Classic TV - The Time Tunnel

[@fknows1]

I like the show so much as a kid, I tracked down and bought a box set with all the episodes on DVD

[@conorolaf1762]

Was amazing how Tony and Doug could end up speaking and understanding the ancient languages.

[@chrisnewman7281]

What’s more fantastical is that these ancient people sound American, some have some ill fitting wigs and hair pieces and a few of them have an uncanny resemblance to famous actors of the 1960s.

[@georgeanthony7282]

@@chrisnewman7281 Everyone's a critic... lol

[@shibolinemress8913]

James Darren also appeared in the recurring role of 1960's-era holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

[@TentoesMe]

I remember that show! I was 8. I loved how the thing would short out and blow up every time they used it.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

As a kid, I loved this show. I wish that it had gone on longer.

[@Eliel7230]

This was one of my favorites back in the day, when tv was good.

[@curiousworld7912]

I never realized this show only lasted one season. I remember it as a child, but thought it ran for much longer.

[@michaelbergman1708]

That is because they made 30 episodes in one season. Back in the 1960s, television shows typically had 25 - 30 episodes in a year. Now, maybe you get 10.

[@curiousworld7912]

@@michaelbergman1708 That's true. I remember really liking it. And, it was such a hoot to see James Darren In DS9, all those years later.

[@sandrasanders706]

Me, too. I remember a re boot of the series in the 70's or 80's.

[@curiousworld7912]

@Best Player On the field I agree.

[@plastique45]

Actually, the show ran many seasons as continuous reruns in many markets. I grew up watching it for 2-3 years and since you'd miss many episodes, we were young etc, it felt like we always saw new ones, lol.

[@phillipsmith4501]

One of the best next to lost in space , land of the giants voyage to the bottom of the sea , a history lesson we enjoyed long live the 60s a time of real imagination Irwin Allen was ahead of his own time? Cheers from Australia

[@LF.M.9584]

Está série é minha favorita. Quando garoto não perdia nenhum capítulo. Achei ela no Dailymotion e voltei a rever e matar a saudade. Abraços a todos

[@kenkemzura903]

Loved the show. It really got me interested in history. Too bad it wasn't renewed or concluded. Got to meet Lee Meriwether, Robert Colbert, and James Darren at Hollywood collector and autograph shows.

[@robw3027]

Another excellent video on a series fondly remembered. Like the producer I hope that Tony and Doug are still in that tunnel perusing adventures.

[@Bootmahoy88]

The sheer effort of Allen's team just to construct that time tunnel set is incredibly impressive. I watched the show as a kid and loved it. When it was canceled after just one season I was sad and perplexed. Why did they ax it?

[@394pjo]

This was the one show that inspired me to become a time traveller.

[@andrewemery4272]

394pjo Will inspire you, don't you mean?

[@394pjo]

@@andrewemery4272 Yes. My work here is done.

[@AlexGreeneHypnotist]

Speak for yourself. I was inspired by the latter episodes both to become a powerful magician and a silver suited alien. Though not like the aliens in the last episode, because they were literal oxygen thieves.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

It inspired you to become something that doesn't exist?????

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Land of the Lost inspired me to become a Dinosaur

[@BondFreek]

You forgot to mention that James Darren starred in Deep Space Nine in the last couple of seasons as a singing hologram / psychologist

[@FallacyAsPraxis]

I saw him on that show but didn't recognize him as the Time Tunnel star. He looked pretty good from dude from the 1960s. Guess some people just have it in them to age really well.

[@Starfals]

So true :D Thats how i learn of him

[@jimbear62]

Vic Fontaine

[@davidwilliambarker]

Hey, whaddaya want, this ain't IMDB!

[@UXXV]

Never spotted it was the same dude!

[@adrianokury]

One thing that awed me in this sci-fi show was the presence of the supernatural, as in Merlin with huge magic powers and the ghost of a Roman emperor coming back for revenge.

[@TheAuntieBa]

Lee Meriwether also had a memorable guest shot on the original Star Trek series.

[@TheAuntieBa]

She did indeed, and a very sympathetic role, too. Love her!

[@peadarmurray7994]

Barnaby jones

[@Albendova666]

​@@peadarmurray7994 Yep. All of these shows are on ME-TV, that's how I pretty much found out about them. I want a Johnny Baak review of the CANNON tv series starring William Conrad.

