86-522: Berkhart may refer to: Benjamin Berkhart , a fictional character in the television series The Time Tunnel Berkhart ( Battle B-Daman ) , a fictional character in the anime and manga series Battle B-Daman Daniel Berkhart , a Marvel Comics supervillain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
172-663: A paranormal researcher Dr. Steinholtz ( John Hoyt ), who suggests zapping Tony with 1,000,000 volts of electricity for one millisecond through the Tunnel to force the ghost out. This nearly kills Tony, so HQ attempts to retrieve him. Nero is transported instead and almost destroys HQ before the scientists can send him back. When the Italian army retakes the Villa, the Nero's ghost enters an Italian Corporal named Benito Mussolini , who vows to drive out
258-591: A 'Dr. Stiles' is monitoring the Time Tunnel—no explanation is given as to why Gen. Kirk, Ann, and Dr. Swain are not at the controls 'as usual' when the 'move' occurs. Meanwhile, Raul Niman ( Robert Duvall ), a spy for an unspecified country or organization, has planted a nuclear bomb somewhere in the complex. He kills Stiles to secrete the bomb's timer in the Time Tunnel control room. A security check exposes his presence, and, with no other avenue of escape, he jumps into
344-555: A 15-minute newscast on KABC-TV , Los Angeles. It debuted on October 3, 1955, at noon (replacing Wrangler Jim ), then moved to 11 p.m. on April 2, 1956. Tufeld was often heard as the announcer on Disney television shows, including the 1957–1959 series Zorro starring future Lost in Space lead Guy Williams . He narrated Disneyland's 1955 Man in Space . He had periods as the house announcer on two ABC variety series, The Hollywood Palace and The Julie Andrews Hour . In 1954, he
430-566: A band of Vikings and encounter a young man named Arthur Pendragon whose father has been killed by the Viking raiders. Merlin appears and orders Tony and Doug to protect Arthur at all costs. A band of Vikings then attack and Doug is felled by a sword while Tony and Arthur are captured. Merlin prevents the Time Tunnel personnel from moving Tony and Doug from 544 to the point of injuring Ray with an electric shock while never explaining why Doug and Tony apart from any others are needed. When Doug awakes, he
516-459: A few actors were costumed for a given episode, interspersed with cuts of great masses of people similarly dressed from original features. Only one set was constructed for the show, that of the Time Tunnel main control room. For the pilot episode, a large control room set was built, and a longer Time Tunnel was created using optical matte shots . After the pilot episode, location changes occurred for
602-436: A foremost expert in electronics , and Dr. Ann MacGregor ( Lee Meriwether ), an electro-biologist supervising the unit that determines how much force and heat a time traveler is able to withstand. The series is set in 1968, two years into the future from the actual broadcast season, 1966–1967. Project Tic-Toc is in its 10th year when United States Senator Leroy Clark ( Gary Merrill ) comes to investigate to determine whether
688-501: A futuristic complex run by a curator ( Michael Ansara ), who has begun to compile all the data of the history of the Earth by extracting the memories of all its historical figures, rendering them walking " vegetables ". As the first human time travelers, Doug and Tony are fitting subjects for the project. Ann's abduction was the "bait" to have them relocated there by the Time Tunnel. Shortly after their arrival they are reunited with Ann, and since
774-473: A person from the future intruding into the past: ancestors of persons now living could be killed by a time traveler resulting in their descendants now living ceasing to exist or inventions and developments of the past being changed resulting in the wiping out of what exists in the present day. Tony and Doug's relocation to Johnstown, Pennsylvania just before the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889 allows them
860-402: A plan to kidnap Sarit and marry her, thereby uniting the various Mongol tribes behind him in his quest. Batu's men kidnap Sarit, but Doug and Tony free her. Batu's forces launch a massive assault on the fortress. Doug and Tony make artillery shells by mixing gunpowder and potassium nitrate in empty water jugs. General Kirk is able to send back igniters to make the bombs successful. The tide
946-540: A power pack remains awake to patrol the alien complex; Ann sends herself back to the Time Tunnel control room with the converter by way of the alien time machine, and Doug and Tony are transferred away in the nick of time. This episode also makes use of Bernard Herrmann 's music from the film The Day the Earth Stood Still . Tony and Doug arrive in the middle of the Siege of Khartoum between British and Arab forces in
