The Time Tunnel
The time tunnel is a top secret project that allows Drs. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips to travel in time. However these first experiments don’t always go off exactly as planned and the educated explorers find themselves tumbling into situations that put their respective knowledge, ingenuity and courage to the test, as the link with the laboratory and present day is not always stable. The pair of American scientists, now swirl in a maze of ages up and down the time line. Randomly dropping into a new fantastic situation, these adventurers are monitored and aided whenever possible by their partner scientists who maintain and power the tunnel at its source.
Created by 20th Century Fox, the Time Tunnel aired on ABC for just a single season between 1966 and 1967. But American television being what it was in the 60s; they gave us 30 whole episodes to enjoy. Robert Colbert and James Darren star in this sci-fi time travel adventure series which was shot in full color. The series is set, realistically just two years ahead of it’s broadcast time, in 1968.
The time tunnel, so named because of the psychedelic hallway that results from a major government endeavor to build a time machine called project Tic-Toc. The experiment Tic-Toc is based in Arizona, in a massive hidden subterranean structure than extends 800 floors below the surface of the ground. The time travelers share a joint direction of top secret project with Lt. General Heywood played by Whit Bissell. Dr Anthony “Tony” Newman is played by James Darren and Dr. Douglas Phillips is played by Robert Colbert. Scientific specialists monitoring and assisting these daring heroes are John Zaremba as electronics expert Dr. Raymond Swain and the beautiful Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann MacGregor who keeps tabs on the travelers bio signatures and monitors the relative stresses of force and heat that the travelers are exposed to by the tunnel. We are told that the complex in total employs over 12000 specialists that help maintain and securely run the facility.
