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A little something I wrote for the Irwin Allen News Network to celebrate 60 years of The Time Tunnel.

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https://www.iann.net/timetunnel/fun/step_back_in_time.htm

Happy 60th Anniversary to The Time Tunnel

#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #RetroSciFi #ClasicTelevison #1960s

https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/the-time-tunnel-at-sixty/

The Time Tunnel celebrates its 60th anniversary next month. But if you get MeTV and want to start celebrating early, Dr Tony Newman will be activating The Time Tunnel again at 4am Eastern / 3am Central early Sunday, 8/9, on MeTV (4am Pacific / 3am Mountain on the western feed).

#TheTimeTunnel #JamesDarren #IrwinAllen #MeTV #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi

Happy 95th birthday to Robert Colbert, forever Dr Doug Phillips of The Time Tunnel.

#TheTimeTunnel #RobertColbert #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi #TimeTunnel

https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/the-time-tunnel-doug-vs-the-ghost/

Two things that sci-fi fans of my vintage used to do that are now obsolete. One was holding a microphone up to the television's speaker to record an episode of Doctor Who or Star Trek. The other was taking photographs of the telly.

#RetroSciFi #Telepics #TheTimeTunnel #LeeMeriwether #JamesDarren #IrwinAllen

The Time Tunnel meets the Space Race.

A look back at One Way to the Moon, the Apollo era, Destination Moon, and why this thrilling episode still captures the imagination.

#TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi #JamesDarren #RobertColbert #TheSpaceRace

https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/the-time-tunnel-one-way-to-the-moon/

#LandOfTheGiants #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi

Remembering Irwin Allen, who was born 110 years ago today. Flawed though his sci-fi productions were, they gave me a great deal of joy growing up, especially The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.

Here he is directing Don Marshall and Gary Conway on the set of the very first episode of Land of the Giants. The fact that the Spindrift crash-landed on the giant world on 12 June was a deliberate in-joke.

#IrwinAllen #LandOfTheGiants #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi

Mystery solved...

#LandOfTheGiants #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi #AlfredHitchcock #TheBirds

https://afanofacertainage.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/the-giants-is-coming-and-thats-no-mistake/

Here we have a promotional Land of the Giants badge. Well, here in the UK we'd call it a badge; in the States it's a button or a pin. Whatever you want to call it, it was produced in the 1960s, and as a little boy I would have worn it proudly if only it had been available in the UK.

I have to say, though, the wording puzzles me. Why has "are" been changed to "is"? This might be a question that one of my American friends can answer for me.

#LandOfTheGiants #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi

ALTHEA
Look, why don't you let me tell
the Captain that you didn't mean
what you said and that you
won't mention it again.

TONY
I can't promise that, Althea. Not
when I know what's going to happen.

ALTHEA
You don't know! Nobody knows. You can't!

Many happy returns to Susan Hampshire, Althea Hall in the pilot episode of The Time Tunnel, "Rendezvous with Yesterday".

#SusanHampshire #TheTimeTunnel #JamesDarren #IrwinAllen #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi