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|Row 1 info = Male
|Row 2 title = Occupation
|Row 2 info = Scientist at Operation Tic-Toc
|Row 3 title = [[:Category:Performers|Performer(s)]]
|Row 3 info = [[Robert Colbert]]
|Row 4 title = [[:Category:Production|Production]]
|Row 4 info = ''[[The Time Tunnel]]''
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Doug Phillips is one of two character lost in time and space,within the Time Tunnel
==Professional/skills==
[[Dr.]] '''Doug Phillips''' is a scientist employed at Project Tic-Toc, an underground base in a desert location somewhere in the U. S. (possibly near the Nevada/Arizona border) that conducts top secret experiments in time travel. Out of the two lead scientists involved in time travel experimentation ([[Dr.]] [[Tony Newman]] being the other), Phillips was hired first at the base. ("''[[End of the World (TTT episode)|End of the World]]''")
Doug Phillips seems to be a man of many hats, as part of his duties at Project Tic-Toc appear to involve being an official greeter, as he met and gave U. S. Senator Leroy Clark a tour of the area, who was sent by the government to discover what results the multi-billion dollar project had accomplished. ("''[[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT_episode)|Rendezvous with Yesterday]]''") He is also a skilled mathematician. ("''[[End of the World (TTT episode)|End of the World]]''") Phillips has also shown to be able to work with a variety of various communication devices as well. ("''[[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT_episode)|Rendezvous with Yesterday]]''", "''[[The Day the Sky Fell In (TTT episode)|The Day the Sky Fell In]]''")
As far as research and development went with time travel experimenting, Phillips was instrumental in developing a probe that could carry important messages to time travelers, as well as capsule work (with fellow Tic-Toc scientist [[Raymond Swain]]), which was a domed compartment where time travelers would sit in before making a journey, as it was totally separate from the Time Tunnel. However, the capsule was a total failure, and a radiation bath was used in place of the capsule afterwards. ("''[[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|Secret Weapon]]''")
==Personal==
Doug Phillips appears to be in his early 30s, has brown hair and eyes and is good friends with fellow scientist [[Tony Newman]] at Project Tic-Toc. He is also well-versed in history in general and possibly wilderness survival as well. ("''[[The Alamo (TTT episode)|The Alamo]]''", "''[[Night of the Long Knives (TTT episode)|Night of the Long Knives]]''" for the latter) He is also knowledgeable about volcanoes and studied Chinese history, although it is not certain if either subject was studied in a personal or a professional capacity. ("''[[Crack of Doom (TTT episode)|Crack of Doom]]", "[[Attack_of_the_Barbarians_(TTT_episode)|Attack of the Barbarians]]''") He also put his scientific knowledge to work during various time periods, such as for constructing homemade nerve gas and explosives. ("''[[The_Revenge_of_Robin_Hood_(TTT_episode)|The Revenge of Robin Hood]]", "[[Idol_of_Death_(TTT_episode)|Idol of Death]]", "[[Attack_of_the_Barbarians_(TTT_episode)|Attack of the Barbarians]]''") And not only had Phillips' scientific knowledge get him through tight spots in various time periods from the past, but they were even successful in escaping certain situations in the future as well, such as by using a simple magnet to bypass a force field. ''("[[Chase_Through_Time_(TTT_episode)|Chase Through Time]]")''
Even though it is never mentioned if he ever married and/or had any offspring,Doctor Phillips does seem to be good around children. ("''[[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT_episode)|Rendezvous with Yesterday]]''", "''[[Pirates_of_Deadman's_Island_(TTT_episode)|Pirates of Deadman's Island]]''")
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
"Rendezvous with Yesterday"
{{Infobox
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|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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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]] 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
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|Row 3 title = Written by
|Row 3 info = [[Irwin Allen]], Harold Jack Bloom, [[Shimon Wincelberg]]
|Row 4 title = Directed by
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|Row 5 title = Previous episode
|Row 5 info = none
|Row 6 title = Next Episode
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==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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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]] 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
Time Tunnel (mechanism)
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|Row 2 info = 1958
|Row 3 title = Function
|Row 3 info = Time travel experiments
|Row 4 title = Status
|Row 4 info = Unstable
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==Background/development==
The United States version of the '''Time Tunnel''' was built in 1958. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']]) One of the lead scientists of the project, [[Dr.]] [[Doug Phillips]], first envisioned that the Time Tunnel would have a capsule developed and work in conjunction with the Tunnel, which housed up to two time travelers so they could be transported to another place and time. However, the capsule turned out to be a failure (and fatal), which it was replaced by a radiation bath that people must pass through first in order to travel through time. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']])
During its first 10 years in existence, only a few animals (mostly monkeys) had been sent through the Time Tunnel during tests, although no concrete evidence could prove that they made it to a different time period, much less survive, as the Time Tunnel was not stable, so it was unknown where any individuals could end up in time if they were to enter it. In 1968, a senator traveled to the complex, as he was advised to either bring back proof of the Tunnel’s worth (as it had cost $7.5 billion U. S. at that point with little to show for it) or he would recommend upon returning to Washington for the project to be shut down. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']])
[[File:Timetunnelviewermode.jpg|thumb|Time Tunnel in viewing mode|140px|left]]Not appreciating the sudden deadline—as he felt Project Tic-Toc (the codename/complex for the secret project) was so “close” to a breakthrough—the other lead scientist of the project, [[Dr.]] [[Tony Newman]], activated the Time Tunnel later that night and ran through it. As Project Tic-Toc personnel worked to try to locate where in time he had ended up, it was shown that the Tunnel could double as a viewer, as anyone in the present day at Project Tic-Toc could watch any events that occurred with whoever entered the Tunnel (as long as the Project Tic-Toc team had a lock on them and there wasn’t too much interference from various circumstances). They would later see for themselves that [[Tony Newman|Newman]] ended up landing on the Titanic, the cruise ship that sunk during its maiden voyage several decades before. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday''"]])
Project Tic-Toc/The Time Tunnel complex is located near the Nevada/Arizona border. No exact location for the site was given. ([[The Death Merchant (TTT episode)|"''The Death Merchant"'']]) The Time Tunnel is physically only a few dozen meters long, although once it is activated for time travel its length actually becomes infinite then. ([[Revenge of the Gods (TTT episode)|"''Revenge of the Gods"'']])
==Travel preparations and after effects==
Whenever someone enters the Time Tunnel to be sent to another time period and place, they must first pass through a radiation bath. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']]) People can become disoriented after traveling through time, although the effect is usually temporary. ([[Devil's Island (TTT episode)|"''Devil's Island"'']]) It is also difficult for Project Tic-Toc to keep tabs on whoever passes through the Tunnel, as it would become a regular pattern for them to lose contact with [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] for a few hours with them after being shifted to every new time period. ([[Billy the Kid (TTT episode)|"''Billy the Kid"'']]) It was also stated at one point that Project Tic-Toc had only nine hours to move [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] away from the Alamo (where they ended up at one point) before the historic slaughter took place in the 1800s, showing how complicated and time-consuming time travel is indeed. ([[The Alamo (TTT episode)|"''The Alamo"'']])