[@carloseduardonogueiraloddo8250]

My favorite TV show ever, well, with the excepcion of the “hors-concours” Columbo series. Totally agree with Allen, about this one being his best, and Allen’s series were the best, among all. Besides having lots of fun with non-stop adventure, you would learn about history, science, and reflect about the ever-challenging time-travel paradoxes. Allen’s perspective on the possibilities of past-changing was quite simple, but not simplistic. It was a sort of deterministic view, in which the past could not be changed by future actors in its main lines, at least, not as much as to cause paradoxes, which lead enough field for change open, in order to generate excelent quality adventure. It was just fantastic. As for the obvious linguistic flaws, well, we were all right with a fantastic world in which all times would comunicate well enough in a sort of universal language… It just Made sense, at the time. It was just cool!

[@insanelook]

Fantastic tv show, loved it.

[@williamporter7596]

Another part of my childhood as well, also watched on B&W tv. bit of a shock when I first re-watched it in colour from the dvd box set.

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

My brother was a fan of this show and introduced me to it some time in the early 80's when he was able to acquire episodes on VHS tape. The pride of his collection was the pilot episode, which was a slightly different version of the Titanic episode.

[@ronsmith5572]

I grew up watching this show along with THE LAND OF THE GIANTS , THE FUGITIVE AND THE IMMORTAL with Christopher George of RAT PATROL , just to name a few

[@guytremblay1647]

jesus you grew up fast in one year lol

[@randyacuna3248]

@@guytremblay1647 growing up in the 1960s , this was in my view the real golden age of television.

[@AlexGreeneHypnotist]

Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea and The Time Tunnel were my favourite Irwin Allen shows. Land of The Giants and Lost In Space kind of disappointed me when I saw the reruns.

[@alanrosello8321]

Me too, back when tv was great to watch,. I don't even watch today's shows at all.

[@CEPAIVA]

Thank you for the time travel to my early years with this magnificent presentation of one of my favorite shows then, of course, there were others too. An incredible storyteller by a stellar crew! Very crafty filming for the time! Frustration hit when you mentioned that they still lost in time! Maybe someone could produce a final chapter and give them a closing chapter on their journey ! 👊👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@paulforder591]

Very well--presented, Mr. Baak! It's a pity The Time Tunnel was cancelled and Allen never got to make a second season of this classic series. Still fun escapism even today. ⌛⌛⌛

[@theicberg]

Excellent rendition to The Time Tunnel. For ever in my child heart.

[@waynevia6976]

one of my favorite tv shows. they were all good. great episode.

[@tonyhalliwell5115]

Great show pity it ended.

[@donkeyjote0104]

I started to like history when a was a kid checking this series of this TIME TUNNEL.

[@eliasb8]

09:11 You forgot to mention that James Darren had a very memorable recurring role in the TV Series "Star Trek Deep Space Nine" as the Vegas singer hologram "Vic Fontaine".

[@danielpauly9865]

Thanks for making this video. I remember this being a black and white show. I guess my family didn't have a color TV back then either. I still vividly remember the Krakatoa episode. To be 8 years old again!

[@marianwalsh6297]

We had a black white tv if memory served me right first esposide was titanic a great shows

[@tubespring]

Thank you for the look back and information on each of the cast members.

[@watasihawatasiyo]

子どもの頃、毎週楽しめた1960年代。最高の番組だった。現代に放送しても、かなりヒットするでしょう。

[@alouettedemer5366]

I watched the show when it originally aired, and of course it was on a b&w tv. So nice now to see the episodes in color.

[@praisethelord8592]

I love this show back then I watched it all, I wish they had another one

[@SoundJudgment]

Not only that, they started the only Season of airing 'The Time Tunnel' on Friday Nights at 8pm! That's the death-knell for any prime-time TV series. So it could never really get off the ground in the ratings.

[@victorjosemorenolopez5983]

Que bueno es recordar estás series nos traslada a pasado y nos hace recordar nuestra adolescencia muchas gracias está muy bueno

[@julianaylor4351]

James Darren's character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is hologram singer who has a degree of power over his program, and is a Las Vegas crooner called Vic Fountaine. Also in the alternative Mirror Universe of the Star Trek Universe his role was as a real person, who was a rebel against the Terran Empire.

