost in Space
5:24 Fun Facts
5:43 Lee Meriwether
6:28 Cast information
7:58 The Time Tunnel failed reboot and 2002 unaired pilot
It's easy to explain how Doug and Tony's clothes always changed back to what they originally wore when their adventures started. When the time tunnel yanks them out and back into the time stream, they're actually being pulled back in time to just a fraction of a second after the whole thing started, thus putting them back in their original clothing!
Interesting theory. Makes sense.
@@tvcrazyman it's like the Hulk Comic Banner turns into the Hulk his clothes torn when he turns back to Banner his clothe magically reappear..........on The Hulk TV show his clothes are torn but his pants do not look torn when he returns to Banner.......of course he is shirtless.
Socks and underwear, too!
You might have mentioned that *Lee Meriweather* was also *Miss America* in 1955.
And *James Darren* was better known as a singer and *Gidget's* boyfriend in several movies, even though the title character was played by a different actress each time.
Moon doggie!
Lee was beautiful ❤
I love time travel shows and The Time Tunnel paved the way for other great shows like the original Quantum Leap.
I Love the original Quantum Leap, I have the complete series in my collection, but this new version that's on now just doesn't do it
Another time travel show was 7 Days.
In my opinion.. the Only Quantum Leap
Hi yes, it also makes me think about 'Stargate', the movie & TV series in terms of walking towards some sort of round shaped portal with a command crew, not exactly the same but an adaptation. You really see this in the never broadcast Pilot.
35th Man, I Loved The Time Tunnel as a Kid....born 60" ....... Irwin Allen usually Never disappoints
The Tunnel was only 50 feet long. The back section was on Rollers so the illusion of Infinity could be varied. The Tunnel itself was made of Plywood.
The Time Tunnel should have went on for years.
I agree.
Their clothes always return because their clothes were irradiated with them in the radiation bath they both experienced when they first entered the Tunnel. The Tunnel works by getting a fix on the particular radiation of each man and yanking what it finds through time. So their clothes reappearing represents them beginning to travel in time, all irradiated material whopping out at one point. (But then why doesn't Doug's hat snap back to his head each time? It apparently stayed behind on the Titanic.)
A lot is made in the series about "getting a fix" and two different signals, and Doug and Tony sometimes don't land in exactly the same time and place, and this always goes back to the concept of the radiation bath.
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Forget the clothes changing back. How do you explain the ability of people from other countries and times to speak English?
When I had my boyhood in the 1960's, The Time Tunnel was my favorite TV show! Even though The Time Tunnel only lasted for one season and as a boy, I only originally watched a few episodes, I am still glad The Time Tunnel was the beginning of my lifelong obsession and fascination with time travel. If I could build a real life, working time machine, in addition to investing in Apple Computer, Microsoft, Netflix, and of course, Amazon. I would also my time machine to bring back extinct species such as the Passenger Pigeon and even the California Grizzly Bear that used to live in Marty McFly's home town of Hill Valley California. By transporting extinct species such as the Passenger Pigeon from the past and then reintroducing them to the 21st Century. Great Scott!
When I was a boy growing up in the 1960's, my parents would not let me watch TV on school nights because of homework concerns, and understandably so. So I am still very glad at least, The Time Tunnel was on Friday nights, so I was able to watch the few episodes I was watched as a boy. This is why I wish that when I was a boy in the 1960's, the now-obsolete VCR technology was available in the 1960's and The Time Tunnel was renewed for at least three more seasons. As late as the 1970's and until the advent of the now-obsolete VCR technology in the 1980's, back then if you missed watching something on TV, you missed watching it!
I love time travel too and I've often dreamed of going back and buying stock in Amazon and Google too. I'd also buy Action Comics number 1 and a bunch of other key comics.😀
Whit Bissell almost always played scientists and military officers in the 50s and 60s
He was also in 1959's movie THE TIME MACHINE as one of the buddies of traveler H. George Welles (aka Rod Taylor).
He was also in I Was A Teenage Werewolf, I Was A Teenage Frankenstein, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Creature From The Black Lagoon.
Whit appeared in nearly every TV series of the '60s, popping up in Gomer Pyle USMC, Here's Lucy, Marcus Welby, Ben Casey, Kojak, Cannon and others, usually playing bookish authority figures. He also had parts in two of the best political movies, The Cain Mutiny and 7 Days in May. A superb supporting player.
