Just wanted to share with all of you, that my Father, Dallas McKennon was the creator of the fantastic Time Tunnel sound effect! He actually created it with his voice and reverberated, and manipulated it like a synth back in the 50's!
Wow! This is an honor. The Time Tunnel was one of my favorite shows of all time! Thanks so much for your dad’s contribution to this wonderful old show😊
I was 10 when The Time Tunnel came out and it was my all-time favorite show with Star Trek a close second. I was so disappointed that they canceled this show after one season. It was a such great way to learn about historical events as a kid. I had the pleasure of meeting Lee Meriwether when she came to Stars Night at the USO in Hollywood in 1974 and I got to talk to her for a little while.
I was born in 75, so I missed this and Star Trek, I saw Star Trek first and fell in love with it but this show was one I enjoyed too, space travel and time travel have been in my mind since I was very young.
I was 11 when this came out. It was on ABC from 8 PM to 9 PM every Friday night. Of course, I always started out watching the 1/2 hour Green Hornet, which started at 7:30. It also lasted only one season. I still remember Friday, April 7, 1967 as the last original non-repeat broadcast of The Time Tunnel.
Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and yes last but not least Star Trek. I was a bullied kid with a drunken stepfather back then. These shows were my safety valve. I could escape into them for an hour at a time and let my mind wander. I never got to travel in time or fly in space, but I did become an avid scuba diver. I also got a degree in computer science, thanks in part the fascination with science and technology that these science fiction show instilled in my (at that time) young mind. Back then, in the USA everyone was excited about the future. It felt like anything was possible. That is something we have lost and I'm not sure we can get it back. We don't dream big anymore.
Nowadays, I dream bigger than I ever did as a kid. What we used to think of as the future back in the 60s now exists. Portable phones like Dick Tracy’s in the 50s became not just phones but smartphones like the iPhone; huge wall-sized TVs like the Jetsons’ are now 80 inch flatscreens; I have an actual motorized mop (Braava Jet) and motorized vacuum (Roomba); huge computers are now desktops and laptops; countless other gadgets and devices that we could only dream of back then are now in daily use. Life really is even more wonderful than I imagined it would be.
@@AmandathePandaBooksActually Disney just did the animation for the "creature from the ID." I think it was the only time Walt hired out his effects people.
This was SO cool to see. Brought back so many good memories. I watched this as a kid. Irwin Allen was a genius in creating new TV shows. I remember his name so much when I was younger. RIP.
Thank you, KrekZoWasHet, for posting this great video on TH-cam. We Baby-Boomers owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Irwin Allen. His highly imaginative TV series helped define our dreams as kids of the 1960s. Wonderful stuff! I still love it and watch it regularly on TH-cam and on DVDs. Thank you, Irwin Allen!
'The Time Tunnel' was one of the greatest ideas for TV ever. The show had some terrifically written episodes. For television in the 1960s, this was the biggest thing to hit the airwaves. The fall of 1966 offered many new shows and many of them splashed color on our televisions for the first time in a big way. Prior to that year, most shows were filmed in black & white. I am happy to have enjoyed many of these classic TV shows when they first aired as they truly sparked one's imagination.
Interesting the show had miltary advisors just like stargate..rumors for years that USA had cracked time travel sending kids back in time in Operation Mohawk and in addition structures like stargates had been found in the middle east in 1920s by archologists!😀
I was 86 when this first came out ! Great time to be alive as a senior! Early bird specials. My wife had blue hair, barely able to see over the steering wheel. We didn't care. As long as we had our sci-fi.
Great TV show! Many thanks to Irwin Allen. Today, Wed., June 6, 2012, I learned that Ray Bradbury left this dimension. Ray B. was (and remains) one of the best short-story fiction writers -- ever! RIP Mr. Bradbury.
I vividly recall my 7th grade history teacher giving us homework on Friday which was to watch the Time Tunnel. The best homework assignment a kid could ever get.
Music composers of the 1960s were terrific! Including i dream of jeannie, batman, dick van dyke, and so many others!! They had a real feeling for the kind of style of music for each show!
Watched this when I was at school in the late 70s , it was a rerun, this was so, so excellent, these 1960s shows where so well ahead of the game, and as time moves on you look back and see many things predicted have come to pass.....
Great documentary. They are currently re-running the Time Tunnel on the UK's Horror Channel and, like all Irwin Allen productions, it has stood the test of time.
I'm stunned to find out this show only lasted one season. I was eleven years old when it premiered, the perfect age for this show, and I'd have sworn it had gone at least two seasons because it made such an impression on me. Some other Irwin Allen shows look silly to me now, but The Time Tunnel still seems cool. Its one fault is that they never brought Tony and Doug back home, which is kind of creepy to me. Network TV back then didn't much care about that sort of thing - which is why the concluding episode of The Fugitive was such a phenomenon.
@@jonasbarbury4013 I didnt know!!!! Lost in space 5 years!!! In my country didnt finish!!! How finished???? Did The family Robinson return to their home?????
