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The Time Tunnel Season 1 Episode 3

End of the World

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AIRED: 9/23/66

Tony and Doug arrive in 1910, where a local town is in a panic over the arrival of Halley's Comet. Tony is caught in a cave-in near two hundred miners, while Doug is unable to get help from the superintendent, Henderson, who believes they're all doomed because of the comet. Doug digs out Tony on his own, and tries to convince the local astronomer, Ainsley, who has everyone in a panic. While Tony tries to set up a rescue, the Project team try to send Doug a radioscope through the Tunnel. That plan fails, but Doug makes a primitive radioscope and shows Ainsley the gravitational forces that will cause Halley's Comet to deviate. Ainsley convinces the townspeople they are not doomed, and everyone teams up to rescue the miners. Meanwhile the Tunnel sucks in Halley's Comet and the power flow almost sucks Jerry into the Tunnel before they can pull the plug.moreless

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By SFBarbear, Oct 25, 2012

Doug and tony arrive in a mine that is collapsing and nobody will help save the workers because they believe an approaching comet is about to destroy the Earth.

Makes absolutely no sense at all. IF the citizens are that stupid then they should be allowed to die!
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Another slice of science fiction stream-of-consciousness that, in this case, is fun to watch.

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By Mac-Ale, Apr 03, 2008

Doug and Tony are thrown to a mining town in 1910, just after a cave-in traps 200 men below ground. No one wants to help because they fear Halley's Comet means the end of the world anyways.

There's just something so joyously insane about "Time Tunnel" episodes that it makes me smile. Sort of a combination of parallel world "Golden Compass" pseudo-reality and the vision of two teenage science nerds who have just smoked their first doobie in the basement.

This installment is no different. Everything but the kitchen sink is thrown in. The turn-of-the-century town, frightened by Halley's Comet has decided to isolate itself from the world like a a bad Stephen King novel, the local astronomer has a remarkable ability to predict the second that the comet's tail will vanish, and an unknown non-reflective gravitational body is working it's magic. Need more? Back at the complex, somehow aspects of the comet threaten to come through the Time Tunnel and Ann (Lee Meriwether) yanks power cords out of the Tunnel master controls and re-starts a man's heart.

Irwin Allen made a lot of throw-away TV, but this is one of his better ideas - the production values are decent (at least when they can use existing sets like those for westerns), no one scene can bother you before you are off to the next, and another crazy plot twist is always just around the corner. Is it good TV? Not really, but it's as good a value as a roller coaster ride. I will note that this is one of the best-written episodes, others are FAR crazier.moreless
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There's an error in the summary for this episode.

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By carovina, Oct 25, 2006

The team doesn't try to send Doug a radioscope; they try to send him a radar scanner, a 1968-era radar machine. He doesn't "make" a radioscope; he uses the prototype that Professor Ainsley has in his observatory. I would have added this to the summary, but the site won't let me.
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The caved-in mine scenes kept me on the edge of my seat.

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By Carycomic, Sep 01, 2006

But, again, we have another discrepancy with regard to Tony Newman's background. In the series premier, he claimed to have been born in 1938. Yet, in the Pearl Harbor episode, he meets his past-self...who is age seven! And, in this episode, Gen. Kirk exclaims that--in 1958--Tony was still in high school. At age twenty??? He should have been a college sophomore, at least, by then. Oh, sure! He might have had to stay back, and repeat his senior year, due to bad grades. But, then again; if I were a government recruiter, that fact would certainly have persuaded me _not_ to hire Tony for something as important as Project: Tic-Toc! The only script-alibi that I'd have accepted from the writers of this show, if I'd been Irwin Allen? Tony was a child prodigy, who walked/talked/acted like a seven-year-old by the time he was three. And, seventeen years after that, he was a fully-certified high school _science teacher._ But, hindsight is 20/20. Isn't it?moreless
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Lee Meriwether	Dr. Ann MacGregor
James Darren	Dr. Tony Newman
John Zaremba	Dr. Raymond Swain
Whit Bissell	Lt. General Heywood Kirk
Robert Colbert	Dr. Douglas Phillips

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Paul Fix	Henderson	Guest Star
Paul Carr	Blaine	Guest Star
Gregory Morton	Professor Ainsley	Guest Star
Sam Groom	Jerry	Recurring Role

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- So why don't Jiggs and the present-Doug remember meeting Tony 10 years in the past?
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- When Tony chases after Doug in the desert, he gets sent on to the next episode...but the 10-years-past Doug and his car vanish too.
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- The general talks about how Ray has risked his life on many occasions...when? It's only been three episodes, and there's never been anytime before or after that Ray was in danger.
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