The Time Tunnel (Season 1)

The Time Tunnel (1966) is a US science fiction series from ABC, available to watch online on iFILM. During the first live test of a top-secret government machine called TicToc, two scientists — Tony Newman (James Darren) and Doug Phillips (Robert Colbert) — are stranded somewhere in the flow of time. The base team can see them on screens. They just cannot bring them home.

Each episode drops the pair into a different moment: Pearl Harbor, Pompeii, the Old West, future catastrophes. Thirty episodes across the single 1966–1967 season, produced by Irwin Allen — the same man behind Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants.

The effects are vintage, but the formula holds: new historical peril every week, a countdown, no safe way out. Allen figured out early that a different era each episode is a better engine than any mythology. Stream every episode of The Time Tunnel (1966) online on iFILM.