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The Time Tunnel

TV·1966–1967·1 season, 30 episodes·ABC·Adventure, Science-Fiction·1h·7.8·Created by Irwin Allen

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The control of time is potentially the most valuable treasure that man will ever find, or so believe the scientists of Project Tic Toc. Located beneath the Arizona desert, the ten-year project's focus is the feasibility of time travel. But when the government reconsiders the project, the scientists have only 24 hours to prove their untested time tunnel will actually work. Determined to save the project, Dr. Tony Newman and Dr. Doug Phillips go through the tunnel and quickly find themselves catapulted from one historical event to another, barely escaping with their lives as their colleagues back in Arizona race to figure out a way to bring them back home.

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Episodes by season

Season0130Episodes1966–67AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01The Time Tunnel S01E01Rendezvous with YesterdaySeptember 9, 1966Congress has poured seven billion dollars into a large and deep hole in the ground - the home of Project TicToc and its revolutionary new te
  2. S01E02The Time Tunnel S01E02One Way to the MoonSeptember 16, 1966Doug and Tony escape death aboard the Titanic only to be hurled ten years into their future aboard a rocket bound for the moon. Problems ari
  3. S01E03The Time Tunnel S01E03End of the WorldSeptember 23, 1966Doug and Tony arrive in a mine shaft in 1910, year that Halley's Comet passes close to earth. Many fear it as a supernatural event. A local
  4. S01E04The Time Tunnel S01E04The Day the Sky Fell InSeptember 30, 1966At Pearl Harbor on Dec. 6, 1941,  Dr. Tony Newman confronts his own past at Pearl Harbor and he wants to know what happened to his father.
  5. S01E05The Time Tunnel S01E05The Last PatrolOctober 7, 1966Doug and Tony are transported to New Orleans where Tony steals two buckskins for them to wear. They are captured by the British Seventh Roya
  6. S01E06The Time Tunnel S01E06Crack of DoomOctober 14, 1966In 1883, a little-known Indonesian volcanic island called Krakatoa exploded with enough force to be heard nearly 3000 miles away. Doug and T
  7. S01E07The Time Tunnel S01E07Revenge of the GodsOctober 21, 1966Doug and Tony are in 1200 BC during the war between Greeks and Trojans. They are captured by Ulysses and their knowledge of history makes hi
  8. S01E08The Time Tunnel S01E08MassacreOctober 28, 1966Doug and Tony hurtle nearly 3000 years futureward to the Montana of 1876, days before the Battle of the Little Bighorn that will cost Genera
  9. S01E09The Time Tunnel S01E09Devil's IslandNovember 11, 1966At the French penal colony of Devil's Island in 1895, where prisoners were sent and never left, Doug and Tony are mistaken as runaway prison
  10. S01E10The Time Tunnel S01E10Reign of TerrorNovember 18, 1966Doug and Tony find themselves during the French Revolution and become involved in a plot to rescue the doomed French Queen, Marie Antoinette
  11. S01E11The Time Tunnel S01E11Secret WeaponNovember 25, 1966The guys are transported to 1956 Russia and receive a message from the Time Tunnel: "Meet Alexis". They meet the agent who gets them to a So
  12. S01E12The Time Tunnel S01E12The Death TrapDecember 2, 1966The guys are transported to February 1861 to a barn where a group of conspirators led by Jeremiah plots to kill Abraham Lincoln. They have d
  13. S01E13The Time Tunnel S01E13The AlamoDecember 9, 1966Doug and Tony are transported to 1836 and are immediately attacked by Mexican soldiers. The nearest shelter turns out to be the Alamo days b
  14. S01E14The Time Tunnel S01E14Night of the Long KnivesDecember 16, 1966Doug and Tony land in nineteenth century Asia, meet Rudyard Kipling and become involved in the conflict between the British and local tribes
  15. S01E15The Time Tunnel S01E15InvasionDecember 23, 1966Landing in 1944 occupied France two days before D-Day, Doug is captured by the Germans and psychologically reprogrammed to hunt down and kil
  16. S01E16The Time Tunnel S01E16The Revenge of Robin HoodDecember 30, 1966In thirteenth century England, Doug and Tony become involved with the Earl of Huntington otherwise known as the legendary Robin Hood and the
  17. S01E17The Time Tunnel S01E17Kill Two by TwoJanuary 6, 1967On a Pacific isle about to be bombed by America, Doug and Tony are held by a downed Japanese pilot and a sergeant. Kirk brings in a Japanese
  18. S01E18The Time Tunnel S01E18Visitors from Beyond the StarsJanuary 13, 1967Doug and Tony are transported to a spacecraft with two weird aliens that intend to invade Earth to steal proteins for their dying planet. Th
  19. S01E19The Time Tunnel S01E19The Ghost of NeroJanuary 20, 1967During an encounter between the Germans and the Italians in World War I, Doug and Tony land in a villa that is haunted by the ghost of the R
  20. S01E20The Time Tunnel S01E20The Walls of JerichoJanuary 27, 1967Doug and Tony spy for Joshua as he prepares to tumble the walls of Jericho. [9621]
  21. S01E21The Time Tunnel S01E21Idol of DeathFebruary 3, 1967Doug and Tony land in 1519 Mexico, where Cortez is looking for a golden mask. Their archaeology expert back at the Time Tunnel insists that
  22. S01E22The Time Tunnel S01E22Billy the KidFebruary 10, 1967Landing in 1881 New Mexico in the middle of a jailbreak of Billy the Kid, to defend Tony Doug shoots at Billy who escapes swearing to hunt d
  23. S01E23The Time Tunnel S01E23Pirates of Deadman's IslandFebruary 17, 1967Tony and Doug land among Barbary Coast pirates as Capt. Stephen Decatur prepares to attack.  [9610]
  24. S01E24The Time Tunnel S01E24Chase Through TimeFebruary 24, 1967An enemy spy posing as a technician puts a bomb in the complex and then escapes via the Tunnel. Doug and Tony must find him and learn the lo
  25. S01E25The Time Tunnel S01E25The Death MerchantMarch 3, 1967Ending up on different sides just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg, Doug and Tony must stop an attempt by Machiavelli (who had traveled in
  26. S01E26The Time Tunnel S01E26Attack of the BarbariansMarch 10, 1967Doug and Tony must help Marco Polo stop an attack by Mongols in thirteenth century China. Tony meets and falls in love with the daughter of
  27. S01E27The Time Tunnel S01E27Merlin the MagicianMarch 17, 1967Merlin the Magician pulls Tony and Doug from their journey through time and send them to help a young King Arthur fight an invasion of Vikin
  28. S01E28The Time Tunnel S01E28The KidnappersMarch 24, 1967After Time Tunnel member Doctor Ann MacGregor is kidnapped by a time traveler from another planet, Tony and Doug are sent there to rescue he
  29. S01E29The Time Tunnel S01E29Raiders from Outer SpaceMarch 31, 1967During the Battle of Khartoum in 1883, Tony and Doug stumble upon aliens who plan to conquer the Earth using missiles. The aliens also send
  30. S01E30The Time Tunnel S01E30Town of TerrorApril 7, 1967In 1978, Doug and Tony have to stop aliens from stealing all the oxygen from the planet Earth.

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