Your TV Screen Becomes a Portal to the Future in "The Time Travelers"- Tonight!

Tonight on MeTV- a 1964 film foretells the future with a wall-mounted flatscreen TV- but a freak accident turns the screen into a path to a frightening future on a decimated earth- overrun by fierce mutants and the struggling survivors of humanity! It looks like existence could run out of time for “The Time Travelers”!

On a college campus, a group of scientists are perfecting an amazing invention- a screen by which they can view any period of time-past or future! It appears to be working in preliminary tests but is draining enough power that Danny, a technician from their power plant, comes by to warn them that they might have to shut down the experiment if they keep using so much energy. However, Dr. Steve Connors knows they must make this project work or they will lose funding- and begins to crank up various aspects of the system, while being warned about the dangers by the learned Dr. Erik Von Steiner and co-worker Carol White. His adjustments prove to be more than the system can handle- and after circuits get fused and short out, they are amazed to see on the screen, not the campus, but a weird, almost prehistoric landscape. The time selector shows that what they are seeing is over 100 years in the future! Danny then notices something strange about the screen- and, upon getting closer to it- discovers that it is now a portal, which he steps through into the barren surroundings they are viewing!

The scientists worry that the portal is unstable- and Erik goes through the portal to bring Danny back- while Carol and Steve do their best to keep the portal open. Suddenly they see some sort of strange humanoids running after the doctor- and Steve grabs a weapon and heads through to try and save Erik, while Carol fends off some of these mutant beings trying to come after her through the screen. With their window to the future unstable, she heads through to try to warn the others that they must return- only to have the portal suddenly collapse, leaving them stranded in time!

Their troubles are just beginning, as a gaggle of the grotesque locals, who are subhuman mutants, come after them. They flee, finally locating Danny, and try to hide in a cave- that turns out to offer them some strange protection- and an encounter with both humans and android inhabitants!

They are taken into the hidden underground city, home to the only human survivors of a world devastated by nuclear war and no longer able to sustain human life. They meet the leader of these last remains of civilization, Dr. Varno- who informs them that it is the year 2071- and the survivors, along with their android helpers, are working feverishly to build a sort of space ark to transport them all to a new world- which they must finish before the mutants manage to invade and take over their compound. There is one additional problem- there will not be room on the ark for the visitors from the past- so they must try to rebuild their time portal before it’s too late!

This film, which actually gave Irwin Allen the idea for the TV series “Time Tunnel”-and even provided Gene Roddenberry with ideas for “Star Trek”- and not only features a very familiar actor who’s been on our show multiple times -John Hoyt- but also a cameo of a notable figure to horror fans. Of course, we’ll introduce you to the rest of the cast as well, and take time to entertain you with our own visit to the past, a look at a futuristic game show, and a new song- and the ever-annoying Ignatius Malvolio Prankenstein- Imp- makes an appearance. We’ll also give you some info if you are interested in voting in this year’s Rondo Awards for favorites in horror and science fiction, and tell you what category I am included in.

“The Time Travelers” travel to MeTV at this time-8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central time. You can travel over to X/Twitter while the show is on to join in on the live-Tweeting by our Sven viewers- please make sure to include the hashtag #svengoolie in your Tweets. Our Chicago area viewers get a second trip to the desert to deal with “Gargoyles” at 11 am on CW26.

This past week actually marked a full 13 years that we have been on nationally on the MeTV network- and it’s fantastic how our show has grown in popularity, thanks to our viewers all over the country! Thank you all so much for the support!

We are also finally nailing down our appearance schedule for Chicago’s C2E2 convention at the end of this month- make sure you keep checking the “appearances” tab here on our website for full details that will be posted.

A quick reminder NOT to look at the solar eclipse on Monday- but to make sure you look at what we have for you tonight on MeTV!