Also, in case of an emergency, whoever was sent to another place could be “frozen” in time for a few seconds before being sent to another time and location if need be. But, if that person (or persons) are left frozen for more than just a few seconds they would be killed. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']]) This time freeze technique would be improved upon later though. Also, [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] would have to stay in the same place for a while for Project Tic-Toc to get a lock on them and move them to another time period, which was difficult to do if the two were constantly moving. ([[Kill Two by Two (TTT episode)|"''Kill Two by Two"'']])
New techniques were also constantly being created in order to try to help the two scientists though, such as sending objects through the Tunnel so Project Tic-Toc could get a better lock on the two. ([[Reign of Terror (TTT episode)|"''Reign of Terror"'']]) Probes were also sent that, once they melted, not only was there no trace of them left behind, but also a written message would be revealed as well if Project Tic-Toc needed to send an urgent message to the scientists. [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] (along with fellow scientist [[Dr.]] [[Raymond Swain]]) developed this technique. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']]) A homing post was also created that, when sent to a time period and activated, anyone who touched it would be brought back to Project Tic-Toc, although by the time [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] found it at one point the post was no longer functioning. ([[The Revenge of Robin Hood (TTT episode)|"''The Revenge of Robin Hood"'']])
At one point after a time switch, contact was totally lost with [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]]. Project Tic-Toc repeatedly checked all their instruments, figuring one possibility was they could not regain viewer contact with the scientists was due to either [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and/or [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] being dead. The breaker system was bypassed and a concentrated power surge was sent into the Tunnel in hopes of regaining contact, which restored full power to the Time Tunnel’s viewing system and proved that [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] were indeed still alive. ([[Night of the Long Knives (TTT episode)|"''Night of the Long Knives"'']])
Also during one situation in particular, a power surge in the form of one million volts was sent from Project Tic-Toc through the Time Tunnel to try to rid [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] of the ghost of Nero. ([[The Ghost of Nero (TTT episode)|"''The Ghost of Nero"'']])
==Miscellaneous==
*The Time Tunnel has “channels”, as [[Raymond Swain|Swain]] ordered maintenance at one point to run a check on channels “one hundred” through “infinity”. ([[Merlin the Magician (TTT episode)|"''Merlin the Magician"'']])
*During one adventure in particular, Project Tic-Toc personnel were ordered to restore full power to the Time Tunnel to try to transport [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] out of an area, or it could end up killing the two. It is unknown if this was just in regards to this episode or if this was always the case where they were in that much danger from being transported. ([[The Walls of Jericho (TTT episode)|"''The Walls of Jericho"'']])
*The secret location of Project Tic-Toc/the Time Tunnel (near the Nevada/Arizona border) was not only never exactly pinpointed, but it was also never mentioned until the 25th episode when [[General|Lt. General]] [[Heywood Kirk]] ordered power to be tapped from Hoover Dam, which sits on the Nevada/Arizona border. ([[The Death Merchant (TTT episode)|"''The Death Merchant"'']])
==The original Time Tunnel?==
When [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] were transported to Russia in 1956 at one point, after receiving a message from a probe stating to meet someone named Alexis, they assumed new identities from him, were taken to a secret location later, and were surprised to find another Time Tunnel that looked identical to theirs that would be built two years later in the United States. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']])
Although not explained for sure in the series (since it would be canceled after only one season), it is unlikely for governments on two different continents to create a time travel device that was physically exactly the same (although the United States’ Time Tunnel did not have an extended capsule module, as it was replaced by a radiation bath). If someone did indeed create both Time Tunnels (which would have to be even more top secret than ever, since neither Time Tunnel complex personnel seemed to know of the other’s existence), their identity was not revealed. However, a [[professor]] by the name of Anton Biraki was present in the Russian complex in 1956, as well as Project Tic-Toc in 1968, who did suspiciously have knowledge of Project Tic-Toc. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']]) Also, since the U. S. version of the Time Tunnel had taken 10 years after the time it was built before any humans could be sent through it, the Russian version could have been built well before 1956 as well.
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==Background/development==
The United States version of the '''Time Tunnel''' was built in 1958. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']]) One of the lead scientists of the project, [[Dr.]] [[Doug Phillips]], first envisioned that the Time Tunnel would have a capsule developed and work in conjunction with the Tunnel, which housed up to two time travelers so they could be transported to another place and time. However, the capsule turned out to be a failure (and fatal), which it was replaced by a radiation bath that people must pass through first in order to travel through time. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']])
During its first 10 years in existence, only a few animals (mostly monkeys) had been sent through the Time Tunnel during tests, although no concrete evidence could prove that they made it to a different time period, much less survive, as the Time Tunnel was not stable, so it was unknown where any individuals could end up in time if they were to enter it. In 1968, a senator traveled to the complex, as he was advised to either bring back proof of the Tunnel’s worth (as it had cost $7.5 billion U. S. at that point with little to show for it) or he would recommend upon returning to Washington for the project to be shut down. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']])
[[File:Timetunnelviewermode.jpg|thumb|Time Tunnel in viewing mode|140px|left]]Not appreciating the sudden deadline—as he felt Project Tic-Toc (the codename/complex for the secret project) was so “close” to a breakthrough—the other lead scientist of the project, [[Dr.]] [[Tony Newman]], activated the Time Tunnel later that night and ran through it. As Project Tic-Toc personnel worked to try to locate where in time he had ended up, it was shown that the Tunnel could double as a viewer, as anyone in the present day at Project Tic-Toc could watch any events that occurred with whoever entered the Tunnel (as long as the Project Tic-Toc team had a lock on them and there wasn’t too much interference from various circumstances). They would later see for themselves that [[Tony Newman|Newman]] ended up landing on the Titanic, the cruise ship that sunk during its maiden voyage several decades before. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday''"]])
Project Tic-Toc/The Time Tunnel complex is located near the Nevada/Arizona border. No exact location for the site was given. ([[The Death Merchant (TTT episode)|"''The Death Merchant"'']]) The Time Tunnel is physically only a few dozen meters long, although once it is activated for time travel its length actually becomes infinite then. ([[Revenge of the Gods (TTT episode)|"''Revenge of the Gods"'']])
