Sharp-eyed readers remember
the August news about Fox Home Entertainment's upcoming releases, and how
The Time Tunnel was listed among those shows headed our way in 2006. How long into the new year will you have to wait? Just a few weeks, in fact!
January 24, 2006 sees the 4-DVD release of
The Time Tunnel - Volume 1. In it you'll get half of the show's run: the first 15 episodes, in airdate order. On top of that you'll get the unaired pilot for this classic Irwin Allen series, plus the original syndicated TV promo, supplements about "Stills, Comic Books, & Scrap Books," and even an Irwin Allen Home Movie!
For those of you who may not recall, this show - the shortest-lived of the Irwin Allen science fiction shows on television - was about a seven billion dollar project by the government to build a time travel device. As a visiting senator decides whether the project should continue, James Darren as "Dr. Tony Newman" goes into the Tunnel to prove that it works. It does...too well! Newman finds himself on a sinking
Titanic, and it's up to Robert Colbert as "Dr. Douglas Phillips" to go after him and save both their necks. Now, week after week, they go on different adventures through time with the assistance of the team in charge of the tunnel, including the lovely Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann MacGregor.
The format of the show allowed for some great guest stars, and the first episode "Rendezvous with Yesterday" offers a couple of doozies! Michael Rennie, well known for
The Day The Earth Stood Still, is on board the
Titanic as Captain Smith. And the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB.com) says to keep an eye out for a young Dennis Hopper as one of the passengers of the ill-fated vessel. The other episodes on the first DVD set will bring you Carroll O'Connor, Ellen Burstyn, Kevin Hagen, Joe E. Tata, Michael Ansara, Tom Skerritt, and others, including someone perhaps only a
Star Trek fan may recognize: John "Commander Kyle" Winston.
The DVDs run 645 minutes, and will sell for $39.98 SRP. But don't pay full price; you can already
pre-order this title from DVDPlanet.com for just $27.97! We'll have artwork for you on this long-awaited release just as soon as we can, so stay tuned.