When I was a kid, Allen's shows were almost the only SF I could watch on TV, and I thought they were great. My parents kept me away from "scary" shows like "the Outer Limits" (dang!) In later years, I realized how much of Allen's visuals were inspired by "Forbidden Planet."
Yep, I was 6 years old in 1965 and I loved Allen's sci-fi action shows. I still enjoy watching them in re-runs now on the occasion that they are played, such a simple time in my memories. The only one I never enjoyed was Land of the Giants. Time Tunnel may seem silly now but it was a blast to a 7 or 8 year old kid in the 1960s
Good job, man. Thank you. When I was a 6 year-old my favorite programs were this and Star Trek. They molded my imagination. Years later I came to realize how many others were thrilled by them.
I was a 12 year old kid back in the 60's when this came out. It's hard to explain the wide-eyed wonder I had watching this first episode back then, even if it was on a black and white tv.
I love the re-use of the sound of the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space (another irwin Allen show) in the Time Tunnel power-up. One of the best sound FX in early television.
One of the things I loved was the 1960s vision of what computers would look like in the future. Now they are all integrated circuits and micro-chips. I loved the flashing lights and the sine-curve displays than needed to be "aligned". AND the giant countdown display clock on the disk.
I Came to Canada in 1967 and Time Tunnel, Lost In Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea were my favorite tv shows. They bring back great memories even to this day.
60's TV was an awesome time to be a kid. Especially for the "geeky" ones like myself. The Outer Limits. Star Trek. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The Invaders. And of course, The Time Tunnel.
So this is Irwin Allen. The man who inspired millions of adolescent boys to become scientists and engineers with his highly imaginitive television shows. Its a pleasure to see him here.
I purchased the entire series as soon as both DVD sets became available! Even after all this....'time'.... the look of the actual set and the Time Tunnel, itself, still amazes me with its fantastic design! It literally seemed to stretch into infinity! Years later, I realize that there were only a few of the actual 'rings' to form the entrance into the yawning mouth of the tunnel,while the rear of the tunnel was a backdrop and the effect of 'forced perspective' was used to complete the illusion!
Irwin Allen was indeed a genius! Every project he was associated with became a ratings success because people saw his name listed as producer & knew automatically that this was NOT going to be some run of the mill production. It would be creative, new, well done, exciting, and above all, it transported you to another time and place - fantasyland if you will -- and that's what people wanted in the messed up 60's - ESCAPISM. No one did it better than Allen!! I couldn't wait for each new spisode!
Wonderful series made by IRWIN ALLEN - It was all part of my life ... I Love all of them , but The time tunnel was very special , one ☝️ of my favorites .
Loved this show so much as a kid. It's still one of my all time favorites even decades later. Even had a novel. The formula may've been the same, but the actors, guest-stars, setting and each week's specific plot made it a fresh experience each time. Like James said it was exciting to imagine what could be coming next. It had so much possibility still to be tapped into; enough for at least anotuer 2-3 years before itvwould've needed any tweaking.
Weird how this one guy had such a huge impact on my childhood and on into old age. I absolutely loved everything he did and I'm sure he facilitated my own creativity and cognitive development.
All of these sci-fi shows were created for and aimed at us kids from back then. They even painted their images on our school lunch boxes. It was a wonderful time for a child's imagination and entertainment in those days.
Loved this show!! Watched the premier and every episode in real time. Irwin Allen’s shows always captured my imagination. Back then I’d fall asleep thinking about living in that city 800 stories deep and tall. MOr on the Seaview. I remember killing time after finishing an Iowa Test quickly and drawing the Seaview and putting the New York City Transit Authority “ta” logo on the sub’s sail. Thanks for the trip back to my childhood!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃 . Judging by the fact I already had a like on this video, I bet if I scrolled down far enough I probably posted a very similar comment in the past!!
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Infelizmente... os remakes não vão tão bem, não há problema em olhar para trás, mas não voltar atrás. Sadly... remakes do not fare so well, it's okay to look back, but not to go back.
Irwin Allen's stuff was all about the adventure and the fun. LB Abbot and his SFX crew at 2Oth Century did an outstanding job pulling off those four IA shows. They have a visual style all there own.
I watched a lot of American TV dramas of this era. Among them, I saw "Time Tunnel" without missing every week. There were scientific considerations and I thought that it was amazing as a child. I hope I can have a TV drama producer like Irwin Allens now. From Tokyo
I remember watching it as a kid, but I was too young to understand it. There was another program that was out maybe around the same year called "It's About Time".
Both the old and newer versions had their points. The one filmed as a pilot in the early 2000s was good for adults and this one made in the late 1960s was an inspiration for my brothers who went into STEM and Communication fields. And although I loved this earlier one, I became a teacher who majored history. It inspired to use my imagination.
Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, these T.V. shows where part of my childhood i grew up during the 1960s watching these amazing programmes of such imagination and adventure.