==Travel preparations and after effects==
Whenever someone enters the Time Tunnel to be sent to another time period and place, they must first pass through a radiation bath. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']]) People can become disoriented after traveling through time, although the effect is usually temporary. ([[Devil's Island (TTT episode)|"''Devil's Island"'']]) It is also difficult for Project Tic-Toc to keep tabs on whoever passes through the Tunnel, as it would become a regular pattern for them to lose contact with [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] for a few hours with them after being shifted to every new time period. ([[Billy the Kid (TTT episode)|"''Billy the Kid"'']]) It was also stated at one point that Project Tic-Toc had only nine hours to move [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] away from the Alamo (where they ended up at one point) before the historic slaughter took place in the 1800s, showing how complicated and time-consuming time travel is indeed. ([[The Alamo (TTT episode)|"''The Alamo"'']])
Also, in case of an emergency, whoever was sent to another place could be “frozen” in time for a few seconds before being sent to another time and location if need be. But, if that person (or persons) are left frozen for more than just a few seconds they would be killed. ([[Rendezvous with Yesterday (TTT episode)|"''Rendezvous with Yesterday"'']]) This time freeze technique would be improved upon later though. Also, [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] would have to stay in the same place for a while for Project Tic-Toc to get a lock on them and move them to another time period, which was difficult to do if the two were constantly moving. ([[Kill Two by Two (TTT episode)|"''Kill Two by Two"'']])
New techniques were also constantly being created in order to try to help the two scientists though, such as sending objects through the Tunnel so Project Tic-Toc could get a better lock on the two. ([[Reign of Terror (TTT episode)|"''Reign of Terror"'']]) Probes were also sent that, once they melted, not only was there no trace of them left behind, but also a written message would be revealed as well if Project Tic-Toc needed to send an urgent message to the scientists. [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] (along with fellow scientist [[Dr.]] [[Raymond Swain]]) developed this technique. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']]) A homing post was also created that, when sent to a time period and activated, anyone who touched it would be brought back to Project Tic-Toc, although by the time [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] found it at one point the post was no longer functioning. ([[The Revenge of Robin Hood (TTT episode)|"''The Revenge of Robin Hood"'']])
At one point after a time switch, contact was totally lost with [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]]. Project Tic-Toc repeatedly checked all their instruments, figuring one possibility was they could not regain viewer contact with the scientists was due to either [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and/or [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] being dead. The breaker system was bypassed and a concentrated power surge was sent into the Tunnel in hopes of regaining contact, which restored full power to the Time Tunnel’s viewing system and proved that [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] were indeed still alive. ([[Night of the Long Knives (TTT episode)|"''Night of the Long Knives"'']])
Also during one situation in particular, a power surge in the form of one million volts was sent from Project Tic-Toc through the Time Tunnel to try to rid [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] of the ghost of Nero. ([[The Ghost of Nero (TTT episode)|"''The Ghost of Nero"'']])
==Miscellaneous==
*The Time Tunnel has “channels”, as [[Raymond Swain|Swain]] ordered maintenance at one point to run a check on channels “one hundred” through “infinity”. ([[Merlin the Magician (TTT episode)|"''Merlin the Magician"'']])
*During one adventure in particular, Project Tic-Toc personnel were ordered to restore full power to the Time Tunnel to try to transport [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] out of an area, or it could end up killing the two. It is unknown if this was just in regards to this episode or if this was always the case where they were in that much danger from being transported. ([[The Walls of Jericho (TTT episode)|"''The Walls of Jericho"'']])
*The secret location of Project Tic-Toc/the Time Tunnel (near the Nevada/Arizona border) was not only never exactly pinpointed, but it was also never mentioned until the 25th episode when [[General|Lt. General]] [[Heywood Kirk]] ordered power to be tapped from Hoover Dam, which sits on the Nevada/Arizona border. ([[The Death Merchant (TTT episode)|"''The Death Merchant"'']])
==The original Time Tunnel?==
When [[Tony Newman|Newman]] and [[Doug Phillips|Phillips]] were transported to Russia in 1956 at one point, after receiving a message from a probe stating to meet someone named Alexis, they assumed new identities from him, were taken to a secret location later, and were surprised to find another Time Tunnel that looked identical to theirs that would be built two years later in the United States. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']])
Although not explained for sure in the series (since it would be canceled after only one season), it is unlikely for governments on two different continents to create a time travel device that was physically exactly the same (although the United States’ Time Tunnel did not have an extended capsule module, as it was replaced by a radiation bath). If someone did indeed create both Time Tunnels (which would have to be even more top secret than ever, since neither Time Tunnel complex personnel seemed to know of the other’s existence), their identity was not revealed. However, a [[professor]] by the name of Anton Biraki was present in the Russian complex in 1956, as well as Project Tic-Toc in 1968, who did suspiciously have knowledge of Project Tic-Toc. ([[Secret Weapon (TTT episode)|"''Secret Weapon"'']]) Also, since the U. S. version of the Time Tunnel had taken 10 years after the time it was built before any humans could be sent through it, the Russian version could have been built well before 1956 as well.
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.
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==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.
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==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.
Operation Tic-Toc
"Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time."
The Operation,also known as Project Tic-Toc is actually a vast underground city that holds 12,000 people in each of a series of complexes, each of which are over eight hundred floors deep.Project Tic Toc resembles somewhat the Krell Underground in the movie Forbidden Planet-a vast multi levelled underground complex,with magnetic drop tube elevators.
About Project Tic-Toc is the name given to an effort to build an experimental time machine known as The Time Tunnel. The base for Project Tic-Toc is located underground, beneath the Arizona desert.Description
Project Tic-Toc is the name given to an effort to build an experimental time machine known as The Time Tunnel. The base for Project Tic-Toc is located underground, beneath the Arizona desert. Tic-Toc base is made up of a series of complexes 800 floors deep, and employs over 36,000 people (12 thousand people in each complex). The center of the base is Tunnel Control, which houses the imense Time Tunnel itself.
====KEY PERSONNEL:====
Project Tic-Toc is under the overall command of Lt. General Heywood Kirk.In charge of scientific operations are Dr Douglas Phillips, Dr. Anthony Newman, Dr. Raymond Swain and Dr. Ann MacGregor. Construction of the base began in 1958, and The Time Tunnel itself became fully operational in 1968, by order of Senator Leroy Clark.Somewhere during this Doug Philips meets a time jumped Tony Newman,when years later two two got separated in a Time Tunnel jump.
