Time Travelers (1976 film)
| Time Travelers | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Written by | Jackson Gillis |
| Story by | Charles Willard Byrd |
| Directed by | Alexander Singer |
| Starring |
Tom Hallick Sam Groom |
| Theme music composer | Morton Stevens yrd |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Irwin Allen |
| Cinematography | Fred Jackman, Jr. |
| Editor(s) | Bill Brame |
| Running time | 78 minutes (TV broadcast) |
| Distributor | Irwin Allen Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | March 19, 1976 |
Time Travelers is a 1976 Science Fiction movie starring Sam Groom, Tom Hallick, and Richard Basehart. The teleplay was written by Jackson Gillis from a story by Charles Willard Byrd. The film was originally produced by Irwin Allen to be a remake of the 1960s series The Time Tunnel which ran only one season. The pilot did not sell due to litigation and was repackaged as an ABC Movie of the Week
During a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, a young girl in a marching band is the latest victim to fall sick to a deadly virus named "XB". Dr. Clinton Earnshaw (Sam Groom) has been following the outbreak but has thus far only been able to diagnose it. He is told to meet with Jeff Adams (Tom Hallick). Jeff's credentials say he's been sent by Washington to help, but with no medical background, Jeff has little to recommend himself as being anything other than a drag on Earnshaw's limited time. (He sums himself up by describing his M.A. being in sociology from a "Cow College", and having dropped out of the space program.)
Just as Clint's patience is at an end, Jeff reminds him of the discovery over a century earlier of a virus with similar characteristics to XB, but then referred to as Wood's Fever by its discoverer, Dr. Joshua P. Henderson (Basehart). The problem, as Earnshaw and Adams both know, is that all of the notes and any results from Henderson's research and treatment would have been burned up in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. So, if a cure ever did exist, it might have been lost in that fire. After a brief plane ride (in which Adams explains that the only artifact of Henderson that's left is a gold pocket watch), Adams introduces Clint to Nobel prize physicist, formerly of NASA, Dr. Amos Cummings, and his colleague Dr. Helen Sanders, who have been experimenting with time travel. It becomes clear that they have a shared purpose in the two men, Clint and Jeff, traveling back in time to find the cure. The two don period clothing, Clint is provided with a period doctor's bag (but with two modern-technology devices), and, after a briefing on the "rules" of time travel, step through a vault-like door into a room with a view of endless cloud-filled sky. The time-travel process engages, and they are sent on their way.
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