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The Time Tunnel
1966 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Irwin Allen
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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.
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I didn't really understand much of Star Trek or the series of that time, like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel or Mission: Impossible. I loved the imagery, the diving or space scenes and the gadgets, but the plots were impenetrable.
Space: 1999 appeared a few years later and I not only understood what was going on, but had devoured a fat Astronomy book so I also had a decent idea of the distances involved.
The episode with Ian McShane was great anyway.
Considering that there's been multiple cases of almost-oops-nukewar...
If you are offered the opportunity to go back in time and, say, kill Hitler, don't take it. You might come back to "Threads".
This is something that the film remake of "The Time Tunnel" left out. (The film is pretty OK.) If you really did have the ability to change the past, you'd need to be prepared to come back to a post-nuclear wasteland. So, your facility would need to have access to enough power generated on-site that you could keep going back and changing things (once? twice? thrice?) until you get it right and we're back to our world where the world wars haven't (yet) gotten past Number Two.
The TV series of Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes are reasonably obscure because they weren't too popular (I've got hold of both them, by the way).
Some other titles to pique your interest:
1981 BBC version of The Day of the Triffids
1979 Tales of the Unexpected (not scifi really)
1979 Sapphire & Steel (with the most annoying introduction - they are not elements!)
1979 Quatermass series
1979 The Omega Factor
1978 Blake's 7 (should not really count as obscure due to the impact the series had)
1977 The Fantastic Journey
1977 Children of the Stones
1977 Beasts (anthology series by Nigel Kneale)
1975 Sky
1975 The Invisible Man (really cheesy, featuring David McCallum)
1975 The Changes
1974 Zodiac
1973 The Tomorrow People
1970 Timeslip
1969 The Owl Service
1968 The Champions
1966 The Time Tunnel
1966 Mission: Impossible
1965 Out of the Unknown
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade
1958 Quatermass and the Pit mini-series
1955 Quatermass II
I had these as a kid in the 1960s. The reel (actually, packet of three reels, I think) I remember best was a retelling of the Titanic episode of The Time Tunnel.
The last image is from the TV series Time Tunnel. The TV show featured a decommission SAGE computer as a major prop: http://q7.neurotica.com/Q7/scifi/Tunnel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment
Hmm, Wikipedia says there was no Batman episode broadcast that night [0]. I don't believe it! [edit:] Well, maybe it was "Time Tunnel" -- my other favorite show of that era. It was on that night [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Batman_(TV_series)_episodes
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0723777/