I have been a fan of this show since it first aired in 1966 but have never seen the promo at the beginning! This is must've been what was presented to the network execs at ABC to sell the show. Very well done! Thanks for posting!
For some reason, the scene at the beginning when the car goes into the hole in the desert and then the desert closes again really made an impression on me. There were a lot of cool fx in the pilot that were better than anything else in the series. Lee Meriwether sure held up well, huh? "Barnaby, you're too old to do that!" She was like the go-to girl of the '60s and '70s. Still working today, too. Quite a lady.
The best by far of Irwin Allen's sci-fi series of the 1960's. I'm old enough to remember when it first aired in prime-time, as part of ABC's 1966/67 Friday night schedule. I recall at the time reading that ABC was expected to dominate Friday night ratings, with "Green Hornet", "Time Tunnel", MIlton Berle's TV comeback and the long-running "12 O'Clock High". But Berle and "12 O'Clock High" were gone by January, 1967 while "Hornet" and "Time Tunnel" were gone at season's end.
Thanks for posting this - I was very young then, really needed my memory refreshed as to just what this show was all about. BTW Lee Meriwhether attended my high school in San Francisco... years before I did, of course.
What a great show! I was 6 when it aired and it made a huge impression. Became an engineer and programmer later and did a lot of inventing too. I wrote an episode where they bring back a tornado through the tunnel and damage the control room. Also remember spending hours writing technical documents theorizing on how the time tunnel worked. Great for stimulating imagination. I was a bit of a nerd, lol. Is that Bill Mummy narrating the section in the middle standing behind the control panels? Do those panels still exist somewhere in a SyFy museum? How about adding the time tunnel to the new L.A. SyFy museum???
That is Bill Mumy, this is part of a programme that I saw a few years ago about all four of Irwin Allen's TV creations. In this video they edited out the part where it says "Introduced by Bill Mumy and The Robot". You mentioning the tornado reminded me of the Time Tunnel episode where aliens had landed on Earth to take the atmosphere back to their planet as it was running out of air and the air is also sucked down the Time Tunnel as they have latched on to the time when this was supposedly happening. It's amazing how I can remember these things from a TV programme that I have not seen in about 55 years!
I was 7yrs old in 1966 and loved all the Allen shows. Built the models. I wish Allen could have done a live action show or movie of Jonny Quest, he would have been perfect.
My brother used to refer to the show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", as Sparks. Because in almost every show there was at least one scene where someone crashes into an instrument panel and it goes into a shower of sparks. They used that "special effect" a lot in that show. Same sparks as in the Time Tunnel.
The visual affects of the tunnel and self of the installation or taken from the film "forbidden planet"footage. Irwin Allen always knew where to save a buck.
I love how Allen recycled sound effects. The "firing up" of the Time Tunnel used the same sound effect as that of the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space. Ah, those were the days😊
Looks like all the actors had so much fun working together. I was about 7 or 8 years old and I remember it being my favorite show. I was so disappointed when they cancelled it after one season.
That's amazing and unforgettable! I lived In Hong Kong and these America dramatic programs translated into Cantonese for my childhood!Time's tunnel! In the giant world ! Into the bottom of the sea!
Time Tunnel is good, and Quantum Leap owes its intro to TT. Two scientists, both pressured to show results to lose funding prematurely step into the machine and vanish. QL puts Sam Beckett in others' bodies to change "lives for the better", Tony and Doug do the same thing, without body switching. Both programs are still great for their time!
This is great. Thanks for sharing. Time Tunnel was one of my top programs in the 60s - and the one that greatly affected me. Quantum Leap was a great show in the 90s, but you KNOW where they got the idea from :)
Irwin Allen created fantastic worlds that entertained and also educated through its moral messages. I had a huge crush on Lee Merriwether. I was going to give this video 9/10 but then Bill Mumy appeared and it immediately went to 10/10!
I was 6 years old when I first saw this. The sinking of the Titanic terrified me for years - I'm still fascinated today. Rudolph could REALLY fly! Followed by "the watery people" (Star Trek the transporter machine) "The Man Trap" episode. Man, what a great time to be a kid!
I was watching time tunnel when I was a kid. This show should have gotten at least three more seasons, as it was every bit as good as Voyage to the bottom of the sea.
I was 7 years old when the Time Tunnel premiered in 1966. It was one of my favorite shows. The 1960's sure had some great TV shows unlike the garbage that is on today.
I live Irwin Allen's shows but the thing that really gets me is these people can build star ships, amazing nuclear submarines and time machines, but somehow don't understand the concept of a circuit breaker!
Irwin Allen is one of those mystery producers who come up with these great ideas but for his TV things, he never put money into getting good writers for the shows. He had these great sets but the writing petered out. He fed so many of our imaginations, but with good writing, there was so much else he could have done. :Like Doug and Tony could have gone to the writing of the Constitution and spoken with Thomas Jefferson or Franklin.
I remember this tv series when i was a teen. Some Japanese imperial soldiers during world war two followed them to the tunnel. wow. The Land of the Giant is also my favorite then.