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#17330846200891032-412: A promotional novel, The Time Tunnel , was published by Pyramid Books. The author was Murray Leinster , who had previously written a novel of the same name in 1964, completely unrelated to the television series. Leinster used four of the main characters: Tony Newman, Doug Phillips, General Kirk, and Ann MacGregor as well as the initial antagonist Senator Clark. Unlike the television series, Project Tic-Toc
1118-632: A radio station in Los Angeles. Tufeld's voice career began in radio. He was the announcer on ABC's The Amazing Mr. Malone in early 1950 (before the show moved to New York and NBC ); then on Alan Reed 's Falstaff's Fables , a five-minute ABC radio program that began in the fall of 1950. From October 25, 1952, to March 19, 1955, Tufeld was the announcer for the entire run of ABC Radio 's Space Patrol . Tufeld moved to television in 1955, working in ABC daytime programming and anchoring The Three Star Final ,
1204-412: A rescue party for over 200 miners trapped in a mine cave-in. The townspeople have departed to await the end of the world that Dr. Ainsley, an astronomer at a nearby observatory has predicted. Doug wants Ainsley to retract his prediction, but his own chalkboard calculations corroborate Ainsley's result. The Time Tunnel control room try and fail to send a radarscope to help Doug convince Ainsley. Just before
1290-458: A reward. Doug escapes to give Joshua the information he seeks. Tony and Rahab are about to be stoned to death, but when the Israelites complete their march, blow their trumpets and shout, the walls of the city fall down as what appears to be a tornado traces the destruction. At the Time Tunnel complex, Ann, a skeptic, decides that since a tornado is a natural phenomenon, that the fall of the walls
1376-615: A series. Project Tic-Toc is a top-secret U.S. government effort to build an experimental time machine , known as "The Time Tunnel" due to its appearance as an elliptical passageway. The base for Project Tic-Toc is a huge, hidden underground complex in Arizona , 800 floors deep and employing more than 12,000 specialized personnel. The directors of the project are Dr. Douglas Phillips ( Robert Colbert ), Dr. Anthony Newman ( James Darren ), and Lt. General Heywood Kirk ( Whit Bissell ). The specialists assisting them are Dr. Raymond Swain ( John Zaremba ),
1462-488: Is a dead ringer for him. Kirk has his heirloom ring sent back to possibly facilitate Doug and Tony's being recovered, but the ring had been a love token between Marie Antoinette and a foreign amour (i.e. Axel von Fersen the Younger ). The ancestor, General Querque, seeks to use the ring as evidence to incriminate Marie Antoinette and lead to her execution. Doug and Tony distract a young artillery lieutenant, Napoléon Bonaparte , so
1548-469: Is a floating platform with rails operated by Ann MacGregor back in the Time Tunnel control room. They appear to anyone seeing them as people riding on a flying carpet . In the Saint Louis library Doug finds out that he will marry Ann MacGregor, who is in love with him, and they will have three children. With the help of the "time traveler" platform they are able to destroy the flimsy alien craft and return to
1634-468: Is also able to move Dr. Phillips out of the alien machine to where Dr. Newman is. In response, the aliens send a bomb to the Time Tunnel control room that will explode in sixty minutes unless all personnel are evacuated to the upper levels of the complex. Unable to attack the aliens effectively with the resources at hand, Tony, Doug, and the British soldier fetch grenades and gunpowder from Khartoum. They attack
1720-453: Is captured and sent to the dungeon to be tortured as an Israelite spy. Tony hides inside a house. When the resident arrives, he calls her Rahab because, from the Biblical account, she is the one who sheltered the two Israelite spies. Rahab is the sister of the almost-sacrificed virgin. After Tony rescues Doug from the dungeon, they take refuge at Rahab's house, but her servant betrays them for
1806-407: Is impossible". The aliens (from Alpha 1) land at a farm near Mullins, Arizona Territory in 1885. They intend to take over the town and almost succeed. The aliens have made Doug compliant. Tony needs the sheriff's and the bar owner's help to take the aliens' control unit from them. Meanwhile, two other aliens who no longer need to raid planets for food, appear in the Time Tunnel control room and demand
