I was in grade 3 or 4 at the time. The teacher had started to talk about the volcanic eruption that took place in Krakatoa. This happened on a Monday. Well the teacher was somewhat miffed by the fact that most of us already new about Krakatoa! We told her the answer was simple. Krakatoa was on Time Tunnel the Friday before! Time Tunnel was such a great show, especially if you like history! Very informative! Some of the leaders of different countries today could use to brush up on history!
No real imagination & logic How about a small mini series showing the end of the journey returning to the beginning. (Loop) and deciding whether to continue or not with messing with time.
Same thing that happened with Star Trek, although it lasted 3 seasons. Network executives simply don't understand science fiction. And if they don't understand it, despite a huge letter campaign (which probably overwhelmed the local post office) to keep Star Trek going for a 4th season, the XO's stood their ground, and Star Trek was phasered out of existence (they thought). The animated series ('72 or '73?) lasted 22 ½-hour episodes. Some trekkies consider it the "unofficial 4th season," or year four of the 5-year mission. But I got into the wrong time track. I can imagine the same or similar thing happened. Despite all of the mail and telephone messages, the network XO's canceled Time Tunnel anyway. Network executives are always very slow learners. It seems they still haven't learned the obvious axiom, namely that network XO's don't go against fans. But no, the only things they see are $ and ¢. Will they never learn?
Robert Colbert is 93, I met him in Pacific Palisades and I found out he is really good friends with Lee Meriwether and very sadly. That's when I found out about her illness. We are losing our heroes. Thanks for the memories.
I absolutely loved The Time Tunnel as a kid, even though I knew that most of the historical figures they visited didn't speak modern English. But it was still fun!
The Time Tunnel had the nice bonus of being at least somewhat educational. History teachers liked it, not because it necessarily taught history authoritatively, but it could spark students' interest in a certain historical event.
When I was in the reserves, we had a uniform ribbon that had that hourglass logo on it. When people asked what I had gotten the ribbon for, I used to tell them it was for when I worked on 'Project Tic-Toc". Some people got the joke and asked how Doug and Tony were doing.😅
I loved the show as a kid. I have the box set. The one thing that made me laugh and still does, the time tunnel also acted as a dry cleaner. No matter how many times James and Robert had their clothes ripped, dirtied, and what not, after they traveled to the next place, the clothes were perfectly clean.
That's most likely because they were removed from one time and sent to another, so whatever happened to them in the previous time didn't exist, like they were never there, so it's like they started out on a clean slate.
It also changed their clothes just before the end of some of the episodes! My favorite trope was how the two of them were slammed hard to the ground at the start of every adventure. That Time Tunnel had a lot of 'bugs' in it to be so expensive!
The problem with Time Tunnel toward the end was it started to frequently feature those Irwin Allen signature cheesy aliens too many times instead of characters involved with historical events.
I LOVED The Time Tunnel! I was only in the 5th grade, but I used to make my own models of the tunnel. I’ll be mocked for saying this, but I enjoyed it far more than Star Trek.
Same here. I was disappointed that they canceled after 30 episodes. I read it was canceled for the same reason Lost In Space was. Both networks, CBS and ABC told Irwin Allen to cut back on expenses and he said he cannot cut back any more than what he has. LIS was canceled after 3 seasons and TT after only one. Sad.
The Time Tunnel was responsible for my career in teaching as back in 1966 I learned for the first time about the Titanic, Custard's Last Stand, and other historical events. If not for that show--who knows--I might have gone into a lucrative career in finance of the law, but I sure as heck would not have enjoyed it as much as I did teaching history!
Time Tunnel reruns are still on a channel called MeTV. If you want to stay up to 3 am to watch it. 😂. In fact, all the classical shows of the 60’s that Dan mentioned are on MeTV Saturday Night. Starting with Batman, StarTrek TOS, NightStalker, Lost In Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel.
Here where I live, we have a network called METV, that plays every Saturday the original Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, The Thunderbirds, the original Star Trek, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, Kolchak, and I'm sure I missed a few, but they're played back to back every Saturday night...sadly it's mostly after midnight until 7am.