[@DiamondCutter423]

Lee Meriwether also played alongside Buddy Ebsen in Barnaby Jones and was Miss America in 1955

[@GenLeeConcepts]

I noticed many comments about things missed about various stars from Time Tunnel. As I loved this series and was only too happy to see that James Darren succeeded wherever he worked, I did chagrin their failure to mention Robert Colbert having played an interesting role in "Disaster in Time" with Jeff Daniels and Ariana Richards (God, why can't they stay young forever? ;-) My only way to show deserved support for these people was to buy the DVDs-and well I did. Irwin Allen really was an amazing guy/creator and basically, I loved everything he came up with. One wonders what becomes of those of us who followed such "slightly hokey" shows back in the 1960's? At 61, I can pretty much hang my hat on anything that has the names J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman on it. I'm only sad that looking bad causes me pain as I see the aged stars I idolized having grown old-some even have died already. It's depressing as they are still paving the way for me...my own life! Of course noting Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen (Sound of Music/Lost in Space) are both taller than I hits a bit hard to

[@bobsradio6025]

I had forgotten that Cat-woman (from Batman) was part of the cast. I thought the device that allowed travel through time and space was the TARDIS (Time And Relative Distance In Space.) Dr. Who commanded that device for MANY seasons, not just one.

[@lonzodreyella]

i used to watch this when i was a kid and i stil watch it today if i could turn the clock back and had three wishes 1, villa winning the FA cup in 2016 2, mr perfect becoming WWF champion, 3, making the sencond seires of the time tunnel with doug and tony coming home.

[@DMSProduktions]

You forgot to mention James' recurring role in Star Trek DS9 as holographic, 1960's lounge singer Vic Fontaine!

[@carlbruschnigjr1757]

Lee Meriwether also appeared as a 'hologram' in the Star Trek original series, "Commander Losira" in "That Which Survives".

[@DMSProduktions]

@@carlbruschnigjr1757 Correct!

[@kevincozens6837]

There was one episode where just one of the two main characters made it back to the Time Tunnel complex. The people at the complex put an excessive amount of energy in to the circuits to attempt a retrieval when one of them was in danger (IIRC). The person made it back to the complex only to find that there was a time warp type situation. The people in the complex were frozen in time so he went back in time to rescue the other person who needed help.James Darren had a recurring role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in 1998 and 1999. He did a series of 8 episodes as a holodeck character called Vic Fontaine, a nightclub entertainer. Darren did some singing in those episodes.

[@bbbabrock]

Kevin Cozens Yeah. Idk why they didn't mentiont his reoccurring role on DS9. This video isn't that old is it?

[@susanscott8653]

He was great in those DS9 episodes. Was it really only 8?🤔

[@rohnkd4hct260]

I remember the show and loved it. It had a lot to do with my developing a love for history that still goes on today. The show was ahead of its time. Think of what they could do today with all the special effects .

[@mavericstud]

You would have rework the shows flaws.I did with my Project Time Stalkers, Inc.No lost in time and space. Contact with people at the complex. More Fantastic Four elements minus superhero powers. Sort of FF Challengers of the Unknown What If comic.More character to the characters.

[@mavericstud]

I hated the way the Time tunnel would replace clothing to match stock footage of Doug and Tony travelling through the tunnel. What did it do,keep track of their original clothing and instantly replace whatever they were wearing ?

[@JxT1957]

one of my favorite shows growing up in the 60s, i now have the dvd set

[@guytremblay1647]

they remastered the series in color if you want to see them today

[@solidshadow01]

I loved this show. I should look for it on DVD

[@fingerpickingood1900]

Just bought it on blu ray. Looks so awesome

[@302Diane]

I loved the show when I was a kid, too. It was available for streaming on, I think, Hulu a few years ago. The pilot was pretty good, but for me the rest of the series just didn't hold up well.

[@davethomas1241]

I love the time tunel it's one of my favourite shows

[@thoughtsonfitness3249]

I still watch it now.... it’s brilliant ...

[@からすカラス-v4f]

SFテレビドラマの最高傑作ですねー！毎週楽しみに観ていました

[@ProjectOverseer]

Absolutely loved that show. Inspired my imagination as a kid 👍

[@uofa82]

I loved this show as a child. I loved James Darrin!

[@charlesroeckeriv6226]

Watching TV on a crappy black and white TV--I'm with you man! That's what I had when I was growing up in the early 80's!

[@MGSBigBoss77]

Michael Ansara appeared twice in the series, he also was in the episode; "Secret Weapon" Where he played a twisted Russian commander of a Russian Time Tunnel project!

[@TheEntilza]

I also used to watch it on b/w portable tv, which was all my mom could afford after her divorce. It was fun and a great way for kids to learn about historical events.

[@esecallum]

Why did she divorce

[@平山正子-i1t]

アメリカのＳＦは最高です。 子供の頃 毎週楽しみにしていました。 1度戻れたけど時間の 歪みからか研究所の 仲間が固まっていて 諦めてトンネルに戻る 話が印象的でした。

i used to watch this all the time on chanell 4 bk in the 90s.sick show

[@donchonealyotheoneal5456]

You know what's totally amazing to me is that you had a black and white TV until 1982 because I grew up poor born in 63 and we had a colored television by the time of the seventies 1970 so you must have been living underneath us that's crazy by 1982 I didn't think there were any black and white televisions left you must have had some kind of Genius repair man that stayed in business for 20 years but I have the same memories I was raised by television

[@markpeters8809]

ABC is notorious for cancelling good shows!

