

The team either uses the stored energy to transport something to the past to assist Tony and Doug, or to switch them to another time and out of danger. Inevitably Tony and Doug find themselves involved in some intrigue or altercation before the team can attempt to retrieve them. Once a fix has been obtained, the team generally begins to generate enough energy to attempt to retrieve the two scientists. The radiation tracking trick allows the project team to view Tony and Doug on a giant view screen that forms at the mouth of the tunnel when needed. Each episode begins with the project team attempting to get a temporal and spatial fix on Tony and Doug. The traveller then gets a radiation bath of blue smoke that enables the project team to later track the traveller in space and time. The basic operation of the Time Tunnel involves the traveller entering a long tunnel of concentric circles that give an optical illusion of a tunnel extending into the infinite distance. Thus setting up the premise for the rest of the series. The episode ends with Tony and Doug being rescued by the Project Tic Toc team only to be switched in time to another location. Against his better judgement Doug eventually joins Tony in the time tunnel and on the Titanic. Newman who has landed on the Titanic in 1912.

Naturally disaster ensues and the team find they are unable to retrive Dr. Despite Doug's instance that its too risky to conduct a human expirement, the rash Tony enters the time tunnel to prove its capability. The senator insists that the scientists prove that time travel is possible before further funding is approved. Doug Philips, who appear to be the lead scientists on the time tunnel project.Ī senator arrives to question the project's billion dollar budget and whether funding should continue. We are introduced to the prinicipal cast, including the young, impetuous, Dr. Underground labratory in the Arizona desert.

The premier episode of the Time Tunnel, "Rendezvous with Yesterday", tells the story of Project Tic Toc set in an Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somwhere along the infinite corridors of time." "Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project.
