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Marathon on DECADES channel Saturday Oct 22, 2002 through 6 AM ET on Monday Oct 24; Trivia


One season and airings are not all in order.

DECADES is a MeTV affiliate available over the air in the USA and Canadian border areas, and on some cable TV systems.

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The two main cast members are still alive. Robert Colbert is 91. James Darren is 86 and had a more lucrative acting career.

Trivia:

After one season of good reviews, but mediocre ratings, ABC offered to renew the series if Producer Irwin Allen would cut his budget by one-third. He refused, and the series was cancelled, to be replaced in the fall of 1967 by Custer (1967).

At the time of its production from 1966 and 1967, this series was the most expensive television show ever produced by any studio. The Time Tunnel complex took up two huge sound stages at 20th Century Fox.

Due to the cancellation of the series after one season, Doug and Tony never returned home. In the DVD interview, Robert Colbert said that had the show been renewed for another season, Irwin Allen was planning to have the time tunnel finally bring them home, and the new scripts would have them going into the time tunnel each week to "fix" wrongs that happened in history, much like Quantum Leap (1989).

Opening and closing theme music was composed by John Williams under the name "Johnny Williams".

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