The Time Tunnel (TV Series) Night of the Long Knives (1966) User Reviews

The young novelist Rudyard Kipling appears as guest on Time Tunnel at Khyber Pass, Pakistan!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 20 March 2024]

For this specific episode no major real events whatsoever, instead the own Rudyard Kipling is attached on the screenplay on a supposed uprising of rebel tribes at Khyber Pass bordering the Pakistan province and Afghanistan, in this arid area ours friends landed around of 1886, as usually both are caught by opposite sides, whereas Doug is seized by the rebels led by the mighty Hara Singh (Malach Throne), Tony shot at temple stays unconscious until be found by until unknown Rudyard Kipling (David Watson), soon they headed to nearby British outpost.

There Tony and Kipling try convince the stubborn Col. Fettretch (Brendan Dillon) to aid the supply caravan toward the fort, due Hara Singh is planning got the provisions, meanwhile at Hara Singh's camp Doug is released by an elder man, soon Doug reaches at Fort and warning the Col. Fettretch over an attack of the rebels, then all them trying persuade a counterattack if not they will lost India for good, to worsen at time complex they don't get any magnetic sign of both, wondering themselves as dead, due the conceptive time machine is bounded a living person on temporal dimension, Jerry tries hard fix the matter.

This episode didn't provide any accuracy concern the divisible India, stating erroneously the whole northern territory as India, actually they hadn't cross-border areas with Afghanistan, further many stock footage are applied in mostly battles sequences neither, they use quite sure the death Valley as backdrop otherwise the real Khyber Pass.

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First watch: 1972 / How many: 5 / Source: TV-Cabe TV-DVD / Rating: 7.

Showmanship

[StuOz · 5 November 2016]

Tony and Doug land in 19th century Asia and run into a conflict with British soldiers.

I have said it in a previous Time Tunnel review and I will say it again: you don't need to be interested in 19th century history to like this series and this episode!

The Time Tunnel/Irwin Allen was often all about making dull things look and sound so interesting by adding great stock music, colourful dialogue and striking location filming: that is what Night Of The Long Knives is all about!

In a nutshell: it is this talent called showmanship and Irwin had it truckloads!

In fact my favourite moment of the hour has NOTHING to do with main plot line at all. It is the final moment after the time travellers vanish into thin air and the reaction from those who almost see it happen.

Historical irony

[bryanbeaty · 9/10 · 21 September 2021]

Watched this episode a couple of weeks after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. I was struck by the stock image of Afghan insurgents attacking a western force with inferior weapons from the mountain tops. Looks kind of like images of Muhajadin attacking Soviet columns in the 80's. This is a good show, it's a bit dated, but like all older sci-if, you have to watch it in the context of the time the show was produced.

Politically Incorrect Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 4/10 · 3 December 2009]

Doug and Tony are transported to 1886 to the British India in the border of Afghanistan. Doug is captured by the men of the rebel Hara Singh that is organizing an uprising called Night of the Long Knives against the invaders from Afghanistan. Tony meets the journalist Rudyard Kipling in the beginning of his career and they head to the British garrison; together they try to convince Colonel Fettretch to attack the Indians and rescue Doug. Meanwhile, the time tunnel personnel are having troubles to give a magnetic fix on Doug and Tony in time.

"Night of the Long Knives" is a politically incorrect episode where the nationalists are the "bad guys" and the British invaders are the "good guys". Again the production uses stock footage for most of the battle scenes. My vote is four.

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