THE TIME TUNNEL

CHASE THROUGH TIME -- by Carey Wilber


When a technican-turned-spy plants a bomb in the Time Tunnel Complex, then escapes through the Tunnel into time, Doug and Tony's job is to find him.

The Time Travellers, Doug and Tony have just arrived in the Grand Canyon in 1547 when something goes wrong at the Time Tunnel Complex. A technician, Nimon, kills the scientist at the controls, who falls across the console so that conflicting signals nearly tear the travellers aport. Nimon, then replaces a bus-bar in the Phase Synchronizer with one he has with him. Alarms go off, and a chase is quickly organized as Nimon flees through the Complex while Ann and Swain work feverishly at the console to help the writhing Doug and Tony. Nimon dashes to the Tunnel, cuts off the picture of Doug and Tony, and himself vanishes into time. As Nimon's effects are searched and evidence is found that he's a spy, a much worse problem comes up. Coded instructions say he's to plant a nuclear device in the Complex before going off the job at midnight. It is of utmost importance for Doug and Tony to locate Nimon, who has been transferred to their present time, and learn from him the location of the bomb. In the Grand Canyon, Doug and Tony draw Nimon to them by making a fire, then they trap him. The Tunnel meanwhile has been reset, and Nimon is transferred first and the Time Travellers a moment later. The two find themselves in a beehive-like structure and are instantly taken charge of by an armed man, Vokar. It is, in fact, a million years in the future. and the Time Travellers are prisoners of a society as rigidly structured as that of bees. Nimon is there, too, but he has gone through a time warp and has been with Vokar's people for ten years - working on a Time Tunnel! He tells Doug and Tony his Tunnel is their only hope of getting back, for the U.S. Tunnel was destroyed a million years ago. But they feel his bomb may not have gone off and there may still be time to save the Tunnel. All they learn is the time, 3 A.M., where :he bomb is go off, and they' communicate this to the Tunnel, where it is already after 12, Ordered to assist Nin,on in his project, Doug and Tony resist and are punished. But they get into worse trouble when a pretty worker, Zee, is sentenced to death for helping them and they try to save her. Before they can be killed, the Tunnel works to move them. But they, by now, have trapped Nimon and try to make him talk. In the extremity of the effort to move then, the Tunnel overshoots, and the men, with Zee, are transferred to 1,000,000 B.C. There, in dodging a prehistoric monster, Nimon falls into quicksand and will not reveal anything until rescued. They all but lose their lives doing it, only then to be menaced by Vokar, who is armed. But he learns human feelings, and whecn the five of them fall into a hive of giant bees, Vokar orders Nimon to tell Tony and Doug what they want to know. At the Tunnel, now only Ann and Swain remain and hear Nimon say that his bomb is to be activated by the bus-bar in the Phase Synchronizer. It's found and removed, and Ann then moves Vokar with Zee, to their own time. Then, as the giant bees buzz near Nimon, she picks up Doug and Tony in the Vortex of Time.
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
Sgt. Jiggs ...................... Wesley Lau


G U E S T  C A S T

Vokar ........................... Lew Gallo
Nimon ........................... Robert Duvall
Zee ............................. Vetina Marcus
Magister ........................ Joe Ryan


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

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