The Time Tunnel
Summary: Good concept with lots of potential. Under-developed script. Horrible acting, painful to watch at times. Too serialized. Predictable episodes
More Detailed: Seemed to have been designed to teach people not to try to mess with history. Shows very little realism, mostly over acted and mostly completely fabrication of how some fantasy writer envisioned military security and scientific methods to be. The acting is very much 50's: stiff, over-done, and comical. And of course, they wear the same clothing, which miraculously, no matter how dirty they get, are completely clean in the following episode. Not to mention their hair...
The characters, supposedly the two head scientists of the project, act like little oblivious children, who seem not the slightest worried about all their interfering in past events, during most episodes; where they are usually emotionally affected by, and repeatedly attempt to change history. Instead of focusing on preserving it by not interfering and working out a way to get back to their own time, in good health. With the rest of the scientific team, back at project central, monitoring their experiences and trying to keep them alive by having them time jump out of danger to unknown periods, always continuing in the episode following the current one. The series was suddenly ended by ABC, so there was never a "return home" episode aired.
Summary: Good concept with lots of potential. Under-developed script. Horrible acting, painful to watch at times. Too serialized. Predictable episodes
More Detailed: Seemed to have been designed to teach people not to try to mess with history. Shows very little realism, mostly over acted and mostly completely fabrication of how some fantasy writer envisioned military security and scientific methods to be. The acting is very much 50's: stiff, over-done, and comical. And of course, they wear the same clothing, which miraculously, no matter how dirty they get, are completely clean in the following episode. Not to mention their hair...
The characters, supposedly the two head scientists of the project, act like little oblivious children, who seem not the slightest worried about all their interfering in past events, during most episodes; where they are usually emotionally affected by, and repeatedly attempt to change history. Instead of focusing on preserving it by not interfering and working out a way to get back to their own time, in good health. With the rest of the scientific team, back at project central, monitoring their experiences and trying to keep them alive by having them time jump out of danger to unknown periods, always continuing in the episode following the current one. The series was suddenly ended by ABC, so there was never a "return home" episode aired.