I enjoyed watching "The Time Tunnel." I had the James Darren recording "Goodbye Cruel World." I enjoyed it when he showed up on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" as a singer.😊
Have you ever seen the movie Time after Time with Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen? One of my favorites and I don't think it ever gets enough attention love to hear your review of the movie !
I used to with someone who belonged to the Titanic Historical Society. I let him watch my tape of the pilot and he did not like it because it was not accurate as far names and ship information was concerned. Plus scene where the ship was sinking and people were breaking out the with champagne bottles. He said porthole windows on a ship and very thick and that was not possible.
I'm 57 years old and was a HUGE fan of just about everything Irwin Allen ever did as a kid, but this one flew under my radar for some reason. Maybe it was not syndicated in my area? I first heard about it just a few years ago and watched a few episodes. I remember watching James Darren and thinking to myself, "Where have I seen this guy before?" Being a big Star Trek fan, and especially Deep Space Nine, it dawned on me that he played Vince Fontaine in the holosuite nightclub that Nog had created!
The whole family loved this show when I was a kid. We sat down in front of the Black & White Pye TV with viewing time and snacks carefully planned out by my mum. Mum rolled out the snacks and drinks just at the right times as not to miss any of the show. My dad and his TV mates spent many weeks of planning and they finally installed a gigantic 10 Bar 20 foot high arial that tied down like a circus tent on the roof of our home. We lived in the country and had the best TV signal in the district. We could watch any TV show coming from repeaters all around the country. It was not just a tv show but an institution when the family, friends and neighbours got together to watch our favourite TV shows.
When i was 15 years old i stayed home and watched this on friday nights instead of hangin out with my friends thats how much i loved this series and the other Irwin Allen series.
I would like to know more about Battlestar Galactica 1977, particularly the cylon costumes as what happened to them as well as know more about Land Of The Giants
Re-watching Time Tunnel now, Ann makes me crack up. One moment optimistic with full confidence, next minute pessimist with zero confidence. One minute grateful, next minute resentful. One minute brave, next minute cowardly .. ..
I also remember reading that Time Tunnel ran out of ideas…there were only so many sets from movies/other shows you could build a story around, and even with a high budget, ‘tin foil aliens’ started to look cheap..
TT was one of my all-time favorite shows. I was devastated when I learned that it was canceled. I refused to watch that Custer show and thought whoever came up with the idea for Custer to replace the Time Tunnel should have been fired and sent to Siberia for 20 years. 😡😡
I was talking about this show the other day and no one else seemed to remember it. I was born in '66 so I was obviously watching it in reruns in the early 1970s. It used to come one with Land of the Giants and Lost in Space. I guess it was an Irwin Allen block on Saturdays or Sundays.
I remember it, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space , Dr Who and Thunderbirds. A great time to be a kid with a load of inspirational shows to get you interested in the future and learning science.
Here in Brazil, "The Time Tunnel," or in Portuguese "O Túnel do Tempo," was very successful in the 1970s and in its constant reruns in the following years. It still has a huge legion of fans to this day.
I was born in 79 so this was way before my time but i downloaded all the episodes of this show and im really enjoying it! Thanks for letting me know it existed.
I was a kid when this came out and I loved this show so much it sparked my interest in time travel right up to this day. When he mentioned that there wasn't much in the way of merchandise, I still have one of the patches that are sewn on all the lab coats for all the workers at the Time Tunnel. I never sewed it on anything and still have it and keep thinking every once in a while to actually sew it on a white jacket.
The Time Tunnel was one of the first 'sci-fi' shows I remember watching and then liking. I was probably in my early teens at the time. I was disappointed when it suddenly stopped being shown and I found out a short time later it was cancelled. About a year later, my cousins turned me on to Star Trek, and I was hooked on that for life. At least for that, there was enough fan activism to keep that alive in one form or another for... well, decades. I also recall starting to watch Quantum Leap in the middle of its initial run during the 90s. I remember thinking that its premise was similar to The Time Tunnel. I also became a fan of Doctor Who in the late 2000s, as well as Fringe, and later Continuum. Those kept my sci-fi juices flowing. I'm loving the new crop of Star Trek shows.
