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DVD : The Time Tunnel Volume One |
- THE TIME TUNNEL- Vol. 1 (TV Series 1966-1967)This one season only, star studded, great series, created by the late Irwin Allen, starring James Darrin, Lee Meriwether, Robert Colbert, Michael Rennie, supporting actors David Opatoshu, Carrol O'Connor, Ellen Burstyn, Gary Merrill, etc.etc. will satisfy all Sci-Fi fans. Based on a scientific project nicknamed "Tic-Toc" time travelers Darrin and Colbert, enter the "Time Tunnel" and get catapulted to different eras when important events such as the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, The Titanic, The Spanish Conquista of Mexico, etc. take place.
The travelers are lost in time as their co-workers back in their Arizona headquarters are trying to retrieve them back.
This great TV series should've lasted more than one season, but in my opinion, television had other shows that dwarfed this short lived series. "The Time Tunnel will live forever in the hearts and minds of those of us who saw it and remember it for what it was, a great adventure series.
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- Time Tunnel-The one and only season off to a good start!The Time Tunnel which originally ran during the TV show season of 1966/67,was unfortunately just a one season wonder.However it is a series which still managed to captured the fancy of many a viewer back then and it still holds quite an appeal today.
The show involves the adventures of Project Tic-Toc run by General Kirk(Whit Bissell).Two scientists Tony Newman(James Darren) and Doug Phillips(Robert Colbert) are the time travellers who from week to week are injected by the tunnel from one random time period to another.Many of the story lines were quite interesting while others could be run of the mill,but the speical effects for that time are still pretty good and still hold up.Irwin Allen,the producer,also made liberal use of the 20th Century sound archives for background music and effects and the video archives for filler scenes.
Volume one has some fine eps in it and the acting,whether by the stars themselves or the supporting casts, are all top notch and believable.This four disc two-sided set,like Vol.2,is NOT remastered.However the master tapes used are of such high quality that I can see why they didn't got through the process.I didn't see any objectionable thing in this set worthy of repeating here,and that's saying something.
The extra features involve some interesting Irwin Allen home movies,a photo gallery,a visual effects camera test and a rare unaired version of the extended version of the pilot ep.
This entire season has been split into two different sets which I take umbrage to.I notice all of Irwin Allens shows on DVD are very expensive also and I think it is really "taking" the public,when they could have easily put this season into just one set.Also the DVDs are all two sided which are SO prone to scratching.They produce cheap but ask PLENTY!
In conclusion this wonderful show from the 1966/67 TV season has arrived on DVD and it looks great.The shows are generally quite interesting and the possiblities for it were endless,it is just a shame it didn't continue beyond one season.Do be warned of the two sided discs and the careful handling they require.However it's a show the ENTIRE FAMILY can watch and considering the surprising historical accuracy with which each show was handled,it is not a stretch to call it educational for the younger set.
Stir their imaginations and yours and get this series today!
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- TV memoriesI remember this fondly. It ran on Friday nights on ABC, for a single season, in 1966-67. I was in second grade, and there was no school the next day, so I could stay up and watch. (Interesting side note--the night before the first episode aired on September 9, 1966, another science-fiction show debuted on NBC--Star Trek.) The show itself was pretty corny, and full of inconsistencies--Doug and Tony had no qualms about changing history with their actions in the past, which would have screwed up everything for the future. The pilot episode sports an electric-bulb chandelier aboard the Titanic in 1912! (In a later episode, the geniuses who run the incredibly trouble-prone Tunnel send an MP with a submachine gun back to ancient Troy!) Those clothes Doug and Tony wore must have begun to smell pretty bad after awhile! Still, to a seven-year-old, the intellectual level at which this show is aimed, great stuff.
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- Sci-Fi in it's infancyIrwin Allen had such a talent for writing. This was a great series as short lived as it's airetime was. The show was actually before it's time and alot of viewers could not comprehend time travel.If you are a sci-fi nostalgia buff, add this to your collection. I am very happy with this purchase and would highly recommend it.
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- The "Time Tunnel" holds up great, a must buy!I watched the "Time Tunnel" when I was a kid, and was glued to it after just the first episode. The best thing is, watching them again on remastered DVDs is really like seeing them for the first time all over again! This show holds up well, there's some history in each episode, and it makes you wonder about what would happen if time travel were really possible, what choices would one make? Would we murder the infant Adolf Hitler? Would we get in the way of JFK's Dallas motorcade? Bottom line, these are truly great shows, and the "Time Tunnel" set is one of the best in the history of network TV - it's a must buy!
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