The Time Tunnel
The Time Tunnel
TV-G | 09 September 1966 (USA)

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    SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
    Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
    Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
    Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
    roddekker If nothing else - The utter absurdity of this TV show's preposterous story-lines certainly proved to me that its director/writer/producer, Irwin Allen clearly had a very low opinion of the intelligence level of his audience. Yep. He sure did.Had The Time Tunnel's story been, perhaps, set at least 20 years into the future (instead of the year 1967), then yes, this business about time travelling may have appeared to be more plausible.Anyway - This dimwit, Sci-Fi TV series (that obviously took itself way too seriously for its own good) also lost itself some major points for not factoring in the possibility of "alternate realities" into its decidedly shaky "time-travel" equation.I mean - If I'm seriously expected to believe that time travel is, in fact, a precision procedure - Then - With that in mind - I'd say that Irwin Allen can promptly take his show's premise and rightfully insert it straight up inside his rectum.
    bkoganbing Time Tunnel was the grand daddy of Stargate. A portal that allowed you to go anywhere in time and space. Although for conventional reference our two time travelers stuck to earthbound destinations. A lot like Star Trek prime did in that famous episode with the time portal sending people back to their planet's past the Enterprise discovers.It's a government project deep underground and while showing their device off to a visiting elected official the folks in charge, General Whit Bissell, and scientists Lee Meriwether and John Zaremba get a nice little crisis as colleague James Darren gets trapped in the tunnel. He winds up on the Titanic in the first episode. Then another colleague Robert Colbert trying to rescue him. gets similarly trapped.But the time stream traps them again and they're whisked off for the next two years to mostly earthbound locations. In the meantime the folks back at Time Tunnel HQ get a bird's eye view of history and hope that our guys don't louse it up. I hope there was a historian on the premises because a lot of new interpretations could have been written.I remember as the time stream caught the two I always used to bet with my siblings whether it was Darren or Colbert who would land first. Kind of heads or tails thing.The show ended after two seasons with the guys still stuck in the stream of time and no prospect of getting back.I guess the morale of the story is that it's not nice to fool with time and space.
    mike Think of it.... You're trapped in time....... You're stuck in the same darned clothes..... The clothing does not appear comfortable! Turtle-neck & Suit with a tie! (Their underwear must be a bit "dirty".....BUT they never need to shave!)......... You get thrown in to each destination...... They're usually captured within five minutes of arriving...... Neither had the foresight to bring any form of ID!......... If Headquarters can send items to them, why in the name of everything holy doesn't someone send them new clothes and/or ID?.......They always end up "landing" just a day or two prior to a major historical even that usually involves mass destruction & life.......When they travel through time, they must go through a dry-cleaner on those episodes that don't have them reappear in their new (old) clothes before the disappear into the TT again!...... They never land in the middle of some beautiful, peaceful location that is not about to blow-up or be invaded..... 90% of the dialogue at Operation headquarters is "More power."........ Lee Meriwether seems to be almost laughing when on the controls...... About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth's water, yet the only time I saw them land on water was on a ship...The Titanic!!.........Also, Doug & Tony killed some people during some of their travels. Wouldn't that affect history?Yes, indeed, Doug & Tony have some bad luck! However, despite those things, I like the series and actually learned (or remembered) quite a bit of world history even though much is embellished.Irwin Allen was one of TV's greats. I'm thankful for his contributions & respect his reasons for not putting out another season of TT. I'm in my 50's and never saw any episode of TT until a week ago. Through binge-watching, I'm up to episode 16 of 30 -- The Revenge of Robin Hood. I haven't been let down once...yet. But I see some episodes still to come that don't look that good such as the travels into the future. They look really campy! But all-in-all, for entertainment value and a bit of historical education, I'd give this a rating of 7.5 but rounded it up to an 8. Why? Because I truly like it & have always been fascinated with the theory of time travel!"More power!"
    gilbronson The show was Okay as it showed time travel, a subject I love to chat about. Now some people or experts say it is impossible to time travel and if anything, you CAN go into the future, not the past. I disagree. Anything is possible, just not probable. So maybe there are some specific elements that we are not aware of that would allow time travel into the past as well as the future. I personally have always loved Time Travel TV episodes or even some odd movies that have been done. But the part that got me was they never went back to a date in time in which "nothing happened". You would think that this Time Tunnel, if it is randomly throwing the two all over the place in time era's, it would once.... just drop them into the middle of Kansas in 1926 on August 3rd, when not a thing happened that day. I'm sure there are plenty of days the Alamo was not being attacked, no president was in the process of being assassinated, two airplanes collided in mid-air killing 300, etc., etc. Days happen where nothing major occurred. I would have loved to write an episode in which they land on a "nothing" day yet this episode would be just as good. Oh well........