‘The Time Tunnel’: The Complete Series DVD review
Probably the best of cult 1960s TV producer Irwin Allen’s shows, The Time Tunnel is perhaps best known for its much-lampooned opening title sequence.
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Probably the best of cult 1960s TV producer Irwin Allen’s shows, The Time Tunnel is perhaps best known for its much-lampooned opening title sequence.
Irwin Allen, the cult producer of various fanciful sixties TV sci-fi shows including Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel and Land Of The Giants, was best known as a purveyor of factually incorrect, faintly ridiculous camp classics.
When one half of comedy horror series The League Of Gentlemen’s acting and writing quartet, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, were commissioned by the BBC to write the first series of this superficially similar oddball production, the assumption was that it may be a lesser variant on the Royston Vasey mould.
So, the second and final season of science fiction TV and disaster movie producer Irwin Allen’s camp 1960s classic finally arrives on DVD.
Based on author Michel Faber’s best-selling romp of a novel, this lavish BBC Two adaptation presents Victorian London as a hellish, heady brew of filth, degraded innocence and hypocrisy.
That age-old question writers can’t help asking – what would you do for love – crops up again in this new two-part existential drama about a normal couple facing a terrible, life-changing decision.
“Cancer is not a gift; cancer is not a passport to a better life.” So says Laura Linney as Cathy, the lead in the US channel Showtime’s new dark sitcom, The Big C. Kinney’s line, in rebuke to some happy-clapping Bible support group members, could also be taken as a rejection of possible preconceptions about this show.
If you grew up any-time between the late sixties and the early nineties, the chances are you may remember a curious clutch of kitsch science fiction shows under the stable of the prolific TV and film producer Irwin Allen. No? Well, how about the names Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and this release, Land Of The Giants?
There was a time when all live-action UK children’s TV shows were faintly disturbing with an oddly melancholic synth score. Or, at least from the success of ITV’s T-Bag, you could draw this conclusion.
What with particularly turbulent times in the Middle East recently, this epic four-part war saga from BAFTA award-winning director Peter Kosminsky (Warriors, The Government Inspector), set in the disputed Palestinian territories, certainly has a timely feel.