Oh Jeeez I loved this show - I was around 9 or 10 years old when it was shown in England - Even at that young age I loved Sci Fi - Apart from the usual great American imports I watched - There was some home grown Sci Fi too - Time -Slip & Tomorrows People - I was born in 1961 -So I was born at the right time to see the emergence of great television shows ! - Irwin Allen could do no wrong - Land of the giants & Voyage to the bottom of the sea ! Although it has a great following even now I could never get my head around was Dr Who - He was just not my cup of tea
Hi steve, I remember watching the time tunnel back in 1973 when i was ten years old. They had shown all the Irwin Allen tv shows in the children's hour back then between 1969 and 74. I just had happen to remember those shows captured the imagination the fantasy beliefs that could really entertain you from a juvenile point of view. Good ole england for all those great viewing times back then right after school hours. Grew up in Slough
I love Doctor Who now, it was in my youth that I didn't get into it. The PBS station for my area would only show the thirty minute episodes, and if I missed one or two, the story didn't make sense. It wasn't until I was in my 20's that they started showing full episodes in their entirety and that's when I became a Whovian. As far as the Irwin shows, I didn't get to watch them until the 70's. Those two Brit shows, I have never seen or heard of. Too bad they didn't get syndicated over in the States.
Just wanted to share with all of you, that my Father, Dallas McKennon was the creator of the fantastic Time Tunnel sound effect! He actually created it with his voice and reverberated, and manipulated it like a synth back in the 50's!
Wasn't he Cincinnatus?
@@jongoldey3842 Yes he was Cincinnatus the store keeper, and Danil's old friend, on and off the set with Fess Parker.
Wow! This is an honor. The Time Tunnel was one of my favorite shows of all time! Thanks so much for your dad’s contribution to this wonderful old show😊
Cool! I remember Dallas McKinnon from one of my favorite TV shows, Daniel Boone! The innkeeper/tavern owner.
This was great. Thank you for sharing
I was 10 when The Time Tunnel came out and it was my all-time favorite show with Star Trek a close second. I was so disappointed that they canceled this show after one season. It was a such great way to learn about historical events as a kid. I had the pleasure of meeting Lee Meriwether when she came to Stars Night at the USO in Hollywood in 1974 and I got to talk to her for a little while.
Yes a childhood favourite of mine.. was a better time..
Same here.
Same here.
Absolutely. I was just glued to the tv screen for this one. I watched it in B&W, didn't even know they made it in color.
I was born in 75, so I missed this and Star Trek, I saw Star Trek first and fell in love with it but this show was one I enjoyed too, space travel and time travel have been in my mind since I was very young.
I was 11 when this came out. It was on ABC from 8 PM to 9 PM every Friday night. Of course, I always started out watching the 1/2 hour Green Hornet, which started at 7:30. It also lasted only one season. I still remember Friday, April 7, 1967 as the last original non-repeat broadcast of The Time Tunnel.
Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants and yes last but not least Star Trek. I was a bullied kid with a drunken stepfather back then. These shows were my safety valve. I could escape into them for an hour at a time and let my mind wander. I never got to travel in time or fly in space, but I did become an avid scuba diver. I also got a degree in computer science, thanks in part the fascination with science and technology that these science fiction show instilled in my (at that time) young mind.
Back then, in the USA everyone was excited about the future. It felt like anything was possible. That is something we have lost and I'm not sure we can get it back. We don't dream big anymore.
I can so relate! Thanks for sharing!!
Actually you are traveling in time for around seven decades now. Yes, very slow, but you are traveling.
No, we don’t dream big anymore. I’m not sure that’s the most significant thing we’ve lost, but it’s devastating to our future nevertheless.
Nowadays, I dream bigger than I ever did as a kid. What we used to think of as the future back in the 60s now exists. Portable phones like Dick Tracy’s in the 50s became not just phones but smartphones like the iPhone; huge wall-sized TVs like the Jetsons’ are now 80 inch flatscreens; I have an actual motorized mop (Braava Jet) and motorized vacuum (Roomba); huge computers are now desktops and laptops; countless other gadgets and devices that we could only dream of back then are now in daily use. Life really is even more wonderful than I imagined it would be.
The Krell like particle accelerator machine and multilevel array are still some of the most beautiful sets I've ever seen in sci-fi programs.
Disney set designers helped with forbidden planet! Has the original disney touch that has been lost for a long time now.
@@AmandathePandaBooksActually Disney just did the animation for the "creature from the ID." I think it was the only time Walt hired out his effects people.
Not "Krell-like." That's actual footage from Forbidden Planet.
I thought some of the effects looked familiar from Forbidden Planet.
A great top down View and yes it was very Forbidden Planet like
This was SO cool to see. Brought back so many good memories. I watched this as a kid. Irwin Allen was a genius in creating new TV shows. I remember his name so much when I was younger. RIP.