As a child 0f the '60s I was inspired to get a degree in Nuclear Engineering because of Star Trek, Lost in Space, and the Time Tunnel. Although the show suffered from subpar scripts (apparently so they could match the story to the available stock film scenes) there were some shows that showed off the potential of the concept such as Chase Through Time and Secret Weapon. Definitely a candidate for modern re imagination.
> "I was inspired to get a degree in Nuclear Engineering because of Star Trek, Lost in Space, and the Time Tunnel." Me too. Now I'm a sex worker in a group house of old geeks. KNOWLEDGE IS NOT POWER. It's better than skyshine and neutron embrittlement because I never have to wake up early and drive to work. Moral of this true story: KNOWLEDGE IS NOT POWER. TRUTH IS NOT BEAUTY.
I always like how the clothes they originally entered rhe tunnel with would reappear even they were dressed in something else(i think it was the camelot episode that showed their clothes change back juar before they disappeared into the tunnel) and not only that they would be completely clean, pressed and repaired....😂
You should do a video spotlight about the classic daytime gothic suspense romance drama, Dark Shadows, of which i was a fan of as well as The Time Tunnel, now that would be a story in itself, Because Dark Shadows lasted from 1966 until 1971. It was made popular by the first appearance of 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, when he was released from his chained coffin after 200 years, by Willie Loomis, in early 1967.
you give an AWESOME analysis and insight both into the show and the challenges of producing one at that time. This one should have been big but I guess it was ahead of its time eh :D Thanks for taking us back
I loved this show when I was a kid. Even now, whenever I see Whit Bissell in a show/movie I say, "I know him! He was in The Time Tunnel!" LOL Great TH-cam channel - I feel like it was made especially for me! 🙂
Also, remember Whit in the original film version of "The Time Machine"? (A few years before "The Time Tunnel"!) By the way... I love your surname, Dennis!
Whit Bissell was in the original 1960 movie "The Time Machine" with Rod Taylor in the lead role. In 1978, Whit Bissell (and John Zaremba) were in a TV-movie version of "The Time Machine" (the time traveller Neil Perry visits the Puritan colony in Massachusetts, the California gold rush, then the future with the Eloi and Morlocks) - cheap on the time lapse special effects of buildings going up or being torn down.
I liked it, at age 10. I had forgotten that is was on Friday evening. I liked that time slot actually. It was a time slot with a different feel to it, end of the school week so no thoughts about having to get up early the next day..
Great video of a GREAT show. I remember as a kid being so disappointed that a second season wasn't coming. The Titanic episode was my favorite. Thanks Dan for another great show.
The cast was outstanding and Ms. Merriwether gave the show a lot of gravitas. She had a wide range of roles but this is, in my opinion, is one her best. The musical score ranks at the top of any TV Network Era list along with Mission Impossible (Lalo Schafrin) and a few others.
I loved the show! Last year I watched half a dozen episodes before I moved. Nearly half the people on the show ended up on Star Trek too. This was also a sneaky way of teaching kids history!
In 1976 there was an attempted reboot of the series called 'Time Travelers' starring Sam Groom and Tom Hallick. It used some of the computer props from Time Tunnel. The story had 2 men going back in time to find the cure for an illness that had appeared around the time of the Chicago Fire of 1871. Richard Basehart had a guest role as the 1871 doctor. It also used lots of stock footage to show the past. It was only shown as a TV movie.
I'm glad someone remembers this show, I had a hard time finding it on DVD. Some people think I'm taking about the TV show The Time Travelers, different show entirely!! I like this comment. You know your stuff!!
I remember my 12-year old self thinking it was rather absurd how come the supposedly random time travel *always* happened to end up in the precise moment (and place) a momentous, famous historical event was just about to happen...
Anyone else REALLY look forward to the part(s) where the imaging arms would engage (with the imaging armsy sounds)? Addictive viewing. Also, the one-off reboot (2002-ish?) was actually very good indeed.
You have a great channel I enjoy every episode. I enjoy many of the same things that you showcase on your channel as I was growing up In the same time period. Supper Cool
I remember Chase Through Time where they went way into the future and ended up going into the past , the episode about being on the moon was based in the future, and the final episode where they ended up saving the earth in a small town was based in the future. I am figuring this out using their time.🗓
Great channel, nothing quite like it. Particularly like when you talk about props and what happened to them - keep up the good work, great stuff. Lots of love from the UK
I was 10 years old when Time Tunnel was broadcast. The show was one of the reasons that I did so well in history class during my high school years 😅. I am so glad that Me-TV runs all the episodes of Irwin Allen TV shows.
