Two scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.Two scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.Two scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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- TriviaLasting only one season, this had the shortest run of all of Irwin Allen's science fiction series.
- GoofsEvery time the two time travelers jump to a new location, they are back to wearing their original clothes with the two travelers clean, regardless of what they were doing or what outfits they were wearing at the end of their last adventure.
- Quotes
Announcer: [opening narration for most episodes] Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time.
- ConnectionsEdited into Aliens from Another Planet (1982)
Unfortunately, while "Star Trek" improved in subsequent episodes, the opposite was true for TT. The series faced the fundamental incongruity of time travel as a film or TV subject; EVERYBODY from the past, by necessity, had to speak understandable English! Seeing Greeks and Trojans, bedecked in ancient armor, conversing in 20th Century American English, was pretty jarring! Even worse, the plots soon became painfully predictable. Our heroes, try as they might, could NOT change history, so you knew, each week, that they would either have to allow a tragedy to happen (like Pearl Harbor, in one of the series' best episodes), or that their actions would serve to keep an event aligned the way we currently remember it. When you add a minuscule 'per-episode' budget, insanely short shooting schedules, and the overworked Allen often unavailable to supervise the series or to 'stand up' to ABC and demand improvements, TT never really had a chance.
Still, you had to respect Irwin Allen for attempting to make something more profound than "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (which had deteriorated into campy 'rubber-masked monster of the week' hokum), and "Land of the Giants" (which quickly wore out it's novelty value). While TT failed, many 'baby boomers' still remember it fondly...and that isn't a bad legacy for a one-season show!
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- Runtime1 hour
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