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#17330846200891892-544: Is imprisoned in a room by the Viking chieftain Wogan ( Vincent Beck ). Arthur, Doug and Tony are imprisoned in a cell. Merlin frees them from their bonds, but tells them that they must free themselves from the locked room, since there is a limit to how much magic he can perform at a time. Doug and Tony blow the door of the cell off by improvising a pressure cooker from water, a pot and two thumbscrews . Doug gathers Leodegrance's troops and brings them back to fight, but Merlin says that
1978-455: Is in the castle of King Leodegrance of Cameliard and is being cared for by the king's daughter, Guinevere (Lisa Jak). Merlin heals Doug and has Guinevere fetch the doctor, new clothes. Tony escapes from his bonds and frees Arthur, but they are later recaptured. Doug goes to look for weaknesses in the Viking-held castle, and he and Guinevere, who followed Doug, are captured as well. Guinevere
2064-501: Is intentionally killed by one of his own crew. HQ then transfers Armando and Doug back to the island before the pirate ship is destroyed. They then transfer first Armando and then Doug to Captain Decatur's ship to save them from the shelling. Both Doug and Armando are seriously wounded, however, and it is feared they may both die. The newly retired Time Tunnel staff doctor, Dr. Benjamin Berkhart, insists on going back to save their lives and help
2150-458: Is mysteriously stabbed to death while investigating a crypt marked Nero , which was exposed by a bomb. Fearing that the Germans will accuse them, Tony and Doug hide and accidentally find a secret passage to the estate's upper floors, where the owner, an Italian count named Enrico Galba – who is descended from Roman emperor Galba – offers to protect them from the Germans. When the Germans arrive at
2236-535: Is secretly begun and financed through the Defense Department without the consent of Congress. General Kirk is a retired Air Force General rather than an active duty Army General. Senator Clark, rather than urging immediate human time travel as he does in the TV series, demands that Project Tic-Toc refrain from going forward with it. He does this in the interests of humanity, which, in his view, would be adversely affected by
2322-533: Is seeing "the living past", and Althea Hall is told by Tony Newman that the past and the future are the same. The Time Tunnel is also a portal connecting the Time Tunnel "complex" with the same time periods in which Doug and Tony are located. Other people can also be relocated by the Time Tunnel from their time to another time as Machiavelli is switched from his own time to the time of the Gettysburg Campaign of 1863. Bringing people (other than Tony and Doug) to
2408-477: Is turned down by project director Doug Phillips. Defying this decision, Tony sends himself into time. Doug follows shortly after to rescue him, but they both continue to be lost in time. Senator Clark returns to Washington with the promise that funding will not be cut off to the project, leaving General Kirk in charge. The stage is set for the progress of the series as Tony and Doug are now "switched" from one period in history to another, allowing episodes to be set in
2494-485: Is turned in the battle, and Tony and Doug are relocated. Merlin the magician appears in Time Tunnel HQ and freezes the personnel. He then brings Tony and Doug out of their "time limbo" (between destinations) back to the Time Tunnel control room in suspended animation so that he can instruct them to do what he asks, though they may die in the effort. He then sends them to Cornwall in the year 544. There, they fight off
2580-505: The Sudan . This chapter is loosely based on the campaign of General Gordon . In their efforts to hide from the battling armies, they encounter two aliens who take them prisoner. The alien leader (from Aristos) then contacts the Time Tunnel control center and tells them not to interfere. Rather than kill them, the aliens are ordered by their leader to bring Tony and Doug back to their base. After explaining their plan to conquer Earth by destroying
2666-646: The Time Tunnel team shift them just before the big eruption. Tony and Doug arrive in Paris , France, in the middle of the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror . A shopkeeper offers to help them leave the city if they will assist him free Marie Antoinette . Instead, they help the Dauphin , Louis XVII , to escape with the shopkeeper as his guide and protector. Tony and Doug are confronted by an ancestor of General Kirk, who
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2752-497: The cave where Machiavelli has stored the gunpowder. Doug and Tony fight, which results in Tony regaining his memory. The Time Tunnel transfers Machiavelli back to his own time and Tony and Doug to a new adventure. Doug and Tony arrive somewhere in Mongolia or Eastern China . Mongols capture and take them to Batu Khan ( Arthur Batanides ). Batu, a grandson of Genghis Khan , feels he is