[@liloleist5133]

...no futuristic vision🤣

[@tessakendallmckenzie4539]

They sure are, you wonder how the Rat network still in the business. Witch actually, ABC barely sustain themselves after the soap opera boycott movement and witch is still going on. No rat (ABC and Disney in the house).

[@Pahoe77]

None of them do. NBC canceled Star Trek.

[@bjbell52]

So is CBS. I remember they cancelled a show that featured a sloppily dress detective because the wife of one of CBS's executives hated the fact the detective was often filmed chewing on a toothpick. The producers of the show then changed the toothpick to a cigar and sold the new show to NBC using the new name of the detective - Columbo.

[@cavaleirosolitario5061]

Continuo fã dessa maravilhosa serie O Túnel do tempo

[@dam4274]

From Time Tunnel to Quantum Leap to the recent Timeless. All great shows.

[@QuantumRift]

Lee Meriweather was SOOOO hot back then....

[@evoste]

Most definitely...

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

A lady like that is and shall be hot.The past tense is forbidden.

[@swaldron5558]

Yeah but why her first name is Lee!?!? Yuck.

[@randyacuna3248]

Lee is the only reason I was looking at this show, she got past over ( bad mistake) by the producers of mission impossible, she was better qualified to replace Barbara Barbara Bain but they picked leslie ann Warren which did not make that show better. Gorgeous and talented, that was lee meriweather.

[@jeffreybatten6277]

watch her in 'The 4D man" with Robert Lansing.

[@burninglass]

I remember it well. I was but a child but the topic has always fascinated me.

[@edwardguerena3270]

Time Tunnel is one of my favorite shows and also lost in space add Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea I love those shows it would have been nice if they would have lasted longer Four Seasons or five one year was that enough time for a good show should have lasted longer

[@iceflame3300]

How many recognise the backgrounds from Forbidden Planet ?

[@mavericstud]

Shit.I thought they were stock footage until I saw reruns

[@iceflame3300]

@John Wilharm Ok... fdootage from the underground sequence...

[@bradfordhatch5085]

One of my favorite shows when I was a kid in the 1960s. I was salty about its cancellation for many years afterward.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

You know it's good by having Whit Bissell in it!

[@tonyromano4341]

Loved this show.

[@josemoreno3334]

Oh yes, I watched this show in black n white too. Now it's on Me TV, In color , WOW. Anyway, I loved the show. Thanks for the show info.

[@georgeanthony7282]

I gotta say I loved everyone of Irwin Allen's shows, but The Time Tunnel was my favorite!

[@jaylamb9546]

We used to have a long tunnel in the woods near where I grew up that a creek ran through under railroad tracks, we called it the time tunnel in reference to this show.

[@yaeckerphotography]

Yeah I saw it on a crappie BnW tv as well. Haha. Grandad was the only one in the family with a console zenith color tv at the time. Saw one broadcast of Lost in Space in color at his house. Those were the days huh? Nice video.

[@Tertullian1971]

Irwin Allen produced four science fiction series in the late 1960s, but only Time Tunnel actually took place in the 60s. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was set in the 70s, Land of the Giants in the 80s, and Lost in Space in the 90s.

[@joec.3854]

Watched this series as a kid. It helped spark my interest in history, and eventually led me to get my degree.

[@danjsilve]

I was one of those kids too. One of my favourite all time shows

[@alanfaulkner6329]

Loved that series.

[@fredriikforkbeard7455]

You failed to observe that these two heroes, Tony & Doug, never ONCE in the entire season took a shower or did their laundry!! Gawd Almighty, they musta really stunk...

[@Refugeefromcalif]

Back then on TV, nobody went to the bathroom/toilet either... ;-)

[@andyman8630]

they never peed nor pooped either

[@davidgroll-cook7125]

I loved this show. I enjoyed it as a kid

[@leilal8053]

I loved this show....had a HUGE Crush on James Darren ever since "Gidget" with Sandra Dee.🥰😍

[@ontheroadaustralia-soleman1911]

loved this series, thanks for the great info mate.

[@marthawelch4289]

Thank you for your hard work in making your videos! Very professional and informative. The Time Tunnel was a good series that I did watch in junior high. Somehow though it just never seemed to click as the characters were not very interesting to me. However, I will finally have to admit, I watched it mostly because James Darren was absolutely adorable!!!

