I loved Time Tunnel and learnt lot of History from it. I think it was an interesting way to teach History. They rarely ventured into future. But your rational commentary has made the show much more interesting. I think no one can control the Time but God.
I was 9 years old when I saw this series...And I loved since the first episode till the last. Greetings from El Centro,Ca. USA.🇲🇽🤷♀️👨🦱💖🙌👏👌❤️🚘🫂⛪️💯⛩️🎶💈🏙💕 .
I actually do enjoy your commentary. However, respectfully your premise that The Time Tunnel is a TV Fail is completely wrong and unfounded. Although, the series only lasted a year, it had great ratings, but ABC wanted Irwin Allen to cut the budget which in no way he would do. A great series full of imagination and suspense in my humble opinion!
Correction: reviews for the series were impressive but tv ratings were mediocre. The company offered Irwin Allen another season but if he would submit to producing it minus 1/3 of the budget. Irwin refused so that was that.
I was about six when this aired! I'd never heard of the Titanic or Merlin the Magician or Perl Harbor. And I hadn't given a thought to the late 1970s, when I'd be going to school and when they set a couple of episodes! Still a fun adventure show and thanks for this fun review!
I always thought the most amazing aspect of the show was James Darren's green turtleneck shirt which never seemed to get damaged or even dirty. Considering how many places he got sent where he starts out being tossed on the floor or even the ground, that's some great piece of clothing. I was 15 when this show was on and it was on a Friday night so I could watch it (we weren't allowed TV on nights where there was school the next day). The set's were great especially the Time Tunnel Complex but the scripts were only so-so. They were constrained to write around the studio's stock footage of old movies. Some great guest stars, Michael Rennie, Carrol O'Connor, Robert Duvall, etc.
I remember too it was on Friday nites and those at my middle school were the notes called " Sports nites" and u paid I think .35 cents and kids from our school would come to the gym and some guys would check out a ball for hoops and the had a bar where u can could get drinks.....cola drinks, and in another area a tv where the group there picked this show those notes and then there was the big draw by in another room where local kids with bands would play and guys and girls would mingle and dance but I couldn't dance for spit and watched but not until our nerd squad finished watching time tunnel.Dont think I was ever brave enough to get more than one dance in the three years of sports nites I attended. Too shy. Growing up an only with two parents who hated each other and me for being born and making them stick together and never ceased reminding me. My mothers now 91 and still at it.
As ssomeone loving the STAR TREK FRENCHISE as well I am torn, honestly. And me I am 62 and started to watch the Show from the start in Germany in 1970/71
I mostly laugh at the ongoing incompetence of the Tunnel staff, and the never-ending contradictory techno-babble they spout every week. As a teen, I had this theory that Tony had written an "operator's manual" that explained how to make the thing work properly... but when he ran into the Tunnel, nobody else knew where the manual was. 😄
@@dwashbur -- I always remember a TV GUIDE interview with Richard Widmark for his tv-movie series, "MADIGAN". At the end, he was asked, "What do you think of the show's chances?" He replied, "All I know is, EVERY time I like a show, it gets CANCELLED after one year." The article ended by saying, "MADIGAN" had just been cancelled. (That show MADE me a fan of Richard Widmark.)
UNREAL, why not the hack; it is not called for nothing SCIENCE FICTION. ( Fun Fact for folks curious about Gernam: Up untill the Seventies: TECHNISCH-UTOPISCHE ROMANE/ABENTEUER )
THE TIME TUNNEL was the only Irwin Allen show I managed to see from the very 1st episode! I loved it from the start. It was frustrating that they never reran the pilot... that the show was cancelled without a proper resolution. That because it only had 30 episodes, it was only rerun on weekends. I read that, after slowly building up to it, the final episode did have a FINAL scene where, at last, Doug & Tony made it back to the Tunnel! Imagine a 2nd season with more-controlled trips. But ABC replaced that final scene with a lead-in to the 1st rerun... which was the "Pearl Harbor" episode. (I definitely remember ABC re-running the "Moon" episode... but, out-of-sequence. Networks did that a lot when they had more than 26 episodes, they'd skip lesser ones, and not always rerun stories in the original order.) I hoped the DVD box set might have that never-seen ending... but it didn't. Instead, they had a trailer for reruns in general, apparently run during syndication. I somehow never saw the pilot again until I got the DVD box a couple years ago. I was absolutely astonished, when, on re-watching it... my memory of it was SO clear, SO vivid.. it felt as though I'd watched it only a few weeks earlier. That's NEVER happened with me with any other show I watched from that far back. It was uncanny. My late best friend Jim and I used to refer to what we called "problem-based shows". If you solve the problem, the show's over. In the case of THE TIME TUNNEL, the problem is bringing Doug & Tony back. But this did not need to be the end. As I said above, had they made it back, they could then have a 2nd season with more-controlled trips. On DOCTOR WHO, the initial "problem" was trying to get the 2 school-teachers, Ian & Barbara, back to their own time. In the next-to-last story of the 2nd season, "The Chase", they finally made it back to London, albeit 2 years after they left. But the show continued without them for another 24 seasons! THE TIME TUNNEL has always been my 2nd-favorite Irwin Allen show, right after LOST IN SPACE. It's funny that LIS's silliest season was the same year that TT was so damned good. VOYAGE was also at its silliest that year. The next year, VOYAGE and LIS came back, both less silly (at least at the start). But TT got axed, because, behind-the-scenes, someone pushed another show on ABC... which replaced it... and then got cancelled after only 6 weeks. OY. I would have rather Irwin Allen dropped VOYAGE and had a 2nd season of TIME TUNNEL. That year, I watched ABC the whole evening: THE GREEN HORNET, THE TIME TUNNEL, RANGO, THE PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON, and, THE AVENGERS. I never saw THE WILD WILD WEST until after it was cancelled. The following year, I saw the 2nd season of TARZAN, which was followed by the 2nd season of STAR TREK. Blows my mind I can remember all this.
Okay, if you don't like his commentary, then go to the other places on youtube where you can watch The Time Tunnel full episodes for free without a subscription. Oh, wait! THERE AREN'T ANY! That's because the owners of broadcast rights to this show won't allow it.
