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Ok--many of you may not be aware but the remastering of THE TIME TUNNEL means WE get edited prints. Let me explain. First, YES, I want to complement FOX on the Quality of the DVD's for Time Tunnel. They are Stunningly beautiful transfers, especially compared to the fairly miserable quality of the LOST IN SPACE series on DVD (NOT in Hi-Definition!!). Ok--now on to the "editing" of these Time Tunnel episodes. While it is true, they have "restored" all of the cliff-hangers, they have tweaked out pieces of the episodes originally broadcast weekly. During the opening credits, EVERY episode ended the opening credits with "The Time Tunnel brought to you By". This has been snipped.In the middle of the show--at the half-way point--there was a station ID break "The Time Tunnel will continue after statrion identification", and at the end of each show the announcer said complete with Time tunnel graphic slide "The Time Tunnel has been brought to you by". The Dvds have removed this for some reason. Now--comes the most important "re-edit". In the original print of END OF THE WORLD,...the cliffhanger goes to the Pearl harbor episode "Day the Sky fell DOwn"..at the end of this cliffhanger ORIGINALLY--there was a different soundtrack used over the "Next week See This Fantastic Adventure..in The Time Tunnel". The reason that music was changed--is because originally there was an announcement "The Time Tunnel will return with exciting scenes in the weeks to come" !!! there were three one minute promos for "these are exciting scenes"..I belevie Fox put TWO of those three on the firs tset of DVDs..they seem to have LOST the third one. And they retooled the music and editing of the Day the Sky Fell Down Cliffhanger. NOT COOL. How do I know all I have said? I have poor VHS copies with all of the video I stated has been removed. OH--and what happened to the OPENING PIECE "THE TIME TUNNEL IN COLOR!!" this was shown at the beginning of all 30 episodes...why was it removed? Thes prints are "recut"..the stories are uncut--buit the bumpers are all gone!!
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Back in the 1990s, and entire new generation like myself was introduced to this fantastic show when it aired on the Sci-Fi channel in the morning.
It was so sad to know that this show only made 30 episodes at the time. It wasnt by any means a ratings failure either. Like "Gilligan's Island"...some executives decided that they had a better show to put in its place at the last minute which in the end was a mistake for them anyway.
They had already thrown a fantastic party for another season. The show was just getting off the ground when it was cancelled.
The first half of this set Volume 1 shows just how great a new show can be in its first year. Unforgettable episodes like "The Day The Sky Fell In" and "Invasion" are classic reasons why this show has stood so long all these years even being a one season show.
The next set is even more fantastic as we are introduced to aliens when Tony and Doug come across them when their thrown onto their spacecraft in the year 1883. There would be two more run ins with aliens in the final episodes, but between them comes the best episode of the whole series "Chase Through Time"..that should have been saved for last as season finale instead of "Town Of Terror"
The final seven episodes of the series are missing the best part of the show and that is the narration of how the Tunnel started, we are replaced with them tumbling threw the vortex to their next destination which in the very beginning of the show no one in the complex could see till they landed and they got a probe on them, someone changed that and made a small mistake.
Finally, the only choice one can make from this show is that the show goes in a loop as Tony and Doug go back to their first landing which was the Titanic...it was made like this so it would be assumed that they are in a time loop re-living the same time peroids over and over again.
Time Tunnel was extremely ahead of its time with graphics and by far the most expensive of its time.
Its a shame that the 2002 revival of this sweet show didnt happen, but we have the pilot to enjoy and we can dream how sweet the series would have been and could have gone.
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I sincerely thank FOX for releasing Volume 2 of the Time Tunnel. This completes the one and only season of a fine TV sci-fi series. Poor Tony and Doug, dispatched forever to the infinity of television land, fortunately to reappear on a TV screen near you.
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AS A BOY IN THE '60'S, I SAW THE TIME TUNNEL WHEN IT FIRST AIRED ON ABC-TV IN 1966. IT WAS A GREAT TV SERIES AND IT'S GREAT TO SEE IT AGAIN 40 YEARS LATER ON DVD. GLAD IT WASN'T LOST TO THE AGES, NO PUN INTENDED.
THE SHOW WAS NEVER BORING AS JAMES DARREN & ROBERT COLBERT ALWAYS TIME TRAVELED TO TIMES & PLACES (BEYOND THEIR CONTROL) WHERE ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENTS WERE ABOUT TO UNFOLD WITH TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES, DESPITE DIRE WARNINGS FROM THE TIME TRAVELING DUO.
ALSO NICE WAS THE TIME TUNNEL ITSELF WITH THAT COOL BLACK & WHITE CIRCULAR DESIGN THAT LOOKED LIKE A GIANT SYMETRICAL CYLINDER TUBE, LINKED TO AN ENDLESS PORTAL TO INFINITY.
WHENEVER THE TIME TUNNEL WAS ACTIVATED, FIREWORKS AND SMOKE WOULD GO OFF INSIDE THE TUNNEL AS BLUE & WHITE LIGHTS FLASHED AND A BLUE MIST WOULD FILL THE TIME TUNNEL, SIGNALING THAT A 'TIME RELOCATION' HAD HAPPENED. SOMETIMES THEY SENT PEOPLE THROUGH TIME BUT OTHER TIMES THEY BROUGHT UNSUSPECTING PEOPLE BACK FROM OTHER TIME DIMENSIONS, CONFUSING THE HELL OUT OF THEM.
SOMETIMES THE TUNNEL ITSELF ACTED AS A GIANT TV SCREEN TO TIME ETERNAL,WHICH ALLOWED THE ADVENTURES OF DARREN & COLBERT TO BE VIWED BY THE TIME TUNNEL PROJECT SCIENTISTS (WHIT BISSELL AND LEE MERRIWEATHER) WHO WERE STILL IN THE PRESENT TIME, BACK AT THE TIME TUNNEL SUBTERRANEAN COMPLEX.
EACH EPISODE, BISSELL & MERRIWEATHER TRIED FEVERISHLY TO RETURN DARREN & COLBERT BACK TO THEIR PRESENT TIME, BUT SINCE THE TIME TUNNEL WASN'T PERFECTED, DARREN & COLBERT NEVER SEEMED TO BE ABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR PROPER TIME & WOULD HELPLESSLY TIME TRAVEL INTO A FREE FALL, LANDING IN A NEW TIME & PLACE EPISODE AFTER EPISODE. I DON'T RECALL IF THEY EVER MADE IT BACK TO THEIR RIGHT TIME AT THE END OF THE SERIES BUT THE ENTIRE DVD SET IS WORTH OWNING. WON'T REGRET IT. MONEY WELL WORTH IT.
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The most impressive TV series, because merges history, suspense and comedia.
Need to see it!
fantastic!
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