Thank you, KrekZoWasHet, for posting this great video on TH-cam. We Baby-Boomers owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Irwin Allen. His highly imaginative TV series helped define our dreams as kids of the 1960s. Wonderful stuff! I still love it and watch it regularly on TH-cam and on DVDs. Thank you, Irwin Allen!
Voyage to the bottom of the sea and Time Tunnel, my Dad’s favourites back in the day. Mine too.
'The Time Tunnel' was one of the greatest ideas for TV ever. The show had some terrifically written episodes. For television in the 1960s, this was the biggest thing to hit the airwaves. The fall of 1966 offered many new shows and many of them splashed color on our televisions for the first time in a big way. Prior to that year, most shows were filmed in black & white. I am happy to have enjoyed many of these classic TV shows when they first aired as they truly sparked one's imagination.
Interesting the show had miltary advisors just like stargate..rumors for years that USA had cracked time travel sending kids back in time in Operation Mohawk and in addition structures like stargates had been found in the middle east in 1920s by archologists!😀
Have you ever seen UPN's "7 Days" series. Great series as well, that didn't get the credit it deserved.
Star Trek and the Time Tunnel - my favourites when I was a kid. Amazing decade for Sci-Fi.
I was 86 when this first came out ! Great time to be alive as a senior! Early bird specials. My wife had blue hair, barely able to see over the steering wheel. We didn't care. As long as we had our sci-fi.
As this show premiered in 1966, that would make you 144. Maybe you have your own time tunnel.
Great TV show! Many thanks to Irwin Allen. Today, Wed., June 6, 2012, I learned that Ray Bradbury left this dimension. Ray B. was (and remains) one of the best short-story fiction writers -- ever! RIP Mr. Bradbury.
I vividly recall my 7th grade history teacher giving us homework on Friday which was to watch the Time Tunnel. The best homework assignment a kid could ever get.
This was pure magic when i was a child. We replayed it with all my friends.
Give Irwin Allen credit. Four very interesting and forward-thinking shows. He introduced a lot of what we see today.
Marc Parella---Irwin and Rod Serling had foresight!
the man was brilliant for his time and thank god i can re watch them all today in lockdown
Music was also great in Irwin Allen productions
Music composers of the 1960s were terrific! Including i dream of jeannie, batman, dick van dyke, and so many others!! They had a real feeling for the kind of style of music for each show!
Let's just say he didn't create things from scratch. He had help from the Chibusa-Mallet-Hawking-Fischer Time Gate Station.
Anything by Irwin Allen was tops way back when.
Time Tunnel was wonderful.
I was about 10 then.
*Absolutely loved the show. All 30 Episodes were worth watching*
I like the way the Time Tunnel sparks and smokes. That's always confidence inspiring in cutting edge advanced electronic equipment.
Can't do magic without magic smoke.
Watched this when I was at school in the late 70s , it was a rerun, this was so, so excellent, these 1960s shows where so well ahead of the game, and as time moves on you look back and see many things predicted have come to pass.....
Great documentary. They are currently re-running the Time Tunnel on the UK's Horror Channel and, like all Irwin Allen productions, it has stood the test of time.
I'm stunned to find out this show only lasted one season. I was eleven years old when it premiered, the perfect age for this show, and I'd have sworn it had gone at least two seasons because it made such an impression on me. Some other Irwin Allen shows look silly to me now, but The Time Tunnel still seems cool. Its one fault is that they never brought Tony and Doug back home, which is kind of creepy to me. Network TV back then didn't much care about that sort of thing - which is why the concluding episode of The Fugitive was such a phenomenon.
The fugitive was 5 years !!!!
This was about the same time as lost in space. As a young kid it was the highlight of my week
@@jonasbarbury4013 I didnt know!!!! Lost in space 5 years!!! In my country didnt finish!!! How finished???? Did The family Robinson return to their home?????
@@jorgevaccari2374 I hate to say it. But I don't remember
I have the DVD set, and it's separated into Season One and Season Two, although I don't think season 2 was a full season.
I was a wide-eyed 12 year old watching this back in 1967. It totally blew me away!
+Doy Virginia I was 12 years old in 1967 .... I was astounded only at the cheapness of the productions.
+MarcellusTheGreen Yes, it seems Mr Allen could have spent just a few more dollars to reduce the amount of "cheese" in the productions.
Really? With only 3 channels to choose from? Heh - kids these days. I loved that show as a kid.
wow, you guys are real life time travellers!!! Most of us didnt exist back then.
So what was life like in the 60's and 70's?
purple bubble gum would have blown you away
When I was a kid, Allen's shows were almost the only SF I could watch on TV, and I thought they were great. My parents kept me away from "scary" shows like "the Outer Limits" (dang!)
In later years, I realized how much of Allen's visuals were inspired by "Forbidden Planet."
