Sometimes they traveled into the future, and battled alien invaders. Once Cortés gets the information he wants, he kills the king and queen but keeps the timid royal heir alive for the moment. Title: In this remake, the 2002 Time Tunnel is a Department of Energy research project into nuclear fusion, which produces nearly limitless energy. Directed by Sobey Martin. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Doug sustains a serious head injury aggravated by his struggle with the soldiers. They outwit and kill OTT, who by a power pack remains awake to patrol the alien complex; Ann sends herself back to the Time Tunnel control room with the converter by way of the alien time machine, and Doug and Tony are transferred away in the nick of time. Shortly after their arrival they are reunited with Ann, and since the tunnel's fix on them is strong, Ray attempts to retrieve them. Sign in to check out Check out as guest . The show was inspired by the 1964 film The Time Travelers (AIP/Dobil), and was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science-fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox Television and broadcast on ABC. Mr. Michaels is actually the early-16th century philosopher Machiavelli (played by Malachi Throne), who has been moved to this period by the Tunnel due to similarities with Doug's "pattern". (1966–1967). During the mission, Doug Phillips meets his grandfather, a soldier who will be killed in the battle. [6], In January 1967 a promotional novel, The Time Tunnel, was published by Pyramid Books. [19], There are some notable differences between the series world and the real world:[19]. The Time Tunnel control room tries and fails to send a radarscope to help Doug convince Ainsley. Tony succeeds in getting the sheriff (played by James Westerfield) to come to the mine to help, and when a partial cave-in is caused by the suicidal mine office clerk Henderson (played by Paul Fix), the sheriff succeeds in saving Tony. Only a few actors were costumed for a given episode, interspersed with cuts of great masses of people similarly dressed from original features. Such a mass would be invisible. At the Time Tunnel complex, a disaster ensues when the time-spatial "fix" on the comet allows its gravitation to pull anyone or anything not strapped down into the Tunnel. The award went to L.B. The record is pressed in blue-vinyl and contains the time-travel drama "Adventure in the Lost World." The pilot had a darker and more serious tone than the original 1966 series. Doug and Tony are able to make artillery shells by mixing gunpowder and potassium nitrate in empty water jugs. Dr. Newman has to get help from the sheriff and the bar owner for his plan to take the aliens' control unit away from them to succeed. In response, the aliens send a bomb to the Time Tunnel control room that will explode in sixty minutes unless all personnel are evacuated to the upper levels of the complex. Details about The Time Tunnel #155 Robert Colbert 1960s TV Card Spain. One produced a pilot episode, and another got no further than a script. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, but did not proceed to a series. Senator Clark returns to Washington with the promise that funding will not be cut off to the project, leaving General Kirk in charge. Suffering from amnesia, he becomes convinced he is the lieutenant whom the Confederate soldiers were expecting and dons a Confederate uniform. The playing board design shows characters and events from the prehistoric era into the future. This was followed later in the year by Timeslip: Time Tunnel Adventure #2, the last novel based on the TV series. Ray discovers a metal punched card presumably dropped by OTT that has a set of space-time coordinates. OK, I'm not denying that the real reason for this is so that they could use the same stock footage of Doug and Tony in the vortex week after week... but it is addressed.Point two on the nit-picker's agenda is usually: "why do Doug and Tony always materialise in one of history's hotspots rather than someone's backyard or a field on an historically insignificant day?" Anyway, surely it is conceivable that one or more of those many computer banks we see at Project: Tic-Toc might be doing the translating for Doug and Tony (a bit like the Universal Translator in the original Star Trek).The thing that the nit-pickers always seem to forget is that THE TIME TUNNEL was a weekly television show meant to entertain the masses for 50-odd minutes a week. Doug gathers Leodegrance's troops and brings them back to fight, but Merlin says that the Vikings will not be frightened by these "gentlemen knights", so he changes their clothing to that of Vikings, which is the last way Merlin can help them in this venture. Fearing that the Germans will think they did it, Tony and Doug hide and accidentally find a secret passage to the upper floors of the estate, where the owner, an Italian count named Enrico Galba –who is descended from Roman emperor Galba –offers to protect them from the Germans. Beard betrays Brandon after being given a gun by Brandon. The Time Tunnel Robert Colbert 1960s TV Show Disc Card. Back at the Time Tunnel control room, three visitors are brought in, who are with the M.E.M. This image is from The Time Tunnel and features Robert Colbert,, Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann MacGregor and John Zaremba as Dr. Raymond Swain available in multiple sizes. The Legend of Custer was quickly cancelled after airing 17 low-rated episodes, skewered by critics and performed worse than The Time Tunnel. 