Doug and Tony split up to get help: Tony goes out to appeal to the townspeople and Doug goes to see Ainsley at the observatory to get him to retract his prediction. Both Brandon and Beard are spies. Some of these shots were homages to the Krell complex from the classic 1956 MGM film, Most episodes involved the capture or detention of Doug, Tony, or both, their escape, their recapture, and their escape. The trouble was, there was a war on in the past - and the bomb was in enemy territory.[12]. An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time. Tony and Doug arrive on an alien spacecraft in space above the Americas. Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. This nearly kills Tony, so HQ attempts to bring him back to the present. Title: While testing the tunnel for an impatient senator, Newman and Phillips became trapped in time, and each week coincidentally found themselves at the site of an important historical event, be it the Siege of Troy, the sinking of the Titanic or an assassination attempt on President Lincoln. However, just before the bomb explodes in the Time Tunnel control room, the Time Tunnel transfers the bomb to the alien base, destroying it a few minutes later. Ann MacGregor, Gen. Kirk and Dr. Swain are the scientists trying to fix the malfunctioning Time Tunnel and bring Doug and Tony back to the present (1968). Tony and Doug's added weight (335 pounds) makes it impossible for the spacecraft to reach escape velocity in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull. The Time Tunnel is also able to move Dr. Phillips out of the alien machine to where Dr. Newman is. The tide is turned in the battle, and Tony and Doug are relocated. Whenever the nit-pickers and cynics get started on THE TIME TUNNEL, you can bet your life that the same things will come up....The first thing is usually to point out how smelly Doug and Tony must be because they never change their clothes. To help the Time ... We've curated a list of lesser-known films to help you explore the space-time continuum from the comfort of your couch. They are in a futuristic complex run by a curator, played by Michael Ansara, who has begun to compile all the data of the history of the Earth by extracting the memories of all its historical figures, rendering them walking "vegetables". Joshua comes to believe they are who they say they are–time travelers–and sends them to spy inside the city. An alien time traveler from the future called OTT (acronym for "Official Time Traveler") (played by Del Monroe) appears in the Time Tunnel control room and abducts Dr. Ann MacGregor. Leinster used four of the main characters: Tony Newman, Doug Phillips, General Kirk, and Ann MacGregor as well as the initial antagonist Senator Clark. [13][14] Volume Two includes the unaired 2002 pilot and the made-for-TV film The Time Travelers as special features. Was this review helpful to you? Captain Beal (Victor Jory), a Barbary pirate, orders that the strangers be shot. fight the enemies of peace, particularly the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. Two Secret Service Agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West. In the premiere episode, "Rendezvous with Yesterday", Captain Smith of the Titanic is called "Malcolm" when, historically, his name was "Edward". A German corporal is mysteriously stabbed to death while investigating a crypt marked Nero, which was exposed by a bomb.