Could the Large Hadron Collider be turned into a time machine?
Well, it looks about right.
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eon
said...
I've long suspected that the Time Tunnel set was supposed to look like the Krel powerplant in "Forbidden Planet", with a few overtones of "Metropolis".
The Large Hadron Collider does seem to follow the same style sense.
Just before the debut of "The Time Tunnel" the ABC commercials showed people running on catwalks past the Reactor? WarpCore? accompanied by surfer music.
The installation was supposed to be huge. I wish I still had the paperback novelization.
I have both novelizations- well done examples of their type. I also have Murray Leinster's original novel that was the (almost forgotten) basis for the series. It is quite different from what finally ended up on TV. (Hint; a knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars comes in handy when reading it.)
The scenes throughout the series with the white-helmeted MPs running along the walkways above the huge reactor core tower reminded me very much of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
One thing about the Tunnel unit itself is notable in the photo David shows; considering the number of fistfights, gunfights, etc., that happened on the platform, it's always amazed me that none of the baddies ever took a high-dive off it.
eon... There was a SECOND novelization? The one I read (1st?) was Johnstown Flood Indian Attack (Big Bend?) Alien Invasion (what year was that?) [Ha! They had 'fone' booths!]
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I've long suspected that the Time Tunnel set was supposed to look like the Krel powerplant in "Forbidden Planet", with a few overtones of "Metropolis".
The Large Hadron Collider does seem to follow the same style sense.
cheers
eon
Finally we can get Doug and Tony back home.
It's about time...oh wait, that was another show
Just before the debut of "The Time Tunnel" the
ABC commercials showed people running on
catwalks past the Reactor? WarpCore? accompanied
by surfer music.
The installation was supposed to be huge.
I wish I still had the paperback novelization.
Could the music have been
'Walk Don't Run"?
jayessll;
I have both novelizations- well done examples of their type. I also have Murray Leinster's original novel that was the (almost forgotten) basis for the series. It is quite different from what finally ended up on TV. (Hint; a knowledge of the Napoleonic Wars comes in handy when reading it.)
The scenes throughout the series with the white-helmeted MPs running along the walkways above the huge reactor core tower reminded me very much of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".
One thing about the Tunnel unit itself is notable in the photo David shows; considering the number of fistfights, gunfights, etc., that happened on the platform, it's always amazed me that none of the baddies ever took a high-dive off it.
cheers
eon
eon...
There was a SECOND novelization?
The one I read (1st?) was
Johnstown Flood
Indian Attack (Big Bend?)
Alien Invasion (what year was that?)
[Ha! They had 'fone' booths!]
In book 2, did they try to kill Hitler?
RTFM!
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