Rendezvous with Yesterday — television time travel at full steam
Big ideas, full conviction, and a date with disaster make this one of 1960s television’s most entertaining pilots.
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Dial Set to Adventure: The Time Tunnel on the Late-Night Screen
The studio lights glow, the monitors flicker, and a giant spiral of colour opens across the screen. The Time Tunnel still feels like a thrilling late-night broadcast from television’s most imaginative control room.
Dive Deep — Why Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Still Delights
The night those warning lights began flashing across the Seaview control room, television audiences knew they were in for another hour of glorious undersea trouble. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea still feels like a spirited plunge into the kind of adventurous, handcrafted storytelling that 1960s TV did so well.
Land of the Giants still knows how to make television feel enormous
On a soundstage filled with giant teacups, oversized telephones, and towering furniture, Land of the Giants turned television into a playground of pure imagination. Irwin Allen’s adventure series still feels big-hearted, inventive, and wonderfully fun.