Doug Philips and Senator Clark next enter an elevator that free falls for the entire eight hundred floors, providing an exhilarating ride. At the bottom they are met by Clark's old friend, Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk, who kids the senator about the days they served in the military together. Kirk shows Clark the incredible atomic plant that powers the very reason the installation exists: the Time Tunnel.. Visiting it next, Clark is suitable impressed - mostly because the device has cost the country so much without providing anything of value. As they take the Senator to meet Doug's partner, Dr. Tony Newman, Clark unleashes an attack on the Tunnel as being nothing more than an expensive toy that has made a few animals disappear and nothing more. Tony is obviously upset that after ten years of work on the Tunnel he and Doug are close to making it work, and now it may be shut down. Clark wants results by the next day, or he will cut off all funding of the project after he returns to Washington. Doug refuses to chance taking a life by experimenting with a human being prematurely. Tony leaves while Clark continues his tour, and that night Tony returns to the Tunnel alone, activates the controls, walks into the Tunnel - and disappears.
The regular Tic-Toc project staff arrives shortly, including Doug, Dr. Raymond Swain, Dr. Ann MacGregor, Gen. Kirk, and a number of technicians who begin to try to trace where the young scientist has gone. Elsewhere, Tony tumbles out of the sky and finds himself on the deck of a large ocean liner. A pretty girl asks him if he is OK, having seen his fall. After some polite conversation he walks further down the boat and sees a life preserver with the name of the ship: the Titanic. Later, Tony is locked up for being a stowaway and a lunatic (because of his warnings about the Titanic being doomed), and Doug receives permission from Gen. Kirk to try to free his friend from the locked room before the ship goes down, killing Tony. Kirk reluctantly agrees to let him go - and both men become lost in time. 912. Against his better judgement Doug eventually joins Tony in the time tunnel and on the Titanic. The episode ends with Tony and Doug being rescued by the Project Tic Toc team only to be switched in time to another location. Thus setting up the premise for the rest of the series.
==Getting Around In Time==
The basic operation of the Time Tunnel involves the traveller entering a long tunnel of concentric circles that give an optical illusion of a tunnel extending into the infinite distance. The traveller then gets a radiation bath of blue smoke that enables the project team to later track the traveller in space and time. Each episode begins with the project team attempting to get a temporal and spatial fix on Tony and Doug. The radiation tracking trick allows the project team to view Tony and Doug on a giant view screen that forms at the mouth of the tunnel when needed. Once a fix has been obtained, the team generally begins to generate enough energy to attempt to retrieve the two scientists. Inevitably Tony and Doug find themselves involved in some intrigue or altercation before the team can attempt to retrieve them. The team either uses the stored energy to transport something to the past to assist Tony and Doug, or to switch them to another time and out of danger. Strangely enough the danger is generally passed when they are switched at the end of each episode.Other notes about the Time Tunnel, there seems to be no limit to the range of the machine, with episodes reaching back to the age of dinasours and into the future. Ann and the other scientists back at the base can also communicate with Doug and Tony in an emergency. In several instances, objects are also succesfully sent back to Tony and Doug from the present.
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen, his third science fiction television series. The show's main theme was Time Travel Adventure. The Time Tunnel was released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns currently air on AmericanLife TV Network and on Hulu. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up. Project Tic-Toc is a top secret U.S. government effort to build an experimental time machine known as "The Time Tunnel".
The base for Project Tic-Toc was huge and located underground in the Arizona desert, with no visible entry. The only way in was a large secret panel; when it opened, a car could quickly go through the entrance. Once the panel closed, all anyone could see was ordinary desert. Tic-Toc base was a futuristic series of complexes 800 floors deep and employing over 36,000 people ("12 thousand people in each of those complexes"). It was under the command of Lt. General Heywood Kirk (Whit Bissell). The center of the base was The Time Tunnel control room where the Tunnel was located. In charge of operating the Tunnel were Dr. Ann McGregor (Lee Meriwether) and Dr. Raymond Swain (John Zaremba). The date at which it was operating was stated as 1968, which was two years into the future for the initial TV audience.[1]
When the costs of the project approach those of the entire U.S. space program, United States Senator Leroy Clark (Gary Merrill) launches an investigation of the project. The Senator thinks that the Tunnel has cost too much money for too little reward. At his request the Senator is allowed to visit the project base and given a tour. Once he reaches the central control room the Senator explains his complaints to the project heads. The Senator then says that he wishes to close down the project as a waste of time and money that has not worked. None of the discussion mentions specifically why the project has not worked or any experiments sending inanimate objects through the Tunnel.
When no one else was around to observe, a key Time Tunnel scientist, young physicist Dr. Anthony Newman (James Darren),reculasly turns the machine on and sends himself back in time in an attempt to prove that the Time Tunnel project funds were not wasted. In so doing, Newman becomes "lost in time". The Time Tunnel top personnel quickly return, to see through the Tunnel that Newman is aboard the soon-to-sink Titanic. They can also see that he cannot escape before the sinking, and they cannot retrieve him. In an attempt to rescue his younger friend, another key Tic-Toc scientist, Dr. Douglas Phillips (Robert Colbert) enters the Time Tunnel as well, carrying a newspaper describing the sinking to occur. Unconvinced, the captain of the Titanic throws the newspaper overboard. However, the system was still being developed, and the Tunnel operations staff are never able to bring them home.
As the series progresses or maybe dosen't progress, the two time travelers are swung from one period in history to another, allowing episodes to be set in the past and future. Each episode begins with the following narration (which Richard Tufeld voiced): "Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time."
By luck (or lack thereof) or some unseen forces within the Time Tunnel the travelers, Doug Phillips and Tony Newman, frequently found themselves thrown onto the precipice of major historical events: on board the Titanic before it hits the iceberg, in Pearl Harbor before the Japanese attack, on Krakatoa before it erupts, and so forth. They would try to warn people about the event, or try to prevent it from happening, while the Time Tunnel crew (led by two scientists and a military general), who once gaining a "fix" can view through the Tunnel the action taking place in the different time, would try to rescue the travelers before the historical calamity befell them too. Sometimes, when rescue was impossible at the time, the Time Tunnel scientists would often try to help Doug and Tony in other ways or, in some cases, communicate with them whenever possible. The final episode provides no resolution, as the series was initially scheduled to continue into a second season. The Novikov self-consistency principle was anticipated by the tacit understanding of the Time Tunnel scientists that recorded history could not be altered although in episode four ("The Day The Sky Fell In") the time travelers make it their concern to see to it that young Tony Newman escapes being killed in the Pearl Harbor bombing in order to prevent the adult Tony from ceasing to exist. Especially the Bible is held to be sacrosanct as recorded history (except, of course, poetic license on numerous details, for the proverbial, dramatic effects) in episode 20 ("The Walls of Jericho"): General Kirk reassures Drs. Swain and MacGregor that Doug and Tony will survive the mortal dangers of being in Jericho.