Great show, really enjoyed you commentary , made I laugh.You were lucky, the series aired in black and white in England in 1968 (I was 12) , we got to see about eight episodes then it was interrupted by the mexico olyympics and it was never on again!! To compound my misery, two years later, the World Cup was in Mexico and England were knocked out by West Germany.....I don't know how I got past that double trauma at such a young age
Time tunnel Doug and Tony changed into clean clothes every time they re entered the time tunnel to jump to their next adventure. They go back in time to when they first entered the tunnel wearing clean clothes etc.
YOU HAVE MY BROTHERS AND I CRACKING UP! My brothers asked me what a Samovar was and I honestly did not know. So I Googled it. A Samovar is essentially a Russian or Asian tea pot. I was shocked to see that yes that reactor did look for all the world like a huge glowing Samovar. I was impressed even as I laughed my tookus off!
Interestingly enough, Lee Ann Meriwether's husband, Frank Aleter, was launched in a different time-travel show on a different network (CBS) at the same time! The show was "It's About Time"!
Despite the silliness (e.g. "I'm [Dr. Newman from 1968]"), some historical inaccuracies (e.g. the chandeliers didn't shake nearly so much, the Captain had white hair, and he knew in less than 10 minutes that the ship would sink) this was a pretty good episode. I think it was the best of the entire series in no small part due to guest star Susan Hampshire. The regular cast members were well cast and the series had great theme music.
@@dwashbur ME TOO, I HAVE THE DVDS HERE OF IT AND I WATCH IT OVER EVERY NOW AND THEN. GREAT MEMORIES. THE FIRST ONE WAS THE BEST EPISODE I THINK OF THE TITANIC. IT TRULY WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE TO GO BACK IN TIME AND LAND ON THAT SHIP.
It was a great show it had a lot of potential and it got it they got pulled OK because somebody one of the suits didn’t like the show they thought it was too expensive it’s the kind of show that they should’ve done over except it I’m not sure how they would’ve done it they did it over in the Sand by doing a quantum Leap but that wasn’t quite the same thing
Ya...Mr Spillit was able to escape 'Mysterious Island' and why did they want to torture him some more by taking him to an underground garage in the middle of the desert?....Strange indeed lol
I don't think that saving Althea changed history. This show handled time travel like Doctor Who or like Quantum Leap: the protagonists went back to... unfinished spots... in history to make history happen the way it should - and did, in the one and only real timeline. So Althea always lived, and Tony going back to save her was immutable destiny.
Irv…your absolute disdain of the senator cracked me up!! Well done as always! I don’t recall the actors name but I know he was also a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and every other show in the 60s and he was a great actor!! Stay well!
@@dwashbur-- He also played the newapaper reporter "Gideon Spillet" in the Ray Harryhausen version of Jules Verne's "THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND" (1961). The story in that movie, is actually WAY BETTER than the novel!!! (I've long felt that way, then, recently, I read some behind-the-scenes info about how Verne wrote it-- and it only strengthened my opinion! It was NOT supposed to be a sequel to "20,000 leagues" or feature Captain Nemo. So it's a case where they took a very dodgy novel, and turned it into a SUPERIOR movie.)
Senator Clark was the most unrealistic character in any Irwin Allen show. If he were a real Senator, he would have said, "Okay, so this time machine can only send things back? It can't retrieve anything? Great! I'll approve another $30 billion! And make sure you hire my idiot nephew at $500k per year, but don't expect him to do any real work!"
Really loved this episode as a kid, still gives me goosebumps when Tony says, "Titanic". Inexcusable inaccuracy, though: Capt. Smith had a WHITE beard. It's in historic photos of him.
9:11 that sailor................ I think he also played the transporter chief on the original Star Trek. I definitely remember him from the Mirror Universe story.............. and THE AGONIZER.
Spock: Mister Kyle, you were instructed to compensate during the ion storm. KYLE: But I tried, Mister Spock, I tried. SPOCK: Carelessness with the equipment cannot be tolerated. KYLE: But Mister Spock, I -- SPOCK: Your agonizer. KYLE: No, Mister Spock. SPOCK: Your agonizer, please.
@@dwashbur oh there was a second try past 2000 but that pilot was trashed for FIREFLYS A short sited decision of you think how much positive remarks TIMELESS got. THAT pilot is still to find on RUclips in complete version.Time Tunnel Remake Pilot Episode
Althea didn’t refer to Roosevelt as President. Roosevelt was still very much an active figure in April 1912, campaigning against William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination for President. (Roosevelt would fail to get the nomination, after which he campaigned on the Progressive ticket.)
I would have been just fine because I know most of the 1st lifeboats left just about empty. So I would have had a nice supper and be waiting on deck for the collision. Then on to a boat and rescue by morning.
Funny. The show shouldn't have been cancelled after just one season. It was a good show. Being cancelled left our two time travelers stuck back in time from where the last show left them. What a bummer. They were stuck back in time before there was McDonald's. That sucks. No more Big Macs. It's interesting how they just happened to be randomly placed back in time during historic events. One thing I learned was the staff at the time tunnel were Tik Tok fans decades before it even existed (they proudly displayed the name on their badges). Amazing. They travel forward in time without even telling us. I can't figure out why they then hid their smartphones from the senator and everyone watching the show in 1968, that they used to watch all those braindead Tik Tok videos. Maybe that was just too scary for viewers to see what the future will be like. After all, this was a show for the whole family to watch. With the Titanic, our time travelers did miss bumping into Jack and Rose. They never knew how shortsighted Jack was to let Rose lie on that door he found, as he froze to death. The whole love story thing would have never worked out if the boat didn't sink. He was constantly in trouble on the ship. He should have just told Rose to find her own piece of wood to sit on. He would have survived, made it to America, and lived a successful life. Oh, well. Mistakes happen.
Recently watched all 30 episodes but the ending seems different than I remember..... I seem to remember them making it back to the tunnel then deciding to go back in. But when I watched it back it just looped back to the titanic episode. I suppose it is over 30 years since I watched it though 😂
That was going to be the overall plot for season 2, but when it was canceled, they just took it back to the beginning with the Titanic. Nobody's really sure why, and they aren't talking.
I felt the same about the Senator. The Time Tunnel was so great I bough it on DVD. One thing the show started using to much stock footage and kinda repeated itself. Still fantastic show only one season.
