I suppose it makes good viewing, but they always seem to nearlly always land at a signifigant point with famous characters rather than down the high street on a rainy day
The 60's TV shows were Dripping with just great entertainement not just Time Tunnel..There was Star Trek , The Twilight Zone , Green acres , Dobby Gilas ,My Mother The Car , The Wild Wild West, Bewitched , I Dream Of Jennie, Land of the Giants and ALL the Walt Disney shows.. It was fantastic entertainment those days..
Watch the episode "One Way to the Moon". A "Buck Rogers" spacecraft going to Mars via the moon. Bloopers. 1. No weighlessness in the spaceship or 2. on the moon. 3. A "meteor" hits the ship and only penetrates one side. 4. Doug uses a piece of plastic to cover the hole, nobody or nothing is sucked out. 5. A moon supply depot blows up and; 6. There is nothing inside; 7. It burns; 8. It's 3" tall. 9. During a fight a bullet is fired; 10. items fall..at normal speed. Still fun but lmfao. Amen.
pity time tunnel seems to end up in a recurring time loop . Because, looking at the main set the Tunnel is way beyond TV effects of the mid 60s. A huge underground base costing zillions.. this is spielberg territory . and, who knows, it might yet be reinvented for the big screen.
'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.
@jupitr2 All three television networks went full color for prime time in the fall of 1966. I was around then and was 4 years old in late 1966, but unfortunately my family didn't have a color television yet. We finally got one in 1975! By that time even daytime television was in full color.
@VinnyMonster1 Sorry, could not have possibly been since Forbidden Planet was an MGM production and the Time Tunnel was 20th Century Fox. I will agree that the complex set is similar to Forbidden Planet. Interestingly enough, the look for Irwin Allen's Lost in Space was heavily influenced by the Forbidden Planet.
@VinnyMonster1 FYI: Forbidden Planet was produced in 1956 — ten years before Time Tunnel. It's is clear, however, that many shots of TT's underground complex were inspired by the Krell's complex seen in FP. In fact, Irwin Alien employed Bob Kinoshita, designer of FP's Robby, the robot, so this similarity is no accident.
Isn't it marvelous. An infinite amount of periods & locations & where does Tony end up in the first episode? THE TITANIC! Lee Merriwether was bloody awful. (It has to be said) However, I loved it as a kid. It still has it's charm eventhough I feel it never lived up to it's potential. I would have included more 'future' episodes for a start (There were only a handful.) Like most of Allen's series, it finished abruptly so the heroes never get back. Sorry James - the stock footage IS obvious! BCNU.
Fox studios flooded brazilian TV at the 60s. But , I can perfectly remember,that Time Tunnel ( on air at Sunday night) was the only show which EVERY adult, from every ideology ,was talking about on monday morning. Time travel deals with the mistery of our fast, superfluous, existence. No other explanation.
I'm still wondering, why Doug + Tony got always their same Clothes back by changing Time, because all other People who were beamed by the Tunnel had all actual original Stuff and Clothes with them, when the Tunnel transported them. For what did Tic Toc need so much Personal and this big Complex for using the Tunnel, because in one Episode when there was a rebuilding of the Tunnel in the Hall of a Factury they had not much Personal.
@GETTOCOP1 Oh that's easy. The could not afford to reshoot the tunnel effects with them falling through time each week in different clothing. Also it means the epsidoes in re-runs can be shown in any order. : )
I'd go back to about 1900, buy the rights to Coca-Cola, set up a bank account into which to deposit the proceeds and come immediately back to wealth beyond the dreams of avarice!
Was it also time tunnel where sometimes they went to the other side and they were either very small or very large? I'm confused if it was the same tv show or a different one.
@inachu I'm a little unsure as well, I'm actually starting to watch both series from start to finish and when I find out I'll leave another message, unless anyone else tells us!
FAB relatively recent 'period docu-drama' of the GOLDEN era of sci-fi TV productions by the great Irwin Allen. One misses the great tradition of 'cost -is-no-object' , compared to the of TV today. . I think we have 'out-teched' our own sensibilities toward quality, artistic TV. The set reminds one of the concept of ultra-depth scientific lab cities as seen in the 'Forbidden Planet' movie of 1956 by MGM with Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen, for starters! Can't replace real CLASS ACTS!
The Montauk Project.And, PROJECT RAINBOW (The Philadelphia Experiment for Electromagnetic Stealth, worked on by Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Townsend Brown). Irwin Allen had it right with all the American Black Budgeted space and time-control projects since the late 1940s. Gift of genius and precognition.