The Time Tunnel's time travel model operates with the assumption that the past, the present, and the future are all alike continuing to exist in a manner to permit the random placement of a time traveler into any point of time. When Senator Clark sees an image of the Titanic on the image screen in the course of episode one, he is told by Dr. Swain that he is seeing "the living past," and Althea Hall is told by Tony Newman that the past and the future are the same. The Time Tunnel itself is like a long corridor that stretches through the time continuum with portals that allow access to any moment in history past, present, or future. Despite the tacit understanding that recorded history cannot be altered, sometimes Doug and Tony’s actions are essential in causing history to unfold as it did, and the lives of individual people could be influenced by the actions of the Time Tunnel time travelers and scientists. In episode twenty-six ("Attack of the Barbarians") Marco Polo tells Doug Phillips that Tony and the Princess Serit can fall in love with each other despite their being from different times because they can then and there see and touch each other. Dr. MacGregor points out to Gen. Kirk and Dr. Swain that history itself might allow for Tony and Serit to marry.
The Time Tunnel is a precursor to the [[Back to the Future]] movies and to later TV series such as [[Quantum Leap]], [[Stargate SG-1]], and [[Sliders]] in which most episodes feature the cast traveling to a unique place and/or time.It also might be why the whole project seemed flawed.Back to the Future had a cool time travelling car,for the series stars to travel back and forth in.Doug Phillips and Tony Neuman might have made use of such a device.Quantum Leap had more engaging characters,that Time Tunnel seem to lack with wooden characters.Stargate utililized a stargate to other worlds,more interesting villians like the Gho'ould and the Wraith,while Time Tunnel just proded through stock footage movie history.And Sliders good or bad,explored the premise of infinate alternate worldlines.
==Review==
The Time Tunnel succeeds as a unique blend of sci-fi and action, although it has aged considerably in the 30+ years since it first aired. While planting the seeds for later sci-fi series such as Quantam Leap and Stargate 1, the Time Tunnel is somewhat flawed as a show about time travel. I found part of my disappointment in the series was the lack of rationale for the project. While it was stated that the objective of the Tic Toc Project was to successfully send someone back in time and return them to the present, it would appear to be a very weak justification for the multi-billion dollar project. The series seems more interested in trying to impress its audience with exotic locales and pseudo-historical situtations than exploring the incatricies of time travel.Taken in context, the series was intially aired at a time when a simply stated goal of putting a man on the moon and returning them successfully to Earth was sufficient to engage the imagination of a generation. It was also aired at a time when sci-fiction series were beginning to make inroads into mainstream entertainment. Regardless of the rationale for Project Tic Toc, the other greater disappointment with the series stems from the lack of a guiding set of Time Travel ethics. Despite having pioneered the technology, none of the team have apparently given much fore thought to the impact or potential consequences of time travel.
On several occassions, Tony and Doug have attempted to convince the locals that they are from the future or else they work to change the outcome of events (e.g. avoid the Titanic's sinking). In a number of episodes future technology is introduced to the past in an effort to save Tony and Doug and change the outcome of events. Produced by Irwin Allen, whose other 60's sci-fi related shows include Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Land of the Giants, the Time Tunnel lasted only one season from 1966 to 1967. It has been suggested that the original Friday night time slot was the reason for the shows short run, while it has also been suggested that there existed at the time a campaign by executives of the network to get it pulled in favour of another show. All criticisms aside, there are some interesting dynamics at work among the cast that make the show worth watching. As I touched on earlier, Tony Newman as played by James Darren, perhaps better known to some as Moondoggie of the early 60's Gidget movies, is the impetuous young scientist, who thinks with his heart before his head. Where youth and rebellion are represented by Tony and his casual dress ( a shockingly hip turtleneck), the conservative establishment is represented by Doug Philips in his suit that remains firmly buttoned at all but extremely heated moments during an episode. Doug Phillips, as played by Robert Colbert, speaks in a halting, know-it-all manner that I find strangely similar to that of another TV character, pompus clotheir J. Peterman of Seinfeld. Authoritative and serious, while boarding on annoying Doug's tone of voice just begs to be mocked.
Doug explains something serious to Tony and Tony responds by imitating Doug and telling him off in frustration. One of my favourite characters on the series is Dr. Ann MacGregor, as played by Lee Merriewether. While I am by no stretch of the imagination an authority on the role of women characters in the history of television (now that would be an interesting media course), I find Dr. Ann MacGregor's character a unique one for the late 60's. On the one hand she is protrayed as a professional career woman, a scientist with a doctorate no less, in a project obviously dominated by men. She is portrayed as a quick thinking, strong person capable of saving the day ( which she does on a number of occasions). Yet on the other hand she is often pushed out of the way by her male counterparts when they become frustrated and must try to "man" the controls themselves. I feel that Ann often serves to bring a more human element to the series, often showing genuine personal concern for Tony and Doug's well being when they are in faced with danger. In one episode when the young, brash Tony falls in love with a local girl and threatens to remain behind in time, Ann argues in Tony's favour. Ann asks her co-workers how do they know that Tony hasn't found true love. Ah, always the romantic that Ann. While the Time Tunnel may not hold up to close scrutinty after 30 years, it can be an entertaining hour of time travel fluff when not being overly melodramatic. Related Links
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"Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time. This one-season show, produced by Irwin Allen, chronicled the adventures of two scientists, Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Douglas Phillips. Both are working on Project TicToc, a government operation to perfect time travel. In the first episode, the impetuous Tony jumps through the untested portal and finds himself on the Titanic. Doug goes after him, and although they manage to escape before the ship goes down, the folks back home are never quite able to retrieve them. So in each week's episode the two travellers are whisked from one setting to another (sometimes several times in the same episode) and have to survive pirates, Roman soldiers, battlefields, and the occasional invading silver-skinned alien, all while hoping the folks back at the Project find a way to get them back for good.
The most comprehensive site related to this series you are ever going to find. In addition to containing a detailed Episode Guide that includes guest stars, director and writer credits, this site boasts information and pictures on such cool marketing tie-ins as viewmaster slides, colouring books, and board games that were made related to the series. While you won't want or need to visit any other Time Tunnel related sites, there is a thorough list of related sites here too. Including reference to a number of foreign language fan sites (French, German and Italian).
====The Time Tunnel at TV Party====
TV Party is an informative site on the history of television and features among other things forgotten TV shows. The Time Tunnel is one of those featured forgotten shows. The Time Tunnel page at TV Party boasts detailed information about the making of the series, its reasons for only lasting one season, and other interesting trivia. Well worth the visit.