@@ivannadler1789 how do you DVR from an app? Don’t you need to have the app playing the episode at the scheduled time? And DVR from an online stream? Was easy when i had cable.
I think it's wonderful that (as of this writing) James Darren, Robert Colbert and Lee Merriweather are still with us. Time Tunnel is clearly one of my all-time favorites tv shows!
In the Nineties it was made into a parody in a BBC2 comedy series called 'Alexie Sayles Stuff'. It was titled 'Drunk in Time', in which our two heroes are perpetually minced and messing up historical events.
Time to take Time Tunnel back to Now.
Updated version would be a instant hit on Netflix.
I was in grade 3 or 4 at the time. The teacher had started to talk about the volcanic eruption that took place in Krakatoa. This happened on a Monday. Well the teacher was somewhat miffed by the fact that most of us already new about Krakatoa! We told her the answer was simple. Krakatoa was on Time Tunnel the Friday before! Time Tunnel was such a great show, especially if you like history! Very informative! Some of the leaders of different countries today could use to brush up on history!
The reason it was cancelled despite high ratings is that network executives have never understood or even liked Sci Fi.
*GROAN*....network executives
Leslie Moonves is an especially notorious example of this.
True
No real imagination & logic How about a small mini series showing the end of the journey returning to the beginning. (Loop) and deciding whether to continue or not with messing with time.
Same thing that happened with Star Trek, although it lasted 3 seasons. Network executives simply don't understand science fiction. And if they don't understand it, despite a huge letter campaign (which probably overwhelmed the local post office) to keep Star Trek going for a 4th season, the XO's stood their ground, and Star Trek was phasered out of existence (they thought). The animated series ('72 or '73?) lasted 22 ½-hour episodes. Some trekkies consider it the "unofficial 4th season," or year four of the 5-year mission.
But I got into the wrong time track. I can imagine the same or similar thing happened. Despite all of the mail and telephone messages, the network XO's canceled Time Tunnel anyway.
Network executives are always very slow learners. It seems they still haven't learned the obvious axiom, namely that network XO's don't go against fans. But no, the only things they see are $ and ¢. Will they never learn?
I loved *The Time Tunnel* when I watched it when I was six!. Also *Land of the Giants* and *Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.*
As a child of the 60s, I love this channel. I appreciate all the work you do to produce such quality content on my favorite movies and TV shows!
Robert Colbert is 93, I met him in Pacific Palisades and I found out he is really good friends with Lee Meriwether and very sadly. That's when I found out about her illness. We are losing our heroes. Thanks for the memories.
I always enjoyed her acting work on Barnaby Jones. 🔍
I absolutely loved The Time Tunnel as a kid, even though I knew that most of the historical figures they visited didn't speak modern English. But it was still fun!
The Time Tunnel had the nice bonus of being at least somewhat educational. History teachers liked it, not because it necessarily taught history authoritatively, but it could spark students' interest in a certain historical event.
When I was in the reserves, we had a uniform ribbon that had that hourglass logo on it. When people asked what I had gotten the ribbon for, I used to tell them it was for when I worked on 'Project Tic-Toc". Some people got the joke and asked how Doug and Tony were doing.😅
Great one@ Thank you.
Nobody would get the joke now.
I loved the show as a kid. I have the box set. The one thing that made me laugh and still does, the time tunnel also acted as a dry cleaner. No matter how many times James and Robert had their clothes ripped, dirtied, and what not, after they traveled to the next place, the clothes were perfectly clean.
That's most likely because they were removed from one time and sent to another, so whatever happened to them in the previous time didn't exist, like they were never there, so it's like they started out on a clean slate.
It was a dual time tunnel-dry cleaning machine. I think Samsung makes them now 😉
It also changed their clothes just before the end of some of the episodes! My favorite trope was how the two of them were slammed hard to the ground at the start of every adventure. That Time Tunnel had a lot of 'bugs' in it to be so expensive!
