The Time Tunnel

This is another one of my favorite 60's science fiction shows. James Darren (Moondog of Gidget fame and major teen idol) and Robert Colbert play a pair of scientists who embark on a secret project in time travel, and wind up getting lost and landing in random historical time periods, and have the option to stand by as casual observers to history or to jump in and alter the course of history.

Watching them from the other end of the Tunnel is none other than the lovely Lee Meriwether, and an Army general played by Whit Bissell and another scientist played by John Zaremba. If memory serves me right, the show is a big hit in England and still enjoys some major success to this day in rerun.

Irwin Allen was the biggest kid Hollywood had in it's employ, and whether you were Lost In Space, voyaging at the bottom of the sea, stranded in the Land Of The Giants, or stuck in The Time Tunnel, you KNEW Allen was good wholesome fun and his shows stand up today as well as they ever did.

Yeah...another blast from my past CJ..Time Tunnel...haven't seen that in years.

Never failed to amaze me that no matter when or where they ended up it was always about 24 hours before some really well noted historical event.
They never ended up in some place where nothing of any great significance was going to happen. It was always 'just before Pearl Harbour'...or 'on the Titanic's maiden voyage'..or '24 hours before the Kennedy assassinantion'...
But I still tuned in week after week...

Yeah...another blast from my past CJ..Time Tunnel...haven't seen that in years.

Never failed to amaze me that no matter when or where they ended up it was always about 24 hours before some really well noted historical event.
They never ended up in some place where nothing of any great significance was going to happen. It was always 'just before Pearl Harbour'...or 'on the Titanic's maiden voyage'..or '24 hours before the Kennedy assassinantion'...
But I still tuned in week after week...

I have a one sheet signed by James Darren, Robert Colbert and Lee Meriwether and it sits proudly behind UV proof glass and it hangs in my bedroom.And yeah, amen on their convenient (or not so convenient) arrival prior to a major historical event. James said the Peral Harbor episode was his fave because it touches on the relationship with his father, who he really never got to know.

One of my faves is the one where they have to stop the aliens from the future from poisoning the Earth's water supply. As was the usual irwin Allen style, the suits were used on Lost In Space and slightly altered, with a dfifferent face mask. Recycled props were never used so much (or in such telltale fashion) but it was fun nonetheless :)

I could have sworn we had a Lost In Space thread, but couldn't find it....I especially loved that series and on my desk at work I have Robot B-9..he talks too !!!!! :o

My sensors indicate an intruder is present and Danger Danger Will Robinson

http://chaoskids.com/ROBOTS/LISB9/lisb9.html

I loved all those Irwin Allen shows too...thanks for the memories Jack... :)

I could have sworn we had a Lost In Space thread, but couldn't find it....I especially loved that series and on my desk at work I have Robot B-9..he talks too !!!!! :o

My sensors indicate an intruder is present and Danger Danger Will Robinson

http://chaoskids.com/ROBOTS/LISB9/lisb9.html

I loved all those Irwin Allen shows too...thanks for the memories Jack... :)

Oz, as far as LIS goes..check out the first season episode, "War Of The Robots." Robby The Robot challenges the Robinson's Robot and it's a really great episode.

The season ender, "Follow The leader." is pure gold, and THE example of what made the first season the gold that it is. If the future seasons had been THIS serious about science fiction, the show could have gone on much longer than 3 seasons.

Also-"Invaders From The Fifth Dimension" was another great one. And then, "There Were Giants In The Earth", with our buddy the Cyclops! I LOVE LIS.

I used to have the Aurora model kits of the LiS Robot and the one of the giant Cyclops attacking the Robinsons...

My abiding memory of some of the guest 'aliens' on LiS are the strange woman who floated about with what looked like an inverted glass fruit bowl on her her singing "Doctor Smii-iiiiith!" and the guy who was manager of the 'Interplanetary Department Store' who had a German accent and would end his sentences by slapping his hand over his open mouth to make a loud 'pop' sound.

Oz, as far as LIS goes..check out the first season episode, "War Of The Robots." Robby The Robot challenges the Robinson's Robot and it's a really great episode.

The season ender, "Follow The leader." is pure gold, and THE example of what made the first season the gold that it is. If the future seasons had been THIS serious about science fiction, the show could have gone on much longer than 3 seasons.

Also-"Invaders From The Fifth Dimension" was another great one. And then, "There Were Giants In The Earth", with our buddy the Cyclops! I LOVE LIS.I remember that episode with the two Robots. Hey remember that Twilight Zone episode with Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Uncle Simon, wasn't Robby the Robot in that episode too...I seem to remember him, Robby, in several Twilight Zone episodes :confused:
Ok I checked, he was also in another episode The Brain Center at Whipples, with Richard Deacon.
He was actually featured in lots of stuff...
Robby really got around !!!!

http://imdb.com/name/nm1119475/

Robby really got around !!!!

Well..he was on wheels. ;)

I used to have the Aurora model kits of the LiS Robot and the one of the giant Cyclops attacking the Robinsons...