This was a great show in the 60s almost as good as star trek
Good Presentation !
Maybe do Land of the Giants which is paired with Time Tunnel on ME TV every Saturday Nite LATE NIGHT or actually Sunday Morning with other Sci Fi shows as well
Love your comedic sarcasm man..😅
Thanks
That was awesome Thank You 😂🥰
Appreciate it. 😀
Awesome classic goofs and facts from awesome television
Thanks 😀
My pleasure 😃
The Time Tunnel's special effects in the tunnel and the control center were very impressive and convincing, but they fell off elsewhere. In the supposedly outdoor scenes preceding the battle of New Orleans, Carroll O'Connor and Tony and Doug are in a thickly wooded area, but there is zero breeze -- like they couldn't even get a simple fan off camera to make the branches flutter a bit.
Give 'em credit for that Pearl Harbor father-son meet up, though. That was very touching and well done.
Yeah, the Pearl Harbor scene was really well acted.
Read a book on this series and I remember a section where they discussed the Time Tunnel, at one point in production, extending through two soundstages. It was subsequently shortened to one stage. Probably it was bigger in the pilot.
Goofs or not, we watched it on our color t.v. (Magnavox)😊
Looked a cool program must give this a watch 😀
Definitely worth watching. 😀
I was just thinking that one of the silliest things in episode 28 the kidnappers is when they put the metal data card into the computer and come up with the coordinates to where Ann is. Kirk tells Dr. Swain to switch Tony and Doug to those coordinates. He does so easily. So, if that's the case why do they need to retrieve Tony and Doug with the sparks and such through the Tunnel? Why not just "switch" them to the time and space coordinates of the Time Tunnel complex?
My mom and I watched every episode of quantum leap She was hooked😂❤
I could never get into Quantum Leap. Time travel yes, but jumping into other people's bodies including different genders doesn't work for me at all.
As I've written before continuity was not a big consideration back then. These shows were aimed at boomer kids not adults.
Did you notice in the Pearl Harbor episode, shortly after Tony was handed the wood, You see an I-beam land on his ankle. At the very least that should have broken his ankle if not cut it right off. Later they show him lying on the ground and the beam is off to the side. I loved the show enough to overlook the mistakes, but it is funny to look at them. Thanks for the reminder Tvcrazyman.
Yeah, usually goofs don't ruin a show for me unless it revolves majorly around the plot. It's neat finding goofs like looking for small treasures.
In one episode, the guys go to Jericho, and the ancient Hebrews speak perfect English, a language that didn't exist at that time.
I only saw this in rerun. I can't remember when....I want to say it was early 80s. I really enjoyed it though. It wasn't as hokey as Quantum Leap....which I also liked a little bit but not as much. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
It seems that Doug and Tony never landed anyplace nice. They never had to shave and freshen up. Never had to launder their clothing. They could always converse with the people of ancient far off lands. But I liked the show and would watch a reboot but hope for far better continuity and explanations.
I bet since their clothing always reverted back, their facial hair reverted back on every trip into time as well.😀
I liked this show. Too bad it got cancelled after one season. How about the General who was played by Whit Bissell? The Day the Sky Fell In was really good. Liked the episode with Carroll O'Conner.
Lee Meriweather was Catwoman ONLY in the Batman movie because Julie Newmar had a conflict, and couldn't do it.
In the first episode the Captain of the Titanic was named Malcom and not Edward Smith.
No mention of the series VOYAGERS? Fun romp through time series from the early eighties that predates Quantum Leap.
Voyagers is one of my favorites. I need to do a video on it. It was a shame that they didn't get more seasons.
@@tvcrazymanhard to when the main star shot himself by accident, if I remember.
The accident occurred on the set of the series Cover Up. It was his next series after Voyagers ended.
Interesting
1:06 Is it me or does the tunnel look an awful lot like Starship Enterprise's warp core (power generator) of its 'ion' drive?