My friends and I LOVED The Time Tunnel. It was our salve after Lost in Space was cancelled.
The problem with Time Tunnel toward the end was it started to frequently feature those Irwin Allen signature cheesy aliens too many times instead of characters involved with historical events.
I LOVED The Time Tunnel! I was only in the 5th grade, but I used to make my own models of the tunnel. I’ll be mocked for saying this, but I enjoyed it far more than Star Trek.
Same here. I was disappointed that they canceled after 30 episodes. I read it was canceled for the same reason Lost In Space was. Both networks, CBS and ABC told Irwin Allen to cut back on expenses and he said he cannot cut back any more than what he has. LIS was canceled after 3 seasons and TT after only one. Sad.
The Time Tunnel was responsible for my career in teaching as back in 1966 I learned for the first time about the Titanic, Custard's Last Stand, and other historical events. If not for that show--who knows--I might have gone into a lucrative career in finance of the law, but I sure as heck would not have enjoyed it as much as I did teaching history!
Time Tunnel reruns are still on a channel called MeTV. If you want to stay up to 3 am to watch it. 😂. In fact, all the classical shows of the 60’s that Dan mentioned are on MeTV Saturday Night. Starting with Batman, StarTrek TOS, NightStalker, Lost In Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel.
You forgot 'the Invaders'!!
Here where I live, we have a network called METV, that plays every Saturday the original Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, The Thunderbirds, the original Star Trek, Voyage to the bottom of the sea, Kolchak, and I'm sure I missed a few, but they're played back to back every Saturday night...sadly it's mostly after midnight until 7am.
Don't forget Svengoolie, the classic horror movie host!
The Time Tunnel was a show that was ahead of it's time.
I enjoyed watching "The Time Tunnel." I had the James Darren recording "Goodbye Cruel World." I enjoyed it when he showed up on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" as a singer.😊
Have you ever seen the movie Time after Time with Malcolm McDowell, David Warner and Mary Steenburgen? One of my favorites and I don't think it ever gets enough attention love to hear your review of the movie !
Time after Time was a very imaginative movie & didn't get enough acclaim! Love movies about time travel!
"World war... TWO??"
The program was very educational. As a third Grader , that’s when I learned about important historical events , Such as the Titanic.
I used to with someone who belonged to the Titanic Historical Society. I let him watch my tape of the pilot and he did not like it because it was not accurate as far names and ship information was concerned. Plus scene where the ship was sinking and people were breaking out the with champagne bottles. He said porthole windows on a ship and very thick and that was not possible.
Thanks Dan
This was one of my favorite TV shows ad a kid
My pleasure peter, thanks for watching :-)
I loved The Time Tunnel as well.
I am a bit shocked that in our age of reboots, remakes and rubbish, more of Mr. Allen's shows have not been subject to the big budget blunders.
I'm 57 years old and was a HUGE fan of just about everything Irwin Allen ever did as a kid, but this one flew under my radar for some reason. Maybe it was not syndicated in my area? I first heard about it just a few years ago and watched a few episodes. I remember watching James Darren and thinking to myself, "Where have I seen this guy before?" Being a big Star Trek fan, and especially Deep Space Nine, it dawned on me that he played Vince Fontaine in the holosuite nightclub that Nog had created!
The whole family loved this show when I was a kid. We sat down in front of the Black & White Pye TV with viewing time and snacks carefully planned out by my mum.
Mum rolled out the snacks and drinks just at the right times as not to miss any of the show. My dad and his TV mates spent many weeks of planning and they finally installed a gigantic 10 Bar 20 foot high arial that tied down like a circus tent on the roof of our home. We lived in the country and had the best TV signal in the district. We could watch any TV show coming from repeaters all around the country. It was not just a tv show but an institution when the family, friends and neighbours got together to watch our favourite TV shows.
When i was 15 years old i stayed home and watched this on friday nights instead of hangin out with my friends thats how much i loved this series and the other Irwin Allen series.
This channel IS our very own Time Tunnel!
I would like to know more about Battlestar Galactica 1977, particularly the cylon costumes as what happened to them
as well as know more about Land Of The Giants
I am looking forward to the Voyage to the Bottom of the sea video. That was one of my favorites as a kid.