Cinemas in brief from around the world, "The Time Tunnel" - the classic science fiction - after the debut, with great success, sequels planned, like the TV series, 1966; time will tell ....
@8000stephen I agree it's silly, but I still love it and watch it. When I was in 5th and 6th grade, I lived for "Combat!," "Batman," and then "Time Tunnel" every week!
One episode I can comment on as to its historical accuracy (or lack thereof) is the one set at the Battle of New Orleans: pure Hollywood hokum (they got the details of the battle COMPLETELY wrong), but who cares? I still love watching the stock footage from "The Buccaneer" with Yul Brynner and Charleton Heston!
@8000stephen That's what's referred to as dramatic license. How many people would be able to understand it if aliens spoke their own language, or if characters spoke Old English? They were trying to avoid subtitles.
After watching this I truly wonder about the possiblities of time travel. As the amount of money that went into this series was staggering. Also that entrance somewhere in the desert of Nevada or New Mexico, pretty far out ... hints of AREA 51, makes one wonder once again about what kind of technology the gov't has and who exactly governs us?
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.
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!
I just realized as I read comments about this series on imdb.com that I evidently never saw the best episodes so I retract some of the comments I made about it earlier. When you look at Robert Colbert here, it's easy to see why Warner Bros. had earlier cast him as "Brent Maverick" to replace James Garner as "Bret Maverick" when Garner left the "Maverick" series. Colbert supposedly said, "Put me in a dress and call me Brenda but don't do this to me."
This was the ultimate Freudian series. The time tunnel is obviously a huge vagina / womb, and the two men entering it return to the imaginary state of their infancy, when they were one with their mothers, before the trauma of separation, the Oedipal complex and the acceptance of their father's image and rules.
@neonknights Like neon lights up my life. Your psychological trivialties are truly deconstructive. If you can't understand that how about mashed potatoes laced with cyanide.
The time tunnel was a GREAT show and it was one of my favorites!!!!
I also loved Lost in Space & Voyage to the bottom of the sea!
Irwin Allen was/is a genious and was way ahead of his time,especially when it came to these classic shows! I will admit that the special effects were sometimes a little cheesy & a little over the top, but the shows Irwin Allen delivered were ALWAYS entertaining and thought provoking!
Hello, If you the reader here have heard of the C2C interview with Michael Marcum, you might be able understand this. The "tunnel" in this video reminds me of the circles that Mr.Marcum had mentioned. However, at one time, there were "ten" circles, but at another time much later, there are seven circles with electromagnets that He had used in the 1996 Experiment. The Establishment may be totally embarassed if the "real story" were to come out but I think that it has been "suppressed". later
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!
@crmfghtr - There are three sections that make up this "documentary". The first is the short piece of Irwin Allen from his ABC network presentation for VOYAGE. Next comes the opening segment of the TIME TUNNEL movies that Fox edited together for syndication in the '80s that includes the explanation of the story, taken from the pilot episode. At about 6 minutes in, this switches to the portion of THE FANTASY WORLDS OF IRWIN ALLEN centering on THE TIME TUNNEL. The doc was made for SciFi.
One of my favorite shows growing up as a kid. It got me interested in Science and History. Ended up becoming an engineer when I finally grew up. It's videos like this that make YOUTUBE great. I never tire of watching them.
I just watched some on Hulu. The episode I was thinking of was supposedly set in Russia. Cool thing about these shows is it is why I became a scientist. BS in engineering and MS in math. Was a captain in the US Air Force too. So, don't sell TV too short. Sometimes it can be a not horrible influence. Watching the "smurfs" is a bit suspect though.
i watched it sporadically over the early years. I am not even sure how much I forgot. I remember one where they went to nazi germany and ran into a primitive version of the tunnel? I remember the one they went back about 10 years to when the tunnel was just being built. I even read two time tunnel paperback books. They were pretty good.
@gk10002000 It was but I got the DVD set and when I look at it today I can see a lot of bloopers that IA overlooked or just let go. I wish they had aired the final episode where they found a way to bring the time travellers back home!
I don't know what year the interviews took place but Lee is still beautiful !
tjfreak 3 days ago
Que calidad musical de todas estas series todo casi perfecto actores dialogos etc
begonagr 4 days ago
I suppose it makes good viewing, but they always seem to nearlly always land at a signifigant point with famous characters rather than down the high street on a rainy day
puddypuss 1 week ago
The premise of the Time Tunnel, seemed to be that you can go back in time but you can't effect history.
