The Time Tunnel Episodes 1-4
MeTV Sci Fi Saturday has always been hard for me to catch. But my new cable package lets me record and watch later a certain amount of programming.
I tried to watch Lost in Space and Land of the Giants. And yes Irwin Allen is over represented in this. I can’t take Dr Smith in any amount. And the portly guy in Land of the Giants is pretty much just as bad. The Barry kid from Land and Will Robinson from Lost both have that Wesley Crusher vibe.
That brings us up to Time Tunnel. I always knew it existed but had never really watched it. And I apparently caught it at the pilot.
Episode 1 Rendezvous With Yesterday
The pilot does a lot of heavy lifting on what the Time Tunnel is and what it can do and sets up the basic idea of two scientists lost in time. It’s a little bit like Dr Who and Quantum Leap got drunk together had a kid really heavy into High School Drama. And wow is the drama heavy. The earnestness of everyone involved seems to almost drip. It’s Adam West and William Shatner level deadpan. Lee Meriwether seems to have a nervous breakdown from the tension. Spoiler Alert: this seems to happen every episode. Anyway it does explain why the lead Time Traveller has such an odd looking suit. It does not explain how it gets so clean after the third episode. Anyway. The first episode involves the Titanic and apparently there is no problem with messing up the timeline. They had newspapers from the future and telling people they were time travelers. Trying to alter history and it didn’t seem to work. And then leaping away just in time.
MeTV Sci Fi Saturday has always been hard for me to catch. But my new cable package lets me record and watch later a certain amount of programming.
I tried to watch Lost in Space and Land of the Giants. And yes Irwin Allen is over represented in this. I can’t take Dr Smith in any amount. And the portly guy in Land of the Giants is pretty much just as bad. The Barry kid from Land and Will Robinson from Lost both have that Wesley Crusher vibe.
That brings us up to Time Tunnel. I always knew it existed but had never really watched it. And I apparently caught it at the pilot.
Episode 1 Rendezvous With Yesterday
The pilot does a lot of heavy lifting on what the Time Tunnel is and what it can do and sets up the basic idea of two scientists lost in time. It’s a little bit like Dr Who and Quantum Leap got drunk together had a kid really heavy into High School Drama. And wow is the drama heavy. The earnestness of everyone involved seems to almost drip. It’s Adam West and William Shatner level deadpan. Lee Meriwether seems to have a nervous breakdown from the tension. Spoiler Alert: this seems to happen every episode. Anyway it does explain why the lead Time Traveller has such an odd looking suit. It does not explain how it gets so clean after the third episode. Anyway. The first episode involves the Titanic and apparently there is no problem with messing up the timeline. They had newspapers from the future and telling people they were time travelers. Trying to alter history and it didn’t seem to work. And then leaping away just in time.
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