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The Time Tunnel transfers Machiavelli back to his own time (January 3, 1519) and Tony and Doug to a new adventure. Robert Colbert was born on July 26, 1931 in Long Beach, California, USA as Robert Lewis Colbert. The ancestor General Querque seeks to use the ring as evidence to incriminate Marie Antoinette, clearing the way for her execution. Nothing more was made of it. The alien leader (from Aristos) then contacts the Time Tunnel control center and tells them not to interfere. Robert Colbert Time Tunnel TV series actor recent portrait 8x10 photo. This causes scenes set in different parts of the country (or the world) to have the same general hilly landscape with arid-type trees and brush typical to the local region where filming occurred. At the end of the episode, Doug and Tony distract a young artillery lieutenant by the name of Napoléon Bonaparte so that the shopkeeper and the dauphin can go aboard a ship that will take them to freedom. Doug, Tony and the boy attempt several escapes, but are recaptured each time. With James Darren, Robert Colbert, Michael Ansara, Whit Bissell. Dr. Tony Newman wants to comply by "going into time", but Phillips, the project chief, vetoes the offer. As the first human time travelers, Doug and Tony are fitting subjects for the project. As chairman of the Senate committee overseeing the Time Tunnel, Clark lets it be known that he can either authorize the continued funding of the project or "cut [its] umbilical cord", He wants immediate results. The Time Tunnel Im Auftrag der Regierung arbeiten die Wissenschaftler Dr. Tony Newman (James Darren) und Dr. Dan Phillips (Robert Colbert) an einem Projekt, mit dem man Zeitreisen unternehmen kann. He kills Stiles to secrete the bomb's timer in the Time Tunnel control room. Bringing people (other than Tony and Doug) to the present happens often in the series, but the only occasion in which Tony and Doug return to their own time occurs in "Merlin the Magician", when the great wizard uses magic to bring them home in suspended animation so that he may instruct them to perform a mission for him. $9.75 + $4.95 shipping . Merlin heals Doug and has Guinevere fetch the doctor, new clothes. Dr. Phillips has been made cooperative by the aliens. Unable to get directions from mission control due to being incommunicado with a sabotaged radio, Kane makes the command decision to make a stop on the moon to replenish the fuel that Beard expended and continue the mission. The knights storm the castle and drive the Vikings out while Tony kills Wogan in a sword fight. After the pilot episode, location changes occurred for the production of the series; Colbert and Darren shot their scenes in another studio, on the 20th Century Fox backlot, or on location, while those who portrayed the Time Tunnel personnel filmed all their scenes on a revised and smaller Time Tunnel control room set (due to the production having to use a smaller sound stage than used during the pilot filming). Tony and Doug prove themselves honest by assisting in repairing the outer hull of the ship after it is struck by a meteor. The return of Halley's Comet in 1910, causing worldwide panic monitored by the Time Tunnel control room, interposes an obstacle to saving over 200 miners trapped in the cave-in of the "Emperor Mine". Batu and most of his guards leave once Tony passes out. Tony takes Doug prisoner. The Time Tunnel is also a portal connecting the Time Tunnel "complex" with the same time periods in which Doug and Tony are located. Though made for the UK, the Blu-ray set is in fact all-region and plays in US players. History itself hints at the possibility of Serit marrying Tony as Ann informs General Kirk. The Tunnel had been tuned to the location of Doug and Tony, so Niman also arrives near the Grand Canyon. 2326-7). Doug tells Beard this before knocking him unconscious. The box insert has a spinner board and other parts include playing cards, tokens, and marker disks. Tony and Doug arrive somewhere in the Mediterranean on a pirate ship during the First Barbary War and are captured and taken to an island. It is the M.E.M. Congress has poured seven billion dollars into a large and deep hole in the ground - the home of Project TicToc and its revolutionary new technology, the Time Tunnel. [7] The author was Murray Leinster, who had previously written a novel of the same name in 1964, completely unrelated to the television series. There are 49 states in the United States. Everyone who came in contact with the monk is given an antibiotic injection and the time ripples stop. However, just before the bomb explodes in the Time Tunnel control room, the Time Tunnel transfers the bomb to the alien base, destroying it a few minutes later. Stuck on a Pacific island that is about to be bombarded by the American Navy in February 1945, Doug and Tony are captured by a downed Japanese pilot and a Japanese Army sergeant. After they are shown an image of the ship leaving Earth safely, the aliens leave. They are in a futuristic complex run by a curator, played by Michael Ansara, who has begun to compile all the data of the history of the Earth by extracting the memories of all its historical figures, rendering them walking "vegetables". When the curator and the guards go dormant at night, Doug, Tony and Ann remain awake to retrieve the time-space converter and escape. They plan to retrieve a person moved there by the time storm from 1546. Gen. Kirk offers all in HQ a chance to evacuate, or volunteer to