Senator Clark returns to Washington with the promise that funding will not be cut off to the project, leaving General Kirk in charge. Doug follows shortly after to rescue him, but they both continue to be lost in time.

Defying this decision, Tony sends himself into time. Tony volunteers for this endeavor, but he is turned down by project director Doug Phillips. When speaking to Phillips, Kirk, and Newman in front of the Time Tunnel, he delivers an ultimatum: either they send someone into time and return him during the course of his visit or their funding will cease. Senator Clark feels the project is a waste of government funds. Project Tic-Toc is in its tenth year when United States Senator Leroy Clark (Gary Merrill) comes to investigate to determine whether the project, which has cost $7.5 billion (equivalent to $55 billion in 2019), is worth continuing. The series is set in 1968, two years into the future of the actual broadcast season, 1966-67. Ann MacGregor (Lee Meriwether), an electrobiologist supervising the unit that determines how much force and heat a time traveler is able to withstand. Raymond Swain (John Zaremba), a foremost expert in electronics, and Dr.

The base for Project Tic-Toc is a huge, hidden underground complex in Arizona, 800 floors deep and employing more than 12,000 specialized personnel.

government effort to build an experimental time machine, known as 'The Time Tunnel' due to its appearance as a cylindrical hallway.

Time tunnel