The Time Tunnel is how I learned about the Titanic. One of the episodes (maybe the first?) took place on board that ship, and that was the first time that I've heard of it.

We won't talk about the amount of 20th century history I know because of Quantum Leap (or at least knew when I was a kid. I like to think I'd have gotten here by now, either way).

English was much more confusing when I was too young to know anything about it.

This is true for many native speakers, as well

One of the episodes (maybe the first?)

Yes, the first episode.

Funny how they just randomly ended up in historically significant times....

It took me years to realize what's going on with that. English was much more confusing when I was too young to know anything about it.

Heh. It's always funny to look back at stuff that was so mystifying as a kid...

Time Tunnel eventually succumbed to the same problem that Sliders did. The producers decided that the original premise of hopping around from place to place wasn't good enough, they had to go around hopping from place to place and battle evil alien invaders.

So the Time Tunnelers would travel to the Old West, and there would be flying saucers and shit.

We won't talk about the amount of 20th century history I know because of Quantum Leap

A friend of mine aced an history exam thanks to knowledge she picked entirely out of "Winds of War" (I"m not sure about the name of the book - a novel about an American family in WWII). If I didn't read historical books, I'd know way less than the embarrassingly-little I know now about history, at all.

This is true for many native speakers, as well

I have an even more silly story about how I didn't understand something in Hebrew. It was my former roommate's favorite story for a time. She used to introduce me to people as "that girl from that name confusion story". Sadly, however, it only works in Hebrew, because it's a misunderstanding of an Hebrew word that becomes an Hebrew name, and before you know it I've named the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood.

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if tommyrot knows a show, why am I not surprised that Tom knows about it, too? I'm so glad that you do!

So the Time Tunnelers would travel to the Old West, and there would be flying saucers and shit.

Firefly!]

I've never heard of Time Tunnel.

I've never heard of Time Tunnel.

I'm amazed Castle Gudanov doesn't have one...

It starred James Darren years and years before he showed up in Quark's holosuite.

It starred James Darren years and years before he showed up in Quark's holosuite.

Also, I think it had the best use of turtlenecks of any scifi show ever.

I've never heard of Time Tunnel.

It was done by Irwin Allen, around the same time he was making Lost in Space.

I was vaguely familiar with some of the details about the Holocaust when I was a child, but it was only after seeing a TV movie about the capture of Adolf Eichmann when I was around 12 that I started researching the subject. (They didn't really teach it in school in the 1970s; we were lucky to get past the Great Depression in our American History class.)

I also developed an "historical figure" crush on John Adams after seeing 1776 for the first time at about the same time (junior high or so), and watched the beginning of The Adams Chronicles on PBS as a result.