'Idol of Death' Story Code '9622' by Bob and Wanda Duncan

1519: Tony and Doug arrive in the jungles of Yucatan in eastern Mexico, as an advance guard from Cortez's army is pillaging a native village. When Doug goes to the aid of an old woman the soldiers make to kill him and Tony, but they are saved by the arrival of Cortez, who takes them for enemy spies. While Doug and Tony are tied up, Cortez tortures the old woman’s husband, the village chief, for information on the whereabouts of the tribe's Golden Mask, which he believes will aid his conquest. Having learned that the sacred object is hidden in a cave, Cortez orders his men to kill the chief and his wife; then, aware of a plot against him, Cortez orders that his own ships be burned, so that his soldiers will be unable to turn back. Doug, Tony and the other prisoners are freed by an old Mexican Retainer; together with him and the chief’s son, Quexcotl, the time-travellers escape into the jungle, taking with them a keg of gunpowder. Although Quexcotl merely wishes to save himself, Doug and Tony manage to convince him that he can prevent Mexico from falling without a fight by obtaining the Golden Mask. Heading deeper into the jungle, they find the first marker to the Mask's hiding place, and then prepare an ambush for Cortez and his men. In the present, at project Tic-Toc, Doctor MacGregor contacts the Mexican Embassy for help; they send an archaeologist named Castillano to help – but Castillano has been searching for the Golden Mask for twenty years, and he refuses to reveal Doug and Tony’s exact location unless Lieutenant General Kirk agrees to extract the valuable object first…

Cliff-hanger: Tony and Doug materialise in Lincoln County, New Mexico during the Wild West. When a gang of men on horseback ride in, the two time-travellers warn the Sheriff, but find themselves caught up in a jailbreak by the lawman’s prisoner, William Bonney – otherwise known as Billy the Kid…

James Darren (Tony Newman), Robert Colbert (Doug Phillips), Whit Bissell (Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk), John Zaremba (Doctor Raymond Swain), Lee Meriwether (Doctor Ann MacGregor), Rodolfo Hoyos (Castillano), Lawrence Montaigne (Alvardo), Anthony Caruso (Cortez), Peter Brocco (Retainer), Abel Fernandez (Bowman), Teno Pollick (Young Chief)

Directed by Sobey Martin
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 - 3rd February 1967

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