RammatRamzi 1 week ago
Lost In Space, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Adam 12, Planet Of The Apes (the TV series)
Thuggin2222 1 week ago
NO Wonder why our Debt is.... 15,000,000,000,000 Trillion Dollars....! ...LOL!
ROGER459 3 weeks ago
The good ole days and tv shows where they all go? They just don't make them like they use to
skybleys 3 weeks ago
The 60's TV shows were Dripping with just great entertainement not just Time Tunnel..There was Star Trek , The Twilight Zone , Green acres , Dobby Gilas ,My Mother The Car , The Wild Wild West, Bewitched , I Dream Of Jennie, Land of the Giants and ALL the Walt Disney shows.. It was fantastic entertainment those days..
Hinklec4 3 weeks ago
Watch the episode "One Way to the Moon". A "Buck Rogers" spacecraft going to Mars via the moon. Bloopers. 1. No weighlessness in the spaceship or 2. on the moon. 3. A "meteor" hits the ship and only penetrates one side. 4. Doug uses a piece of plastic to cover the hole, nobody or nothing is sucked out. 5. A moon supply depot blows up and; 6. There is nothing inside; 7. It burns; 8. It's 3" tall. 9. During a fight a bullet is fired; 10. items fall..at normal speed. Still fun but lmfao. Amen.
javelin1010 4 weeks ago
This was my favorite show as a kid.....
mckessa17 1 month ago
Time Tunnel - one of the best TV series ever made, still today !
mindblower111 1 month ago
The govt is threatening to stop funds ,they did the same to me on the utube tunnel,now im stuck here .
MrFattyfatfatboy 1 month ago
pity time tunnel seems to end up in a recurring time loop . Because, looking at the main set the Tunnel is way beyond TV effects of the mid 60s. A huge underground base costing zillions.. this is spielberg territory . and, who knows, it might yet be reinvented for the big screen.
32bevula 1 month ago
"Government spending millions of dollars on a top secret project?"
What is that in today's dollars?
mustang607 1 month ago
@mustang607 In 1966, 1,000,000 dollars would be worth 6,942,000 today in 2012.
candr 1 month ago
'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.
jupitr2 1 month ago
@jupitr2 All three television networks went full color for prime time in the fall of 1966. I was around then and was 4 years old in late 1966, but unfortunately my family didn't have a color television yet. We finally got one in 1975! By that time even daytime television was in full color.
musclen2phat 1 month ago
awesome! for a kid in those days this was unforgetable. Great times.
edgaritoaqui 1 month ago
@edgaritoaqui I think that the shots of the complex were the sets from Forbidden Planet.
VinnyMonster1 1 month ago
@VinnyMonster1 Sorry, could not have possibly been since Forbidden Planet was an MGM production and the Time Tunnel was 20th Century Fox. I will agree that the complex set is similar to Forbidden Planet. Interestingly enough, the look for Irwin Allen's Lost in Space was heavily influenced by the Forbidden Planet.
musclen2phat 1 month ago
@musclen2phat Oh well, can't win em all. Was still a good show back in the day.
VinnyMonster1 1 month ago
@VinnyMonster1 FYI: Forbidden Planet was produced in 1956 — ten years before Time Tunnel. It's is clear, however, that many shots of TT's underground complex were inspired by the Krell's complex seen in FP. In fact, Irwin Alien employed Bob Kinoshita, designer of FP's Robby, the robot, so this similarity is no accident.
cyborlite 1 month ago
Isn't it marvelous. An infinite amount of periods & locations & where does Tony end up in the first episode? THE TITANIC! Lee Merriwether was bloody awful. (It has to be said) However, I loved it as a kid. It still has it's charm eventhough I feel it never lived up to it's potential. I would have included more 'future' episodes for a start (There were only a handful.) Like most of Allen's series, it finished abruptly so the heroes never get back. Sorry James - the stock footage IS obvious! BCNU.
stevejailbirdmatt 2 months ago
Fox studios flooded brazilian TV at the 60s. But , I can perfectly remember,that Time Tunnel ( on air at Sunday night) was the only show which EVERY adult, from every ideology ,was talking about on monday morning. Time travel deals with the mistery of our fast, superfluous, existence. No other explanation.
miguelmouta 3 months ago
I'm still wondering, why Doug + Tony got always their same Clothes back by changing Time, because all other People who were beamed by the Tunnel had all actual original Stuff and Clothes with them, when the Tunnel transported them. For what did Tic Toc need so much Personal and this big Complex for using the Tunnel, because in one Episode when there was a rebuilding of the Tunnel in the Hall of a Factury they had not much Personal.
