The Time Tunnel was a terrific series. I still watch the reruns on ME TV .

Thank you for doing this - I did not think anyone, other than myself, knew about Time Tunnel.

I am in my 50's and grew up a big sci fi nut, and am surprised I never heard of this show growing up. First saw it a few years back. Good show 😊.

People are still watching it 50 years later This was Irwin Allen's favorite of all his shows

The captain was an alien in the movie " the day the earth stood still"

Characters Tony and Doug are still living.

One of my favorite episodes. Fascinated by the Titanic story since I read A Night To Remember in grade school.

Sir, you are great ☺ its like my grandpa started a Dad joke based youtube review channel. Thumbs up. Never change you magnificent bastard.

The Time Tunnel is one of my all time favorite shows, but I'll be the first to admit that it's as cheesy as hell. I really enjoy your snark.

Time tunnel is on my top ten list of best sci-fi TV shows

I loved Time Tunnel and learnt lot of History from it. I think it was an interesting way to teach History. They rarely ventured into future. But your rational commentary has made the show much more interesting. I think no one can control the Time but God.

What a great review and tribute to one of the greatest sci Fi television series of all time, Bravo!!!!!

I'm 66. I loved this series. There was always real history involved. I thought it was better than Star Trek

In the epilogue, the voice of mission control was the robot from Lost in Space !

My favourite show as a kid!

I was 9 years old when I saw this series...And I loved since the first episode till the last. Greetings from El Centro,Ca. USA.🇲🇽🤷‍♀️👨‍🦱💖🙌👏👌❤️🚘🫂⛪️💯⛩️🎶💈🏙💕 .

I always thought the most amazing aspect of the show was James Darren's green turtleneck shirt which never seemed to get damaged or even dirty. Considering how many places he got sent where he starts out being tossed on the floor or even the ground, that's some great piece of clothing. I was 15 when this show was on and it was on a Friday night so I could watch it (we weren't allowed TV on nights where there was school the next day). The set's were great especially the Time Tunnel Complex but the scripts were only so-so. They were constrained to write around the studio's stock footage of old movies. Some great guest stars, Michael Rennie, Carrol O'Connor, Robert Duvall, etc.

I loved this series. It was as exciting as a Marvel or a DC comic. Tony was my favourite character. If your t shirt says 53 I was a 54.

i love his vids about the TIME TUNNEL! BEST FROM THE 60'S

Time Tunnel is a great series.

I was about six when this aired! I'd never heard of the Titanic or Merlin the Magician or Perl Harbor. And I hadn't given a thought to the late 1970s, when I'd be going to school and when they set a couple of episodes! Still a fun adventure show and thanks for this fun review!

This is not a fail. This is epic.

You were highly entertaining in your commentary/synopsis of thee Time Tunnel's maiden voyage. I enjoyed this very much.

This was soo real & unreal at the time when we saw it in Australia. I was allways home when this was on lol

I always wanted a reboot, but then I realized the show Sliders was kind of a reboot. I liked that show too

Thanks for this -- good memory of my childhood. Loved this show.

