Irwin Allen

writer, creator
TV Series

The Time Tunnel

When the senate threatens to cut off funding for Project Tic-Toc, Tony Newman and Doug Phillips set out to prove that the project is viable, but instead they are trapped moving from one past time (perhaps the Titanic!) to another (could be the first manned mission to Mars) each week.
He could be living in yesterday or next week or a million years from now.
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  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Series

Lost in Space

Three seasons with 2 time-travel episodes.
Danger Will Robinson, danger!
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Series

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

In the fourth season, the futuristic submarine Seaview and its crew had four time-traveling escapades, including the finale.
Suppose we had a working time device. Would we be able to get back aboard Seaview before the explosion, find out what caused it, and prevent it from happening?
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Series

Land of the Giants

When a suborbital ship gets caught in a space storm, it ends up on a planet where everything and everyone is twelve times bigger than normal, providing fodder for adventure and at least two treks through time (“Home Sweet Home” on 12 Dec 1969, and “Wild Journey” on 8 Mar 1970).

The writing, acting and sets had little appeal to me, though I did enjoy Batgirl (Yvonne Craig) in “Wild Journey,” aka Marta, the green Orion dancer from the third season of Star Trek.
But don’t you see: If we never take that flight out, there would have never been a crash, and the others would have never been stranded on this planet.
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  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Time Travelers

ABC-TV picked up this failed pilot (a proposed revival of The Time Tunnel) and aired it as a made-for-TV movie in which Dr. Clinton Earnshaw and his government-sent sidekick Jeff Adams venture back to 1871 to track down a cure for a modern-day epidemic. —Michael Main
He didn’t tell you that we do time research here? That you’re going to travel back in time to 1871?
ABC Friday Night Movie: A mob races through the Great Chicago Fire.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Lost in Space

The Robinsons hope to open up a new planet for colonization—and if they fail there is always Dr. Smith’s time machine to let them try again, unless perhaps Smith goes back even further and . . . —Michael Main
Will Robinson, I will tell you a joke. Why did the robot cross the road? Because he was carbon bonded to the chicken.
The whole crew of the Jupiter Two gather in front of Robbie the Robot on a planet bathed in dark blue light.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel