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"The Death Trap"
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TTT episode
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1.12/12th of 30 aired
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First aired
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Written by
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Irwin Allen, Theodore Apstein
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Directed by
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Irwin Allen, Leonard Stadd
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Summary[]
Tony Newman and Doug Phillips tumble out of the time vortex into a dimly lit barn where armed men, led by the fanatic Jeremiah, are holding a meeting. Jeremiah means to kill Lincoln as he travels through Baltimore on his way to his inauguration. Jeremiah's fear is that Lincoln will make peace with the seceding states in the South. His assassination will be blamed on the Southern secessionists and the North will then attack the South, abolishing slavery. With Tony and Doug being accepted as part of the movement, the meeting is raided by Pinkerton, who has been tipped off about the plot.
Newman and Phillips are separated then; Phillips is detained by law enforcement, and Newman flees, ending up in the house of Jeremiah Gebhardt, who is planning to kill Lincoln. He and his brother Matthew go over the plan of bombing the train that will bring Lincoln to town by a time bomb that Jeremiah built. Newman gets on Jeremiah’s bad side by constantly telling him his plan will fail, which results in Jeremiah bounding and gagging him as he hears the train come in earlier than expected, so he leaves to plant the bomb; meanwhile Phillips is being interrogated by law enforcement.
Newman and Phillips must free themselves of their captors to try to prevent the assassination from happening (as this was in 1861, which Lincoln did not actually get assassinated until 1865), and meanwhile the crew at Project Tic-Toc is researching the time period and must try to bring the bomb to their time to deactivate it.
Cast[]
- James Darren as Dr. Tony Newman
- Robert Colbert as Dr. Doug Phillips
- Whit Bissell as Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk
- John Zaremba as Dr. Raymond Swain
- Lee Meriwether as Dr. Ann MacGregor
- Scott Marlowe as Jeremiah Gebhardt
- Christopher Harris as David Gebhardt
- Tom Skerritt as Matthew Gebhardt
- Ford Rainey as President Abraham Lincoln
- R.G. Armstrong as Allen Pinkerton
Links[]
The episode can be viewed at hulu.com at The Time Tunnel channel