[@lawrencebittke8478]

Loved this show but didn’t realize it ran only one season. My favorite episode was when the time tunnel took them back to Old Testament times and Joshua sent them as the two Israelite spies into the city of Jericho.

[@zigwald]

it taught history to the young kids. something sorely lacking today....

[@ericherns5938]

I've Iikes the work of Irwin Allen. Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants. And he also has a nickname The Master of Disaster. Eric Herns Marietta, Georgia.

[@zootopiawilson]

I can’t remember where, but I saw (or read) something that suggested since the final episode ended with the “next episode” thing of having Tony and Doug land back on the Titanic (which was the first episode) that they are in a time loop. I’m not sure how I feel about that. But the remake from the early 2000s---it’s on the DVD collection of the show. I liked it, I wish they had made of it.

[@peterhoulis1184]

One of my favourite shows growing up along with lost in space , get smart , combat

[@susie154]

I watched this every week at its 'time' LOL

[@MagnusMediaGroup]

You missed James Darren on Star Trek Deep Space 9!

[@danielwilliamson6180]

James Darren looks like Walter Koenig.

[@sidp.5550]

James Darren, star trek DS9 also as Vic Fontaine a Holo Deck Character, you missed this one.

[@PhilDonaldson]

Well, Colbert and Tufeld’s names were massacred and the fact that Robert Colbert is the son of Claudette Colbert was missed just adds to the list. 😀

[@Titan52berg]

I've always wondered how far back they built the Time Tunnel set, itself? I know that the production team used 'forced perspective ' to convey the tunnel's seemingly endless depths, but was also aware that if it was, according to the story details, built by humans and machines, it could only stretch through the complex but so far; similar to an airport runway. I would have loved to have visited the set, myself. It remains one of the most creative geometrical designs ever conceived!

[@302Diane]

I seem to remember a story from when the show was on the air that the "tunnel" portion of the set was so long that it extended into another sound stage. The very back of it could be moved away when that stage was needed and moved back when shooting on the Time Tunnel resumed. I can't verify this as I only saw the story once some 50 years ago, but I like the story anyway.

[@sprofitt777]

You forgot to mention Lee Meriweather appears for several years on the TV show Barnaby Jones.

[@AlexGreeneHypnotist]

As well as once, as "Miss Kitka" / Catwoman in the Adam West Batman Movie.

[@Cafeman_2D]

I had the Steve Austin action figure, but I also had to have Oscar Goldman and Maskatron! I got the DVD set of season 1, and watching the pilot movies leading into the show is really a trip.

[@dennisanderson3895]

I think the [as I understand] network demanded reliance on aliens hurt the show's reception. Add to that the focus on "Will this huge historical event change?" - which you knew it wouldn't - hurt the show. "Quantum Leap" fixed that issue by focusing on "the little people": helping in small ways. But that arc difference didn't change whether Tony & Doug could die amidst the 'historical event'! It was a great show that seeded the imagination of future writer/producers!

[@greebo6549]

I remember this series... If I remember correctly ep1 they land on the Titanic... on the end of the last ep they land back on the Titanic going full circle

[@antonyasteriz6861]

Amazing narration you did.

[@michelcadieux7585]

C'etais un bon programme quand j'étais enfant.

[@scottmiller6495]

The third greatest sci Fi television series behind The Outer Limits and Twilight Zone of All Time!!!!!

[@QuantumRift]

I can't believe you missed Lee Meriweather's appearance in "Star Trek' episode "That Which Survives" as Losira. Harumph! One of the most beautiful women anywhere...as well as Marette Hartley.

[@clifffton]

She was at Comic Com last year. Still a looker. In her freaking 80's

[@FallacyAsPraxis]

Why did this show get cancelled? It was one of the better sci-fi productions of the time. The episodes were intelligently written. A pity they didn't give it a bigger budget and more time to get a bigger audience. Ok...so a lot of us watched it to check out the oh so fine Ms. Meriweather. But it was also good fun to see the situations that the actors would get into. The design of the tunnel was also very impressive for the 1960s.

[@michaelbergman1708]

Because Irwin Allen refused to cut the budget. Irwin Allen played hardball and lost.

[@jodiejanin8907]

I was 10 and loved it as a history show. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@thealaskan1635]

On some conspiracy radio show, I heard this idea came from the Montauk Project which is connected to the Philadelphia Experiment .These two projects are also the inspiration for that Netflix show Stranger Things

[@maureencora1]

Great Series, Gotta Get the DVD.