THE TIME TUNNEL was the only Irwin Allen show I managed to see from the very 1st episode! I loved it from the start. It was frustrating that they never reran the pilot... that the show was cancelled without a proper resolution. That because it only had 30 episodes, it was only rerun on weekends. I read that, after slowly building up to it, the final episode did have a FINAL scene where, at last, Doug & Tony made it back to the Tunnel! Imagine a 2nd season with more-controlled trips. But ABC replaced that final scene with a lead-in to the 1st rerun... which was the "Pearl Harbor" episode. (I definitely remember ABC re-running the "Moon" episode... but, out-of-sequence. Networks did that a lot when they had more than 26 episodes, they'd skip lesser ones, and not always rerun stories in the original order.) I hoped the DVD box set might have that never-seen ending... but it didn't. Instead, they had a trailer for reruns in general, apparently run during syndication. I somehow never saw the pilot again until I got the DVD box a couple years ago. I was absolutely astonished, when, on re-watching it... my memory of it was SO clear, SO vivid.. it felt as though I'd watched it only a few weeks earlier. That's NEVER happened with me with any other show I watched from that far back. It was uncanny. My late best friend Jim and I used to refer to what we called "problem-based shows". If you solve the problem, the show's over. In the case of THE TIME TUNNEL, the problem is bringing Doug & Tony back. But this did not need to be the end. As I said above, had they made it back, they could then have a 2nd season with more-controlled trips. On DOCTOR WHO, the initial "problem" was trying to get the 2 school-teachers, Ian & Barbara, back to their own time. In the next-to-last story of the 2nd season, "The Chase", they finally made it back to London, albeit 2 years after they left. But the show continued without them for another 24 seasons! THE TIME TUNNEL has always been my 2nd-favorite Irwin Allen show, right after LOST IN SPACE. It's funny that LIS's silliest season was the same year that TT was so damned good. VOYAGE was also at its silliest that year. The next year, VOYAGE and LIS came back, both less silly (at least at the start). But TT got axed, because, behind-the-scenes, someone pushed another show on ABC... which replaced it... and then got cancelled after only 6 weeks. OY. I would have rather Irwin Allen dropped VOYAGE and had a 2nd season of TIME TUNNEL. That year, I watched ABC the whole evening: THE GREEN HORNET, THE TIME TUNNEL, RANGO, THE PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON, and, THE AVENGERS. I never saw THE WILD WILD WEST until after it was cancelled. The following year, I saw the 2nd season of TARZAN, which was followed by the 2nd season of STAR TREK. Blows my mind I can remember all this.

.My favorite show. 😀

The Deck and the Deck Chairs immediately tell us that its Titanic. James Darren hadnt watched the movie then.

Great show, really enjoyed you commentary , made I laugh.You were lucky, the series aired in black and white in England in 1968 (I was 12) , we got to see about eight episodes then it was interrupted by the mexico olyympics and it was never on again!! To compound my misery, two years later, the World Cup was in Mexico and England were knocked out by West Germany.....I don't know how I got past that double trauma at such a young age

the main characters also became superhuman, because they never sleep, eat or change their clothes throughout the entire series.

Another awesome episode , thanx Dave !

“The control of time is potentially the most valuable treasure that man will ever find.” - Dr. Douglas Phillips

YOU HAVE MY BROTHERS AND I CRACKING UP! My brothers asked me what a Samovar was and I honestly did not know. So I Googled it. A Samovar is essentially a Russian or Asian tea pot. I was shocked to see that yes that reactor did look for all the world like a huge glowing Samovar. I was impressed even as I laughed my tookus off!

The tunnel makes the sound as the Jupiter 2?

Fail lol. I remember when it first aired. I thought it was great. That's all I care about.

8:59 Looks like he's just a tumbleweed blowin' in the wind.

5:42 He gets so emotional, baby Every tiiiiiime you pull his funds

My favorite Irwin Allen show great cast set stories and pretty Lee Meriwether ❤ How could it fail?

Despite the silliness (e.g. "I'm [Dr. Newman from 1968]"), some historical inaccuracies (e.g. the chandeliers didn't shake nearly so much, the Captain had white hair, and he knew in less than 10 minutes that the ship would sink) this was a pretty good episode. I think it was the best of the entire series in no small part due to guest star Susan Hampshire. The regular cast members were well cast and the series had great theme music.

Wonderful, thank you.

I would like Hollywood to try a modern version (2024).

9:11 that sailor................ I think he also played the transporter chief on the original Star Trek. I definitely remember him from the Mirror Universe story.............. and THE AGONIZER.

Ya...Mr Spillit was able to escape 'Mysterious Island' and why did they want to torture him some more by taking him to an underground garage in the middle of the desert?....Strange indeed lol

I love that serie, great video

This guy in the Tshirt is my new hero ❤

Irv…your absolute disdain of the senator cracked me up!! Well done as always! I don’t recall the actors name but I know he was also a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and every other show in the 60s and he was a great actor!! Stay well!

Okay, if you don't like his commentary, then go to the other places on youtube where you can watch The Time Tunnel full episodes for free without a subscription. Oh, wait! THERE AREN'T ANY! That's because the owners of broadcast rights to this show won't allow it.

This guy won't let u see more than 10 sec of the show without inter upting.

So you DID the Time tunnel - thanks!

Wrong President. Howard Taft was the president when the Titanic sank.

Not usually a fan of commentary, but yours is exceptional! Call me subscribed.

If you're going to rag on my fav show growing up...I'm leaving

The actor who played the captain of the titanic ( micheal rennie ) was my nans second cousin by marriage .