It's on its way I promise :-) I work as a one-man show, so it takes forever to get these videos done :-) stay tuned
Always liked voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I was hooked on it as well as the Wild Wild West
Irwin Allen was right up there with Gerry Anderson and Rod Serling. GREAT entertainment!
The time tunnel complex reminds me of the Krell city from Forbidden Planet.
It reminds me of the super cool underground complex in the movie "Fantastic Voyage."
I believe that it was repurposed Forbidden Planet footage.
Another one of my favourite old tv shows that I share with my son and daughter ! Great channel and videos Dan !
Re-watching Time Tunnel now, Ann makes me crack up. One moment optimistic with full confidence, next minute pessimist with zero confidence. One minute grateful, next minute resentful. One minute brave, next minute cowardly .. ..
I also remember reading that Time Tunnel ran out of ideas…there were only so many sets from movies/other shows you could build a story around, and even with a high budget, ‘tin foil aliens’ started to look cheap..
Off topic.... Julie Newmar was by far the hottest catwoman. 🙂
TT was one of my all-time favorite shows. I was devastated when I learned that it was canceled. I refused to watch that Custer show and thought whoever came up with the idea for Custer to replace the Time Tunnel should have been fired and sent to Siberia for 20 years. 😡😡
I loved it. I must have been 12 or 13 when it was on TV in my country...every Saturday morning..
Your Show is Fantastic. Love all that you do. Brings back so so many memories. Thank You.
I was talking about this show the other day and no one else seemed to remember it. I was born in '66 so I was obviously watching it in reruns in the early 1970s. It used to come one with Land of the Giants and Lost in Space. I guess it was an Irwin Allen block on Saturdays or Sundays.
Loved this when I was a kid.
I remember it, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space , Dr Who and Thunderbirds. A great time to be a kid with a load of inspirational shows to get you interested in the future and learning science.
My two favorites were Time Tunnel and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
Wonderful video. Whats is really great is that both main actors are still alive.
I still have my GAF ViewMaster reels of Time Tunnel. I’m 66 years old.
Mine are all sadly gone...
I still have my Adam West Batman 1966 view master reel!
one of the 3D slides shows the boom mic.
In the 1960's there was a joke about ABC: "You want to know how to end the Viet Nam War? Put it on ABC and it will be canceled in 13 weeks."
Here in Brazil, "The Time Tunnel," or in Portuguese "O Túnel do Tempo," was very successful in the 1970s and in its constant reruns in the following years. It still has a huge legion of fans to this day.
The Time Tunnel was sort of a proto Quantum-Leap.
I was born in 79 so this was way before my time but i downloaded all the episodes of this show and im really enjoying it! Thanks for letting me know it existed.
I was a kid when this came out and I loved this show so much it sparked my interest in time travel right up to this day. When he mentioned that there wasn't much in the way of merchandise, I still have one of the patches that are sewn on all the lab coats for all the workers at the Time Tunnel. I never sewed it on anything and still have it and keep thinking every once in a while to actually sew it on a white jacket.
Back when this show came out, I lived for Friday nights to watch it.
Me too.
The Time Tunnel was one of the first 'sci-fi' shows I remember watching and then liking. I was probably in my early teens at the time. I was disappointed when it suddenly stopped being shown and I found out a short time later it was cancelled. About a year later, my cousins turned me on to Star Trek, and I was hooked on that for life. At least for that, there was enough fan activism to keep that alive in one form or another for... well, decades. I also recall starting to watch Quantum Leap in the middle of its initial run during the 90s. I remember thinking that its premise was similar to The Time Tunnel. I also became a fan of Doctor Who in the late 2000s, as well as Fringe, and later Continuum. Those kept my sci-fi juices flowing. I'm loving the new crop of Star Trek shows.
I am sure you have not seen it all, the last episode had Doug and Tony return, well it did in the UK.
That's amazing! Would you mind giving a brief overview of the episode? Huge fan of the show here.
The time tunnel was and is my favorite sci-fi show of all time!