2838-464: The historic battle on June 27. Knowing about the impending attack and the incident of the cracking of the ridgepole of the sod roof of Hanrahan's saloon where Tony and Doug were staying, they caused the cracking themselves by shooting at the pole. This effectively awakened the sleeping hunters, making them ready to repulse the attack of the Native American warriors. Tony and Doug were able to assist
2924-573: The sinking of the Titanic , the attack on Pearl Harbor , the eruption of Krakatoa , Custer's Last Stand , and the Battle of the Alamo , among others. General Kirk, Ray, and Ann in the control room are able to locate them in time and space, observe them, occasionally communicate with them through voice contact, and send help. The series was abruptly cancelled in the summer of 1967 by ABC, before they were able to film
3010-435: The "abandon ship" procedure. Thrown off the ship by an explosion, Tony and Doug are successfully suspended in time by the Time Tunnel team. Senator Clark gives assurances that funding will continue as the time team attempt to rescue Tony and Doug. Tony and Doug land aboard a spacecraft's service module just before blast off. The spacecraft, part of the M.E.M. ( Mars Excursion Module ) ten years in Tony and Doug's future, will be
3096-400: The 1840s. In the present (1968), excavation equipment was moving toward the site – any day a bulldozer blade might set it off, destroying a mighty city and plunging the world into war. Time travelers Tony Newman and Doug Phillips had only one chance to head off disaster – to go through the Time Tunnel and make the accident "unhappen". The trouble was, there was a war on in the past – and the bomb
3182-600: The Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel , and did voice work for the 1978 animated television series Fantastic Four . He narrated several episodes of Thundarr the Barbarian (1980). From 1977 - 1985, he was the chief announcer for ABC-TV’s popular “Love in the Afternoon” soap opera promos. He was the main title narrator on the 1979 DePatie-Freleng series, Spider-Woman , as well as
3268-470: The Confederate army. Both sides are searching for Michaels to get the gunpowder. Michaels is actually the early-16th century philosopher Machiavelli who the Tunnel accidentally shifted due to his "pattern" being similar to Doug's. When Confederates arrive, Machiavelli is willing to give them the gunpowder, believing both sides should be evenly matched. Tony takes Doug prisoner, and they and Machiavelli go to
3354-597: The Huns and restore Caesars 's glory. Tony and Doug are "switched" after this. Tony and Doug arrive outside of the tent of Joshua during the night, two days before the Israelite siege of Jericho ends. When they tell to Joshua that they are time travelers, he sends them to spy inside the city. Doug and Tony save a young virgin from being sacrificed to the Levantine deity Chemosh by the high priest of Jericho ( Arnold Moss ). Doug
3440-609: The Kid 's victims alarms Ann, Ray, and the General, as it records that he killed two strangers near Lincoln, New Mexico , in April 1881—just when Tony, Doug, and Billy the Kid are brought together. The production used sets, stock footage, and props left over from the large number of period dramas made by the 20th Century Fox film company. Even black-and-white shots purporting to show the Titanic sinking were tinted for use in this color production. Only
3526-464: The Time Tunnel complex. This was followed later in the year by Timeslip: Time Tunnel Adventure #2, the last novel based on the TV series, written again by Murray Leinster. The front and back covers feature photos from the series. In Timeslip , an experimental nuclear missile was sent through the Time Tunnel – but something went wrong, and it wound up at the bottom of a pond within Mexico City , in
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3612-431: The Time Tunnel funding. To prove time travel is possible, Dr. Tony Newman secretly enters the Tunnel and lands aboard the Titanic the day before it sinks . Doug later follows Tony into the past in an attempt to rescue him. Doug finds Tony and they enter the wireless room to send an SOS message, though ship crew apprehend them. When the ship strikes an iceberg as Tony and Doug predicted, the captain (Michael Rennie) orders
3698-503: The Time Tunnel. The Tunnel had been tuned to the location of Doug and Tony, so Niman also arrives near the Grand Canyon. General Kirk, Ann, and Dr. Swain reappear at the controls and discover the bomb plot through unexplained discovery of 'instructions' to Niman to place the bomb, once his spy mission was complete. Gen. Kirk offers all in HQ a chance to evacuate, or volunteer to stay and try to save