Recently watched all 30 episodes but the ending seems different than I remember..... I seem to remember them making it back to the tunnel then deciding to go back in. But when I watched it back it just looped back to the titanic episode. I suppose it is over 30 years since I watched it though 😂

I don't think that saving Althea changed history. This show handled time travel like Doctor Who or like Quantum Leap: the protagonists went back to... unfinished spots... in history to make history happen the way it should - and did, in the one and only real timeline. So Althea always lived, and Tony going back to save her was immutable destiny.

One Cosmic hitch to continuity: Tony says "I was born in 1938!" Making him 30 in 1968, where "the present" is in this series. But he's older than a three-year-old in the "Day the Sky Fell" episode, so maybe he changed his own history somehow!

I would have been just fine because I know most of the 1st lifeboats left just about empty. So I would have had a nice supper and be waiting on deck for the collision. Then on to a boat and rescue by morning.

So cool 😎👍...even after half a century...

Really loved this episode as a kid, still gives me goosebumps when Tony says, "Titanic". Inexcusable inaccuracy, though: Capt. Smith had a WHITE beard. It's in historic photos of him.

Loved the series but I love your commentary more.

It was a great show it had a lot of potential and it got it they got pulled OK because somebody one of the suits didn’t like the show they thought it was too expensive it’s the kind of show that they should’ve done over except it I’m not sure how they would’ve done it they did it over in the Sand by doing a quantum Leap but that wasn’t quite the same thing

Apparently, the title theme was written while the Sandpeople were around :D

fabulous

Funny. The show shouldn't have been cancelled after just one season. It was a good show. Being cancelled left our two time travelers stuck back in time from where the last show left them. What a bummer. They were stuck back in time before there was McDonald's. That sucks. No more Big Macs. It's interesting how they just happened to be randomly placed back in time during historic events. One thing I learned was the staff at the time tunnel were Tik Tok fans decades before it even existed (they proudly displayed the name on their badges). Amazing. They travel forward in time without even telling us. I can't figure out why they then hid their smartphones from the senator and everyone watching the show in 1968, that they used to watch all those braindead Tik Tok videos. Maybe that was just too scary for viewers to see what the future will be like. After all, this was a show for the whole family to watch. With the Titanic, our time travelers did miss bumping into Jack and Rose. They never knew how shortsighted Jack was to let Rose lie on that door he found, as he froze to death. The whole love story thing would have never worked out if the boat didn't sink. He was constantly in trouble on the ship. He should have just told Rose to find her own piece of wood to sit on. He would have survived, made it to America, and lived a successful life. Oh, well. Mistakes happen.

Oh thanks a lot this is just wonderful

I felt the same about the Senator. The Time Tunnel was so great I bough it on DVD. One thing the show started using to much stock footage and kinda repeated itself. Still fantastic show only one season.

They butchered the Iliad in episode 3, confused Agamemnon with Ulysses, made Paris a raper, Made Helen to hate and despised Paris when Homer had written that she had loved the Trojan up to the end. Plus the usual absurdities like that of a 20th Century AD scientist be a better swordman than a trained soldier of the 12th Century BC.

I.remember watching this show

2:18 I was going to say, the trick to riding this elevator without blowing lunch is, DON'T LOOK DOWWWWwwwn!

All the Irwin Allen TV shows + movies had great title music - loved this show as a kid!

I like the first episode as it contains real life issues such as costing blowouts as the space program probably had in the 1960's ; this was my second favorite Irwin Allen series after Lost in Space. Are you doing one on Land of the Giants?

Later they brought this concept back as Quantum Leap.

The complex looks impressive but hilariously ridiculous. Where the hell did all that earth they dug out to build that complex went? Look at the size of it!!

I actually do enjoy your commentary. However, respectfully your premise that The Time Tunnel is a TV Fail is completely wrong and unfounded. Although, the series only lasted a year, it had great ratings, but ABC wanted Irwin Allen to cut the budget which in no way he would do. A great series full of imagination and suspense in my humble opinion!

People from the future trying to change the past, not knowing how it will affect their lives.

Just me or does anyone else also wonder why can't we fiind the part when he gives to her his watch?

Ah, the lovely Susan Hampshire. I haven't seen her in a while.

Where did JMS get the idea for the great machine from B5 right from the Time Tunnel.

