I remember watching a time travel show in the 60s, Time Tunnel. Anyone else remember it?
Ah yes, Irwin Allen’s Time Tunnel. This was a show about a secret government funded time travel experiment in which a young researcher sends himself back in time in an effort to prevent the project’s funding from being cut. This, the two men travelling through time, and the efforts to retrieve them are the only things this show has in common with Quantum Leap (which only has ONE man travelling through time, his companion is firmly rooted in the future, but I digress). In the Time Tunnel, time travellers Anthony Newman and Doug Phillips unfailingly arrived at historical events and desperately tried to influence events based on their knowledge of the outcome. They always failed. This is a show where the time travellers would find themselves at the Roman coliseum one week, and in Napoleon’s army the next, THEN tripping to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is drastic time changes like this that Don Bellisario wanted to avoid when he imposed the ‘within his own lifetime’ rule. He felt the hug