====Irwin Allen News Network====
A site dedicated to the various works of television producer Irwin Allen. Check out information on such 60 classics like Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Journey to the Bottom of the Sea and the Land of Giants. A well laid-out site with some interesting information not only on producer Irwin Allen, but his shows as well. My biggest complaint about this site is that it overlooked the need to give a synopsis of what the shows were about for those that may not have been familiar with the series. In the case of Lost in Space, that may not seem necessary, but in the case of Time Tunnel, an overview of what the series was about is greatly helpful to first timers. As a result of their oversight the site ends up feeling aloof and only for those on the inside. A shame, but still worth the look.
The Operation,also known as Project Tic-Toc is actually a vast underground city that holds 12,000 people in each of a series of complexes, each of which are over eight hundred floors deep.Project Tic Toc resembles somewhat the Krell Underground in the movie Forbidden Planet-a vast multi levelled underground complex,with magnetic drop tube elevators.
About Project Tic-Toc is the name given to an effort to build an experimental time machine known as The Time Tunnel. The base for Project Tic-Toc is located underground, beneath the Arizona desert.Description
Project Tic-Toc is the name given to an effort to build an experimental time machine known as The Time Tunnel. The base for Project Tic-Toc is located underground, beneath the Arizona desert. Tic-Toc base is made up of a series of complexes 800 floors deep, and employs over 36,000 people (12 thousand people in each complex). The center of the base is Tunnel Control, which houses the imense Time Tunnel itself.
====KEY PERSONNEL:====
Project Tic-Toc is under the overall command of Lt. General Heywood Kirk.In charge of scientific operations are Dr Douglas Phillips, Dr. Anthony Newman, Dr. Raymond Swain and Dr. Ann MacGregor. Construction of the base began in 1958, and The Time Tunnel itself became fully operational in 1968, by order of Senator Leroy Clark.Somewhere during this Doug Philips meets a time jumped Tony Newman,when years later two two got separated in a Time Tunnel jump.
Doug Philips and Senator Clark next enter an elevator that free falls for the entire eight hundred floors, providing an exhilarating ride. At the bottom they are met by Clark's old friend, Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk, who kids the senator about the days they served in the military together. Kirk shows Clark the incredible atomic plant that powers the very reason the installation exists: the Time Tunnel.. Visiting it next, Clark is suitable impressed - mostly because the device has cost the country so much without providing anything of value. As they take the Senator to meet Doug's partner, Dr. Tony Newman, Clark unleashes an attack on the Tunnel as being nothing more than an expensive toy that has made a few animals disappear and nothing more. Tony is obviously upset that after ten years of work on the Tunnel he and Doug are close to making it work, and now it may be shut down. Clark wants results by the next day, or he will cut off all funding of the project after he returns to Washington. Doug refuses to chance taking a life by experimenting with a human being prematurely. Tony leaves while Clark continues his tour, and that night Tony returns to the Tunnel alone, activates the controls, walks into the Tunnel - and disappears.
The regular Tic-Toc project staff arrives shortly, including Doug, Dr. Raymond Swain, Dr. Ann MacGregor, Gen. Kirk, and a number of technicians who begin to try to trace where the young scientist has gone. Elsewhere, Tony tumbles out of the sky and finds himself on the deck of a large ocean liner. A pretty girl asks him if he is OK, having seen his fall. After some polite conversation he walks further down the boat and sees a life preserver with the name of the ship: the Titanic. Later, Tony is locked up for being a stowaway and a lunatic (because of his warnings about the Titanic being doomed), and Doug receives permission from Gen. Kirk to try to free his friend from the locked room before the ship goes down, killing Tony. Kirk reluctantly agrees to let him go - and both men become lost in time. 912. Against his better judgement Doug eventually joins Tony in the time tunnel and on the Titanic. The episode ends with Tony and Doug being rescued by the Project Tic Toc team only to be switched in time to another location. Thus setting up the premise for the rest of the series.
==Getting Around In Time==
The basic operation of the Time Tunnel involves the traveller entering a long tunnel of concentric circles that give an optical illusion of a tunnel extending into the infinite distance. The traveller then gets a radiation bath of blue smoke that enables the project team to later track the traveller in space and time. Each episode begins with the project team attempting to get a temporal and spatial fix on Tony and Doug. The radiation tracking trick allows the project team to view Tony and Doug on a giant view screen that forms at the mouth of the tunnel when needed. Once a fix has been obtained, the team generally begins to generate enough energy to attempt to retrieve the two scientists. Inevitably Tony and Doug find themselves involved in some intrigue or altercation before the team can attempt to retrieve them. The team either uses the stored energy to transport something to the past to assist Tony and Doug, or to switch them to another time and out of danger. Strangely enough the danger is generally passed when they are switched at the end of each episode.Other notes about the Time Tunnel, there seems to be no limit to the range of the machine, with episodes reaching back to the age of dinasours and into the future. Ann and the other scientists back at the base can also communicate with Doug and Tony in an emergency. In several instances, objects are also succesfully sent back to Tony and Doug from the present.
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen, his third science fiction television series. The show's main theme was Time Travel Adventure. The Time Tunnel was released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns currently air on AmericanLife TV Network and on Hulu. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up. Project Tic-Toc is a top secret U.S. government effort to build an experimental time machine known as "The Time Tunnel".
The base for Project Tic-Toc was huge and located underground in the Arizona desert, with no visible entry. The only way in was a large secret panel; when it opened, a car could quickly go through the entrance. Once the panel closed, all anyone could see was ordinary desert. Tic-Toc base was a futuristic series of complexes 800 floors deep and employing over 36,000 people ("12 thousand people in each of those complexes"). It was under the command of Lt. General Heywood Kirk (Whit Bissell). The center of the base was The Time Tunnel control room where the Tunnel was located. In charge of operating the Tunnel were Dr. Ann McGregor (Lee Meriwether) and Dr. Raymond Swain (John Zaremba). The date at which it was operating was stated as 1968, which was two years into the future for the initial TV audience.[1]
When the costs of the project approach those of the entire U.S. space program, United States Senator Leroy Clark (Gary Merrill) launches an investigation of the project. The Senator thinks that the Tunnel has cost too much money for too little reward. At his request the Senator is allowed to visit the project base and given a tour. Once he reaches the central control room the Senator explains his complaints to the project heads. The Senator then says that he wishes to close down the project as a waste of time and money that has not worked. None of the discussion mentions specifically why the project has not worked or any experiments sending inanimate objects through the Tunnel.