As a child 0f the '60s I was inspired to get a degree in Nuclear Engineering because of Star Trek, Lost in Space, and the Time Tunnel. Although the show suffered from subpar scripts (apparently so they could match the story to the available stock film scenes) there were some shows that showed off the potential of the concept such as Chase Through Time and Secret Weapon. Definitely a candidate for modern re imagination.
> "I was inspired to get a degree in Nuclear Engineering because of Star Trek, Lost in Space, and the Time Tunnel."
Me too. Now I'm a sex worker in a group house of old geeks. KNOWLEDGE IS NOT POWER.
It's better than skyshine and neutron embrittlement because I never have to wake up early and drive to work. Moral of this true story: KNOWLEDGE IS NOT POWER. TRUTH IS NOT BEAUTY.
Thanks for covering one of my all-time favorite shows!
R.I.P:James Darren
I always like how the clothes they originally entered rhe tunnel with would reappear even they were dressed in something else(i think it was the camelot episode that showed their clothes change back juar before they disappeared into the tunnel) and not only that they would be completely clean, pressed and repaired....😂
Great job -- one of my favorite programs 'back-in-the-day' (too young to go out Friday nights) -- I didn't realize it had been only one season!
It was kind of like a dramatic version of Peabody’s Improbable History, without the puns.
And a forerunner to Quantum Leap.
You should do a video spotlight about the classic daytime gothic suspense romance drama, Dark Shadows, of which i was a fan of as well as The Time Tunnel, now that would be a story in itself, Because Dark Shadows lasted from 1966 until 1971. It was made popular by the first appearance of 175-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, when he was released from his chained coffin after 200 years, by Willie Loomis, in early 1967.
Dark Shadows started out as a regular , run of the mill soap opera that was in danger of being canceled until the introduction of Barnabas
"Who the heck is home on a Friday night?" - Me, as a kid, watching the "Invaders" :)
you give an AWESOME analysis and insight both into the show and the challenges of producing one at that time. This one should have been big but I guess it was ahead of its time eh :D Thanks for taking us back
RIP TONY. BEEN GONE LAST WEEK
I loved this show when I was a kid. Even now, whenever I see Whit Bissell in a show/movie I say, "I know him! He was in The Time Tunnel!" LOL Great TH-cam channel - I feel like it was made especially for me! 🙂
Also, remember Whit in the original film version of "The Time Machine"? (A few years before "The Time Tunnel"!)
By the way... I love your surname, Dennis!
Whit Bissell was in the original 1960 movie "The Time Machine" with Rod Taylor in the lead role. In 1978, Whit Bissell (and John Zaremba) were in a TV-movie version of "The Time Machine" (the time traveller Neil Perry visits the Puritan colony in Massachusetts, the California gold rush, then the future with the Eloi and Morlocks) - cheap on the time lapse special effects of buildings going up or being torn down.
I liked it, at age 10. I had forgotten that is was on Friday evening. I liked that time slot actually. It was a time slot with a different feel to it, end of the school week so no thoughts about having to get up early the next day..
I watched reruns when I was a kid in the 1970s
Great video of a GREAT show. I remember as a kid being so disappointed that a second season wasn't coming. The Titanic episode was my favorite. Thanks Dan for another great show.
"A rock is a rock, a tree is a tree, go shoot it in Griffith Park."
The Time Tunnel's lead-in, The Green Hornet, was also cancelled. So, there's that.
In todays TV production, 30 episodes would be 3 years!
The cast was outstanding and Ms. Merriwether gave the show a lot of gravitas. She had a wide range of roles but this is, in my opinion, is one her best. The musical score ranks at the top of any TV Network Era list along with Mission Impossible (Lalo Schafrin) and a few others.
She made a cool Catwoman in the 1966 Adam West Batman big-screen movie, too.
I loved the show! Last year I watched half a dozen episodes before I moved. Nearly half the people on the show ended up on Star Trek too. This was also a sneaky way of teaching kids history!
Dan , Please do The Invaders . Please....
It's coming I promise :-)
Do New Zoo Revue & Hot Fudge too! 📺
Philadelphian James Darren also had a singing career--and his hit "All," is one of my "all" time favorites.