GETTOCOP1 3 months ago
@GETTOCOP1 Oh that's easy. The could not afford to reshoot the tunnel effects with them falling through time each week in different clothing. Also it means the epsidoes in re-runs can be shown in any order. : )
VirtualVikki 2 months ago
Star Trek and the Time Tunnel - my favourites when I was a kid. Amazing decade for Sci-Fi.
MrJohndl 3 months ago
I have this entire series on DVD. Some of the episodes were rather cheesy. The episodes with silver skinned aliens were definitely substandard.
BBINGHAM032352 3 months ago
With all the events that take place in the Bermuda Triangle it actually makes you wonder if the ability to travel through time became a reality.
BBINGHAM032352 3 months ago
'Send a man into time and return him safely, and all without informing the public!'
stikowsky 3 months ago
I'd go back to about 1900, buy the rights to Coca-Cola, set up a bank account into which to deposit the proceeds and come immediately back to wealth beyond the dreams of avarice!
MrGoblin60 3 months ago
Some where in the American Desert? Area 51, lol
racefan32 3 months ago
this was a great show!!!!
jimmyV1919 4 months ago
that was AWESOME!
nixatnite 4 months ago
gracias a esta serie muchos amamos la historia
begonagr 4 months ago
great, waiting every week ... !!! LES
lesleypaul59 4 months ago
yes remember this series very well even if it was silly I used to really enjoy watching it as a kid
moomoosmum 4 months ago
Was it also time tunnel where sometimes they went to the other side and they were either very small or very large? I'm confused if it was the same tv show or a different one.
inachu 5 months ago
@inachu No the programme you're thinking of is 'Land of the Giants' it was always on a sunday morning I think :)
FPInvention 1 month ago
@FPInvention
I am sure there was a cross over special of some type but yeah that was many years ago. Maybe I'm confused.
inachu 1 month ago
@inachu I'm a little unsure as well, I'm actually starting to watch both series from start to finish and when I find out I'll leave another message, unless anyone else tells us!
FPInvention 1 month ago
Looks like they found some Krell tech!
pbanta62 5 months ago
Tontonan gw wkt msh kcil...
Ipunkcondet 5 months ago
...from the larger documentary "The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen".
Aeolis7 6 months ago
FAB relatively recent 'period docu-drama' of the GOLDEN era of sci-fi TV productions by the great Irwin Allen. One misses the great tradition of 'cost -is-no-object' , compared to the of TV today. . I think we have 'out-teched' our own sensibilities toward quality, artistic TV. The set reminds one of the concept of ultra-depth scientific lab cities as seen in the 'Forbidden Planet' movie of 1956 by MGM with Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen, for starters! Can't replace real CLASS ACTS!
sashalasha 6 months ago
The Montauk Project.And, PROJECT RAINBOW (The Philadelphia Experiment for Electromagnetic Stealth, worked on by Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Townsend Brown). Irwin Allen had it right with all the American Black Budgeted space and time-control projects since the late 1940s. Gift of genius and precognition.
Beamshipcaptain 6 months ago
Cinemas in brief from around the world, "The Time Tunnel" - the classic science fiction - after the debut, with great success, sequels planned, like the TV series, 1966; time will tell ....
by a lover of science-fiction series.
kalufsaulchueke 7 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Perhaps truer to fact than we have been led to believe.
Naveisme1961 8 months ago
I used to watch this series, but it's incredibly silly. No matter where or " when" our heroes go, everybody speaks 20th century English.
8000stephen 8 months ago
@8000stephen I agree it's silly, but I still love it and watch it. When I was in 5th and 6th grade, I lived for "Combat!," "Batman," and then "Time Tunnel" every week!
One episode I can comment on as to its historical accuracy (or lack thereof) is the one set at the Battle of New Orleans: pure Hollywood hokum (they got the details of the battle COMPLETELY wrong), but who cares? I still love watching the stock footage from "The Buccaneer" with Yul Brynner and Charleton Heston!
:-D
terentii 5 months ago
@8000stephen That's what's referred to as dramatic license. How many people would be able to understand it if aliens spoke their own language, or if characters spoke Old English? They were trying to avoid subtitles.
capttheo1 4 months ago
After watching this I truly wonder about the possiblities of time travel. As the amount of money that went into this series was staggering. Also that entrance somewhere in the desert of Nevada or New Mexico, pretty far out ... hints of AREA 51, makes one wonder once again about what kind of technology the gov't has and who exactly governs us?
camlpg 8 months ago
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.
altfactor 8 months ago
WHAT A CAT! IRWIN ALLEN IS A GENIUS FILM MAKER..........and MORE !