stay and try to save the complex (and Tony and Doug). He is an actor, known for A Fever in the Blood (1961), The Time Tunnel (1966) and Hunter (1984). Marco Polo tells Doug, "Can they not touch each other?" An album of music from the series, featuring the episodes "Rendezvous With Yesterday" (tracks 2-4) and "The Death Merchant" (tracks 5 and 6) was released by GNP Crescendo as part of the collection The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen. The front and back covers feature photos from the series. Tony volunteers for this endeavor, but he is turned down by project director Doug Phillips. Likewise, this can easily be dismissed by pointing out that watching Doug, Tony and Historical Figure of The Week making hand signals and drawing pictures in the sand for an hour just to say "Hi", might make for pretty dull viewing. "Bill" Abbott, for his photographic special effects. However, they can only go through time to where the other end of the storm is at the current moment, so they have a limited period to fix what is wrong and to be retrieved by the Time Tunnel. $9.99. Defying this decision, Tony sends himself into time. While testing the tunnel for an impatient senator, Newman and Phillips became trapped in time, and each week coincidentally found themselves at the site of an important historical event, be it the Siege of Troy, the sinking of the Titanic or an assassination attempt on President Lincoln. Recognizing his ancestor, Colonel Southall (also Carroll O'Connor), and confessing that he does not have long to live anyway, General Southall insists on going back to order Colonel Southall to release the two scientists and to find out why he led his troops into the strong point of the opposing army. Marty McKee . But the lock on the time period drifts and moves Niman to another time, so Tony and Doug are sent after him. Tony recovers and swims out to the U.S. flagship. The unconvinced captain has Tony arrested as a stowaway and held incommunicado, although he is seen and heard by those in the Time Tunnel control room, who are tracking him. Tony and Doug's final adventure before being returned to the Time Tunnel took them to Saint Louis, Missouri sometime in the distant future. They are taken prisoner by the British troops, court-martialed as spies, and sentenced to be shot at dawn. United States Senator Leroy Clark (Gary Merrill) arrives from Washington, DC, to investigate the progress of Project Tic-Toc in Arizona. Landing in 1881 New Mexico in the middle of a jailbreak of Billy the Kid, to defend Tony Doug shoots at Billy who escapes swearing to hunt down Doug. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the entire series on DVD in Region 1 in 2006 in two volumes. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will allow people to visit anywhere in time and space. They then transfer first Armando and then Doug to Captain Decatur's ship to save them from the shelling. Anything that tells a story. Both Doug and Armando are seriously wounded, however, and it is feared they may both die. The Time Tunnel #155 Robert Colbert 1960s TV Card Spain. In the present (1968), excavation equipment was moving toward the site - any day a bulldozer blade might set it off, destroying a mighty city and plunging the world into war. [4], While the episodes were first shown in 1966, the show's setting begins in 1968, two years into the then-future.[5]. The team (Doug, Toni, Flynn, J.D., and Wix) must travel to the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in 1944 Germany during World War II. Storyline. Knowing about the impending attack and the incident of the cracking of the ridgepole of the sod roof of Hanrahan's saloon where Tony and Doug were staying, they caused the cracking themselves by shooting at the pole. Leinster used four of the main characters: Tony Newman, Doug Phillips, General Kirk, and Ann MacGregor as well as the initial antagonist Senator Clark. Continuity errors and errors in historical fact occurred in the series. 50's-60's Science Fiction/Fantasy Television Show You Are Most Ashamed You've Never Seen, The Time Tunnel: The Revenge of Robin Hood, The Time Tunnel: Attack of the Barbarians, Mystery Science Theater 3000: Indestructible Man. The majority of episodes placed Tony and Doug in stories set in past historical contexts. A veteran cop with more than twenty years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco, California. Dies: ‘Star Trek’ Actor And Son Of Hollywood Stars Was 79, William J. Creber, ‘Planet of the Apes’ Production Designer, Dies at 87, The 1960s Best TV Theme Songs and Opening Credits. As Tony and Doug had predicted, the ship strikes an iceberg at 11:40 pm bringing the captain to Tony and Doug, who then are successful in getting him to order the "abandon ship" procedure. This chapter is loosely based on the campaign of General Gordon. He is questioning them about the location of a golden mask, the symbol of ruling authority to these Indians. Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. Some episodes featured space aliens who wore costumes and carried props originally created for other Irwin Allen television and film productions. Time travel is facilitated by time being portrayed as a static continuum, accessible at any point through the Time Tunnel as a corridor spanning its infinite reaches. According to their research back at the Time Tunel, two unknown strangers were killed by him on that date. , vetoes the offer is imprisoned in a room by the British,... 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