Yep, I was 6 years old in 1965 and I loved Allen's sci-fi action shows. I still enjoy watching them in re-runs now on the occasion that they are played, such a simple time in my memories. The only one I never enjoyed was Land of the Giants. Time Tunnel may seem silly now but it was a blast to a 7 or 8 year old kid in the 1960s
You are not alone ;D
Good job, man. Thank you. When I was a 6 year-old my favorite programs were this and Star Trek. They molded my imagination. Years later I came to realize how many others were thrilled by them.
Was a great time for tv back then...remember watching this as a 9 year old kid.
I was a 12 year old kid back in the 60's when this came out. It's hard to explain the wide-eyed wonder I had watching this first episode back then, even if it was on a black and white tv.
Those Irwin Allen mega movies were awesome! 70s kids loved this stuff…I was born 59’.
I love the re-use of the sound of the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space (another irwin Allen show) in the Time Tunnel power-up. One of the best sound FX in early television.
Great memories of a wonderful childhood, Thank you Mr. Allen & all the cast!
One of the things I loved was the 1960s vision of what computers would look like in the future. Now they are all integrated circuits and micro-chips. I loved the flashing lights and the sine-curve displays than needed to be "aligned". AND the giant countdown display clock on the disk.
Don't forget the reel-to-reel magnetic tapes!
@@kiwitrainguy LOL. Yep. Loved them in The Time Tunnel.
I Came to Canada in 1967 and Time Tunnel, Lost In Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea were my favorite tv shows. They bring back great memories even to this day.
Loved this when I was a kid ... always watched with my dad. Irwin enriched my imagination with so many sci-fi shows.
Boy does that bring back memories. I feel like a kid again just now.
To this day I remember the Pearl Harbor episode and Tony’s inability to save his father. Just heartbroken. Darren’s acting was awesome,
I grew up on this stuff. Some of the best TV a little boy could hope for!!!!
60's TV was an awesome time to be a kid. Especially for the "geeky" ones like myself. The Outer Limits. Star Trek. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The Invaders. And of course, The Time Tunnel.
So this is Irwin Allen. The man who inspired millions of adolescent boys to become scientists and engineers with his highly imaginitive television shows.
Its a pleasure to see him here.
Loved all the Irwin Allen productions. As a sci fi kid growing up in the 60's. I fantasized about all these shows
I purchased the entire series as soon as both DVD sets became available! Even after all this....'time'.... the look of the actual set and the Time Tunnel, itself, still amazes me with its fantastic design! It literally seemed to stretch into infinity! Years later, I realize that there were only a few of the actual 'rings' to form the entrance into the yawning mouth of the tunnel,while the rear of the tunnel was a backdrop and the effect of 'forced perspective' was used to complete the illusion!
This was one of my favorite back in the day.
Irwin Allen was indeed a genius! Every project he was associated with became a ratings success because people saw his name listed as producer & knew automatically that this was NOT going to be some run of the mill production. It would be creative, new, well done, exciting, and above all, it transported you to another time and place - fantasyland if you will -- and that's what people wanted in the messed up 60's - ESCAPISM. No one did it better than Allen!! I couldn't wait for each new spisode!
Wonderful series made by IRWIN ALLEN - It was all part of my life ... I Love all of them , but The time tunnel was very special , one ☝️ of my favorites .
Loved this show so much as a kid. It's still one of my all time favorites even decades later. Even had a novel. The formula may've been the same, but the actors, guest-stars, setting and each week's specific plot made it a fresh experience each time. Like James said it was exciting to imagine what could be coming next. It had so much possibility still to be tapped into; enough for at least anotuer 2-3 years before itvwould've needed any tweaking.
I always look forward to seeing this show on Friday night back in the mid-sixties. The Time Tunnel has always been one of my favorite shoes.
Today's TV shows are terrible no feelings in them
Only crap and only trash on today's writters and producers
Thank IRWIN ALLEN THANK YOU
Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica says to stop living in Nostalgia Land and shut up!
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Weird how this one guy had such a huge impact on my childhood and on into old age. I absolutely loved everything he did and I'm sure he facilitated my own creativity and cognitive development.
All of these sci-fi shows were created for and aimed at us kids from back then. They even painted their images on our school lunch boxes. It was a wonderful time for a child's imagination and entertainment in those days.
Loved this show!! Watched the premier and every episode in real time. Irwin Allen’s shows always captured my imagination. Back then I’d fall asleep thinking about living in that city 800 stories deep and tall. MOr on the Seaview. I remember killing time after finishing an Iowa Test quickly and drawing the Seaview and putting the New York City Transit Authority “ta” logo on the sub’s sail. Thanks for the trip back to my childhood!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃
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Judging by the fact I already had a like on this video, I bet if I scrolled down far enough I probably posted a very similar comment in the past!!
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Infelizmente... os remakes não vão tão bem, não há problema em olhar para trás, mas não voltar atrás.
Sadly... remakes do not fare so well, it's okay to look back, but not to go back.
