The Time Tunnel - Episode Guide

Congress has poured seven billion dollars into a large and deep hole in the ground - the home of Project TicToc and its revolutionary new technology, the Time Tunnel. A mechanism intended to access past and future, the tunnel is not quite ready despite a decade of work and all the billions. Senator Clark declares his intention to cut funding and abandon the project. Desperate scientist Tony Newman uses the apparatus to send himself through time to prove the concept. But the TicToc team cannot retrieve him, and so his mentor Doug Phillips goes back to help Tony out of the peril he has landed in: he has arrived on the RMS Titanic the day before she struck an iceberg and sank.

Doug and Tony escape death aboard the Titanic only to be hurled ten years into their future aboard a rocket bound for the moon. Problems arise which the astronauts blame on their unwilling stowaways, but the real cause is a saboteur aboard the flight - and the same man, ten years earlier, is in the TicToc complex with a confederate! Doug and Tony must discover the identity of the traitor and stop his plans or else die in space.

Doug and Tony arrive in a mine shaft in 1910, year that Halley's Comet passes close to earth. Many fear it as a supernatural event. A local scientist calculates it will strike local. The mine has collapsed. Doug and Tony try to save lives.

At Pearl Harbor on Dec. 6, 1941,  Dr. Tony Newman confronts his own past at Pearl Harbor and he wants to know what happened to his father.

Doug and Tony are transported to New Orleans where Tony steals two buckskins for them to wear. They are captured by the British Seventh Royal Regiment commanded by Colonel 'The Butcher' Southall. They find themselves behind the British lines in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom where they are mistakenly taken to be spies. They go to a partial court martial and sentenced to be executed by firing squad by The Butcher. Furthermore they realize that the day is 07 January 1815, the eve of the ultimate attack of Colonel Southall against the strongest side of Commander Andrew Jackson's defenses, when the British officer led his men to a slaughter. Meanwhile General Kirk invites the British General Phillip Southall, who is a descendant of The Butcher, to visit The Time Tunnel facility to feed the personnel with information about his ancestor.

In 1883, a little-known Indonesian volcanic island called Krakatoa exploded with enough force to be heard nearly 3000 miles away. Doug and Tony materialize days before this explosion, and meet a professor there to investigate the volcano with his lovely daughter - and a small group of superstitious natives. After a recent major eruption, Professor Holland is sure the volcano's next explosion is decades in the future, and cannot be persuaded otherwise - but he may be deceiving everyone, even himself. Then Doug and Tony discover an error in the date calculations that suggests they're far closer to the fateful day than they first thought.

Doug and Tony are in 1200 BC during the war between Greeks and Trojans. They are captured by Ulysses and their knowledge of history makes him think they are gods. Doug is captured by traitor Sardis, brought to Troy and meets Helen of Troy.

Doug and Tony hurtle nearly 3000 years futureward to the Montana of 1876, days before the Battle of the Little Bighorn that will cost General George Armstrong Custer and his men their lives. Doug tries to persuade Custer away from his ruinous course while Tony attempts to convince the Lakota he landed among that he is an honorable man and that there is nothing to be gained from battling Custer.

At the French penal colony of Devil's Island in 1895, where prisoners were sent and never left, Doug and Tony are mistaken as runaway prisoners. They try to tell the prisoners their plan to help Captain Alfred Dreyfus escape is doomed.

Doug and Tony find themselves during the French Revolution and become involved in a plot to rescue the doomed French Queen, Marie Antoinette.

The guys are transported to 1956 Russia and receive a message from the Time Tunnel: "Meet Alexis". They meet the agent who gets them to a Soviet Time Tunnel he is in charge of and insists they pilot the craft. They know its doomed future.

The guys are transported to February 1861 to a barn where a group of conspirators led by Jeremiah plots to kill Abraham Lincoln. They have developed a time bomb but are surprised by a raid of governmental agents. Tony flees with Jeremiah.

Doug and Tony are transported to 1836 and are immediately attacked by Mexican soldiers. The nearest shelter turns out to be the Alamo days before the Mexican Army will overrun it. Colonel Travis decides they are spies and imprisons them.

Doug and Tony land in nineteenth century Asia, meet Rudyard Kipling and become involved in the conflict between the British and local tribesman for control of the Khyber Pass.

Landing in 1944 occupied France two days before D-Day, Doug is captured by the Germans and psychologically reprogrammed to hunt down and kill Tony who must keep their knowledge concerning the impending invasion from the Nazis.

In thirteenth century England, Doug and Tony become involved with the Earl of Huntington otherwise known as the legendary Robin Hood and their efforts to get King John to sign the Magna Carta.

On a Pacific isle about to be bombed by America, Doug and Tony are held by a downed Japanese pilot and a sergeant. Kirk brings in a Japanese officer who served on the island. He won't help unless they save his son who died during the war.

Doug and Tony are transported to a spacecraft with two weird aliens that intend to invade Earth to steal proteins for their dying planet. They land on Mullins, Arizona, in 1885, and the aliens use a device called "Projector" to subdue the earthlings. The time travelers decide to resist the invasion to save Earth from the eminent destruction, but the powerful aliens seem to be unbeatable.

During an encounter between the Germans and the Italians in World War I, Doug and Tony land in a villa that is haunted by the ghost of the Roman Emperor Nero.

Doug and Tony spy for Joshua as he prepares to tumble the walls of Jericho. [9621]

Doug and Tony land in 1519 Mexico, where Cortez is looking for a golden mask. Their archaeology expert back at the Time Tunnel insists that they retrieve the mask, which he has been searching for for twenty years, or he will not help them.

Landing in 1881 New Mexico in the middle of a jailbreak of Billy the Kid, to defend Tony Doug shoots at Billy who escapes swearing to hunt down Doug. According to their research back at the Time Tunnel, two unknown strangers were killed by him on that date.

Tony and Doug land among Barbary Coast pirates as Capt. Stephen Decatur prepares to attack.  [9610]

An enemy spy posing as a technician puts a bomb in the complex and then escapes via the Tunnel. Doug and Tony must find him and learn the location of the bomb before the Complex is destroyed, trapping them in time.

Ending up on different sides just prior to the Battle of Gettysburg, Doug and Tony must stop an attempt by Machiavelli (who had traveled in time from the Renaissance due to the Time Tunnel Project) from trying to affect the outcome of the battle and send him back into time.

Doug and Tony must help Marco Polo stop an attack by Mongols in thirteenth century China. Tony meets and falls in love with the daughter of Kubla Kahn.

Merlin the Magician pulls Tony and Doug from their journey through time and send them to help a young King Arthur fight an invasion of Vikings.

After Time Tunnel member Doctor Ann MacGregor is kidnapped by a time traveler from another planet, Tony and Doug are sent there to rescue her.

During the Battle of Khartoum in 1883, Tony and Doug stumble upon aliens who plan to conquer the Earth using missiles. The aliens also send a bomb through the Time Tunnel to prevent any interference with their plans.

In 1978, Doug and Tony have to stop aliens from stealing all the oxygen from the planet Earth.