THANKS IRWIN...
drumbs 8 months ago
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!!!
ofri75 9 months ago
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!
jupitr2 9 months ago
Scenes like at 1:25 are works of art. And again at 1:30. Beautiful science fiction illustrations. Enough entertainment for a lifetime of dreams.
JetMechMA 9 months ago
I just realized as I read comments about this series on imdb.com that I evidently never saw the best episodes so I retract some of the comments I made about it earlier. When you look at Robert Colbert here, it's easy to see why Warner Bros. had earlier cast him as "Brent Maverick" to replace James Garner as "Bret Maverick" when Garner left the "Maverick" series. Colbert supposedly said, "Put me in a dress and call me Brenda but don't do this to me."
Onlymusical 9 months ago
This was the ultimate Freudian series. The time tunnel is obviously a huge vagina / womb, and the two men entering it return to the imaginary state of their infancy, when they were one with their mothers, before the trauma of separation, the Oedipal complex and the acceptance of their father's image and rules.
neonknights 10 months ago
@neonknights Like neon lights up my life. Your psychological trivialties are truly deconstructive. If you can't understand that how about mashed potatoes laced with cyanide.
camlpg 8 months ago
It's so damn cool, even now : )
Uberdude25 11 months ago
I always loved this old program, Land of the Giants and Lost in Spacewas the ones I always watched.
MrUNIXman 11 months ago
The time tunnel was a GREAT show and it was one of my favorites!!!!
I also loved Lost in Space & Voyage to the bottom of the sea!
Irwin Allen was/is a genious and was way ahead of his time,especially when it came to these classic shows! I will admit that the special effects were sometimes a little cheesy & a little over the top, but the shows Irwin Allen delivered were ALWAYS entertaining and thought provoking!
Thanks for posting this.
darthsideous1968 11 months ago
Hello, If you the reader here have heard of the C2C interview with Michael Marcum, you might be able understand this. The "tunnel" in this video reminds me of the circles that Mr.Marcum had mentioned. However, at one time, there were "ten" circles, but at another time much later, there are seven circles with electromagnets that He had used in the 1996 Experiment. The Establishment may be totally embarassed if the "real story" were to come out but I think that it has been "suppressed". later
njb641982 11 months ago
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!
Titan52berg 11 months ago
Wow where did you find this, where was it aired?
crmfghtr 1 year ago
@crmfghtr - There are three sections that make up this "documentary". The first is the short piece of Irwin Allen from his ABC network presentation for VOYAGE. Next comes the opening segment of the TIME TUNNEL movies that Fox edited together for syndication in the '80s that includes the explanation of the story, taken from the pilot episode. At about 6 minutes in, this switches to the portion of THE FANTASY WORLDS OF IRWIN ALLEN centering on THE TIME TUNNEL. The doc was made for SciFi.
TheHGN2001 9 months ago
One of my favorite shows growing up as a kid. It got me interested in Science and History. Ended up becoming an engineer when I finally grew up. It's videos like this that make YOUTUBE great. I never tire of watching them.
imtxsmoke 1 year ago
I just watched some on Hulu. The episode I was thinking of was supposedly set in Russia. Cool thing about these shows is it is why I became a scientist. BS in engineering and MS in math. Was a captain in the US Air Force too. So, don't sell TV too short. Sometimes it can be a not horrible influence. Watching the "smurfs" is a bit suspect though.
gk10002000 1 year ago
i watched it sporadically over the early years. I am not even sure how much I forgot. I remember one where they went to nazi germany and ran into a primitive version of the tunnel? I remember the one they went back about 10 years to when the tunnel was just being built. I even read two time tunnel paperback books. They were pretty good.
gk10002000 1 year ago
thanks for posting this, takes me back to being a 10 year old
giz1aeon 1 year ago
great post. time tunnel was under rated.
gk10002000 1 year ago 2
@gk10002000 It was but I got the DVD set and when I look at it today I can see a lot of bloopers that IA overlooked or just let go. I wish they had aired the final episode where they found a way to bring the time travellers back home!
Tazzman 1 year ago
The Time Tunnel is my favourite out of all four Sci-Fi series that Irwin Allen made in the 60's
timemtunneller 1 year ago