When Senator Clark sees an image of the Titanic on the image screen in the course of episode one, he is told by Dr. ![]() The series was abruptly cancelled in the summer of 1967 by ABC, before they were able to film the episode in which Tony and Doug are safely returned to the Time Tunnel complex.Īccording to the plot, time travel is facilitated by time being portrayed as a static continuum, accessible at any point through the Time Tunnel as a corridor spanning its infinite reaches. ![]() General Kirk, Ray, and Ann in the control room are able to locate them in time and space, observe them, occasionally communicate with them through voice contact, and send help. Tony and Doug become participants in past events such as the sinking of the Titanic, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the eruption of Krakatoa, Custer's Last Stand, and the Battle of the Alamo, among others. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time. ![]() Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Episodes 2 - 23 begin with the following narration (voiced by Dick Tufeld): The stage is set for the progress of the series as Tony and Doug are now "switched" from one period in history to another, allowing episodes to be set in the past and future. Senator Clark returns to Washington with the promise that funding will not be cut off to the project, leaving General Kirk in charge. Doug follows shortly after to rescue him, but they both continue to be lost in time. Defying this decision, Tony sends himself into time. Tony volunteers for this endeavor, but he is turned down by project director Doug Phillips. When speaking to Phillips, Kirk, and Newman in front of the Time Tunnel, he delivers an ultimatum - either they send someone into time and return him during the course of his visit or their funding will cease. Senator Clark feels the project is a waste of government funds. ![]() Project Tic-Toc is in its 10th year when United States Senator Leroy Clark ( Gary Merrill) comes to investigate to determine whether the project, which has cost $7.5 billion (equivalent to $58 billion in 2021), is worth continuing. Doctors Newman ( James Darren), MacGregor ( Lee Meriwether), and Phillips ( Robert Colbert), 1966
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