'The Death Trap' Story Code '9613' by Leonard Stadd

February 1861: The two time-travellers materialise inside a barn, where they are mistaken for fellow conspirators by a group of men plotting to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. The leader of the conspirators, Jeremiah, is planning to kill the president while he travels through Baltimore on the way to his inauguration; this act will then be blamed on Southern secessionists, causing the forces of the North to attack the South, which will then help to abolish slavery. The meeting is interrupted by the arrival of Pinkerton and his men; in the confusion Doug is arrested, while an unconscious Tony is taken by Jeremiah and his brother, Matthew, to the safety of a house located by a railway line. While Jeremiah makes plans to hide a home-made time-bomb on Lincoln's train, Doug attempts to prove his innocence to Pinkerton; the officer refuses to listen to him, but is interrupted when Lincoln's train arrives. The president voices his concerns over the elaborate precautions Pinkerton is taking over security, until Doug informs him of the bomb-plot. Meanwhile, Jeremiah and Matthew tie-up Tony and leave him with their younger brother, David, while they head off to plant the bomb at the train depot. Tony frees himself and goes to find the bomb, but his attempts to defuse the device prove fruitless; he tries to throw it away, but the bomb lands near David, who has followed him. The Tic-Toc personnel decide to use the Time Tunnel to relocate the bomb to a safe place - but when they transfer the deadly device, David is trapped in the beam and swept up along with the bomb…

Cliff-hanger: Tony and Doug arrive amidst some Mexican troops attacking a desert fort. One attacks Doug, only to die from a rifle shot…

James Darren (Tony Newman), Robert Colbert (Doug Phillips), Whit Bissell (Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk), John Zaremba (Doctor Raymond Swain), Lee Meriwether (Doctor Ann MacGregor), Scott Marlowe (Jeremiah), Ford Rainey (Abraham Lincoln), Tom Skerritt (Matthew), R. G. Armstrong (Pinkerton), Christopher Harris (David), Richard Geary (Carver)

Directed by William Hale
Produced and created by Irwin Allen
An Irwin Allen Production in Association with Kent Productions, Inc. and Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc.

TX:
US TX - 2nd December 1966

Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Tony Newman, Doctor Doug Phillips, Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk, Doctor Raymond Swain and Doctor Ann MacGregor