THE TIME TUNNEL

PIRATES OF DEADMAN'S ISLAND - by Barney Slater


The Time Travellers fall into the hands of the Barbary Coast pirates at the time when Captain Stephen. Decatur is set to clean the marauders out.

Time Travellers Tony and Doug, materializing on the deck of a pirate ship just as it is capturing a Spanish ship, are mistaken for prisoners. Later, at a camp on an island, the brutal pirate Captain Beals, learning there is no one who can ransom them, orders his mote Nom ton to shoot them. But he has also taken captive a boy, Armando, who identifies himself as the nephew of the Kin of Spain, a captive for whom anything the pirates ask will be paid. Appealed to for help by the Time Travellers, Armando asks to have them for servants, but they use their reprieve to make the earliesr possible attempt to escape with the child, vanishing into the jungle, beyond which they think is a city. Instead they find open water and are almost instantly recaptured. In revenge for thier attempted escape,Beals orders his giant strongman Mali to kill the pair. Karate helps them stave off his attack and the three men fight to a draw. Before Beals can decide what to do next with his prisoners, one of his ships comes to the island to report that three American Naval vessels are headed this way. Tony and Doug, aware by now that the period is 1805, figure out that this may be Stephen Decatur, who at this time in history cleaned out the pirates of the Barbary Coast. This they figure, may be one of the pirates' supply islands. At the Time Tunnel, Swain knows exactly where the pair is and, realizing the island is due to be heavily bombarded, works frantically to oust the men. Meanwhile, Tony and Doug, in another attempt to escape with Armando, are caught, this time staked out on the shore so that the rising tide will drown them. Armando finally escapes and cuts them free, but not before Beal recaptures Doug and Armando, leaving Tony, who’s been injured, for dead. Recovering, Tony realizes that the others are on the pirate vessel soon to be demolished by Decatur, so he swims out to an American ship to worn the Captain. Decatur though is committed to battle and can do nothing; so, those in the Time Tunnel have to risk moving Doug and Armando from the heavily bombarded pirate ship even though Tony is not with them. In the meantime, Tony is frantic as he sees the pirate ship go down, but as he helps care for the injured, he encounters Doug and the boy in the ship’s hospital.
C A S T

Dr. Tony Newman ................. James Darren 
Dr. Doug Phillips ............... Robert Colbert 
Dr. Ann MacGregor ............... Lee Meriwether 
Lt.Gen. Heywood Kirk ............ Whit Bissell 
Dr. Raymond Swain ............... John Zaremba


G U E S T  C A S T

Dr. Ben Berkhart ................ Regis Toomey 
Captain Beal .................... Victor Jory 
Mr. Hampton ..................... James Anderson
Stephen Decatur ................. Charles Bateman 
Spanish Captain ................. Alex Montoya
Johnson ......................... Harry Lauter 
Armando ......................... Pepito Galindo


Director ........................ Sobey Martin

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Created: 97/04/24 Updated: 97/12/02