3784-451: The Vikings will not be frightened by these "gentlemen knights", so he changes their clothing to that of Vikings, which is the last way Merlin can help them in this venture. The knights storm the castle and drive the Vikings out while Tony kills Wogan in a sword fight. Arthur declares he will make Doug and Tony his first knights, but they are transferred by the Tunnel. An alien time traveler from
3870-432: The alien base, but have insufficient resources left to destroy it. However, just before the bomb explodes in the Time Tunnel control room, the Time Tunnel transfers the bomb to the alien base, destroying it a few minutes later. Although The Time Tunnel was scheduled on Fridays (often considered the " Friday night death slot " for TV programs), the ratings for the series were solid. ABC pointed to The Time Tunnel as one of
3956-444: The aliens' significant vulnerability: like plants they derive sustenance from the light of their "sun" Canopus, becoming dormant at night. They fool the curator into thinking that they had eaten the drugged food pills that would have rendered them sedated for mind extraction. When the curator and the guards go dormant at night, Doug, Tony and Ann remain awake to retrieve the time-space converter and escape. They outwit and kill OTT, who by
4042-459: The battlefield with a small group of Union soldiers. The commander has him wear a Union uniform to avoid being shot. The Time Tunnel team remotely revive Tony and he is found by Confederate soldiers. Suffering from amnesia , he believes he is the lieutenant that the Confederate soldiers were expecting and dons a Confederate uniform. The Union soldiers have intercepted the actual courier, a man named Michaels, who stole Union gunpowder to sell to
4128-426: The chief guide, believes Doug and Tony are devils causing the eruption and tries sacrificing them to stop it. Doug and Tony only have a few hours to convince the scientists to leave the island before the biggest eruption in recorded history. Doug erroneously believes they should travel to Java for safety, though Sumatra is actually safer. The Time Tunnel staff rescue Tony just before he is sacrificed and return him to
4214-416: The city of London, the aliens order Dr. Newman to be taken out in the desert and killed with a dehydration ray while Dr. Phillips will be put in a machine to extract all of his knowledge. But the alien ordered to kill Dr. Newman leaves when they are encountered by two British soldiers. Dr. Newman is thought to be an Arab spy, so he leads them to the alien base where one of the soldiers is killed. The Time Tunnel
4300-399: The comet's predicted collision, Doug gets Ainsley to hook the observatory's Nichols radiometer to the telescope to scan for a possible invisible mass in space that would divert the comet. The radiometer detects a mass, convincing Ainsley his calculations were wrong. Ainsley and Doug convince townspeople the world will not end, and they rescue the trapped miners. At the Time Tunnel complex,
4386-481: The complex (and Tony and Doug). All bravely decide to stay. Tony and Doug are told they must apprehend Niman and get him to tell them the location of the bomb. But the lock on the time period drifts and moves Niman to another time, so Tony and Doug are sent after him. Tony and Doug arrive amid the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War . Tony is knocked out by an artillery blast. Doug retreats from
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#17330846200894472-403: The complex, but he discovers all personnel frozen in a time warp. Tony finds the correct escape route information that Dr. Swain wrote down, then returns to 1883. Karnutu is thwarted and falls into the lava pit. Doug and Tony persuade the scientists and the remaining guides to escape to Sumatra. Doug and Tony stay behind because there is no room in the canoe. Tony left his and Doug's coordinates and
4558-602: The day before the final battle of the War of 1812 . They are taken prisoner by the British troops, court-martialed as spies, and sentenced to execution. A present-day British Army officer, General Southall, is brought to the time tunnel so the team can establish Tony and Doug's location. Recognizing his ancestor, Colonel Southall, and revealing he is terminally ill, General Southall insists he go back in time to order Colonel Southall to release Tony and Doug and learn why he led his troops into
4644-408: The episode in which Tony and Doug are safely returned to the Time Tunnel complex. According to the plot , time travel is facilitated by time being portrayed as a static continuum, accessible at any point through the Time Tunnel as a corridor spanning its infinite reaches. When Senator Clark sees an image of the Titanic on the image screen in the course of episode one, he is told by Dr. Swain that he
