The Time Tunnel Logo 'Pirates of Deadman's Island'
Story Code '9610'

by Barney Slater
The Time Tunnel Cast

10th April 1805: Doug and Tony materialise aboard a pirate ship engaged in attacking a Spanish vessel. They are both captured by the marauders and taken to an island camp, where they meet the vicious Captain Beals. When the captain learns that he cannot ransom the two time-travellers he orders them to be executed, but Doug and Tony are saved when a fellow captive, a young boy named Armando, identifies himself as the nephew of the King of Spain; Captain Beals realises he has a prime ransom on his hands, and agrees to Armando’s request to keep Doug and Tony alive as the boy’s servants. But when Doug and Tony later try to escape with Armando the attempt fails, and they are recaptured; furious, Beals instructs his strongman Mali to kill the two scientists, but Doug and Tony use karate to fend off the giant’s attack. When one of the captain’s ships arrives with news that three American Naval vessels are headed towards the island, Doug and Tony deduce that the ships will be under the command of Stephen Decatur, who wiped out the pirates operating off the Barbary Coast. While the personnel at Project Tic-Toc work frantically to save their colleagues from the imminent battle, Doug and Tony try another escape attempt with Armando. But once again they are captured by the pirates - who stake them out on the shore so that they will be drowned by the rising tide…

Cliff-hanger: An enemy agent disguised as a technician infiltrates the control room of Project Tic-Toc, murders the scientist on duty and then sabotages the Time Tunnel - causing it to go wildly out of control…

James Darren (Tony Newman), Robert Colbert (Doug Phillips), Whit Bissell (Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk), John Zaremba (Doctor Raymond Swain), Lee Meriwether (Doctor Ann MacGregor), Victor Jory (Captain Beals), Regis Toomey (Doctor Berkhart), Pepito Galindo (Armando), Alex Montoya (Spanish Captain), Charles Bateman (Stephan Decatur), Harry Lauter (Johnson), James Anderson (Mr. Hampton)

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 - 17th February 1967

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