I started watching this show as a teenager and still enjoy it. I grew up watching James Darren in those Gidget movies and always liked him. Him and Doug do a lot stunt work in every episode and it's fun to watch the fight scenes. I did wonder about a few things how is their clothes appear to get washed as they jump to another time? Well now I know the truth, in an interview with Darren he said the studio cleaned his sweater every day. I have to say I really enjoyed that interview James Darren is a nice gentlemen. too bad they didn't have him sing some songs in any of the Time Tunnel episodes He's a very talented actor. Anyway I miss these action adventure shows, they were my favorite shows.

The Time TunnelSummary: Good concept with lots of potential. Under-developed script. Horrible acting, painful to watch at times. Too serialized. Predictable episodesMore Detailed: Seemed to have been designed to teach people not to try to mess with history. Shows very little realism, mostly over acted and mostly completely fabrication of how some fantasy writer envisioned military security and scientific methods to be. The acting is very much 50's: stiff, over-done, and comical. And of course, they wear the same clothing, which miraculously, no matter how dirty they get, are completely clean in the following episode. Not to mention their hair...The characters, supposedly the two head scientists of the project, act like little oblivious children, who seem not the slightest worried about all their interfering in past events, during most episodes; where they are usually emotionally affected by, and repeatedly attempt to change history. Instead of focusing on preserving it by not interfering and working out a way to get back to their own time, in good health. With the rest of the scientific team, back at project central, monitoring their experiences and trying to keep them alive by having them time jump out of danger to unknown periods, always continuing in the episode following the current one. The series was suddenly ended by ABC, so there was never a "return home" episode aired.

I was disappointed with "The Time Tunnel" series. The basic concept is an interesting one but the final results are sadly lacking. A few episodes were fairly tolerable but I lost interest soon after. The main problem I found, was that the stories weren't entertaining enough and they suffered from poor narratives. The two main characters are OK if a bit dull and not very charismatic. This is definitely not as good as other American television shows from the 60s.

The Time Tunnel was a far advanced show for it's time. I read a question that asked why did Tony and Doug travel to the Titanic on the last show. This is completely backwards, this was the FIRST show. What I am curious about is why the Time Tunnel could bring other people from the past back to their time but could not get Doug and Tony back Home? One must remember that the Time Tunnel had partially non fictional stories along with some fiction added. As far as why they always had clean clothes when they transferred in time, it's because what had happened to them where they were had completely vanished when they left that time period as though they were never there, thus the clean and non-torn clothes re-appeared each time they were transferred in time.What I don't understand is why this show is not shown on METV and has never been shown in reruns anywhere since it was made.