THE TIME TUNNEL: A HISTORY OF THE TELEVISION SERIES Paperback – Illustrated, June 30, 2012

The Time Tunnel series only lasted a year, cancelled after intense competition from 2 hit series on Friday night. It remains a cult sci-fi and fantasy favorite around the world. This book is a complete review of The Time Tunnel, and the efforts of its creator, Irwin Allen, based on the author's total access to Irwin and Shiela Matthew-Allen's personal archive. The hardcover edition is a quality printing, with many black and white images, and uses acid-free paper. It has a neutral tone, rather than the usual sycophant or competitive tone of most media books. The other reviews here cover important aspects of The Time Tunnel: A History. Another fascinating part of the book are Irwin Allen's plot proposals to the ABC Network for a second year of the series. If you like the first year, the second year could have been better. As an excerpt from his book, the author, Martin Grams, has posted a section with Allen's second-year plot proposals, including a few story illustrations in color that did not make it into the book. This book excerpt and extras are on Martin Grams' blog - search for "Time Tunnel Proposed Second Season" to see them. In related news, Irwin Allen's Lost In Space has been converted to widescreen HD from the original camera film elements (negatives before cropping for the TV screen). That series in HD will be on Blu-ray for its 50th anniversary in September, 2015 (search Lost In Space HD for test footage): maybe The Time Tunnel might get the same treatment and HD Blu-ray's for it's 50th anniversary in 2016.

Like other books from this publisher, this hardcover edition is a perfect bound book just given a hardcover. Be sure to use a bookmark so it will last!

I can't imagine a book on "The Time Tunnel" that could top this one by Martin Grams, Jr. It thoroughly covers the genesis of the series, each episode, the cast, behind the scenes, etc. And it has good pictures. What I appreciate the most is the revelation of story ideas proposed for the first season that didn't make it to the cameras, as well as the episodes proposed for the never-realized second season. They would have been great! The book also tells that the stars felt that there would have been more control over where (or when) Tony and Doug would go, had the series continued. There was even talk of Tony and Doug meeting their future selves on future time trips. "The Time Tunnel" was such an awesome series and this book does it complete justice. If Senator Leroy Clark reads this book, I'm sure he will insure that the congressional funding for Tic-Toc continues. My only regret is that I did not purchase it as a hardcover, not that there was anything wrong with my paperback copy. It's just that good that it deserves to sit on your shelf in a hardcover. I will get a second copy one of these days. On behalf of the entire staff of Operation Tic-Toc, all of the people (earthlings and aliens) they met on their travels, and myself, thank you, Mr. Grams, for a job very well done!

a local TV channel binged this show several weeks ago, and I caught a couple, vaguely remembering the show from younger days. I really enjoyed it and saw this was available. IT is a little pricey but worth it if you like reading episode breakdowns and cast stories. Very entertaining and informative.

It’s massive book (nearly 600 pages) about a TV failure (it lasted a single season) that’s packed with lots of interesting information…about Irwin Allen and his other shows and about the TV landscape in the late 1960s. Everything you could possibly want to know about Time Tunnel is here, from the original pitch to information on all of Allen’s attempts to do another time travel series after it was cancelled, from the number of pages shot on a particular day to the cost of individual props, from the notes from ABC censors on each script to lists of the stock music cues in each episode, from exhaustively detailed synopses of each of broadcast episode to detailed descriptions of the episodes that weren’t shot. There’s almost too much stuff. It’s as if Grams decided he had to put every single fact that came across his desk into the book just because he had them. The upside is that there’s something for everybody here, whether your interest is in TV production accounting or screenwriting. The downside is that it makes for tedious reading, even if you are really into the show or into TV history.

Simply amazing.The book has it all. Impressive to think of a book so dedicated to a series that only had thirty episodes!There's everything here, including budget for each episode, ABC censorship recommendations, recording errors, good photos.Unmissable as a historical record of one of Irwin Allen's classic shows ... I would like the writer to make one for LAND OF THE GIANTS too!

The book has many photos and a lot of details.

A complete history of the iconic 1960's television show Time Tunnel. This book includes the TV reporters reviews of various episodes, behind the scenes workings of each episode - a complete episode guide. I found this very helpful in my work. I found the price to be reasonable for a paperback book. I would recommend this book - but only to those who have an intense interest in this television show.

In September 1975, I was convinced the world was going to end in September 1978. In exactly three years time, Aliens were going teleport the Earth's atmosphere to their home world and we would all die!I knew it was true because I had seen the Titanic sink and that had happened. Just like Tory fell and The Alamo. That was history. And the future was just history that not happened yet. Fortunately the world was saved, thanks to those intrepid scientists Dr Tony Newman (James Darren) and Dr Doug Phillips (Robert Colbert), with a little help from their friends at 'The Time Tunnel' complex.Produced by Irwin Allen ( who also made 'Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea' and 'Lost In Space'), 'The Time Tunnel' (1966-67) was according to the open narration the story of "Two American scientists (who) are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time."From 1 Million years BC to 1 Million years AD, the possibilities seemed endless. The only limit to their adventures being what stock footage was available in the Twentieth Century Fox film library. Part of our family fun when watching this series was who would be the first to shout-out the movie title from which this week's action sequences had been plundered. Sometimes it was oblivious,  in "Raiders From Space" the battle scenes from 'Khartoum' (1966) are clearly in the wrong ratio aspect, and a strangely elongated Charlton Heston makes brief appearance on the city walls. However in 'One Way to The Moon' the footage from 'Destination Moon' (1950) was seamlessly edited into the episode, even though the space suits are a give away for most science fiction fans. My favourite episode is 'Vistors From Beyond The Stars' in which Aliens square off against cowboys in the old West. So brilliant was this idea it would be ripped off shamelessly for the blockbuster movie 'Cows Vs Aliens' in 2011.This book chronicling the making of the TV series by Martin Grams JR is a  fun way to relieve the adventure.

Great book more than an episode guide gives all aspects of its creation no fan should be without a copy only gripe is all the pictures are in black and white.

Excellent book about Irwin Allen,s 60s series ,episode details are outstanding

Complete in depth story of the Time Tunnel. Includes details of episodes that were planned but never actually got made. Highly recommended and appreciated I

The book givwe an in-depth history of the series , as said by another buyer . It is more than an episode guide . I highly recommend it for fans of the series .