One Way to the Moon

After escaping The Titanic, Doug and Tony wind up ten years in the future, on a manned mission to Mars. Surprised to find the time travellers in the rocket's service hold, the astronauts suspect the two men of being saboteurs...

I've got a big problem with this episode: the time tunnel crew can see where and when Doug and Tony arrive, so why don't they simply put this on record so that the crew of the rocket will be prepared for the eventuality when it happens? If the crew were forewarned, then they wouldn't be suspicious on finding the men on board. It seems so obvious to me that it kinda ruins the fun.

As for the rest of the show, we get stock footage of an Atlas ICBM test launch standing in for the Mars rocket launch, spaceship footage from Destination Moon that looks nothing like the aforementioned Atlas missile, a spacewalk on the exterior of the Mars rocket (also borrowed from Destination Moon), and a fistfight scene on the moon's surface that is clearly not taking place in 1/6th of Earth's gravity.

5/10. Cheap and cheerful Irwin Allen nonsense.

Irwin Allen TV shows and episodes are famous for high action, cheesy monsters, and really dumb plots. But this script is not only intelligent but has barely a glitch - which is amazing for any time-travel story. And the twist at the end with the villain is quite unique.

Doug and Tony jumps to 1978, therefore ten years ahead of their future, on board of the service module of a rocket of project MEM4, in the countdown to head to Mars in a space race with the Soviets. Their overweight does not allow the rocket to reach the escape velocity and the skipper intends to jettison the module; however the speed is reached and the crew formed by Colonel Kane, Major Harlow, Ensign Beard and officer Nazarro discover them and they are considered stowaways. The scientists explain that they are part of the Time Tunnel TicToc Project, and Major Harlow tells that had heard something about this secret project. When the crewman Nazarro discovers that the communication systems had been sabotaged, they blame Doug and Tony while heading to the moon for refueling due to the overburn to reach the necessary velocity. Meanwhile General Heywood Kirk invites three representatives of the MEM4 project to com to The Time Tunnel complex, and one of them is the same Navy Ensign Beard that is one board of the rocket. But neither the personnel of the Time Tunnel nor the crew of the rocket knows that Beard is a traitor.

"One Way to the Moon" was an engaging episode in the 60's with the climax of the Cold War, James Bond, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and many other espionage movies. However, in 2009, both the plot of race against Soviets and the theme of reaching Mars in a rocket are dated. Fortunately the story has no contradiction, since Beard does not see his fate in the future due to the explosion of the control panel and the manhunt to the other traitor. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "O Túnel do Tempo" ("The Time Tunnel")

I just watched this episode on the Blu-ray release, which looks great. I watched the series 54 years ago, when I was 9. Irwin Allen's shows often had a very high cheesy factor when set in the future, but this episode was very well done. The look of the Moon was outstanding! Great sets and visuals! Lots of action and excitement. I was watching it thinking. wow, how could a show this good not get more than one season? So far the first two episodes have been first-rate. Looking forward to seeing the other 28.

Forget what the other reviews are debating! The real problem here is this episode was slow and infinitely BORING! And don't give me that crap about 300 lbs. It's PEOPLE, they weigh so little in comparison to what aboard already: THAT is what no one should be buying! That 2 men cause such a MASSIVE weight shift. HELLOOOOOOOOOO! If the capsule/rocket/spaceship (whatever!) weighs over 20 tons (2000 tons??) 300 lbs of man muscle ain't gonna bother none, yo!

And I don't have a problem either with the space suits being all kinds of candy-colored, Easter egg pastels shades! The HUGE problem is that those costumes are FLIMSY and cover nothing and protect even less! So this title should come with a warning: HUGE SUSPENSION of DISBELIEF NEEDED!

And wow; was Lee Merry Weather boring or what? Just the previous night she was coiffed and made up like a sexpot on Mannix and I'm like: that's the SAME woman?!? What a waste of (artificial?) beauty! (I'm guessing it was all plastic surgeries: the further back in Hollywood time you go, the more skilled were such surgeons!)

As for the very stupid questions: "why the same guy in the future can't remember the past?" and "why couldn't they have logged it in the books so there'd be a record of shmuck showing up in the capsule?" that would be because THAT is happening in the present, DUH!!! The 2 shmucks time-travel NOW and that is altering the FUTURE timeline... ONLY! That never happened in the original timeline and so the 1968 "past" is NOT the actual past of 1978: it is the PRESENT (TV show time) and those shumucks are in the FUTURE and they (people in 1968) are doing EXPERIMENTS currently!!!

It's not gonna be like the Back to the Future photo erasing itself. It doesn't happen simultaneously because ALL time is simultaneous. Your 1968 and your 1978 are NOW so whatever they do in the now 1968 canNOT affect 1978 in progress! HELLO!!! IN PROGRESS!!! It would ONLY affect 1978 when the crew in 1968 chronologically gets to 1978! UGH!!! Why are people so stupid yet they want to their simple minds to explain complicated stuff?! LOL! (Read that one again: maybe you'll get it!)

Even a 9 year old could explain that one to you! It didn't exist in 1978's (apostrophe: pay attention now, meaning it's possessive!!) past of 1968, it's currently being altered. Key word: current. It has to do with alternate timeline creations etc. (I suppose my here writing will be stolen and the tik-tok masses and other hoi-polloi will try to pretend they figured it out, LOL! Whatever I can do to help the stupid get a time traveling clue!)

If you dumb, don't try to THINK complicated matters, cos us intelligent folk know that the most simple answer is it! (Never mind typos, LOL!) And if you're wondering: yes, I have altered timelines more than once (yeah: YOUR timeline, current/future, it was all me!).

IOW, whatever HAS ALREADY HAPPENED in the future TRUMPS whatever you attempt to do in the past. You can only alter timelines and create a new spigot of reality. Got it? Hey, I said Trump!

2/10 for utterly boring episode (and worse reviews posted before mine!)