YMMV / The Time Tunnel

• Awesome Music: Johnny Williams' theme music and score for "Rendezvous With Yesterday."
• Fair for Its Day: On the one hand, "Massacre" (the Custer's Last Stand episode) has the Native Americans played by white actors and speaking like stereotypical Hollywood Indians. But on the other hand, Crazy Horse and his side are portrayed sympathetically, and Custer comes across as an arrogant Jerkass who brought his destruction on himself. Not bad for a mid-60's TV portrayal of the event, really.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Upon finding themselves in a rocket, Doug warns Tony "If this is one of those early Canaveral jobs, we could be blown up right here on the pad." A year later came the Apollo 1 disaster.
• Nightmare Fuel: The fate of the bad guy in "Chase Through Time", who's last seen crouching of the corner of the hive that's home to giant bees which are coming back right at that moment - and though our heroes have been flung back into the time stream, they can't get a lock on the villain to send him back to Project Tic-Toc.
• Padding: "The End of the World" 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.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • The ill-fated villain from "Chase Through Time" is a young Robert Duvall.
  • Mako gets a showcase as Lt. Nakamura in "Kill Two By Two".
  • Carroll O'Connor has a prominent role in "The Last Patrol".
• Seasonal Rot: Didn't get it nearly as bad as some of Irwin Allen's other endeavors, if only because the series lasted only one season.
• Stock Footage Failure:
  • Most egregiously, a rocket takes off in Mercury-Atlas stock footage and lands with Destination Moon stock footage. Do this◊ and this◊ look like the same rocketship to you?
  • No Mercury capsule in the footage used in the show (no Launch Escape Tower); the Atlas looks like a D-model ICBM with a Mark 2 re-entry vehicle on top of it.
• Tear Jerker examples now have their own page.

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