Very good presentation, Irving. but ...all the film?

I love "It's About Time" also but that didn't go too long. These are way better than Space 1999 though.

So they have Rubik Cube name plates 🤔 and it's Operation Tic Toc....it was "the future"

The Time Tunnel was in the death zone of Friday Night.

Could you do a video commentary on the " Alamo " episode ? That was my Time Tunnel favorite

Hey IRV, could not believe you cut out most of the opening with the Learjet 23. I said out loud "What the f**k?! And then you. YOU!

It's amazing how your able to find these obscure tv shows! Also you think a scientist that specializes in time would know how dangerous it is to alter history by trying to warn about the iceberg, granted this series was made before Back to the Future.

Well done. You’re kind of like a one-man MST3K who’s a little lighter on the sarcasm and heavier on the philosophy. Good watch!

Why isn't this episode available on You Tube? all the other's are!!!

Working on a Time Tunnel story. Renamed characters. Tunnel is a Quantum Entangelment experiment machine originally. Once energized time side effects. Using string theory objects and people are 'compressed'. 'Tony' occupying space smaller than an electron. Radiation bath is a solution of iodine 131. Electron emitter. EM detected by receiver that follows. Drone flys through, too with travelers It broadcasts audio video. Machine powered by Helium 3 based reactor and earth's heat. Note opening. The Tunnel is at least 9,000 deep. Rock temp 120F more or less. AC? Power to 'switch' capacitive. In my story, 2.5 cubic kilometers discharges to generate quantum effect to travel. Entangled to origin of universe on one end, future other. In story random moving in time for travlers an issue of computing to calculate vector on arrival. Travelers could return at high KPS at random angle. A mess on a wall. Computer of 1968 calculates vectors where travelers match Earth's rotation, speed, direction and altitude above ground. 1968 trajectories match 1912 AD? Magnetic sensor seeking a steel ship on water,? Not dropping travelers into 33F salt water? These abd 80+ other issues. My story gets around paradox- butterfly effect by tossing travelers into alternative universes. 'Return' is getting to one closely matching origin. General Kirk played by William Shatner... Ha. All else, the same. A not so subtle example with a very subtle situation. My story? 1968 AD. 3414 AC. 89 Julian... 1968 our reality. 3414 AC Rome did not fall until much later. 89? 'Tony' is dropped into Dead Sea. Doug and 5 soldiers ashore. Lithium laced salts react with iodine 131 infused Tony. He cannot return. To near origin. Stuck in first century Roman Empire. Changes history at Mount of Olives... Watched Time Tunnel at 16. Antenna. No cable. No reruns...

Looks like they borrowed alot of set from Forbidden Planet ! ♈⚓⚓♈

21:52 I always thought the brain tumor story was very sad.but Tony seemed to overestimate the healing options. After all, even NOWDAYS folks, it is a death reason to a degree. For example the German actor who had played the monk Darius on HIGHLANDER the series, Werner Stocker, had died off it in 1993; decades past the filming of this episode That was also the reason the HIGHLANDER - script writer had to include ad hoc the group of Renegade Watchers to explain the demise of the monk in the show itself, Highlander still was running back then and Stocker had been still under contract for tho role when he had died

Don't bother watching. All episodes are ruined by the moronic commentary provided by the poster. Very disappointing.

Who designed that elevator, the Marquis de Sade?

Very interesting show. And maybe its just me but i love those effects. They go through this weird kaleidoscope like tunnel and they slowly land. It gives me Alice In Wonderland Rabbit Hole vibes. I'm intrigued to see where it takes us.

Tony went into the time portal because he owed alimony and child support.

Did you ever ear that of the 3 1943 copper pennies known to exist one of them went down on the titanic

I really like your videos. I’ve been watching Lost in Space and now Time Tunnel. They’re great, but I really wish you would edit your playlists so they auto play the episodes in order instead of backwards.

Damn ...thought this was a whole episode...but you popped up...no offence...bye x

Was that the Time Tunnel or the Time Funnel?

I haven't seen the episode so I can't comment too much on the senator's attitude but I do understand not wanting to put the country further in debt for a project that he felt shouldn't have been started in the first place, and you even noted a questionable end goal. Plus I fear our ever gaining time travel because you know the space/time continuum would be destroyed and reality wiped out.