The Time Tunnel

TimetunnelWOO-HOO!!!

Back in 1966 there was a TV show that lasted only a season (30 episodes, back then) called The Time Tunnel.

It was about two guys who worked for a secret government time travel project who get lost in time and spend each week jumping from one time period to another.

I was too young to see (or at least to remember) the series when it was first on, but it replayed irregularly on Saturday afternoons on local channels in the 1970s, and I got to see a number of episodes.

I LOVED IT!

But I could never count on seeing it from week to week because of the irregularly with which it played (around ball games or something, I suppose).

BUT NOW I CAN SEE THE WHOLE THING!

Yes, it’s coming out on DVD. In fact, the first half of the series is already out, and the second half will come out next month.

Unfortunately, some of the episodes I remember the best are in the second half (like the one where they went a million years in the future and mankind had evolved into a kind of bee-like society. . .  .Creepy!), but it’s less than a month to wait.

YEE-HAW!

A boyhood ambition (seeing the whole series) is about to be fulfilled!

MORE ON THE TIME TUNNEL.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

17 thoughts on “The Time Tunnel”

  2. That was a great show! While there were some events that I knew from history (like the episode on the Titanic), there were others like Krakatoa, that I had previously never heard of. I learned a few things from history.

  3. I just saw a special on Krakatoa.
    When it exploded in 1883, the *sound* was heard over 1/12th of the earth’s surface. The shock wave traveled around the earth 7 times. If the ash and rock and dirt ejected were all piled on manhattan it would have been 200 feet deep.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

  4. I remember this show very well and as a young boy looked forward to it each week. I can’t believe it was only on for a season!

  5. Reminds me (not in premise obviously) but in somewhat quirky feel to “The Prisoner”, which I LOVE. On that basis I’ll pick up the discs and check it out. Thx for the steer.

  6. Also sounds like Voyagers!, a show from the ’80’s that also lasted about one season. It was definitely aimed toward the grade-school/middle-school crowd, with each episode ending with a a recommendation to “read a book” on the historical period covered.

  7. I remember “Time Tunnel” well. Created and produced by Irwin Allen, the same guy that had “Lost In Space.” I have 16 episodes on VHS. Maybe I can get the rest on DVD.

  8. SciFi Channel is making an updated version of spring 2007. It probably won’t be as good though.
    –arthur

  9. Ah I remember VOYAGERS! with the late Jon_Erik Hexum and Meeno Pelucce (I think that’s the correct spelling)
    I remmeber a Time Tunnel episode in which they went back to Jericho. I remember one of the scientists saying “This can’t be happening” when the walls of Jericho came crashing down. ;^)

  10. Whoo-hoo!! indeed!
    The Time Tunnel was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I bought the DVD set vol. one when it first came out and I, too, am ready to buy vol. two when it comes out in June.
    Yes, SciFi channel was going to re-do the series a few years back (2002?) but never got past the pilot and scrapped the project. I wonder if this is what they are planning for ’07.

  11. I was goofy for “Time Tunnel”, “Lost in Space” and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (another Irwin Allen project).
    This was what TV was MADE for.
    That, and selling breakfast cereal.

  12. When I was a kid, I remember Lost in Space was in reruns in my grandma’s town, but not in ours. One of my brothers really loved Lost in Space, but I couldn’t get into it.
    A couple years back, I was home sick with a bad fever. I turned on the TV and was stunned to discover what looked and sounded exactly like an episode of Classic Star Trek. But it wasn’t Trek. I’ve seen all of those. Yet the style, the look of the film, the sound effects…
    And then the robot and Will Robinson and the mad scientist guy showed up. I wasn’t delirious, after all. 🙂

  13. I remember watching Time Tunnel in the early 70s. It was a great show for both me and my brothers. I think their first jump was the Titanic.

  14. I remember that show- I was just a kid but I watched several episodes. I can’t believe it was on for just one season.

  15. I also loved the Time Tunnel. Anyone remember “The Immortal”. It was a show (one season I think) about this guy who had become immortal due to some experiment and was being chased by the government or some organization. Kinda like the fugitive.

  16. I’m with Anonymous. Sounds like Quantum Leap. Any episodes where the guy walks in high heels?

  17. Christopher George was the Immortal. His wife at the time, Linda Day Georage, was on Mission Impossible.
    Fox did a pilot of a new Time Tunnel in 2002 but it never aired.

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