4730-512: The episodes were first shown in 1966, the show's setting begins in 1968, two years into the then-future. U.S. Senator Leroy Clark ( Gary Merrill ) arrives in Arizona to evaluate Project Tic-Toc, which is researching time travel. Dr. Doug Phillips ushers Clark into a subterranean complex where he meets Lt. General Heywood Kirk. As chairman of the Senate oversight committee, Clark can either authorize or end
4816-483: The event, A Night to Remember , had been released nine years earlier. Tony states that he was born in 1938. A few episodes later in "The Day the Sky Fell in", he states he was seven when Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7 December 1941, which would make the year of his birth 1934, or possibly 1933, if later than 7 December. For comparison, Darren's birthdate is June 8, 1936, about midway between 1934 and 1938. The music for
4902-404: The few successes in a disastrous schedule. A series titled The Legend of Custer was lobbied to drop The Time Tunnel in favor of Custer . The network headquarters gave green light for Custer , and The Time Tunnel was cancelled. The Legend of Custer was itself cancelled after airing 17 low-rated episodes, skewered by critics and performed worse than The Time Tunnel . In January 1967
4988-741: The first U.S. manned spaceflight to Mars . Tony and Doug's added weight makes it impossible for the spacecraft to reach escape velocity and escape the Earth's gravitational pull. Captain Kane wants to jettison the service module, effectively scrubbing the mission, but Beard, instead fires the boosters to achieve escape velocity. The crew then lands on the Moon to refuel and continue the mission. Tony and Doug are discovered and considered spies, though prove themselves worthy. The Time Tunnel control room monitor Halley's Comet 's 1910 return that caused worldwide panic after Tony and Doug are relocated there. They attempt to organize
5074-427: The future called OTT (acronym for "Official Time Traveler") (played by Del Monroe ) appears in the Time Tunnel control room and abducts Dr. Ann MacGregor. Ray discovers a metal punched card presumably dropped by OTT that has a set of space-time coordinates. Kirk directs Ray to transfer Doug and Tony to those coordinates, which place them on a planet in the system of the star Canopus in the year 8433 A.D. They are in
5160-477: The historic Bat Masterson in his exploits in the battle. Tony and Doug's final adventure before being returned to the Time Tunnel took them to Saint Louis, Missouri sometime in the distant future. The American populace is menaced by aliens setting up a force field. Tony and Doug were able to utilize a vehicle capable of moving in both time and space developed by the Time Tunnel while they were in Adobe Walls. It
5246-585: The intrusion of the time travelers, and in a few cases, their historical research allows for it. Episode 26 ("Attack of the Barbarians") explores the scenario of one of the time travelers falling in love with someone from the past: Tony and the Princess Serit, daughter of Kublai Khan . Marco Polo tells Doug, "Can they not touch each other?" History itself hints at the possibility of Serit marrying Tony as Ann informs General Kirk. The historical information on Billy
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#17330846200895332-401: The location of a golden mask, the symbol of ruling authority to these Indians. Doug and Tony arrive before the torture begins and are captured trying to save the royals. Once Cortés gets the information he wants, he kills the king and queen but keeps the timid royal heir alive for the moment. While Cortés is away watching the burning of his ships to prevent the rebellion of his troops, a member of
5418-585: The opening and closing credits heard in each episode of the series was composed by John Williams (credited, as in Lost in Space , as "Johnny Williams"). GNP Crescendo later released an album featuring Williams' work and the score composed by George Duning for the episode "The Death Merchant". The series won an Emmy Award in 1967, for Individual Achievements in Cinematography . The award went to L. B. "Bill" Abbott , for his photographic special effects . While
5504-570: The opportunity of saving the life of Senator Clark's grandmother, Julie Bowen. If Tony and Doug had not gone back in time and saved her, Senator Clark would have ceased to exist. The second time and place Tony and Doug are relocated to is the Texas prairie near Adobe Walls, Texas , June 26, 1874. They are picked up by a traveling group of hunters tracking bison at the scene of the massacre of another group of bison hunters by Comanche warriors. Tony and Doug travel with them to Adobe Walls just in time for
