Senator Leroy Clark

A U. S. Senator, Leroy Clark, is flown to a secret government operation buried deep in a desert installation known as Operation Tic-Toc, which has conducted experiments with time travel. The experiment has cost $7.5 billion (U. S.), and without concrete proof of the experiments being successful within 24 hours, Clark states that he will fly back to the nation's capitol in Washington to recommend the project be shut down.

{{Infobox
|Box title = "Rendezvous with Yesterday"
|Image size = 300
|Image file = Rendezvouswy.jpg
|Row 1 title = [[The Time Tunnel|TTT]] episode
|Row 1 info = 1.1/1st of 30 aired
|Row 2 title = First aired
|Row 2 info = [[September 9]], [[Production timeline#1966|1966]]
|Row 3 title = Written by
|Row 3 info = [[Irwin Allen]], Harold Jack Bloom, [[Shimon Wincelberg]]
|Row 4 title = Directed by
|Row 4 info = [[Irwin Allen]]
|Row 5 title = Previous episode
|Row 5 info = none
|Row 6 title = Next Episode
|Row 6 info = "[[One Way to the Moon (TTT episode)|One Way to the Moon]]"
}}
==Summary==

A U. S. Senator, Leroy Clark, is flown to a secret government operation buried deep in a desert installation known as Operation Tic-Toc, which has conducted experiments with time travel. The experiment has cost $7.5 billion (U. S.), and without concrete proof of the experiments being successful within 24 hours, Clark states that he will fly back to Washington to recommend the project be shut down.

Desperate, one of the on-site scientists, [[Dr.|Doctor]] [[Tony Newman]], activates the [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Time Tunnel]] that evening and runs into it, even though it is risky and no one knows when or where he will end up, which he is sent to the RMS Titanic cruise ship right before it is to sink. Seeing that [[Tony Newman|Newman]] will probably drown and die after he is thrown in the brig (as he was unable to convince the Titanic’s captain the ship was doomed), fellow scientist [[Dr.|Doctor]] [[Doug Phillips]] volunteers to be sent to the Titanic with [[Tony Newman|Newman]] to help him escape until they get sent to another time and place via the [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Time Tunnel]].

==Background information==

*Although there appears to be nothing on the surface (there are no visible buildings to be seen when approaching the area), Project Tic-Toc actually runs several hundred stories deep and employs 12,000 people.What they do,is never explotred?
*Whenever someone enters the [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Time Tunnel]] to be sent to another time period and place, they first pass through a radiation bath.Wow,losts of death going at the tunnel.Now we know why they need so many personell-i mean ginnie pigs.
*It is revealed that the [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Time Tunnel]] is not stable, so it is unknown where any individuals could end up in time if they enter it.
*In case of an emergency, whoever has been sent to another place can be “frozen” in time for a few seconds before being sent to another time and location. However, if they are left frozen for more than just a few seconds they will be killed.What and why this is,is never really explored.
*The [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Time Tunnel]] can double as a viewer, as anyone in the present day at Project Tic-Toc (in 1968, when the series takes place) can watch any events that occur with whoever entered the [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Tunnel]], as long as the Project Tic-Toc team has a lock on them and there is not too much interference from various circumstances.What stupid is no one bothered with a two way communications set up.Was this not in the government funding?
*There is a history computer where Project Tic-Toc personnel can obtain information from in order to try to help out [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] or whoever has entered the [[Time Tunnel (mechanism)|Time Tunnel]] for the time period they are currently stuck in.
*At the end of every episode, [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] along their original series clothing are transported to another place and time; in this case, at the end of this episode, they are sent forward into the future, on board a space ship that is about to lift off for places unknown.

==Cast==

*[[James Darren]] as [[Doctor]] [[Tony Newman]]
*[[Robert Colbert]] as [[Doctor]] [[Doug Phillips]]
*Michael Rennie as Captain Malcolm Smith
*Susan Hampshire as Althea Hall
*Gary Merrill as Senator Leroy Clark
*[[Lee Meriwether]] as [[Doctor]] [[Ann MacGregor]]
*Wesley Lau as Master Sgt. Jiggs
*[[John Zaremba]] as [[Doctor]] [[Raymond Swain]]
*[[Whit Bissell]] as [[General|Lt. General]] [[Heywood Kirk]]
*Don Knight as Grainger

==Links==

The episode can be viewed at [http://www.hulu.com/ Hulu.com] at [http://www.hulu.com/the-time-tunnel The Time Tunnel] channel


This stupidly forces Doctor Tony Newman to activate the Time-Tunnel,where somebody,the Project Tic Toc night crew must been observing the maiden voyage of the HMS Titanic ans all left for coffee.
Sirens blare and everybody is alerted.I guess those vast underground city that holds 12,000  employess begin to run up and down the bridges finally do something.No where in the series,do get to see why Operation Tic-Toc vast underground city that holds 12,000 people in each of a series of complexes, each of which are over eight hundred floors deep needs all people,to run about crazy when tunnel activates.
More stupidly,Doug Phillips deside to follow Tony,forgetting to bring along such things as a camera and walkie talkie,so he talk back employees of the project.
Nothing,is mentioned beyond Senator Clark going back to Washington to get more funding to help get Doug and Tony back home.Clark could have a recurring character,trying to do what he could for Project Tik Tok.
But no,once Senator Clarks plot device us is over,he gets forgotten.