Excellent video! The Time Tunnel was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
even as a kid it came across a cop-out - all that goddamn stock footage wasn't fooling anybody
Irwin Allen's stuff was all about the adventure and the fun. LB Abbot and his SFX crew at 2Oth Century did an outstanding job pulling off those four IA shows. They have a visual style all there own.
I watched a lot of American TV dramas of this era. Among them, I saw "Time Tunnel" without missing every week. There were scientific considerations and I thought that it was amazing as a child. I hope I can have a TV drama producer like Irwin Allens now. From Tokyo
One of my favorites of all times! Loved sci fi since I was a kid, thanks to these series of Irwin Allen :)
I remember watching it as a kid, but I was too young to understand it. There was another program that was out maybe around the same year called "It's About Time".
Both the old and newer versions had their points. The one filmed as a pilot in the early 2000s was good for adults and this one made in the late 1960s was an inspiration for my brothers who went into STEM and Communication fields. And although I loved this earlier one, I became a teacher who majored history. It inspired to use my imagination.
Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, these T.V. shows where part of my childhood i grew up during the 1960s watching these amazing programmes of such imagination and adventure.
This was one of my favorite shows in the 60's
You must'a been the show's only fan. Voyage...lasted four seasons; this turkey only lasted one.
Ball my eyes out when Tony tells his father he is his son. Even Colbert is tearing up.
I have been a fan of this show since it first aired in 1966 but have never seen the promo at the beginning! This is must've been what was presented to the network execs at ABC to sell the show. Very well done! Thanks for posting!
Quality programs from my childhood. Terrific.
For some reason, the scene at the beginning when the car goes into the hole in the desert and then the desert closes again really made an impression on me. There were a lot of cool fx in the pilot that were better than anything else in the series.
Lee Meriwether sure held up well, huh? "Barnaby, you're too old to do that!" She was like the go-to girl of the '60s and '70s. Still working today, too. Quite a lady.
I always loved that show. I wish someone would make a modern movie of it for 2024.
"Time Tunnel" was, far and away, Irwin Allen's best TV series.
YES!
The best by far of Irwin Allen's sci-fi series of the 1960's.
I'm old enough to remember when it first aired in prime-time, as part of ABC's 1966/67 Friday night schedule.
I recall at the time reading that ABC was expected to dominate Friday night ratings, with "Green Hornet", "Time Tunnel", MIlton Berle's TV comeback and the long-running "12 O'Clock High".
But Berle and "12 O'Clock High" were gone by January, 1967 while "Hornet" and "Time Tunnel" were gone at season's end.
Thanks for posting this - I was very young then, really needed my memory refreshed as to just what this show was all about. BTW Lee Meriwhether attended my high school in San Francisco... years before I did, of course.
What a great show! I was 6 when it aired and it made a huge impression. Became an engineer and programmer later and did a lot of inventing too. I wrote an episode where they bring back a tornado through the tunnel and damage the control room. Also remember spending hours writing technical documents theorizing on how the time tunnel worked. Great for stimulating imagination. I was a bit of a nerd, lol. Is that Bill Mummy narrating the section in the middle standing behind the control panels? Do those panels still exist somewhere in a SyFy museum? How about adding the time tunnel to the new L.A. SyFy museum???
That is Bill Mumy, this is part of a programme that I saw a few years ago about all four of Irwin Allen's TV creations. In this video they edited out the part where it says "Introduced by Bill Mumy and The Robot".
You mentioning the tornado reminded me of the Time Tunnel episode where aliens had landed on Earth to take the atmosphere back to their planet as it was running out of air and the air is also sucked down the Time Tunnel as they have latched on to the time when this was supposedly happening.
It's amazing how I can remember these things from a TV programme that I have not seen in about 55 years!
I was 7yrs old in 1966 and loved all the Allen shows. Built the models.
I wish Allen could have done a live action show or movie of Jonny Quest, he would have been perfect.
Great show loved it. Also Land of the Giants, Lost in Space and Voyage to the bottom of the Sea.
Thunderbirds also
Lost in Space? Ahhhhh
There was a long time when I insisted on wearing turtle-neck shirts, just like Bobby Darren. It was the height of cool.
Let's just be honest, we loved the 60's.
I liked all but Land of the Giants, there was not much change from week to week, they always were being hunted by the Giants, or hiding from them.
I love time travel stories. Time Tunnel was a great show.
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My brother used to refer to the show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", as Sparks. Because in almost every show there was at least one scene where someone crashes into an instrument panel and it goes into a shower of sparks. They used that "special effect" a lot in that show. Same sparks as in the Time Tunnel.
I loved the Time Tunnel 🙂
Irwin Allen defined a great part of the world view of those like me who grew up watching their wonderful fantasiies in the sixties.
Lee Meriwether, such an amazingly talented actress and drop dead gorgeous classy lady.... I wish I could have met her just once, if only for a moment
Special effects for the secret base are excellent. Still stand up today
YES!!!!!
The visual affects of the tunnel and self of the installation or taken from the film "forbidden planet"footage.
Irwin Allen always knew where to save a buck.