5590-477: The opposing army's strongest point. General Southall fails to convince his ancestor, and both Southalls are killed in the battle. Tony and Doug arrive on Krakatoa island the day it erupts in August 1883 . They prevent young Indonesian being sacrificed by his companions, who are guides for Dr. Holland and his daughter. Dr. Holland is scientifically investigating the loud volcanic explosion a few months earlier. Karnutu,
5676-462: The past and future. Episodes 2–23 begin with the following narration (voiced by Dick Tufeld ): Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and 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. Tony and Doug become participants in past events such as
5762-461: The pirates' plans. The pirates head for their ship to engage in battle. Tony is hit by a shot on the beach is and presumed dead. The pirates take Armando and Doug onto their ship during the battle. Tony recovers and swims out to the U.S. flagship. The Time Tunnel personnel accidentally transfer Captain Beal back to HQ, and he causes a ruckus and kidnaps Ann. She persuades him to go back to his ship, where he
5848-462: The present happens often in the series, but the only occasion in which Tony and Doug return to their own time occurs in "Merlin the Magician", when the great wizard uses magic to bring them home in suspended animation so he can instruct them to perform a mission for him. In the course of the series, Doug, Tony, and the Time Tunnel personnel discover that events of the past can be altered to some extent by
5934-674: The production of the series; Colbert and Darren shot their scenes in another studio, on the 20th Century Fox backlot , or on location, while those who portrayed the Time Tunnel personnel filmed all their scenes on a revised and smaller Time Tunnel control room set (due to the production having to use a smaller sound stage than used during the pilot filming). Some episodes featured space aliens who wore costumes and carried props originally created for other Irwin Allen television and film productions. Prop sets were similarly reused. The prop computer, however, had an unusual degree of verisimilitude because it
6020-419: The project, which has cost $ 7.5 billion (equivalent to $ 66 billion in 2023), is worth continuing. Senator Clark feels the project is a waste of government funds. When speaking to Phillips, Kirk, and Newman in front of the Time Tunnel, he delivers an ultimatum – either they send someone into time and return him during the course of his visit or their funding will cease. Tony volunteers for this endeavor, but he
6106-447: The rightful heir of Genghis, but must defeat Kublai Khan . Doug is believed dead, and Tony is tortured on the rack for information about a nearby enemy fortress. Batu and most guards leave when Tony passes out. Doug wakes up and carries Tony away from the camp, where Marco Polo finds them. Tony and Doug seek safety in the fortress, where Tony falls in love with Princess Sarit ( Vitina Marcus ), Kublai Khan 's only daughter. Batu devises
6192-406: The room, Galba says Tony and Doug are his neutral American guests. The German major orders them to remain in the room as prisoners while the Germans use the villa to observe Italian forces. Nero's ghost possesses a German officer and tries to kill Galba's descendent, whom Nero blames as his assassin. The ghost also tries to kill the nobleman by possessing Tony. Project HQ utilizes the services of
6278-722: The shopkeeper and the dauphin can board a ship taking them to freedom. The ring experiment ultimately fails; Doug and Tony are transferred to another time period just moments before being shot, while the ring is transferred, by inference, back to Kirk. Tony and Doug arrive on an alien spacecraft in space above the Americas . Two aliens soon appear and force Tony and Doug into a translation chamber. The aliens say they are taking all Earth 's protein (food) and leaving no one alive, as they have done with other planets. The aliens describe three kinds of people: those who cooperate, those who can be made to cooperate, and those whom they must kill. "Resistance
6364-580: The team prove that their alien ship was not destroyed, or face destruction of the Earth. After being shown an image of the ship leaving Earth safely, the aliens leave. Tony and Doug arrive at the Italian Alps just outside fictional Villa Galba during the Italian Campaign in World War I , and enter the cellar to avoid an artillery bombardment. A German advance team arrives at the villa. A German corporal
6450-578: The time-spatial "fix" on the comet causes its gravitation force to pull anyone or anything not strapped down into the Tunnel. Ray rescues technician Jerry from being pulled into the tunnel. Ray, Ann, and General Kirk later discuss the risk of subjecting the Time Tunnel complex and personnel to continued attempts to rescue Doug and Tony. Ray feels they may be forced to choose to shield Time Tunnel personnel over Doug and Tony. General Kirk wants to continue while working in safeguards. Tony and Doug arrive in Louisiana
