The Time Tunnel Volume Two
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Actor: Time TunnelDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 768 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Time Tunnel Volume Two
Movie Review: Time Tunnel-a good series nipped in the bud!
Summary: 4 Stars
The Time Tunnel which originally ran during the TV show season of 1966/67,was unfortunately just a one season wonder.However it is a series which still captured the fancy of many a viewer back then and it still holds quite an appeal today.
The show involves the adventures of Project Tic-Toc run by General Kirk(Whit Bissell).Two scientists Tony Newman(James Darren) and Doug Phillips(Robert Colbert) are the time travellers who from week to week are injected by the tunnel from one random time period to another.Many of the story lines were quite interesting while others could be run of the mill.Overall though the acting was top notch and the special effects pretty good for that period.
Irwin Allen,the producer,made liberal use of the 20th Century sound archives for background music and effects and the video archives for filler scenes.
Volume Two to me is a bit more satisfying than Vol.1 in that it seems to have more to offer as far as special features go.There are:interviews with Whit Bissell,Lee Meriwether,James Darren and Robert Colbert,a still photo gallery,a rare unaired 2002 TV pilot called "The Time Tunnel" and a 1976 Irwin Allen produced TV Movie called "The Time Travellers".
The 2002 pilot is uninspiring and has a totally unbelievable story line.It involves the story of a man recruited to go back in time to the WW2 battle of the Hurtgen Forest.It occured from the fall of /44 to early /45 and was one of the deadliest battles of the war for the Germans and Americans.It seems a 1500s monk has been dropped into the Forest by erractic waves of time and that he has effected the future as a result.It's up to the team that's assembled to correct the situation.The story is ok up to this point but falls like a rock off a cliff from here.The team they assemble is made up of three men and two women!! First of all there were NO women combatants on EITHER side of that battle.Secondly one of the women is black.Thirdly neither woman gets challenged by any soldier outside the group when in battle.In reality they would stick out more than a unicorn in Times Square!
If you can get past these points,and I couldn't,the story is still mediocre at best.It's a good thing it wasn't picked up but it's still an interesting thing to see/have.
"The Time Travellers" is a made for TV movie from 1976 starring Booth Colman and Richard Basehart.It involves a Rod Serling story of a plague taking place in and around New Orleans during Mardi Gras Time.A doctor and a man connected directly with the time project go back to 1871 Chicago to find the answer from a doctor(Basehart) who apparently has the cure.
This show is far better than the 2002 pilot,because if for no other reason, it was written by Serling.Basehart gives a good performance as the period doctor but again the plot, over the approximately 70 minutes this plays, starts to wear a little thin.But again a good piece of video to own.
Like Volume one of this two volume series this has NOT been remastered,but the masters used are of such high quality I can see why they didn't.The only problem of note was the second to last ep in the entire group;it has about a 10 minute bout with several vertical black dirt/scratch lines that distractingly appear.If that was all I could see I'd say that's not bad overall.
Like the previous volume this also is a double sided four disc set.I really get annoyed with this double sided production of DVD sets.First of all it's cheap and secondly they are SO prone to scratching.Furthermore this entire season could have been put into just ONE set and with just one -sided discs at that;there was NO need to over charge like this and split it into two.But then again I see that Irwin Allens' TV shows ALL charge at a much higher rate than most others.Unfortunate.
In conclusion Vol.2 of the "Time Tunnel" finishes off the one and only season with our intrepid travellers Tony Newman and Doug Phillips played well by James Darren and Robert Colbert respectively.Even though the show was just a one-off it had ALOT of potential and plot wise could have gone anywhere had it continued.It is so unfortunate this is all there is but I for one am grateful we have this.
It's also a show the entire family can watch and enjoy and it is,I daresay,educational in the sense that the travellers do go back to actual historic events/dates which are played fairly accurately.
Get your set today and do a little time travelling yourself!
Summary of The Time Tunnel Volume Two
The Time Tunnel rivaled Mr. Peabody for improbable history, and in the series' final 15 episodes, scientists Tony Newman (James Darrin) and Doug Phillips' (Robert Colbert) time travels take an increasingly fantastic turn, as witness their close encounters with aliens in "Visitors from Beyond the Stars," "The Kidnappers," "Raiders from Outer Space," and the final episode, "Town of Terror" (listen in these episodes for the music that shamelessly steals from Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still). Things even take a supernatural turn in "The Ghost of Nero." Tony and Doug's excellent adventures include meetings with such personages as Rudyard Kipling ("Night of the Long Knives"), "Billy the Kid," and, incredibly, Machiavelli, who has been transported to Gettysburg during the Civil War ("The Death Merchant"). They also meet up with such mythical characters as Robin Hood ("The Revenge of Robin Hood") and "Merlin the Magician." One of the series' more provocative episodes is "The Walls of Jericho," in which Tony and Doug join forces with Joshua. Observing from Project Tic-Toc's underground facility, Dr. Ann MacGregor (Lee Meriwether) expresses skepticism over the biblical story. "I'm a scientist," she states. "I don't permit myself to believe in miracles." Other memorable episodes include "Kill Two by Two," set on a Pacific Island during 1945 where Tony and Doug meet a disgraced Japanese soldier, and the episode featuring Robert Duvall as a saboteur who leads Tony and Doug on a "Chase Through Time."Among this series' enduring charms are the obvious use of footage from theatrical films to clumsily boost production values, as well as some of the more juvenile dialogue. When they learn of one alien plot to attack earth, our heroes proclaim, "We can't let them do it." Time ran out on the Tunnel after only one season. Its cancellation left Tony and Doug to seemingly forever tumble "along the infinite corridors of time" en route to some "new fantastic adventure." Thanks to DVD, we can join them time after time. --Donald Liebenson
FROM THE CREATIVE GENIUS OF IRWIN ALLEN COMES ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND ORIGINAL SCI-FI SHOWS OF THE 1960s!
Determined to prove that Project Tic Toc was capable of sending humans through time, Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Doug Phillips entered the project's time tunnel before final tests were completed. Now, caught in time and unable to return home, the two scientists battle to stay alive as the Vortex of Time thrusts them into the middle of some of the most significant events in world history. But even more important, as the time travelers encounter famous and influential people of the past, they must make sure their actions don't inadvertently change history and alter the future.
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