Time Tunnel

Time Tunnel

Release Date:  10/28/1966
Country of Release: 
Length:  50 minutes
MPAA:  TV-PG
Medium:  Video
Genre:  ACT SF
Release Message:  Doug and Tony are (James Darren) transported to the summer of 1876 and witness soldiers slaughtered by Indians in the middle of the desert.
Description:  Doug and Tony are transported to the summer of 1876 and witness soldiers slaughtered by Indians in the middle of the desert. They are hunted and captured by three Indians; however Doug is rescued by the Trumpeter Tim that survived the massacre and is bringing a dispatch from General Crook to General George Armstrong Custer. Doug escapes but the leader of the Indians, Crazy Horse, brings Tony to the Indian camp to get information about the "Yellow Hair". Meanwhile, the Time Tunnel personnel summon the specialist in the Indian Wars period and Sioux descendent Dr. Charles Whitebird to provide information about the location. The researcher advises that the place is Montana and the day is the eve of the day of The Battle of the Little Bighorn, where Custer and the 7th Cavalry Regiment where defeated and annihilated by the Indians led by Sitting Bull. ///// Doug and Tony hurtle nearly 3000 years futureward to the Montana of 1876, days before the Battle of the Little Bighorn that will cost General George Armstrong Custer and his men their lives. Doug tries to persuade Custer away from his ruinous course while Tony attempts to convince the Lakota he landed among that he is an honorable man and that there is nothing to be gained from battling Custer.