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