A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

I started watching this show as a teenager and still enjoy it. I grew up watching James Darren in those Gidget movies and always liked him. Him and Doug do a lot stunt work in every episode and it's fun to watch the fight scenes. I did wonder about a few things how is their clothes appear to get washed as they jump to another time? Well now I know the truth, in an interview with Darren he said the studio cleaned his sweater every day. I have to say I really enjoyed that interview James Darren is a nice gentlemen. too bad they didn't have him sing some songs in any of the Time Tunnel episodes He's a very talented actor. Anyway I miss these action adventure shows, they were my favorite shows.

The Time Tunnel first appeared on TV when I was 11 years old, and it has been four decades since I have seen any of Tony's and Doug's adventures. Thanks to the Starz Action Channel, I've recently had the opportunity to view a few of the episodes once more. Yes, it's a little more goofy than I thought all those years ago, especially when story lines start to turn around the appearance of aliens. But the show is also much better than some of the younger critics seem to be saying.How so? Well, think about the assumptions behind the Time Tunnel. The producers of this program ASSUMED its audience, back in 1966, had at least a passing familiarity not only with the history of the Titanic, the Alamo, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Custer's Last Stand but also ASSUMED its audience was aware of the outlines of the story of the Trojan War, the War of 1812, the Siege of Khartoum, and the Dreyfuss Affair--and remember this was long BEFORE the making of PAPILLON. Imagine an hour long TV series today turning one of its plots around the Dreyfuss Affair! It couldn't happen. Today's audiences haven't heard of Dreyfuss and can't even tell you what CENTURIES Pearl Harbor or the American Civil War took place in.As strange as it may sound to the ears of the contemporary TV viewer, the truth is the Time Tunnel was geared towards a much more sophisticated audience than today's viewers, who are illiterate in their own culture and history. Could a TV series today do a story about the attempt to assassinate Abraham Lincoln--in 1861! The ability of the producers to take this all but forgotten historical incident and turn it into a hour long story could only have worked had the 1966 TV audience been well founded not only in the history of the American Civil War but in Lincoln's assassination in 1865.The fact is the Time Tunnel could not work for today's dubbed down TV viewers. You can't assume they know what they had for lunch yesterday, much less the history of their own nation or Western Civlization. It's so much easier--and necessary--to develop films and TV shows around cartoon heroes with no baggage and no grounding in all that nasty history.

This series is clearly one of the best of the genre of big budget, splashy SF series that capsulizes the attitude of the American space race and the notion of scientific progress of the day. I watched it religiously as an 8 year old.To answer one comment about the lack of underlying premise of project Tic-Toc, the answer is: see the US space race. We "have" to do it before the other guys do. In 1966 that's all the premise you needed.I'm sure other reviews have covered this series quite well. I found this gem on Hulu plus the other day and I have watched the pilot and the second episode.One clear casualty of this series is any semblance of scientific accuracy that begs one key question: did Irwin Allen ever, ever, ever pay attention in grade school in science class? I find the lack of any thought or consideration about scientific accuracy of any kind (even when you accept the fantastic premises) quite, quite dumb. Irwin Allen turned anything involving science into a cartoon. Exactly the same as with Lost in Space. Realistic depiction or dumb cartoony dramatization? The dumb cartoony wins with Irwin Allen every time. In TTT we find out that you hear all noises in a vacuum in space. You also hear explosions. Stuff that explodes in space burns with flames.Yarrghh!! (beats head repeatedly against brick wall.) Just so little additional attention to small details in post-production would have elevated this series from the level of little kid's escapism to decent adult drama. But no, if you're Irwin Allen you have a God sanctioned mission to make ALL of your shows with a tiny peanut for a rationale brain.The absolute lack of any attention to time travel paradoxes is also striking. In "One Way to the Moon" we see that clearly as one character in the present of TTT plays a role in the future being revealed to them, and nobody pulls the guy aside for questioning. The whole concept of polluting the past with the actions of guys from the future is completely ignored.Ah, well, TTT is a great period piece.

I had seen a "Time Tunnel" episode here or there growing up in the '70s but never thought much about them. Recently, I found myself with some gift cards for Best Buy and found both sets of the series (how rude that they broke up a one-season series into two separate DVD sets). Normally, I would have passed them by (having not been too impressed as a youngster), but there was an amazing sale on them. I could buy BOTH sets on sale for LESS than the regular price of ONE of the sets. Cool! Popping in the series, again, I was not expecting much. That first episode with the Titanic I found kind of dull and plodding...even though I can see why the writers went with the Titanic as the first episode. But the tragedy, shock and horror of the disaster were never successfully woven into the story.I almost decided to pass on the rest of the series and sell the two sets on eBay or something, but I continued to watch the show. It really has grown on me. Sure, the story lines are a bit predictable and the minuscule budget is glaringly obvious (only 6 prisoners on Devil's Island? Ha!) and the incongruity of everyone (in ancient Greece, France, etc.) speaking 20th century English (albeit with a foreign accent) just screams out HOKEY (and let's NOT even go into how they could constantly bring people and objects back from the past to the Time Tunnel lab and then send them back again--but they could NEVER bring back Tony or Doug)...but there's just something fascinating about the show and what they TRIED to do with it. For example, Tony goes back and meets his father OR Tony ends up at the base 10 years before the setting of the show and Doug doesn't know him OR when Tony does make it back to the lab but at an accelerated time than everyone else (everyone seems "frozen"--but Tony is just in a warp and has to return where he came from) were really interesting and novel attempts to break up the show's routine shuffle. I also enjoyed when the show moved off into the "future". At least they were TRYING to be creative.It may not have been the best thing ever produced for television, but it was far from the worst. Too bad it only had one season. Given time (and a bigger budget), it MIGHT have evolved into a really fantastic series that is far more revered and remembered than it is today.