The problem with TTT, as with most of Irwin Allen's sci-fi shows is that they start on a strong premise, but then fizzle into an absurdity of wannabe "aliens," weak storylines and scripts. It was one of my faves as a kid as well. In an alternate universe, Gene Roddenberry did this show, and we'd have Time Tunnel spin offs, Time Tunnel, the Next Generation and so on. Hopefully without a dorky Wesley Crusher in the control room. Oh well...
I liked almost all episodes. The major handicap was not the Producer himself but the Studio requiring ore easy to understand ACTION ° episodes. That had lowered the general qulit
I know, right? You come to a channel trying to get something for nothing and it's almost like he thinks he owns the channel and is doing reviews or something like that. How gauche!
MANY people post videos free and dont' feel the need to ruin the story. Sorry but his comments are tedious and dull and destroy the story. It sure is gauche but the poster seems unaware of this.@@dwashbur
I like the first episode as it contains real life issues such as costing blowouts as the space program probably had in the 1960's ; this was my second favorite Irwin Allen series after Lost in Space. Are you doing one on Land of the Giants?
One Cosmic hitch to continuity: Tony says "I was born in 1938!" Making him 30 in 1968, where "the present" is in this series. But he's older than a three-year-old in the "Day the Sky Fell" episode, so maybe he changed his own history somehow!
Very interesting show. And maybe its just me but i love those effects. They go through this weird kaleidoscope like tunnel and they slowly land. It gives me Alice In Wonderland Rabbit Hole vibes. I'm intrigued to see where it takes us.
@@dwashbur I wonder if they really had planed their own TITANIC episode on TIMELESS before the show had been stopped cold. My speculation goes rather in the direction of the TIMECOP TV series script LOST VOYAGE ( also complete on RUclips right now) XFILES Fans might recognize that TIMECOP adventure as well. That had been a very closely recycled script.
The complex looks impressive but hilariously ridiculous. Where the hell did all that earth they dug out to build that complex went? Look at the size of it!!
Reminded me somewhat of "Forbidden Planet" in the construction. And of course, the earth was dug out ten years ago, so presumably repurposed by now. I do find the scenes after Doug calls for the "Red Alert" to be similar to the Japanese Godzilla movies of a lot of people running around.
They butchered the Iliad in episode 3, confused Agamemnon with Ulysses, made Paris a raper, Made Helen to hate and despised Paris when Homer had written that she had loved the Trojan up to the end. Plus the usual absurdities like that of a 20th Century AD scientist be a better swordman than a trained soldier of the 12th Century BC.
I really like your videos. I’ve been watching Lost in Space and now Time Tunnel. They’re great, but I really wish you would edit your playlists so they auto play the episodes in order instead of backwards.
@@dwashbur Great......thanks! All you got to do is go to the playlist and click on "move to bottom" one by one until they are in order from top-to-bottom. P.S. You can set it so new videos will be added to the bottom as well (the new ones will still show up on your feed so subscribers won't miss them).
I haven't seen the episode so I can't comment too much on the senator's attitude but I do understand not wanting to put the country further in debt for a project that he felt shouldn't have been started in the first place, and you even noted a questionable end goal. Plus I fear our ever gaining time travel because you know the space/time continuum would be destroyed and reality wiped out.
I agree with everything. My big problem with the senator was, he wouldn't listen. People who ask a question and then interrupt the answer are a pet peeve of mine.
@@dwashbur Not the senator's fault. I'm his defense atty. My client was just reading his lines. He was forced to interrupt. If God told you to say something(the writer)you'd do it. But you're so right. Love all your shows & your style.
@@dwashbur I have the entire series including the unaired pilot that has added footage not seen in this original episode, it's really terrific and satisfying!!!!!
21:52 I always thought the brain tumor story was very sad.but Tony seemed to overestimate the healing options. After all, even NOWDAYS folks, it is a death reason to a degree. For example the German actor who had played the monk Darius on HIGHLANDER the series, Werner Stocker, had died off it in 1993; decades past the filming of this episode That was also the reason the HIGHLANDER - script writer had to include ad hoc the group of Renegade Watchers to explain the demise of the monk in the show itself, Highlander still was running back then and Stocker had been still under contract for tho role when he had died
4:37 SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT YOUNG FOR THE TITLE NOT TO MENTION.... Already the first time arlound when i had been eight years old I could make no sense out of this remark of the Senator. After all James William Ercolani - Darren is an Artist Name - has been born in 1936, so he was already Thirty when the show was filmed - and regrettably that was what he looked like. Because this Senator´s phrase was aimed at a younger more Student - looking like type of actor - as with Jerry O´Connel in SLIDERS. That actor had exactly the optical features and the kind of behaviour James Daren was missing here. - being a young man exactly on the brink between Youth and Maturity. In the British Science Fiction/Fantasy Show PRIMEVAL (about timewarps ( maybe Micro Black Holes - since they correlate with the Sunpower ) back to the earliest Prehistoric and Futuristic Ages ) there the producers and cast responsibles had done the opposite mistake. Here they gave a young actor playing a senior student working on his Doctor Degree Papers a personality fitting for a Highschool Student Totally irritatating. Such fellows already start to teach themselves and have a more mature air. But the Makers of PRIMEVAL made out of him a XANDER -typ fellow like from BUFFY. So the actor Andrew Lee Potts had to take the brunt of all the fans being annoyed by the way he had to play his role. Just for show and tell: RUclips: Primeval Season 2 -Episode 1 - A Raptor is chasing Connor in a Shopping Mall.
