The Walls of Jericho

Joshua, the leader of the Hebrews after Moses dies, is the central historical figure in this episode of the Time Tunnel. Doug and Tony come sprawling into his camp which is located just outside the walls of the ancient city of Jericho. About 40 years after the Hebrews made their exodus from Egypt, they fought a decisive battle at Jericho in order to establish a beachhead in the new homeland. Jericho was a walled city and presented a major obstacle to the Hebrews because it was right smack in the middle of their path into Canaan, the Promised Land. Doug and Tony both refreshingly acknowledge the Biblical story of Jericho as fact during their initial encounter with Joshua and quickly become his allies. Their goal becomes the infiltration (and spying) of the interior of the city--the same two spies as mentioned in the Bible. Do the walls come down as told in the Bible? Watch this episode to see if the doubting Dr. Ann McGregor is correct or the believer General Kirk is correct.

Doug and Tony are transported to the camping of Joshua, the leader of the Israelites. Tony discloses secrets that only Joshua knows and he believes the two time travelers have been sent by God and assigns them to spy the city of Jericho. The two scientists help the virgin sister of the harlot Rahab from a sacrifice to Khemosh and Doug is captured by the captain and arrested in the dungeon of Jericho. However, Rahab helps Tony to rescue his friend but is betrayed by her servant Ahza.

"The Walls of Jericho" is an engaging episode of "The Time Tunnel" based on the Bible. It is funny to see the two time travelers transforming in biblical characters. In accordance with the biography in IMDb, the beautiful and sexy Myrna Fahey dies a couple of years later of cancer. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "O Túnel do Tempo" {"The Time Tunnel")

The Time Tunnel is one of my very favourite television shows of all time and a big part of the show's appeal is not the the two leads (James Darren, Robert Colbert), but rather the fact that the series had such huge variety in settings/times. This week Time Tunnel is doing a Bible show.

The sets here are a knockout, and they need to be as our time travellers do a lot of running around in different areas and the production team take to the challenge very well.

More Bernard Herrmann movie music is lifted here and Australian actor Michael Pate does a fine job.

I personally would not like it if Time Tunnel did too many Bible shows but the odd one does add to the essential variety of the show's premise.