The Time Tunnel

Synopsis

The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.

First Air Date: 1966-09-09

Last Air Date: 1967-04-07

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 30

Created By: Irwin Allen

Networks: ABC

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Top Cast

James Darren as Tony Newman
Robert Colbert as Doug Phillipps
Whit Bissell as General Heywood Kirk
Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann McGregor
John Zaremba as Dr. Raymond Swain
Sam Groom as Jerry
Wesley Lau as Master Sgt. Jiggs
Kevin Hagen as Sgt. Maddox
John Crawford as Little John
Perry Lopez as Dr. Charles Whitebird

Seasons

Specials

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Time Tunnel (2002) (Unaired Pilot)

In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
Ep. 2: The Making of The Time Tunnel

No overview for this episode.
Ep. 3: Irwin Allen Interview

No overview for this episode.
Ep. 4: The Time Tunnel Original Pilot

An extended version of the first episode, running about 55 minutes rather than the regular 50 minutes. It contains material that was cut from "Rendezvous with Yesterday" and then added to two subsequent episodes: Tony arriving alone outside of the Time Tunnel complex ten years earlier, when he was unknown to the security forces and Doug Phillips (see "End of the World"), and Tony being reunited with Doug in a prehistoric rainforest (see "Chase through Time"). In the pilot film it is Senator Clark, who suggests that Time Tunnel personnel should just go outside the base to save Tony; however, in "End of the World" since Senator Clark is not in the episode, his lines are given to the technician Jerry.
Ep. 5: Time Travelers TV Movie

In 1976, there's an outbreak of a disease that no one has seen before. All what they know is that rsembles a disease that existed at around 1871, and that a Dr. Henderson was able to save most of his patients but the Chicago Fire destroyed his records. Dr. Earnshaw the doctor looking for a cure was approached by a man, Jeffrey Adams, who believes that he could help him. It seems that a Dr. Amos Cummings has prefected the art of time travel, and the plan is for Earnshaw and Adams to go back to 1871 and learn how Henderson cured his patients. But a glitch in the machines computers sends them the day before the fire not four days as intended.
Ep. 6: Irwin's Home Movies

Silent footage shot with a home movie camera during the filming of the pilot.