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I HAVE NOT SEEN THESE EPISODES SINCE I WAS 10 AND 11 YEARS OLD. I LOVED THEM AS A PRECOCIOUS 5TH GRADER. I LOOKED FORWARD EACH WEEK TO THIS SHOW AND JUST HAPPENED TO STUMBLE ON IT AGAIN WHILE SURFING THE INTERNET. I BOUGHT BOTH VOLUMES AND AM SO CURIOUS TO SEE IF , AS A 50 YEAR OLD ADULT, I WILL BE AS FASCINATED BY THE EPISODES.....OR HAS LIFE ( AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS) JADED ME?????
ANY WORD ON A FAN CLUB....I LOVED JAMES DARREN , TOO!!!!!
MARK (516) 521 -4941 DECEMBER 11, 2006
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I've enjoyed watching these old chapters of the TV serie that accompanied me during my childhood. Though watching them now and comparing them to the new filming technologies make them seem pretty naive, but for their time they were just great.
Hope you enjoy the good memories as much as I did.
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If you are into old style scifi, this is a must. I used to watch these on tv when I was a kid (I leave it to you to guess my age), and they are still great. Towards the last shows, they tend to get less interesting, though, since the two heroes don't meet celebrities of history any more but have to deal with (cheesy) aliens.
The biggest surprise was the unaired remake. Who in the world made the decision to a) not air this and b) not continue it? It is great! And I am sure the concept would have made it in the networks. SG 1, here we come ... not :-(
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Time Tunnel Vol.2 met my full expectations as did Vol.1. The truly timeless classic still allows me [and now my family and neighbors] to explore history and all the sciences [such as geography, aeronautics, tsunamis, climatology, geology etc.] through these travels. Better than most modern sci-fi, TT is literally truth-based with enough novelty and narrative to please. Fancier gimmicks or effects are not needed since there is plenty of room for the essence of imagination: if I were there too...
Actors of great skill as well as then newcomers cram the films full with quality reenactments. The only weaknesses in the series are in 2 areas: 1]not enough variety in music scores, typical in most 60's shows, so unless you love the suspense melodies as I do you'd get quite bored. 2] minimal inconsistencies that irritate such as Tony Newman's birthyear in Titanic differed from when he was in Pearl Harbor in Vol.1.
Here, I can see they were getting short on ideas so they got more extreme & exotic in storylines. For instance, going to a planet around Canopus where Hitler was collected along with other central historical figures, aliens who came to harvest protein from the American West [grain, beef, people], a beehive type alien colony some 3 million years ago, aliens siphoning off Earth's atmosphere in 1974, etc. Never dull, always clever but I can see how ABC network cancelled the dreamy -never could be- stuff. TT would've lived 5 more seasons if they've stayed deep in the past. I wish even then the makers would've taken surveys about where to travel. They visited Gen.Custer, Lincoln, the 1836 Alamo and the War of 1812 but not Valley Forge or maybe helping to write the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution - so to be sure the founding fathers got it right! In Ancient stuff they did the Trojan horse episode being mistaken for gods from Olympus and at Jericho recruited as Joshua's spies but why not being mistaken as the 2 angels saving Lot from Sodom & Gomorrah, or getting people out of Pompeii before Vesuvius exploded as a parallel to the Krakatoa episode? It would have followed the logic of the shows I named. Maybe someday the idea of a Tunnel show will be revisited. I think ABC also killed it off because they notably avoided most civil rights and racism issues, maybe too hot to handle in 1966,7. They never dreamed of global terrorism although touching on Islamic Afghanistan issues of 1886 where they met Rudyard Kipling.
I give the DVD quality a 4 star, the series itself a 'B+', delivery an 'A' and Amazon's operating methods, including discount deal reminders an 'A'.
I'm remain quite Satisfied! [see my similar review of Vol.1]
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the quality of the dvd was superior....the production values on time tunnel have stood the test of time.
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