Working on a Time Tunnel story. Renamed characters. Tunnel is a Quantum Entangelment experiment machine originally. Once energized time side effects. Using string theory objects and people are 'compressed'. 'Tony' occupying space smaller than an electron. Radiation bath is a solution of iodine 131. Electron emitter. EM detected by receiver that follows. Drone flys through, too with travelers It broadcasts audio video. Machine powered by Helium 3 based reactor and earth's heat. Note opening. The Tunnel is at least 9,000 deep. Rock temp 120F more or less. AC? Power to 'switch' capacitive. In my story, 2.5 cubic kilometers discharges to generate quantum effect to travel. Entangled to origin of universe on one end, future other. In story random moving in time for travlers an issue of computing to calculate vector on arrival. Travelers could return at high KPS at random angle. A mess on a wall. Computer of 1968 calculates vectors where travelers match Earth's rotation, speed, direction and altitude above ground. 1968 trajectories match 1912 AD? Magnetic sensor seeking a steel ship on water,? Not dropping travelers into 33F salt water? These abd 80+ other issues. My story gets around paradox- butterfly effect by tossing travelers into alternative universes. 'Return' is getting to one closely matching origin. General Kirk played by William Shatner... Ha. All else, the same. A not so subtle example with a very subtle situation. My story? 1968 AD. 3414 AC. 89 Julian... 1968 our reality. 3414 AC Rome did not fall until much later. 89? 'Tony' is dropped into Dead Sea. Doug and 5 soldiers ashore. Lithium laced salts react with iodine 131 infused Tony. He cannot return. To near origin. Stuck in first century Roman Empire. Changes history at Mount of Olives... Watched Time Tunnel at 16. Antenna. No cable. No reruns...
It's in the unaired pilot episode that I have with scenes with more conversation and what you just mentioned plus as an added bonus a scene where Tony gets sent to 1958 by accident and Doug doesn't know him plus before it ends they both land in the 1968 Amazon where a giant dinosaur is about to eat them! How about that !!!!!
Sorry, I can´t stop laughing. This clearly is one of the best TIME TUNNEL JOKES I have ever heard ! ( it is so wonderfully steaped in realistic social criticism )
The Time Tunnel was a terrific series. I still watch the reruns on ME TV .
Me too
Thank you for doing this - I did not think anyone, other than myself, knew about Time Tunnel.
Cause I know a about time tunnel tony & Douglas and tonight merlin!!
How about” Land of the Giant’s” and “The Invader’s”, two shows not many know about.
We did Land of the Giants, see the playlist. The Invaders is still somewhere just over the Horizon, but it's on my long distance radar.
Got the DVD set...
One of my favorite episodes. Fascinated by the Titanic story since I read A Night To Remember in grade school.
As good as a movie
I am in my 50's and grew up a big sci fi nut, and am surprised I never heard of this show growing up. First saw it a few years back. Good show 😊.
What a great review and tribute to one of the greatest sci Fi television series of all time, Bravo!!!!!
People are still watching it 50 years later This was Irwin Allen's favorite of all his shows
I loved Time Tunnel and learnt lot of History from it. I think it was an interesting way to teach History. They rarely ventured into future.
But your rational commentary has made the show much more interesting.
I think no one can control the Time but God.
That's been the case so far, and I don't see anything changing in the foreseeable future.
The captain was an alien in the movie " the day the earth stood still"
You were highly entertaining in your commentary/synopsis of thee Time Tunnel's maiden voyage. I enjoyed this very much.
i love his vids about the TIME TUNNEL! BEST FROM THE 60'S
To all the people posting rude comments, it’s an ANALYSIS of the episode NOT the full episode……..
Sir, you are great ☺ its like my grandpa started a Dad joke based youtube review channel. Thumbs up. Never change you magnificent bastard.
I was 9 years old when I saw this
series...And I loved since the first
episode till the last. Greetings from El Centro,Ca. USA.🇲🇽🤷♀️👨🦱💖🙌👏👌❤️🚘🫂⛪️💯⛩️🎶💈🏙💕 .
Me too was 9 when watching also moved from CapeBreton NS to ontario Canada :)
Time tunnel is on my top ten list of best sci-fi TV shows
Mine, too.
My favourite show as a kid!
Time Tunnel is a great series.
I actually do enjoy your commentary. However, respectfully your premise that The Time Tunnel is a TV Fail is completely wrong and unfounded. Although, the series only lasted a year, it had great ratings, but ABC wanted Irwin Allen to cut the budget which in no way he would do. A great series full of imagination and suspense in my humble opinion!
Correction: reviews for the series were impressive but tv ratings were mediocre. The company offered Irwin Allen another season but if he would submit to producing it minus 1/3 of the budget. Irwin refused so that was that.
I was about six when this aired! I'd never heard of the Titanic or Merlin the Magician or Perl Harbor. And I hadn't given a thought to the late 1970s, when I'd be going to school and when they set a couple of episodes! Still a fun adventure show and thanks for this fun review!
I liked "You are There" with Walter Cronkite back in 1971 - 1972,
I always thought the most amazing aspect of the show was James Darren's green turtleneck shirt which never seemed to get damaged or even dirty. Considering how many places he got sent where he starts out being tossed on the floor or even the ground, that's some great piece of clothing. I was 15 when this show was on and it was on a Friday night so I could watch it (we weren't allowed TV on nights where there was school the next day). The set's were great especially the Time Tunnel Complex but the scripts were only so-so. They were constrained to write around the studio's stock footage of old movies. Some great guest stars, Michael Rennie, Carrol O'Connor, Robert Duvall, etc.
I remember too it was on Friday nites and those at my middle school were the notes called " Sports nites" and u paid I think .35 cents and kids from our school would come to the gym and some guys would check out a ball for hoops and the had a bar where u can could get drinks.....cola drinks, and in another area a tv where the group there picked this show those notes and then there was the big draw by in another room where local kids with bands would play and guys and girls would mingle and dance but I couldn't dance for spit and watched but not until our nerd squad finished watching time tunnel.Dont think I was ever brave enough to get more than one dance in the three years of sports nites I attended. Too shy. Growing up an only with two parents who hated each other and me for being born and making them stick together and never ceased reminding me. My mothers now 91 and still at it.
I haven't figured out how their old clothes always replaced whatever they were wearing at the time.
I'm 66. I loved this series. There was always real history involved. I thought it was better than Star Trek
They both debuted the same week! (Imagine-- 2 different characters both named "Kirk".)
The best episode in Star Trek history ("The City on the Edge of Forever") was actually inspired by The Time Tunnel.
As ssomeone loving the STAR TREK FRENCHISE as well I am torn, honestly. And me I am 62 and started to watch the Show from the start in Germany in 1970/71
The Time Tunnel is one of my all time favorite shows, but I'll be the first to admit that it's as cheesy as hell. I really enjoy your snark.
