ORBzine - 2004 UK Television Review: "Time Tunnel"

James Darren [ Star Trek: DS9 ] as Dr. Tony Newman

Robert Colbert as Dr. Doug Philips

Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann MacGregor

Whit Bissel as General Heywood Kirk

John Zaremba as Dr. Raymond Swain

Wesley Lau as Sergeant Jiggs

Sam Groom as Jerry

1st Season 1966

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 1] Rendezvous with Yesterday
Shown 9 Sep 66

1968, and a US Government Politician visits a secret facility. It contains half a dozen underground buildings, each 800 storeys deep and containing 12,000 men. Its purpose is ... time travel!

James Darren goes back in time, and ends up on the Titanic - just like the Time Bandits did. The encounters aboard the ship amount to a slanderous attack on the Captain. Darren's friend from 1968 goes back in time to help him, leaving them both trapped ...

The show used C20th Fox's vast library of stock footage, so there is probably footage from A Night To Remember in this ep. The irony is that the brains behind this show, Irwin Allen, created The Poseidon Adventure - and with it, the 1970s Disaster Movie genre!

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 2] One Way to the Moon
Shown 16 Sep 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 3] End of the World
Shown 23 Sep 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 4] The Day the Sky Fell In
Shown 30 Sep 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 5] The Last Patrol
Shown 7 Oct 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 6] Crack of Doom
Shown 14 Oct 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 7] Revenge of the Gods
Shown 21 Oct 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 8] Massacre
Shown 28 Oct 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 9] Devil's Island
Shown 11 Nov 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 10] Reign of Terror
Shown 18 Nov 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 11] Secret Weapon
Shown 25 Nov 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 12] The Death Trap
Shown 2 Dec 66

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 13] The Alamo
Shown 9 Dec 66

  1-14             16 Dec 66   Night of the Long Knives
  1-15             23 Dec 66   Invasion
  1-16             30 Dec 66   The Revenge of Robin Hood
  1-17              6 Jan 67   Kill Two by Two

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 18] Visitors From Beyond The Stars
Shown 13 Jan 67
Shown

The 2 explorers land in the Wild West. They discover a pair of Alien invaders [actors with silver skin-paint, straight out of Lost in Space] have taken over a ranch. The aliens hold one of the explorers hostage, and send the other into town to demand all the supplies of food and livestock.

Things get worse. The town is under siege by the Apaches, and the Sheriff thinks the time travellers are in league with the aliens!

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 19] The Ghost of Nero
Shown 20 Jan 67
Shown

The time travellers land in the villa of Count Galba, on the border between Italy and Austria. The year is 1915, and the villa is captured by the German army [not Austrians, for some strange reason]. Richard Jaekel [Dirty Dozen] plays one of the German soldiers.

One by one the characters are possessed by the ghost of the Roman Emperor Nero who swore revenge on the Roman General Galba and all his descendants.

  1-20             27 Jan 67   The Walls of Jericho

Time Tunnel [Season 1, Episode 21] Idol of Death
Shown 3 Feb 67
Shown 31st May 2001 - Thursday

The two Yanks join forces with a couple of Native Americans against Cortez and the Conquistadors. They call the natives civilised, gleefully ignoring the fact that the Aztecs practised human sacrifice hundreds of times every day. Worse, if the Yanks change history and prevent Cortez from winning, they will prevent the eventual colonisation of the western United States with the predictably detrimental effects on their own time-travel project!

  1-22             10 Feb 67   Billy the Kid
  1-23             17 Feb 67   Pirates of Deadman's Island
  1-24             24 Feb 67   Chase Through Time
  1-25              3 Mar 67   The Death Merchant
  1-26             10 Mar 67   Attack of the Barbarians
  1-27             17 Mar 67   Merlin the Magician
  1-28             24 Mar 67   The Kidnappers
  1-29             31 Mar 67   Raiders from Outer Space
  1-30              7 Apr 67   Town of Terror


compilation movies:
Aliens from Another Planet: #24 Chase Through Time & #18 Visitors from Beyond the Stars
Kill or Be Killed: #4 The Day the Sky Fell In & #17 Kill Two by Two
Old Legends Ne v er Die: #27 Merlin the Magician & #16 The Revenge of Robin Hood
Raiders from Outer Space: #28 The Kidnappers & #2 One Way to the Moon
Revenge of the Gods: #7 Revenge of the Gods & #20 The Walls of Jericho

ORBzine - Time Tunnel TV Review

1st Season 1966

Time Tunnel