When no one else was around to observe, a key Time Tunnel scientist, young physicist Dr. Anthony Newman (James Darren),reculasly turns the machine on and sends himself back in time in an attempt to prove that the Time Tunnel project funds were not wasted. In so doing, Newman becomes "lost in time". The Time Tunnel top personnel quickly return, to see through the Tunnel that Newman is aboard the soon-to-sink Titanic. They can also see that he cannot escape before the sinking, and they cannot retrieve him. In an attempt to rescue his younger friend, another key Tic-Toc scientist, Dr. Douglas Phillips (Robert Colbert) enters the Time Tunnel as well, carrying a newspaper describing the sinking to occur. Unconvinced, the captain of the Titanic throws the newspaper overboard. However, the system was still being developed, and the Tunnel operations staff are never able to bring them home.
As the series progresses or maybe dosen't progress, the two time travelers are swung from one period in history to another, allowing episodes to be set in the past and future. Each episode begins with the following narration (which Richard Tufeld voiced): "Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time."
By luck (or lack thereof) or some unseen forces within the Time Tunnel the travelers, Doug Phillips and Tony Newman, frequently found themselves thrown onto the precipice of major historical events: on board the Titanic before it hits the iceberg, in Pearl Harbor before the Japanese attack, on Krakatoa before it erupts, and so forth. They would try to warn people about the event, or try to prevent it from happening, while the Time Tunnel crew (led by two scientists and a military general), who once gaining a "fix" can view through the Tunnel the action taking place in the different time, would try to rescue the travelers before the historical calamity befell them too. Sometimes, when rescue was impossible at the time, the Time Tunnel scientists would often try to help Doug and Tony in other ways or, in some cases, communicate with them whenever possible. The final episode provides no resolution, as the series was initially scheduled to continue into a second season. The Novikov self-consistency principle was anticipated by the tacit understanding of the Time Tunnel scientists that recorded history could not be altered although in episode four ("The Day The Sky Fell In") the time travelers make it their concern to see to it that young Tony Newman escapes being killed in the Pearl Harbor bombing in order to prevent the adult Tony from ceasing to exist. Especially the Bible is held to be sacrosanct as recorded history (except, of course, poetic license on numerous details, for the proverbial, dramatic effects) in episode 20 ("The Walls of Jericho"): General Kirk reassures Drs. Swain and MacGregor that Doug and Tony will survive the mortal dangers of being in Jericho.
The Time Tunnel's time travel model operates with the assumption that the past, the present, and the future are all alike continuing to exist in a manner to permit the random placement of a time traveler into any point of time. When Senator Clark sees an image of the Titanic on the image screen in the course of episode one, he is told by Dr. Swain that he is seeing "the living past," and Althea Hall is told by Tony Newman that the past and the future are the same. The Time Tunnel itself is like a long corridor that stretches through the time continuum with portals that allow access to any moment in history past, present, or future. Despite the tacit understanding that recorded history cannot be altered, sometimes Doug and Tony’s actions are essential in causing history to unfold as it did, and the lives of individual people could be influenced by the actions of the Time Tunnel time travelers and scientists. In episode twenty-six ("Attack of the Barbarians") Marco Polo tells Doug Phillips that Tony and the Princess Serit can fall in love with each other despite their being from different times because they can then and there see and touch each other. Dr. MacGregor points out to Gen. Kirk and Dr. Swain that history itself might allow for Tony and Serit to marry.
The Time Tunnel is a precursor to the [[Back to the Future]] movies and to later TV series such as [[Quantum Leap]], [[Stargate SG-1]], and [[Sliders]] in which most episodes feature the cast traveling to a unique place and/or time.It also might be why the whole project seemed flawed.Back to the Future had a cool time travelling car,for the series stars to travel back and forth in.Doug Phillips and Tony Neuman might have made use of such a device.Quantum Leap had more engaging characters,that Time Tunnel seem to lack with wooden characters.Stargate utililized a stargate to other worlds,more interesting villians like the Gho'ould and the Wraith,while Time Tunnel just proded through stock footage movie history.And Sliders good or bad,explored the premise of infinate alternate worldlines.
==Review==
The Time Tunnel succeeds as a unique blend of sci-fi and action, although it has aged considerably in the 30+ years since it first aired. While planting the seeds for later sci-fi series such as Quantam Leap and Stargate 1, the Time Tunnel is somewhat flawed as a show about time travel. I found part of my disappointment in the series was the lack of rationale for the project. While it was stated that the objective of the Tic Toc Project was to successfully send someone back in time and return them to the present, it would appear to be a very weak justification for the multi-billion dollar project. The series seems more interested in trying to impress its audience with exotic locales and pseudo-historical situtations than exploring the incatricies of time travel.Taken in context, the series was intially aired at a time when a simply stated goal of putting a man on the moon and returning them successfully to Earth was sufficient to engage the imagination of a generation. It was also aired at a time when sci-fiction series were beginning to make inroads into mainstream entertainment. Regardless of the rationale for Project Tic Toc, the other greater disappointment with the series stems from the lack of a guiding set of Time Travel ethics. Despite having pioneered the technology, none of the team have apparently given much fore thought to the impact or potential consequences of time travel.
On several occassions, Tony and Doug have attempted to convince the locals that they are from the future or else they work to change the outcome of events (e.g. avoid the Titanic's sinking). In a number of episodes future technology is introduced to the past in an effort to save Tony and Doug and change the outcome of events. Produced by Irwin Allen, whose other 60's sci-fi related shows include Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and Land of the Giants, the Time Tunnel lasted only one season from 1966 to 1967. It has been suggested that the original Friday night time slot was the reason for the shows short run, while it has also been suggested that there existed at the time a campaign by executives of the network to get it pulled in favour of another show. All criticisms aside, there are some interesting dynamics at work among the cast that make the show worth watching. As I touched on earlier, Tony Newman as played by James Darren, perhaps better known to some as Moondoggie of the early 60's Gidget movies, is the impetuous young scientist, who thinks with his heart before his head. Where youth and rebellion are represented by Tony and his casual dress ( a shockingly hip turtleneck), the conservative establishment is represented by Doug Philips in his suit that remains firmly buttoned at all but extremely heated moments during an episode. Doug Phillips, as played by Robert Colbert, speaks in a halting, know-it-all manner that I find strangely similar to that of another TV character, pompus clotheir J. Peterman of Seinfeld. Authoritative and serious, while boarding on annoying Doug's tone of voice just begs to be mocked.
