The Time Tunnel (2002) (TV)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Todd Holland

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Unaired 2002 attempt to relaunch Irwin Allen's original series "The Time Tunnel". In this version, a secret Dept...

Plot Keywords:

Unsold TV Series Pilot

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

David Conrad	...	Doug Phillips
Dion Luther	...	Jess Lee
Andrea Roth	...	Toni Newman
Tawny Cypress	...	J.D.
Kavan Smith	...	Flynn
Tracy Middendorf	...	Sheila Phillips
Jake D. Smith	...	Lewis Phillips
Keely Purvis	...	Abbie Phillips
Troy Adamson	...	German corporal #2
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Daingerfield	...	German corporal #1
Robyn Driscoll	...	Launch Tech
Neil Grayston	...	The monk
Adrian Hough	...	German sergeant
Bob Koherr	...	Wix

Runtime:

USA:54 min (pilot)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Quotes:

Toni Newman: FYI. Everytime you sneak a look at my ass, 100 people back at mission control get a good look too.

Movie Connections:

Remake of "The Time Tunnel" (1966)

Another trip down the infinite corridors of time

This was a fascinating & superior updating of the 1966 Irwin Allen series of the same name.Unlike that(and all of Allen's sf series)show, this is an intriguing & well thought-out premise.While attempting to create a clean,renewable,& abundant energy source,the Dept.of Energy inadvertently rips open a time vortex into past ages.A timestorm then ripples throughout these distant eras which in turn causes anomalies that disrupt our present.The TT complex is shielded from these alterations & realize how history has changed.They have plotted 240 anomalies which need to dealt with,so a team of experts are assembled in order to journey back in time in order to correct the errors caused by the anomalies,& then are retrieved back to the present.This would have been a wonderful series had it been picked up.In its premise it answers the problem inherent in all time travel scenarios:the past cannot be meddled with,no matter how benevolent the intentions are,because it may produce harmful ramifications all the way into the present.But here the time-team must restore the past to what we know it should be,their missions are to make things right.While this premise is hardly original & has been used by other TV series such as Voyagers & Quantum Leap,it works.The cast was likable & you cared about them.The fx were terrific.What a shame we won't be watching them return to the past to set things right with those other pesky 239 anomalies that are left.