The guys are transported to February 1861 to a barn where a group of conspirators led by Jeremiah plots to kill Abraham Lincoln. They have developed a time bomb but are surprised by a raid o... Read allThe guys are transported to February 1861 to a barn where a group of conspirators led by Jeremiah plots to kill Abraham Lincoln. They have developed a time bomb but are surprised by a raid of governmental agents. Tony flees with Jeremiah.The guys are transported to February 1861 to a barn where a group of conspirators led by Jeremiah plots to kill Abraham Lincoln. They have developed a time bomb but are surprised by a raid of governmental agents. Tony flees with Jeremiah.
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- Pinkerton Agent Scott
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- TriviaThis episode takes place in Baltimore, Maryland on February 21, 1861 and in Arizona in 1968.
- GoofsWhile being tied up by Matthew, Tony is arguing with Jeremiah, who backhands him across the face. But Jeremiah raises his right hand, then the camera angle changes to show him hitting Tony with his left hand.
- Quotes
David Gebhardt: [about the Time Tunnel telling him that Jeremiah's clock is a bomb] They said it was a bomb.
Matthew Gebhardt: No such thing, David.
David Gebhardt: One of the men said it would explode, but I stopped it with a funny-looking tool.
Jeremiah Gebhardt: What man? What man are you talking about?
David Gebhardt: One of the men in the cave.
Jeremiah Gebhardt: There's no cave around here.
Matthew Gebhardt: Leave the boy alone.
David Gebhardt: I found the clock. Then all of a sudden, it was like I was in a big thunderstorm, and then the next thing, I was standing in some sort of cave and everybody wanted me to come out.
Jeremiah Gebhardt: What kind of lying gibberish is this?
David Gebhardt: I ain't lyin'.
- ConnectionsRemade as Timeless: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (2016)
I found the responses of Doug and Tony to Abraham Lincoln surprisingly muted; sure they were concerned about proving their innocence, but I expected a bit more awe that they were in his presence. Ditto for the crew back at the Time Tunnel. Are the general and the scientists getting jaded about seeing the giants of history in front of their eyes? Also the show should have provided a better explanation for the Tunnel's momentary jump to the actual Lincoln assassination in 1865. As the episode played out that foreshadowing seemed unnecessary, especially as it was presented inaccurately -- Maj. Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris were in the box along with the Lincolns and the shooting took place while the theater was darkened for the play onstage. We can read Thomas Mallon's novel, Henry and Clara, for a highly readable and detailed account in a work of fiction; but the 1966 writers also had access to numerous works about Lincoln's assassination (one of the most written-about subjects in U.S. history).
The guest cast was uniformly good and the script was closely focused on the situation in Baltimore. General Kirk and the scientists seemed to have much less screen time than in the other episodes I've seen. Their one extended scene (with the boy who was transferred along with the ticking bomb) seemed concocted mostly to give the actors something to do. The choice of R.G. Armstrong to play Allan Pinkerton was inspired -- Armstrong closely resembles photographs of Pinkerton taken in the early 1860's except that the actor is much taller than the detective was. In an 1861 photo held by the Library of Congress, Lincoln towers over Pinkerton and General McClellan who stand on either side of the President. Since McClellan's nicknames included "Little Mac" and "Young Napoleon" the famous detective must have been on the short side, too.
Amazingly, after 11 episodes in which Ann wears what appears to be the same drab tweed dress under a white lab coat, she finally gets a new outfit -- a blouse with a ruffled collar and a skirt (both in a vivid shade of green) -- underneath the lab coat.
Still, attempting to present real historical figures - Pinkerton and, particularly, Abraham Lincoln - was a risky move. It's one thing if Michael Rennie doesn't match the Titanic's actual Captain Smith but another to tamper with the Lincoln image and persona. So the show's producers, writers and director deserve credit for making the attempt even if they changed the sympathies and motives of the would-be assassins.
- equesrosa
- Mar 15, 2010
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1