I mostly laugh at the ongoing incompetence of the Tunnel staff, and the never-ending contradictory techno-babble they spout every week. As a teen, I had this theory that Tony had written an "operator's manual" that explained how to make the thing work properly... but when he ran into the Tunnel, nobody else knew where the manual was. 😄
Another awesome episode , thanx Dave !
I loved this series. It was as exciting as a Marvel or a DC comic. Tony was my favourite character. If your t shirt says 53 I was a 54.
Thanks for this -- good memory of my childhood. Loved this show.
In the epilogue, the voice of mission control was the robot from Lost in Space !
This is not a fail. This is epic.
"Fail" means it didn't get a second season.
@@dwashbur -- I always remember a TV GUIDE interview with Richard Widmark for his tv-movie series, "MADIGAN". At the end, he was asked, "What do you think of the show's chances?" He replied, "All I know is, EVERY time I like a show, it gets CANCELLED after one year." The article ended by saying, "MADIGAN" had just been cancelled. (That show MADE me a fan of Richard Widmark.)
This was soo real & unreal at the time when we saw it in Australia. I was allways home when this was on lol
UNREAL, why not the hack; it is not called for nothing SCIENCE FICTION. ( Fun Fact for folks curious about Gernam: Up untill the Seventies: TECHNISCH-UTOPISCHE ROMANE/ABENTEUER )
.My favorite show. 😀
THE TIME TUNNEL was the only Irwin Allen show I managed to see from the very 1st episode! I loved it from the start. It was frustrating that they never reran the pilot... that the show was cancelled without a proper resolution. That because it only had 30 episodes, it was only rerun on weekends. I read that, after slowly building up to it, the final episode did have a FINAL scene where, at last, Doug & Tony made it back to the Tunnel! Imagine a 2nd season with more-controlled trips. But ABC replaced that final scene with a lead-in to the 1st rerun... which was the "Pearl Harbor" episode. (I definitely remember ABC re-running the "Moon" episode... but, out-of-sequence. Networks did that a lot when they had more than 26 episodes, they'd skip lesser ones, and not always rerun stories in the original order.) I hoped the DVD box set might have that never-seen ending... but it didn't. Instead, they had a trailer for reruns in general, apparently run during syndication.
I somehow never saw the pilot again until I got the DVD box a couple years ago. I was absolutely astonished, when, on re-watching it... my memory of it was SO clear, SO vivid.. it felt as though I'd watched it only a few weeks earlier. That's NEVER happened with me with any other show I watched from that far back. It was uncanny.
My late best friend Jim and I used to refer to what we called "problem-based shows". If you solve the problem, the show's over. In the case of THE TIME TUNNEL, the problem is bringing Doug & Tony back. But this did not need to be the end. As I said above, had they made it back, they could then have a 2nd season with more-controlled trips. On DOCTOR WHO, the initial "problem" was trying to get the 2 school-teachers, Ian & Barbara, back to their own time. In the next-to-last story of the 2nd season, "The Chase", they finally made it back to London, albeit 2 years after they left. But the show continued without them for another 24 seasons!
THE TIME TUNNEL has always been my 2nd-favorite Irwin Allen show, right after LOST IN SPACE. It's funny that LIS's silliest season was the same year that TT was so damned good. VOYAGE was also at its silliest that year. The next year, VOYAGE and LIS came back, both less silly (at least at the start). But TT got axed, because, behind-the-scenes, someone pushed another show on ABC... which replaced it... and then got cancelled after only 6 weeks. OY. I would have rather Irwin Allen dropped VOYAGE and had a 2nd season of TIME TUNNEL.
That year, I watched ABC the whole evening: THE GREEN HORNET, THE TIME TUNNEL, RANGO, THE PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON, and, THE AVENGERS. I never saw THE WILD WILD WEST until after it was cancelled. The following year, I saw the 2nd season of TARZAN, which was followed by the 2nd season of STAR TREK. Blows my mind I can remember all this.
The pilot was written by Harold Jack Bloom, who also wrote the pilot for "Emergency!"
Okay, if you don't like his commentary, then go to the other places on youtube where you can watch The Time Tunnel full episodes for free without a subscription. Oh, wait! THERE AREN'T ANY! That's because the owners of broadcast rights to this show won't allow it.
Wonderful, thank you.
Great show, really enjoyed you commentary
, made I laugh.You were lucky, the series aired in black and white in England in 1968 (I was 12) , we got to see about eight episodes then it was interrupted by the mexico olyympics and it was never on again!! To compound my misery, two years later, the World Cup was in Mexico and England were knocked out by West Germany.....I don't know how I got past that double trauma at such a young age
Lots and lots of sugar?
I love that serie, great video
Characters Tony and Doug are still living.
Not usually a fan of commentary, but yours is exceptional! Call me subscribed.
Welcome to the zoo!
the main characters also became superhuman, because they never sleep, eat or change their clothes throughout the entire series.
Time tunnel Doug and Tony changed into clean clothes every time they re entered the time tunnel to jump to their next adventure. They go back in time to when they first entered the tunnel wearing clean clothes etc.
Their adventures just lasted for 30 hours, so this seems possible. 😉
“The control of time is potentially the most valuable treasure that man will ever find.” - Dr. Douglas Phillips
YOU HAVE MY BROTHERS AND I CRACKING UP! My brothers asked me what a Samovar was and I honestly did not know. So I Googled it. A Samovar is essentially a Russian or Asian tea pot. I was shocked to see that yes that reactor did look for all the world like a huge glowing Samovar. I was impressed even as I laughed my tookus off!
Loved the series but I love your commentary more.
Interestingly enough, Lee Ann Meriwether's husband, Frank Aleter, was launched in a different time-travel show on a different network (CBS) at the same time! The show was "It's About Time"!
I reviewed that series on Patreon if you're interested in checking it out. The link to becoming a patron is in the description.
The Deck and the Deck Chairs immediately tell us that its Titanic. James Darren hadnt watched the movie then.
The Titanic movie " A Night to Remember " came out in 1959. Tony would've already been a grown man then.