I love how Allen recycled sound effects. The "firing up" of the Time Tunnel used the same sound effect as that of the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space. Ah, those were the days😊
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Looks like all the actors had so much fun working together. I was about 7 or 8 years old and I remember it being my favorite show. I was so disappointed when they cancelled it after one season.
"Don't gamble unless you have to, but, if you do have to, go for broke". Great advice for a lot of things.
That's amazing and unforgettable! I lived In Hong Kong and these America dramatic programs translated into Cantonese for my childhood!Time's tunnel! In the giant world ! Into the bottom of the sea!
Tenho saudade da minha infância, não perdia um capítulo desta fantástica série. Parabéns à postagem.
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Amazing!!! - This T.V. series used to be my favorite and I still think it's one of the best S-F TV series ever made!!!
GREAT VID! Worth a watch especially for those that watched the show 50 years ago! Great... lots of good memories.
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is still with us and even acting occasionally. There's a time leap for you.
" Brash young doctor..." 😂 I love it.
Time Tunnel is good, and Quantum Leap owes its intro to TT. Two scientists, both pressured to show results to lose funding prematurely step into the machine and vanish.
QL puts Sam Beckett in others' bodies to change "lives for the better", Tony and Doug do the same thing, without body switching.
Both programs are still great for their time!
66 was a great year to be 8 years old. It broke my heart when Time Tunnel was cancelled. It was a favorite.
This is great. Thanks for sharing. Time Tunnel was one of my top programs in the 60s - and the one that greatly affected me. Quantum Leap was a great show in the 90s, but you KNOW where they got the idea from :)
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Indeed you are correct, both Quantum Leap and Sliders were enjoyable to watch but they each had a bit of Time Tunnel about them
Absolutely loved the time tunnel series as a kid.1/7/2014. Irish time 23:55. Tuesday.
Irwin Allen created fantastic worlds that entertained and also educated through its moral messages.
I had a huge crush on Lee Merriwether.
I was going to give this video 9/10 but then Bill Mumy appeared and it immediately went to 10/10!
The music - is OUTSTANDING. All of the music in these Irwin Allen shows is great.
Irwin Allen is a Hollywood legend the guy made hundreds of millions and was the best disaster film producer in Hollywood history.
I was 6 years old when I first saw this. The sinking of the Titanic terrified me for years - I'm still fascinated today. Rudolph could REALLY fly! Followed by "the watery people" (Star Trek the transporter machine) "The Man Trap" episode. Man, what a great time to be a kid!
I was watching time tunnel when I was a kid. This show should have gotten at least three more seasons, as it was every bit as good as Voyage to the bottom of the sea.
If they were made for serious fans, and not camp like so many of these movies based on tv shows are now.
I was 7 years old when the Time Tunnel premiered in 1966. It was one of my favorite shows. The 1960's sure had some great TV shows unlike the garbage that is on today.
I live Irwin Allen's shows but the thing that really gets me is these people can build star ships, amazing nuclear submarines and time machines, but somehow don't understand the concept of a circuit breaker!
Maybe they should have talked to a real electrician.
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Irwin Allen is one of those mystery producers who come up with these great ideas but for his TV things, he never put money into getting good writers for the shows. He had these great sets but the writing petered out. He fed so many of our imaginations, but with good writing, there was so much else he could have done. :Like Doug and Tony could have gone to the writing of the Constitution and spoken with Thomas Jefferson or Franklin.
I remember this tv series when i was a teen. Some Japanese imperial soldiers during world war two followed them to the tunnel. wow. The Land of the Giant is also my favorite then.
These were the staple of UHF stations in early 70s when I was a wee lad. Thank you for posting.
Oh Jeeez I loved this show - I was around 9 or 10 years old when it was shown in England - Even at that young age I loved Sci Fi -
Apart from the usual great American imports I watched - There was some home grown Sci Fi too - Time -Slip & Tomorrows People -
I was born in 1961 -So I was born at the right time to see the emergence of great television shows ! - Irwin Allen could do no wrong - Land of the giants & Voyage to the bottom of the sea !
Although it has a great following even now I could never get my head around was Dr Who - He was just not my cup of tea
Hi steve, I remember watching the time tunnel back in 1973 when i was ten years old. They had shown all the Irwin Allen tv shows in the children's hour back then between 1969 and 74. I just had happen to remember those shows captured the imagination the fantasy beliefs that could really entertain you from a juvenile point of view. Good ole england for all those great viewing times back then right after school hours. Grew up in Slough
I love Doctor Who now, it was in my youth that I didn't get into it. The PBS station for my area would only show the thirty minute episodes, and if I missed one or two, the story didn't make sense. It wasn't until I was in my 20's that they started showing full episodes in their entirety and that's when I became a Whovian. As far as the Irwin shows, I didn't get to watch them until the 70's. Those two Brit shows, I have never seen or heard of. Too bad they didn't get syndicated over in the States.
Me too 1961 was a great year and Era to be born in!!!!