History Series / TheTimeTunnel

* GrandfatherParadox: In "The Day the Sky Fell In," Tony tries (sort of) to save his father from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Initially he sets out to only find out what really happened to him, but in another example of YouCantFightFate he soon tries to warn his father about the impending bombing. There is also some hand-wringing by the Project team about what happens if they Tony's seven-year-old self is killed by his adult self changing history.

* Seppuku: Undermined in "Kill Two by Two." Nakamura can't bring himself to commit seppuku to atone for his failure as a kamikaze pilot.

** Nicely played with in one episode when Doug's succumbing to a truth serum leads his captors to believe he must be a professional spy who's been conditioned to spout nonsense when drugged.

** StockFootageFailure: Most egregiously, a rocket takes off in Mercury-Atlas stock footage and lands with ''DestinationMoon'' stock footage. Do [[http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Mercury-Atlas.jpg this]] and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Destination-moon-luna_8877.jpg this]] look like the same rocketship to you?

** StockFootageFailure: Most egregiously, a rocket takes off in Mercury-Atlas stock footage and lands with ''DestinationMoon'' stock footage. Does [[http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Mercury-Atlas.jpg this]] and [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Destination-moon-luna_8877.jpg this]] look like the same rocketship to you?

* StockFootage: About 30% of the show was stock footage from various TwentiethCenturyFox films. Naturally leading to...

Creator/IrwinAllen, the man behind ''LostInSpace'' and ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'', also gave us this {{Sci-Fi}} series. The premise? Two [[TheSixties Sixties]] guys, who don't care beans about temporal causality, [[TimeTravel travel through time]], encountering a lot of StockFootage and never quite grasping that YouCantFightFate. MeanwhileInTheFuture, their contemporaries watch and try to decide when things are going badly enough for our heroes that it wouldn't hurt to just send them off to yet another random date.

* IdenticalGrandson: One episode set during the Reign of Terror features Whit Bissel playing one of Robespierre's men as well as his regular role of General Kirk. Kirk is quite confused as his family is from Scotland rather than France, but discovers that this man is from an obscure branch of it that left for mainland Europe.

* {{Revival}}: A pilot for a reimagined ''Time Tunnel'', complete with Tony Newman [[GenderFlip recast as a woman]] named ''Toni'' Newman, was made in 2002 but never broadcast; it's available as an extra on the second DVD set. The SciFiChannel announced another revival attempt a few years later, but it never got out of DevelopmentHell.

* ShoutOut: Part of the unsold {{revival}} pilot takes places in NaziGermany. Two of the heroes masquerade as German soldiers named [[HogansHeroes Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schultz]].

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Doug and Tony encounter Lieutenant NapoleonBonaparte in the French Revolution episode.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe

* {{Padding}}: One episode ends with a brief sequence of Tony being successfully brought back to the Time Tunnel base, but ten years too early, before he came on the project. It's clearly the result of the script coming in short.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: The pilot manages to get the name of the Titanic's captain wrong, despite it being very well known even in those pre-Internet days.

* SnapBack: Tony and Doug inexplicably always end up back in the clothes they were wearing when they went into the tunnel, regardless of whatever period clothes they had on when they left.

IrwinAllen, the man behind ''LostInSpace'' and ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'', also gave us this {{Sci-Fi}} series. The premise? Two [[TheSixties Sixties]] guys, who don't care beans about temporal causality, [[TimeTravel travel through time]], encountering a lot of StockFootage and never quite grasping that YouCantFightFate. MeanwhileInTheFuture, their contemporaries watch and try to decide when things are going badly enough for our heroes that it wouldn't hurt to just send them off to yet another random date.

* YouCantFightFate

* {{Revival}}: A pilot for a reimagined ''Time Tunnel'', complete with Tony Newman [[GenderFlip recast as a woman]] named ''Toni'' Newman, was made in 2002 but never broadcast; it's available as an extra on the second DVD set. The SciFiChannel announced a second revival attempt a few years later, but it never got out of DevelopmentHell.

IrwinAllen, the man behind ''LostInSpace'' and ''VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'', also gave us this {{Sci-Fi}} series. The premise? Two [[TheSixties Sixties]] guys, who don't care beans about temporal causality, [[TimeTravel travel through time]], encountering a lot of StockFootage and never quite grasping that YouCantFightFate. MeanwhileInTheFuture, their contemporaries watch and try to decide when things are going badly enough for our heroes that it wouldn't hurt to just send them off to yet another random date.