Despite the silliness (e.g. "I'm [Dr. Newman from 1968]"), some historical inaccuracies (e.g. the chandeliers didn't shake nearly so much, the Captain had white hair, and he knew in less than 10 minutes that the ship would sink) this was a pretty good episode. I think it was the best of the entire series in no small part due to guest star Susan Hampshire. The regular cast members were well cast and the series had great theme music.
So cool 😎👍...even after half a century...
All the Irwin Allen TV shows + movies had great title music - loved this show as a kid!
Well, what do you expect from Johnny Williams. You know, Star Wars.
So you DID the Time tunnel - thanks!
I remember watching it as a kid, loved it.
@@dwashbur ME TOO, I HAVE THE DVDS HERE OF IT AND I WATCH IT OVER EVERY NOW AND THEN. GREAT MEMORIES. THE FIRST ONE WAS THE BEST EPISODE I THINK OF THE TITANIC. IT TRULY WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE TO GO BACK IN TIME AND LAND ON THAT SHIP.
It was a great show it had a lot of potential and it got it they got pulled OK because somebody one of the suits didn’t like the show they thought it was too expensive it’s the kind of show that they should’ve done over except it I’m not sure how they would’ve done it they did it over in the Sand by doing a quantum Leap but that wasn’t quite the same thing
Ya...Mr Spillit was able to escape 'Mysterious Island' and why did they want to torture him some more by taking him to an underground garage in the middle of the desert?....Strange indeed lol
5:42 He gets so emotional, baby
Every tiiiiiime you pull his funds
I don't think that saving Althea changed history. This show handled time travel like Doctor Who or like Quantum Leap: the protagonists went back to... unfinished spots... in history to make history happen the way it should - and did, in the one and only real timeline. So Althea always lived, and Tony going back to save her was immutable destiny.
This guy in the Tshirt is my new hero ❤
8:59 Looks like he's just a tumbleweed blowin' in the wind.
"Duuuuuuust in the wiiiiiind......."
Irv…your absolute disdain of the senator cracked me up!! Well done as always! I don’t recall the actors name but I know he was also a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and every other show in the 60s and he was a great actor!! Stay well!
His name was Gary Merrill, and you're correct, he was everywhere.
He was married to Bette Davis for 8 years and they both were in "Phone Call from a Stranger".
@@dwashbur-- He also played the newapaper reporter "Gideon Spillet" in the Ray Harryhausen version of Jules Verne's "THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND" (1961). The story in that movie, is actually WAY BETTER than the novel!!! (I've long felt that way, then, recently, I read some behind-the-scenes info about how Verne wrote it-- and it only strengthened my opinion! It was NOT supposed to be a sequel to "20,000 leagues" or feature Captain Nemo. So it's a case where they took a very dodgy novel, and turned it into a SUPERIOR movie.)
@@2009framat -- He & Bette Davis were both in "ALL ABOUT EVE"... just before they got divorced. (Or maybe going thru the divorce while filming!)
Senator Clark was the most unrealistic character in any Irwin Allen show. If he were a real Senator, he would have said, "Okay, so this time machine can only send things back? It can't retrieve anything? Great! I'll approve another $30 billion! And make sure you hire my idiot nephew at $500k per year, but don't expect him to do any real work!"
Really loved this episode as a kid, still gives me goosebumps when Tony says, "Titanic". Inexcusable inaccuracy, though: Capt. Smith had a WHITE beard. It's in historic photos of him.
His name was "Edward" not "Malcolm."
And Captain Smith was older. The Titanic run was to be his last before retirement. It was his last but he sadly never got to the retirement part.
Fail lol. I remember when it first aired. I thought it was great. That's all I care about.
I loved the show. I call it a fail because it only got one season. I explain that in the video.
9:11 that sailor................ I think he also played the transporter chief on the original Star Trek. I definitely remember him from the Mirror Universe story.............. and THE AGONIZER.
Spock: Mister Kyle, you were instructed to compensate during the ion storm.
KYLE: But I tried, Mister Spock, I tried.
SPOCK: Carelessness with the equipment cannot be tolerated.
KYLE: But Mister Spock, I --
SPOCK: Your agonizer.
KYLE: No, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Your agonizer, please.
I would like Hollywood to try a modern version (2024).
Me too!
@@dwashburThere have been a few attempts at remakes, a pilot for one of them is on the DVD set, but none have gotten picked up to make it as a series.
@@dwashbur oh there was a second try past 2000 but that pilot was trashed for FIREFLYS
A short sited decision of you think how much positive remarks TIMELESS got.
THAT pilot is still to find on RUclips in complete version.Time Tunnel Remake Pilot Episode
If you're going to rag on my fav show growing up...I'm leaving
Thanks for dropping by.
Wrong President. Howard Taft was the president when the Titanic sank.
Althea didn’t refer to Roosevelt as President. Roosevelt was still very much an active figure in April 1912, campaigning against William Howard Taft for the Republican nomination for President. (Roosevelt would fail to get the nomination, after which he campaigned on the Progressive ticket.)
It was the Olympic that sank
We’ve got photographs of the Titanic’s starboard propeller, bearing her yard number, 401. The Olympic’s was 400.
Oh thanks a lot this is just wonderful
I would have been just fine because I know most of the 1st lifeboats left just about empty. So I would have had a nice supper and be waiting on deck for the collision. Then on to a boat and rescue by morning.
My favorite Irwin Allen show great cast set stories and pretty Lee Meriwether ❤ How could it fail?
The tunnel makes the sound as the Jupiter 2?
One of the greatest sound effects ever!
Some of the alien designs turn up on ALL 3 tv series! (Sometimes, a week apart.)
Funny. The show shouldn't have been cancelled after just one season. It was a good show. Being cancelled left our two time travelers stuck back in time from where the last show left them. What a bummer. They were stuck back in time before there was McDonald's. That sucks. No more Big Macs. It's interesting how they just happened to be randomly placed back in time during historic events. One thing I learned was the staff at the time tunnel were Tik Tok fans decades before it even existed (they proudly displayed the name on their badges). Amazing. They travel forward in time without even telling us. I can't figure out why they then hid their smartphones from the senator and everyone watching the show in 1968, that they used to watch all those braindead Tik Tok videos. Maybe that was just too scary for viewers to see what the future will be like. After all, this was a show for the whole family to watch. With the Titanic, our time travelers did miss bumping into Jack and Rose. They never knew how shortsighted Jack was to let Rose lie on that door he found, as he froze to death. The whole love story thing would have never worked out if the boat didn't sink. He was constantly in trouble on the ship. He should have just told Rose to find her own piece of wood to sit on. He would have survived, made it to America, and lived a successful life. Oh, well. Mistakes happen.
