HAVE TO AGREE
Along with most posters I also thought a Night to Remember was the best one but thje other two weren't awful I liked all three. Who else remember the firt Time Tunnel episode which was about the Titanic ?
shareI do! I don't remember too much about it but remember the guy who time traveled convinced a girl who had a "terminal" illness to get on a lifeboat. The girl felt since she was going to die she shouldn't take up a place on a lifeboat, he convinced her that in a few years there would be a cure for her.
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That pilot was the series' best episode. Since The Time Tunnel was made at 20th Century Fox studios, it used a lot of stock footage from this 1953 film in that episode. This was before the crime of colorization, so they just used the movie's black & white footage in the color show as is, usually slightly disguised by having color images superimposed over it, or just using the nighttime scenes as they were.
Michael Rennie, who back in the 50s was a Fox contract player, portrayed Captain Smith, but with a black beard instead of a white one like Smith's.
And Rennie I believe delivered the closing narration at the end of the movie, thus providing a small linkage to the film. Interestingly, according to the production memos for "Time Tunnel", Brian Aherne, who had been Captain Smith in the movie was also considered for the part in the pilot. Allen and company were also under orders to not use real names of Titanic passengers/crew with the exception of Captain Smith (who even there was billed wrongly as Captain Malcolm Smith in the credits).
shareYes, I don't know why I didn't mention Rennie doing the closing narration of this (1953) film, uncredited of course. Talk about time travel -- he must have had a slight sense of dejà vu, going back to his old studio to do something Titanic-related once more.
Back then it was common for studios to use their contract players to narrate or provide other voices in their films (on radio broadcasts, records, etc.). Rennie also narrated and looped over the voice of the real-life British biographer of Erwin Rommel for The Desert Fox, who's seen in the film but whose real voice I guess Fox found inadequate.
You're right, Eric, they did label Captain Smith "Malcolm" in TTT. Hmmm.... With that black beard "Malcolm" sported, maybe the real Cap'n Smith took his younger, thinner brother along -- you know, to do the unpleasant chores, like imprisoning stowaways from the future and steering the ship into an ice field.
You guys have been mentioning many of the TV shows which featured Titanic, yet nobody mentions Cloris Leachman as Molly Brown, though I'm not certain I believe it was '56 . . . I womder if it still exists?
shareNo, Cloris Leachman played Molly Brown in the 1979 TV movie S.O.S. Titanic. I always thought she was completely miscast in the part, but then I didn't think much of that movie anyway.
I don't know who was in the 1956 TV dramatization, which the last I heard (admittedly, many years ago), was either lost or only partially existed. Cloris was just 30 then and too young and pretty to play Molly at that point anyway.
No Hob, it isn't lost, we're talking about about the good old Kraft Television Theater production which BTW, can be viewed at YouTube in multiple parts (Here's Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1t7AKLG6Ho
I don't even think Molly was depicted in the production. I'd need to check my copy.