6536-536: The title Berkhart . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berkhart&oldid=342002830 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Benjamin Berkhart The Time Tunnel
6622-577: The tribe frees the royal heir as well as Tony and Doug. The four of them try to retrieve the mask before the Spaniards gain it. Tony and Doug arrive somewhere in the Mediterranean on a pirate ship during the First Barbary War and are captured and taken to an island. Captain Beal ( Victor Jory ), a Barbary pirate , orders that the strangers be shot. However, the nephew of the king of Spain, Armando,
6708-418: The tunnel's fix on them is strong, Ray attempts to retrieve them. This is forestalled by OTT once again materializing in the tunnel control room to extract the time-spatial conversion unit. Doug, Tony, and Ann witness OTT's return to the alien complex with the unit. They now face the danger of being rendered vegetables like the three historical figures seen there— Cicero , Erasmus and Hitler , but they discover
6794-453: The wounded American sailors. Dr. Berkhart arrives and treats Doug's shock with an injection and administers an anesthetic to Armando. Happy knowing he will live out the remainder of his life in this time period, Dr. Berkhart goes to look after the wounded sailors as Tony and Doug are switched to their next adventure. Tony and Doug arrive near the Grand Canyon , Arizona , in 1547. Back at HQ,
6880-597: Was also captured and pleads for the lives of the Americans, saying Tony and Doug can watch over him until a ransom can be paid. Doug, Tony and the boy attempt several escapes, but are recaptured each time. Beal then decides to kill Doug and Tony for good, but the shelling from several U.S. Navy ships—commanded by Captain Stephen Decatur , who has arrived to defeat the pirates in the First Barbary War—puts an end to
6966-442: Was an American color science fiction television series written around a theme of time travel adventure and starred James Darren and Robert Colbert . The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen 's third science fiction television series and was released by 20th Century Fox Television and broadcast on ABC . The show ran for one season of 30 episodes from 1966 to 1967. A new pilot was produced in 2002 but failed to proceed to
7052-530: Was an array of memory modules from the Air Force 's recently decommissioned SAGE computer. Continuity errors and errors in historical fact occurred in the series. In the premiere episode, "Rendezvous with Yesterday", Captain Smith of the Titanic is called Malcolm, when historically, his name was Edward. The names of the secondary officers are also fictitious, though Walter Lord 's best-selling non-fiction book about
7138-626: Was as the voice of the Robot in the television series Lost in Space and in the Lost in Space movies. Born in Los Angeles, California, to a Russian father and a Canadian mother, he spent his childhood in Pasadena , California. Tufeld attended the Northwestern University School of Communication , then known as the university's School of Speech. In 1945, he obtained a job as an engineer at KLAC ,
7224-525: Was cast in assorted roles in fifteen episodes of Gene Autry Productions 's syndicated television series, Annie Oakley , which starred Gail Davis and Brad Johnson . Tufeld is perhaps best known as the voice of the B9 Robot in the CBS television series Lost in Space , a role he reprised for the 1998 feature film . He also provided narrations for many other Irwin Allen productions, such as ABC's Voyage to
7310-553: Was in enemy territory. Dick Tufeld Richard Norton Tufeld (December 11, 1926 – January 22, 2012) was an American actor, announcer, narrator and voice actor from the late 1940s until the early 21st century. He worked constantly and continuously throughout this lengthy career and was one of the busiest announcers in television history. He was a well-known and well respected presence on television as an announcer on countless television shows, award shows, network promos, radio and movie promos but his most famous and beloved role
7396-573: Was not a supernatural event, while Ray is convinced it was supernatural. Tony and Doug are transported to a new era after telling Rahab she will be safe. Hernán Cortés ( Anthony Caruso ) has captured the royal family of the Tlaxcalan people of Mexico just as his army of 3,000 Tlaxcalans begins its deadly rampage through Cholula during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire . He is questioning them about
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