Thanks for the laugh! That was great!
😁😆😄
@@dwashbur :) Thanks.
I.remember watching this show
In the late 50’s to mid-60’s, the CIA has a secret outpost in the Nevada desert nicknamed the Paradise Ranch.
Are you sure it wasn't Moonlight Ranch in Reno?
Recently watched all 30 episodes but the ending seems different than I remember.....
I seem to remember them making it back to the tunnel then deciding to go back in.
But when I watched it back it just looped back to the titanic episode.
I suppose it is over 30 years since I watched it though 😂
That was going to be the overall plot for season 2, but when it was canceled, they just took it back to the beginning with the Titanic. Nobody's really sure why, and they aren't talking.
Irving's Zoo So there was only ever 1 ending aired and I'm having a Mandela effect moment?
Yes they did make it back to the tunnel! But the team at tunnel base were frozen in time
And the tunnel didn't do it, Merlin did.
This guy won't let u see more than 10 sec of the show without inter upting.
Some RUclipsrs do a fast & careful edit "dance" with TV programs so they don't get a copyright strike.
I felt the same about the Senator. The Time Tunnel was so great I bough it on DVD. One thing the show started using to much stock footage and kinda repeated itself. Still fantastic show only one season.
The actor who played the captain of the titanic ( micheal rennie ) was my nans second cousin by marriage .
And he was the alien in the day the earth stood still
Great, underrated actor. Commanding screen presence.
The problem with TTT, as with most of Irwin Allen's sci-fi shows is that they start on a strong premise, but then fizzle into an absurdity of wannabe "aliens," weak storylines and scripts. It was one of my faves as a kid as well.
In an alternate universe, Gene Roddenberry did this show, and we'd have Time Tunnel spin offs, Time Tunnel, the Next Generation and so on. Hopefully without a dorky Wesley Crusher in the control room. Oh well...
I liked almost all episodes. The major handicap was not the Producer himself but the Studio requiring ore easy to understand ACTION ° episodes. That had lowered the general qulit
Believe it or not they actually tried it (time tunnel next generation)... it became an unaired pilot
Don't bother watching. All episodes are ruined by the moronic commentary provided by the poster. Very disappointing.
I know, right? You come to a channel trying to get something for nothing and it's almost like he thinks he owns the channel and is doing reviews or something like that. How gauche!
Just like a commercial
MANY people post videos free and dont' feel the need to ruin the story. Sorry but his comments are tedious and dull and destroy the story. It sure is gauche but the poster seems unaware of this.@@dwashbur
I like the first episode as it contains real life issues such as costing blowouts as the space program probably had in the 1960's ; this was my second favorite Irwin Allen series after Lost in Space. Are you doing one on Land of the Giants?
Just finished it not long ago. Here's the playlist. ruclips.net/video/3QoUICuyiGw/видео.html
fabulous
Ah, the lovely Susan Hampshire. I haven't seen her in a while.
USA is obsessed with saving the titanic
One Cosmic hitch to continuity: Tony says "I was born in 1938!" Making him 30 in 1968, where "the present" is in this series. But he's older than a three-year-old in the "Day the Sky Fell" episode, so maybe he changed his own history somehow!
I love "It's About Time" also but that didn't go too long. These are way better than Space 1999 though.
If you are interested, my reviews of it are on my Patreon site.
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In my view... EVERYTHING Gerry Anderson ever did was better than his SPACE: 1999. That show was a "CLUSTER-****".
I always wanted a reboot, but then I realized the show Sliders was kind of a reboot. I liked that show too
So they have Rubik Cube name plates 🤔 and it's Operation Tic Toc....it was "the future"
Very interesting show. And maybe its just me but i love those effects. They go through this weird kaleidoscope like tunnel and they slowly land. It gives me Alice In Wonderland Rabbit Hole vibes. I'm intrigued to see where it takes us.
They hold up pretty well. I still like them, I can see a sci-fi film on a budget doing something similar today and pulling it off.
Very very trippy stuff 60s sci fi tv was wicked
@@dwashbur I wonder if they really had planed their own TITANIC episode on TIMELESS before the show had been stopped cold.
My speculation goes rather in the direction of the TIMECOP TV series script LOST VOYAGE ( also complete on RUclips right now) XFILES Fans might recognize that TIMECOP adventure as well. That had been a very closely recycled script.
The complex looks impressive but hilariously ridiculous. Where the hell did all that earth they dug out to build that complex went? Look at the size of it!!
Reminded me somewhat of "Forbidden Planet" in the construction. And of course, the earth was dug out ten years ago, so presumably repurposed by now. I do find the scenes after Doug calls for the "Red Alert" to be similar to the Japanese Godzilla movies of a lot of people running around.
They butchered the Iliad in episode 3, confused Agamemnon with Ulysses, made Paris a raper, Made Helen to hate and despised Paris when Homer had written that she had loved the Trojan up to the end. Plus the usual absurdities like that of a 20th Century AD scientist be a better swordman than a trained soldier of the 12th Century BC.
Apparently, the title theme was written while the Sandpeople were around :D
Very good presentation, Irving. but ...all the film?
2:18 I was going to say, the trick to riding this elevator without blowing lunch is, DON'T LOOK DOWWWWwwwn!
Too true!
@@dwashbur Well, as Curly Howard once said, "I can't help it! I belong down there!"
I really like your videos. I’ve been watching Lost in Space and now Time Tunnel. They’re great, but I really wish you would edit your playlists so they auto play the episodes in order instead of backwards.
I'll see what I can do. I didn't realize it was doing that, thanks.
@@dwashbur Great......thanks! All you got to do is go to the playlist and click on "move to bottom" one by one until they are in order from top-to-bottom. P.S. You can set it so new videos will be added to the bottom as well (the new ones will still show up on your feed so subscribers won't miss them).
They should be fixed now. How about testing for me? ;)
@@dwashbur I have just done so----it autoplays in correct order--perfecto!!