I wish that unaired pilot had been a proper remake of the original series with again two new versions of Tony Newman and Doug Phillips being lost in time and also stuck again in there old clothes and ending up in different places in the past or future and each episode ending on a cliffhanger like in the original and there colleagues trying to get them back home. That's probably why it didn't get get picked up for a series or ever shown because it was a completely different thing.and iam glad it didnt as I wanted to see an exact remake paying homage to the original.
I do like remakes to be as close to the original as possible in spirit. I don't like it when the characters are changed to where they aren't recognizable that's for sure. With time travel the possibilities are endless, so I wish they could do some kind of reboot done with the original series sensibilities maybe the original Tony and Doug have never aged and they've been bouncing around time since the 60's.
Say very cool show I watch them all win I was growing up and very funny blooer and goof up.
The 2002 Time Tunnel reboot no doubt had a politically correct screenwriter and casting director. Sam Groom can be seen @7:36 as Jerry the technician. He was in "The Time Travelers" (1976) as well as "Otherworld".
I had forgotten all about The Time Tunnel, even as a kid it seemed kinda hokey, but then again with shows like Lost In Space, the bar wasn't very high!
Bally made a pretty cool pinball machine back in the day, based on the show.
8:16 You failed to mention, in the remake pilot, Boston had a Team called The Boston Yankees
Whit Bissel's character was named "General Kirk," and Time Tunnel premiered the same season as Star Trek with Captain Kirk. Looks like he outranked Shatner 🙂
The swapping of red light green light was also in the 1st episode of Sliders.
Sliders was a great show when it first started and it started going down hill when the professor quit. That series had a lot of possibilities.
Hey, you didn't mention the most interesting thing about Whit Bissel. He had a part in George Pal's The Time Machine movie. And in a 1978 TV movie called The Time Machine as well!
In the scene from the Pearl Harbor episode there's a truck in the background. I didn't realize that the U.S. military bought British trucks! Proof of this is in the background in that shot.
2200 cwt ammo/water carrier
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You pronounced Tufeld correctly but Rpbert Colbert is pronounced Coal-bear. As a kid I watched Time Tunnel but I thought they strained to make use of stock footage from studio movies at the expense of plots that made sense.
8:35 I have a copy of the 2002 remake pilot. I suspect, if it went to series and ran long enough, we'd have stunned to learn that Toni used to be Tony, and the rippling time changes were the cause of the gender-swap. (Although being inside the experiment center should have shielded him/her from forgetting what the original time line was, *would* it prevent this change? Hmmm)
Yeah that is too bad that the reboot of Time tunnel was never picked up I like the concept of Time tunnel although it is extremely dated. As a result I was really hoping that after the reboot of Lost in space went off the air that the same studio would do a reboot of Time tunnel.
Yeah, that Lost in Space reboot was pretty good. They could probably do an interesting Time Tunnel.
it's pronounced Col-bear as in Claudette....
Actually, as pronounced in the credits for “Maverick”, it’s pronounced Col-Burt, as it is in this vid. I always assumed it was the French pronunciation, same as Stephen Colbert and Claudette Colbert use(d), but I’ve heard it in other things pronounced Col-Burt as well, which surprised me at the time.
If they had Landed 6 ft to the right they would have landed in the North Atlantic instead
of the Titanic
Archie a queen? on the throne?
$7.5 BILLION?
I think you mean million.
I thought he meant the cost of the Time Tunnel program itself; not the show.
@@PoesRaven73That is indeed what TV Man said. It was the cost of building and maintaining the machine and 'program' (in TV Land, not reality)
Yep, that was the cost of the Time Tunnel according to the show's story.
The reused prison suits were only because Irwin Allen was a notorious cheapskate, and reused costumes, props, and sets across all his shows...
The 2002 pilot was changed so much it looked NOTHING like the original show. I think that is why it failed. I don't know why for the life of me producers think its a good idea to make major changes to a rebooted series. It makes no sense. It's not what the people liked on the original. They shot themselves in the foot by doing what they did to the reboot pilot.
I always loved this show as a kid and have the complete series on Blu-ray. I also have the complete series of “Timeless” on Blu-ray. It actually had much better writing, sets, and costumes. Of course it was woke as hell, which was a major drawback.
Yeah, Timeless was good for the most part, but they did push political correctness on it sometimes. The Time Tunnel was old fashioned fun.
His name is pronoucned Cole=bear not Colbert. The T is silent.