JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

stargate-764-364207 The Time TunnelSummary: Good concept with lots of potential. Under-developed script. Horrible acting, painful to watch at times. Too serialized. Predictable episodesMore Detailed: Seemed to have been designed to teach people not to try to mess with history. Shows very little realism, mostly over acted and mostly completely fabrication of how some fantasy writer envisioned military security and scientific methods to be. The acting is very much 50's: stiff, over-done, and comical. And of course, they wear the same clothing, which miraculously, no matter how dirty they get, are completely clean in the following episode. Not to mention their hair...The characters, supposedly the two head scientists of the project, act like little oblivious children, who seem not the slightest worried about all their interfering in past events, during most episodes; where they are usually emotionally affected by, and repeatedly attempt to change history. Instead of focusing on preserving it by not interfering and working out a way to get back to their own time, in good health. With the rest of the scientific team, back at project central, monitoring their experiences and trying to keep them alive by having them time jump out of danger to unknown periods, always continuing in the episode following the current one. The series was suddenly ended by ABC, so there was never a "return home" episode aired.

jesus amancio The Time Tunnel first appeared on TV when I was 11 years old, and it has been four decades since I have seen any of Tony's and Doug's adventures. Thanks to the Starz Action Channel, I've recently had the opportunity to view a few of the episodes once more. Yes, it's a little more goofy than I thought all those years ago, especially when story lines start to turn around the appearance of aliens. But the show is also much better than some of the younger critics seem to be saying.How so? Well, think about the assumptions behind the Time Tunnel. The producers of this program ASSUMED its audience, back in 1966, had at least a passing familiarity not only with the history of the Titanic, the Alamo, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Custer's Last Stand but also ASSUMED its audience was aware of the outlines of the story of the Trojan War, the War of 1812, the Siege of Khartoum, and the Dreyfuss Affair--and remember this was long BEFORE the making of PAPILLON. Imagine an hour long TV series today turning one of its plots around the Dreyfuss Affair! It couldn't happen. Today's audiences haven't heard of Dreyfuss and can't even tell you what CENTURIES Pearl Harbor or the American Civil War took place in.As strange as it may sound to the ears of the contemporary TV viewer, the truth is the Time Tunnel was geared towards a much more sophisticated audience than today's viewers, who are illiterate in their own culture and history. Could a TV series today do a story about the attempt to assassinate Abraham Lincoln--in 1861! The ability of the producers to take this all but forgotten historical incident and turn it into a hour long story could only have worked had the 1966 TV audience been well founded not only in the history of the American Civil War but in Lincoln's assassination in 1865.The fact is the Time Tunnel could not work for today's dubbed down TV viewers. You can't assume they know what they had for lunch yesterday, much less the history of their own nation or Western Civlization. It's so much easier--and necessary--to develop films and TV shows around cartoon heroes with no baggage and no grounding in all that nasty history.

imdb-3918 This series is clearly one of the best of the genre of big budget, splashy SF series that capsulizes the attitude of the American space race and the notion of scientific progress of the day. I watched it religiously as an 8 year old.To answer one comment about the lack of underlying premise of project Tic-Toc, the answer is: see the US space race. We "have" to do it before the other guys do. In 1966 that's all the premise you needed.I'm sure other reviews have covered this series quite well. I found this gem on Hulu plus the other day and I have watched the pilot and the second episode.One clear casualty of this series is any semblance of scientific accuracy that begs one key question: did Irwin Allen ever, ever, ever pay attention in grade school in science class? I find the lack of any thought or consideration about scientific accuracy of any kind (even when you accept the fantastic premises) quite, quite dumb. Irwin Allen turned anything involving science into a cartoon. Exactly the same as with Lost in Space. Realistic depiction or dumb cartoony dramatization? The dumb cartoony wins with Irwin Allen every time. In TTT we find out that you hear all noises in a vacuum in space. You also hear explosions. Stuff that explodes in space burns with flames.Yarrghh!! (beats head repeatedly against brick wall.) Just so little additional attention to small details in post-production would have elevated this series from the level of little kid's escapism to decent adult drama. But no, if you're Irwin Allen you have a God sanctioned mission to make ALL of your shows with a tiny peanut for a rationale brain.The absolute lack of any attention to time travel paradoxes is also striking. In "One Way to the Moon" we see that clearly as one character in the present of TTT plays a role in the future being revealed to them, and nobody pulls the guy aside for questioning. The whole concept of polluting the past with the actions of guys from the future is completely ignored.Ah, well, TTT is a great period piece.

qormi When I was twelve, I loved this show. Now, it seems pretty bad. Tony and Doug were constantly transported from one historic destination to the next...the walls of Jehricho, the Titanic, the Civil War,...they could have landed near a small cottage in Latvia circa 1870, but no...they always had to appear amidst some profound historical event. That wasn't the least of the implausibilities, however. You see, Tony and Doug never changed their clothes. Doug wore a shirt, sportcoat, and tie; while Tony went through time in a turtleneck sweater. Turtlenecks make you itch and sweat after awhile. At what point, one wonders, did their deodorant fail? They also had no change of underwear. They stank. A lot.They were always randomly rescued right in the middle of a cliffhanger - rescued just in the nick of time. One of the more stupid episodes was when they were transported from the Renaissance to the Americam Civil War. Somehow, Machiavelli came along with them. He proceeded to manipulate the Civil War generals and play them off on each other. How Machiavellian. The one cool moment of the series was when they were in a bind in ancient Rome. The Roman legion was about to execute them when Mission Control succeeded in sending a man in a hardhat with a machine gun back in time to rescue them. He just let out a burst and knocked off about ten Romans.