Thanks a lot Irving!!!!
My pleasure. Thanks for helping me make the channel better!
I haven't seen the episode so I can't comment too much on the senator's attitude but I do understand not wanting to put the country further in debt for a project that he felt shouldn't have been started in the first place, and you even noted a questionable end goal.
Plus I fear our ever gaining time travel because you know the space/time continuum would be destroyed and reality wiped out.
I agree with everything. My big problem with the senator was, he wouldn't listen. People who ask a question and then interrupt the answer are a pet peeve of mine.
@@dwashbur Likewise.
@@dwashbur Not the senator's fault. I'm his defense atty. My client was just reading his lines. He was forced to interrupt. If God told you to say something(the writer)you'd do it. But you're so right. Love all your shows & your style.
cant we just watch the episode without you butting in?
It's a review I'm sure you can find the full episode free somewhere else
You could buy the dvds.
Shameless protest from a sofa 😂
Why isn't this episode available on You Tube? all the other's are!!!
Do you mean the full episode?
@@dwashbur I have the entire series including the unaired pilot that has added footage not seen in this original episode, it's really terrific and satisfying!!!!!
@@scottmiller6495 just upload on RUclips
21:52 I always thought the brain tumor story was very sad.but Tony seemed to overestimate the healing options. After all, even NOWDAYS folks, it is a death reason to a degree. For example the German actor who had played the monk Darius on HIGHLANDER the series, Werner Stocker, had died off it in 1993; decades past the filming of this episode
That was also the reason the HIGHLANDER - script writer had to include ad hoc the group of Renegade Watchers to explain the demise of the monk in the show itself, Highlander still was running back then and Stocker had been still under contract for tho role when he had died
4:37 SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BIT YOUNG FOR THE TITLE NOT TO MENTION....
Already the first time arlound when i had been eight years old I could make no sense out of this remark of the Senator. After all James William Ercolani - Darren is an Artist Name - has been born in 1936, so he was already Thirty when the show was filmed - and regrettably that was what he looked like.
Because this Senator´s phrase was aimed at a younger more Student - looking like type of actor - as with Jerry O´Connel in SLIDERS. That actor had exactly the optical features and the kind of behaviour James Daren was missing here. - being a young man exactly on the brink between Youth and Maturity.
In the British Science Fiction/Fantasy Show PRIMEVAL
(about timewarps ( maybe Micro Black Holes - since they correlate with the Sunpower ) back to the earliest Prehistoric and Futuristic Ages )
there the producers and cast responsibles had done the opposite mistake. Here they gave a young actor playing a senior student working on his Doctor Degree Papers a personality fitting for a Highschool Student
Totally irritatating. Such fellows already start to teach themselves and have a more mature air.
But the Makers of PRIMEVAL made out of him a XANDER -typ fellow like from BUFFY.
So the actor Andrew Lee Potts had to take the brunt of all the fans being annoyed by the way he had to play his role.
Just for show and tell: RUclips: Primeval Season 2 -Episode 1 - A Raptor is chasing Connor in a Shopping Mall.
Working on a Time Tunnel story.
Renamed characters.
Tunnel is a Quantum Entangelment experiment machine originally. Once energized time side effects.
Using string theory objects and people are 'compressed'. 'Tony' occupying space smaller than an electron.
Radiation bath is a solution of iodine 131. Electron emitter. EM detected by receiver that follows.
Drone flys through, too with travelers It broadcasts audio video.
Machine powered by Helium 3 based reactor and earth's heat. Note opening. The Tunnel is at least 9,000 deep. Rock temp 120F more or less. AC?
Power to 'switch' capacitive. In my story, 2.5 cubic kilometers discharges to generate quantum effect to travel. Entangled to origin of universe on one end, future other.
In story random moving in time for travlers an issue of computing to calculate vector on arrival. Travelers could return at high KPS at random angle. A mess on a wall. Computer of 1968 calculates vectors where travelers match Earth's rotation, speed, direction and altitude above ground. 1968 trajectories match 1912 AD?
Magnetic sensor seeking a steel ship on water,? Not dropping travelers into 33F salt water?
These abd 80+ other issues.
My story gets around paradox- butterfly effect by tossing travelers into alternative universes. 'Return' is getting to one closely matching origin.
General Kirk played by William Shatner... Ha. All else, the same. A not so subtle example with a very subtle situation.
My story?
1968 AD. 3414 AC. 89 Julian...
1968 our reality. 3414 AC Rome did not fall until much later. 89? 'Tony' is dropped into Dead Sea. Doug and 5 soldiers ashore. Lithium laced salts react with iodine 131 infused Tony.
He cannot return.
To near origin. Stuck in first century Roman Empire. Changes history at Mount of Olives...
Watched Time Tunnel at 16. Antenna. No cable. No reruns...
It does sound interesting.
Fascinating description but uncomfortable and deadly.
Well done. You’re kind of like a one-man MST3K who’s a little lighter on the sarcasm and heavier on the philosophy. Good watch!
People from the future trying to change the past, not knowing how it will affect their lives.
Cute. Thanks!
Looks like they borrowed alot of set from Forbidden Planet ! ♈⚓⚓♈
Just me or does anyone else also wonder why can't we fiind the part when he gives to her his watch?
It's in the unaired pilot episode that I have with scenes with more conversation and what you just mentioned plus as an added bonus a scene where Tony gets sent to 1958 by accident and Doug doesn't know him plus before it ends they both land in the 1968 Amazon where a giant dinosaur is about to eat them! How about that !!!!!
Tony went into the time portal because he owed alimony and child support.
Sorry, I can´t stop laughing. This clearly is one of the best TIME TUNNEL JOKES I have ever heard ! ( it is so wonderfully steaped in realistic social criticism )
Could you do a video commentary on the " Alamo " episode ? That was my Time Tunnel favorite
Hey IRV, could not believe you cut out most of the opening with the Learjet 23. I said out loud "What the f**k?! And then you. YOU!
Later they brought this concept back as Quantum Leap.
Quantum Leap was terrible.
Quantum Leap was nothing for me. I think TIMELESS was much better.
Where did JMS get the idea for the great machine from B5 right from the Time Tunnel.