My cousin had the LIS lunchbox with the cyclops on it! I also have the re-issue of the ALL the LIS models thru a company called Polar Lights www.polarlights.com who also have re-issued several other cult classic models, including models of the 3 Stooges from the episode, "We Want Our Mummy!" :)


My abiding memory of some of the guest 'aliens' on LiS are the strange woman who floated about with what looked like an inverted glass fruit bowl on her her singing "Doctor Smii-iiiiith!" and the guy who was manager of the 'Interplanetary Department Store' who had a German accent and would end his sentences by slapping his hand over his open mouth to make a loud 'pop' sound....

Vitina Marcus, the girl from the Green Dimension! I met her at Chiller about 3 years ago and she STILL fit her suit! Still looked good. Hard to believe sheh ad a Brooklyn accent though, lol. The other guy is Fritz Feld, who played Mr. Zumdish, of Zumdish's Dept. Store. And yes, that pop sound, his trademark :)

What a wonderfully wild bunch of aliens and stars! Ozma, Robby The Robot was also in season 3 of LIS in an episode called "Condemned Of Space." And yes I remember the Twilight Zone episode, where the girl's uncle transferred his mind into Robby's. "Bar..ba..ra, I want my hot chocolate!" Good stuff.

So off topic..but Sci Fi is running their Twilight Zone marathon again...I just can't get enough of them...I practically have them memorized..but they never grow old.

So off topic..but Sci Fi is running their Twilight Zone marathon again...I just can't get enough of them...I practically have them memorized..but they never grow old.

Watching the Robby The Robot episode now as we speak. Poor Barbara, lol :)

I bought a mate a LiS Robot Alarm clock.. I was trying to find a pic of one to show you and came across this...


http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/cat_gadgets.html

Scroll down to the section headed 'Buy A lost in Space Robot'

Good Heavens $24,000 :eek:

We watched The Twlight Zone Marathon off and on....I missed that one..this time. :rolleyes:

That's COOL, Oz. The Robinson Robot sure gets around these days. :)

I also have the classic Aurora model, re-issued from Polar Lights, and also the model of the Robot and Dr. Zachary Smith. Polar Lights is a GREAT company..they bring back countless memories of the old Aurora monsters, and the superhero stuff.

Many times on warm summer nights I'll sit outside on my porch, drifting
back to the old monster magazines of my youth, or thinking of an old monster model, or sometimes, I pretend that Batman and Robin are out there somewhere as we speak, cruising around in George Barris' 1966 design, or imagine that the Green Hornet and Kato are out there taking down a bad guy or 2.

Or maybe I'm in the cemetery on a fullmoon night, sitting in the bleachers with Lily Munster and Morticia Adams on each side of me, flirting and getting naughty with me as Grampa and Herman are drag racing with the Mummy and the Creature while Boris and Bela are having a game of chess inside the castle as The Monster Mash plays on the old turntable in Dr. Shock's lab.

As you can see I regress a lot, but it is a very trying time in my life as we speak, and sometimes I need to be that little kid again. Actually I need it a LOT right now :(

That's COOL, Oz. The Robinson Robot sure gets around these days. :)

I also have the classic Aurora model, re-issued from Polar Lights, and also the model of the Robot and Dr. Zachary Smith. Polar Lights is a GREAT company..they bring back countless memories of the old Aurora monsters, and the superhero stuff.

Many times on warm summer nights I'll sit outside on my porch, drifting
back to the old monster magazines of my youth, or thinking of an old monster model, or sometimes, I pretend that Batman and Robin are out there somewhere as we speak, cruising around in George Barris' 1966 design, or imagine that the Green Hornet and Kato are out there taking down a bad guy or 2.

Or maybe I'm in the cemetery on a fullmoon night, sitting in the bleachers with Lily Munster and Morticia Adams on each side of me, flirting and getting naughty with me as Grampa and Herman are drag racing with the Mummy and the Creature while Boris and Bela are having a game of chess inside the castle as The Monster Mash plays on the old turntable in Dr. Shock's lab.

As you can see I regress a lot, but it is a very trying time in my life as we speak, and sometimes I need to be that little kid again. Actually I need it a LOT right now :(


I had the full set of Universal monsters made by Aurora...I used to paint the faces of the glow in the dark versions so only their eyes glowed in the dark..

A year or so back I found a shop (in Whitby, N. Yorkshire) that sold the Polar Lights re-issues of the Aurora classic kits and freaked coz they had the Guillotine.......
http://astro-z.com/plastic-model-kit/polar-lights/pl-guillotine.JPG

.....which I had tried to make as a kid but could never get the blade to drop smoothly. So I bought it, made it and this time I put a small fishing weight in the blade casing and used a sharpened piece of thin metal in place of the plastic blade supplied. I also lubed the inside of the support ..and now that baby drops with a convinving thunk...and can give you a very nasty cut..believe me :o

I don't have a picture of mine but here's what it looks like painted and completed
http://i2.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/ef/09/4d_1.JPG