OK, well, this seems like the TIME to ask: does anyone remember a game where you had to go to different historial periods and do certain things, and your actions would move a counter on an orbit? Your goal was to get all the counters (there were multiple orbits) lined up.
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Volans - Aug 16, 2005 9:13:33 am PDT #8564 of 10002
move out and draw fire
tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 9:14:01 am PDT #8565 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
At first I mistook Time Tunnel for Voyagers. Voyagers was about a guy who was part of an organization who went through time and corrected things and ended up with a kid to help him (mostly because the guy sucked with history).
I thought he was helped by a talking dog with glasess....
DXMachina - Aug 16, 2005 9:14:18 am PDT #8566 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Ya know, visually Time Tunnel is sort of the precursor of Stargate.
Nilly - Aug 16, 2005 9:19:35 am PDT #8567 of 10002
Swouncing
It starred James Darren years and years before he showed up in Quark's holosuite.
Oh. My. Goodness. I've never ever made that connection, and his face from "The Time Tunnel" is burned into my scary visual place. Wow. And Vic Fontain was always sort of familiar to me, but I've always assumed it was because he was supposed to look like somebody. I've never even thought to IMDB it. Huh.
I guess I've just assumed that none of the people who participated in this has ever done anything else. Because they were stuck in time or something.
But I've never watched "Lost in Space" or "Stargate", so at least there are more things these (or other) people did that I don't know of, and can still think that they're stuck in time.
tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 9:21:30 am PDT #8568 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone remember a '70s show called UFO? It took place in the '80s and was about some elite guys who fought evil aliens in spinning UFOs.
Ginger - Aug 16, 2005 9:21:58 am PDT #8569 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I watched Time Tunnel when it first ran, but I don't remember anything about it except for the psychedelic time tunnel and an overwhelming impression of cheesiness.
Was The Tripods based on the John Christopher books?
Volans - Aug 16, 2005 9:24:02 am PDT #8570 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I've never seen Time Tunnel, but a friend used to say that going down the escalators to the DC Metro (esp Rosslyn or Wheaton stops) reminded him of the Time Tunnel image.
tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 9:26:16 am PDT #8571 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've never seen Time Tunnel, but a friend used to say that going down the escalators to the DC Metro (esp Rosslyn or Wheaton stops) reminded him of the Time Tunnel image.
Oh, me too.
DXMachina - Aug 16, 2005 9:31:29 am PDT #8572 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Anyone remember a '70s show called UFO? It took place in the '80s and was about some elite guys who fought evil aliens in spinning UFOs.
Yup. It was Gerry Anderson's first attempt at a show using human actors instead of marionettes. Truth be told, the marionettes were better actors.
Nilly - Aug 16, 2005 9:33:47 am PDT #8573 of 10002
Swouncing
Was The Tripods based on the John Christopher books?
Yup, but only the first two.
I first knew about the tv show, as a kid. There were two separate shows, one for each of the first books. I had no idea there is a book. The second show ended when the second part of the book did, all in the middle. We were crashed. When we discovered that not only there's a book, but also that it was translated into Hebrew so that we can actually read it, and finally find out how everything ends, we were so happy, that had we been a wee version of Angel, we would have immediately become a wee version of Angelus. Um, not unlike his puppet in "Smile Time", probably. But our noses wouldn't come off.