He also played Moondoggie in a couple of the Giget movies
Wow, you’re nearing 100K subs, congratulations!!!! 👏👏👏👏
In 1976 there was an attempted reboot of the series called 'Time Travelers' starring Sam Groom and Tom Hallick. It used some of the computer props from Time Tunnel. The story had 2 men going back in time to find the cure for an illness that had appeared around the time of the Chicago Fire of 1871. Richard Basehart had a guest role as the 1871 doctor. It also used lots of stock footage to show the past. It was only shown as a TV movie.
I'm glad someone remembers this show, I had a hard time finding it on DVD. Some people think I'm taking about the TV show The Time Travelers, different show entirely!! I like this comment. You know your stuff!!
Seeing the Time Tunnel artist conception reminds me of the underground abandoned city on Forbidden Planet.
Loved the Time Tunnel when I was a kid on TV
I remember my 12-year old self thinking it was rather absurd how come the supposedly random time travel *always* happened to end up in the precise moment (and place) a momentous, famous historical event was just about to happen...
and everyone spoke English
Anyone else REALLY look forward to the part(s) where the imaging arms would engage (with the imaging armsy sounds)? Addictive viewing. Also, the one-off reboot (2002-ish?) was actually very good indeed.
"Custer" was a piece of crap. I remember my Dad asking "They cancelled Time Tunnel for this"? And he LOVED westerns!
Remarkable! Thank you.
You have a great channel I enjoy every episode. I enjoy many of the same things that you showcase on your channel as I was growing up In the same time period. Supper Cool
Loved the Time Tunnel. Wish they would have gone into the future more. Only once I believe.
I remember Chase Through Time where they went way into the future and ended up going into the past , the episode about being on the moon was based in the future, and the final episode where they ended up saving the earth in a small town was based in the future. I am figuring this out using their time.🗓
Another great, great show that aired only one season and also deserves your attention: The Prisoner.
I know it's not American but how about some Gerry Anderson like Stingray, XL-5 or Supercar or even Doppelganger/Far side of the sun .
What scares me as I'm old enough to remember watching that show
I loved the Time Tunnel as a kid. It was the best of the Irwin Allen shows. I've got the DVDs.
Wonderfully done. Thanks for the refresher of a very good show, The Time Tunnel. So long Mr. Darren. Rip.
I was watching this show in 1967 when a tornado hit our house.
Now THAT was a Time Tunnel!
Great channel, nothing quite like it. Particularly like when you talk about props and what happened to them - keep up the good work, great stuff. Lots of love from the UK
Nine-year old me loved this! Actually may have kicked off a lifelong interest in history.
Oh I have to add my complaint about its cancelation. As a kid, I loved this show.
I was 10 years old when Time Tunnel was broadcast. The show was one of the reasons that I did so well in history class during my high school years 😅. I am so glad that Me-TV runs all the episodes of Irwin Allen TV shows.
Yeah.. at 4am only on Saturdays. Useless
Yeah I just DVR it.
@@ivannadler1789 how do you DVR from an app? Don’t you need to have the app playing the episode at the scheduled time? And DVR from an online stream? Was easy when i had cable.
@@wadeinn463METV is not an app..it's broadcast on regular TV (antenna)
That set for the Time Tunnel kept me watching week after week. that set was amazing!
I think it's wonderful that (as of this writing) James Darren, Robert Colbert and Lee Merriweather are still with us. Time Tunnel is clearly one of my all-time favorites tv shows!
And Sam Groom (technician Jerry) who was the star of the 1976 “Time Travelers” tv movie Dan alluded to. The film also featured Richard Basehart.
Watching it as a kid in the 70's was awesome. Every episode was a cliff hanger.
30 episodes? That's 3 seasons today. LOL.
Five seasons, for some series. 🙄
The Time Machine _ HGWells ... science fiction looks at the present & "what if" ... you'll be able to explore
Dan, you have one of the best TH-cam channels going. Bravo, Sir! 👍
In the Nineties it was made into a parody in a BBC2 comedy series called 'Alexie Sayles Stuff'. It was titled 'Drunk in Time', in which our two heroes are perpetually minced and messing up historical events.
That sounds really funny.
Loved the show. Liked the desert entrance scene when the ramp secretly opened in the middle of nowhere.