Doug explains something serious to Tony and Tony responds by imitating Doug and telling him off in frustration. One of my favourite characters on the series is Dr. Ann MacGregor, as played by Lee Merriewether. While I am by no stretch of the imagination an authority on the role of women characters in the history of television (now that would be an interesting media course), I find Dr. Ann MacGregor's character a unique one for the late 60's. On the one hand she is protrayed as a professional career woman, a scientist with a doctorate no less, in a project obviously dominated by men. She is portrayed as a quick thinking, strong person capable of saving the day ( which she does on a number of occasions). Yet on the other hand she is often pushed out of the way by her male counterparts when they become frustrated and must try to "man" the controls themselves. I feel that Ann often serves to bring a more human element to the series, often showing genuine personal concern for Tony and Doug's well being when they are in faced with danger. In one episode when the young, brash Tony falls in love with a local girl and threatens to remain behind in time, Ann argues in Tony's favour. Ann asks her co-workers how do they know that Tony hasn't found true love. Ah, always the romantic that Ann. While the Time Tunnel may not hold up to close scrutinty after 30 years, it can be an entertaining hour of time travel fluff when not being overly melodramatic. Related Links
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"Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time. This one-season show, produced by Irwin Allen, chronicled the adventures of two scientists, Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Douglas Phillips. Both are working on Project TicToc, a government operation to perfect time travel. In the first episode, the impetuous Tony jumps through the untested portal and finds himself on the Titanic. Doug goes after him, and although they manage to escape before the ship goes down, the folks back home are never quite able to retrieve them. So in each week's episode the two travellers are whisked from one setting to another (sometimes several times in the same episode) and have to survive pirates, Roman soldiers, battlefields, and the occasional invading silver-skinned alien, all while hoping the folks back at the Project find a way to get them back for good.
The most comprehensive site related to this series you are ever going to find. In addition to containing a detailed Episode Guide that includes guest stars, director and writer credits, this site boasts information and pictures on such cool marketing tie-ins as viewmaster slides, colouring books, and board games that were made related to the series. While you won't want or need to visit any other Time Tunnel related sites, there is a thorough list of related sites here too. Including reference to a number of foreign language fan sites (French, German and Italian).
====The Time Tunnel at TV Party====
TV Party is an informative site on the history of television and features among other things forgotten TV shows. The Time Tunnel is one of those featured forgotten shows. The Time Tunnel page at TV Party boasts detailed information about the making of the series, its reasons for only lasting one season, and other interesting trivia. Well worth the visit.
====Irwin Allen News Network====
A site dedicated to the various works of television producer Irwin Allen. Check out information on such 60 classics like Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Journey to the Bottom of the Sea and the Land of Giants. A well laid-out site with some interesting information not only on producer Irwin Allen, but his shows as well. My biggest complaint about this site is that it overlooked the need to give a synopsis of what the shows were about for those that may not have been familiar with the series. In the case of Lost in Space, that may not seem necessary, but in the case of Time Tunnel, an overview of what the series was about is greatly helpful to first timers. As a result of their oversight the site ends up feeling aloof and only for those on the inside. A shame, but still worth the look.
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Project;Time-Stalkers,Inc.
The Counter-Earth Incident
Professor Vincent and the heroic members
of Project;Time-Stalkers,Inc.return from an away team mission only to
discover,that have accidently returned to an alternate version of
Project;Time-Stalkers,Inc,due a stargate malfuncion with wormhole.Some of the
members of the team are the ones that they know,while others are not.
This alternate version of Earth has
ravaged by a war with Mystrann,in league with Tauron Alliance. the landing party has accidently returned in the
shuttle to the Project;Time-Stalkers vastly altered founding it and the personnel within changed. Mount Kronus is
subtly altered physically. Behavior and discipline has become brutal,
savage."
As the landing party stop to leave the transporter room, Professor
Vincent turns back to Doctor Wells and tells him to have the transporter circuits
examined. Once having exited into the hallway, Scotty and Uhura begin to ask Professor
Vincent what's happened, but Professor
Vincent silences them and tells them to
wait. They walk through the hallway, which seems to have security officers at
every intersection. Every crew member that Professor Vincent encounters gives him the same Roman/Nazi-esque
salute, which Professor Vincent mimics.
Every door on the ship seems to have a picture of the Earth bisected by a sword on it,similar to the symbols of
the Kalladon Heirarchy.. Once they enter sickbay McCoy goes over to a table and
tells Professor Vincent that everything
is out of place, all messed up, and changed around, except for a spot where he
spilled acid a year previous. Professor Vincent asks everyone if any of them felt dizzy in the
transporter beam; they all say that they did. Professor Vincent said it happened twice. First they were in
their own transporter chamber then they faded and upon finally materializing
they had appeared wherever they were. Scotty said that the transporter lock
could have been affected by the ion storm and they just materialized somewhere
else. Professor Vincent then realizes
what has happened. They've somehow entered a parallel universe, where everything's duplicated... or, almost duplicated.
Everyone contemplates the thought that they all likely have counterparts in the
universe that they exchanged places with during transport. That there were
similar storms on both universes disrupted both sets of transporter circuits. Professor
Vincent and company are on this strange
savage world and their counterparts are at their Project;Time-Stalkers base. Professor Vincent realizes they have to use the computer to try
to figure out how to get home.Before so.Vincent and crew must do so with the
help of these brutal version of their operation and doing on,reveil their true
origin.The problem is,this Project ;Time-Stalkers,Inc.might ask a favor-help them repell the Mystrann
war machine patrolling on the land above and free Arizona of them forever.
Professor Vincent then
challenges the "illogic" of Doctor Wells continuing to serve an Empire that he knows is
certain to collapse. Professor Vincent then asks if change is inevitable, and for the
good, wouldn't logic insist that he be part of it? Doctor Wells tells Professor Vincent one
man cannot summon the future, but Professor Vincent tells
him one man can change the present.
"Now we know the existence of
each other Project;Time-Stalkers
base , Mr. Doctor Wells –something can be done-some sort of muntual
cooperation-an alliance between our two worlds! Find a logical reason for the
Kalladon Empire to trust our earth and make it stick
Doctor Wells tells Professor
Vincent that a man must also have the power to effect
change. With a glance toward Marlena, Professor Vincent reveals the existence of the Project Time-Stalkers
in their universe and his own,-a sort of Council of Time Stalkers banded
together for mutual cooperation.If your Professor Vincent is
anything like himself,he consider it with which Doctor Wells can use as a leverage against the empire and
defeat the Mystrann occupation." Doctor Wells appears intrigued. Professor Vincent asks
him to make the choice: the past or the future, tyranny or freedom. Professor
Vincent then steps into the Well of Worlds and then
tells Doctor Wells "in every revolution, there's
one man with a vision." Doctor Wells says only, " Professor Vincent , I
shall consider it," and then departs for his own the Project
Time-Stalkers shuttle.
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