It's About Time (TV series)
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| It's About Time | |
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 The opening title for It's About Time TV program, which ran on CBS from September 1966 to April 1967. |
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| Format | Science fiction sitcom |
| Created by | Sherwood Schwartz |
| Starring | Frank Aletter Jack Mullaney Imogene Coca Joe E. Ross |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
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| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | September 11, 1966 – April 2, 1967 |
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It's About Time was an American fantasy-based comedy TV series that aired on CBS for one season of 26 episodes in 1966–1967. The series was created by Sherwood Schwartz, and used sets, props and incidental music from Schwartz's other television series in production at the time, Gilligan's Island.
It's About Time was virtually two different series aired under the same title. The first version of the series saw two astronauts Mac, (Frank Aletter) and Hector (Jack Mullany), accidentally break the speed of light, and get thrown back in time to prehistoric days. There, they have to adjust to living with a cave family led by Shadd (Imogene Coca) and Gronk (Joe E. Ross). (In the pilot Coca's name was credited as Shag, changed for the remainder of the series.) Their children were 18-year-old Mlor (Mary Grace) and 12-year-old Breer (Pat Cardi). The chief of the tribe, Boss (Cliff Norton) and his right-hand man Clon (Mike Mazurki) were always suspicious of the astronauts.
Approximately halfway through the season, the show's lower-than expected ratings resulted in the producers suddenly retooling the series by having the astronauts repair their space capsule and return to 1967 with the cave family in tow. The remainder of the season was spent with Shadd, Gronk and their family adjusting to life in the 1960s. A typical episode had Gronk and Shadd learning to write their names and signing them for many salesmen who brought,"presents," which had to be paid for. The astronauts could not convince their superiors at the Space Center that cave-people were living with them.
The show had a catchy theme song which explained the premise of the show (in similar fashion to the Gilligan's Island theme). When the show was re-tooled in mid season, the theme lyrics and visuals were also re-tooled to reflect the change.
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[edit] Personal
It's About Time star Frank Aletter was married to actress Lee Meriwether, who played Dr. Ann Magregor on the Irwin Allen-produced series The Time Tunnel. Both of these series ran during the 1966-1967 season and were cancelled after only one season.
[edit] Cultural References
The punk rock band X incorporated some of the theme's lyrics into their song "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" for the album More Fun in the New World, as a commentary on the direction of eighties music: "Glitter-disco-synthesizer night school/All this noble savage drum, drum, drum/Astronauts going back in time to hang out with the cave people/It's about time/It's about space/It's about some people in the strangest place."
[edit] Episode List
- And Then I Wrote "Happy Birthday to You" (aired: 9/11/1966)
- The Copper Caper (aired: 9/18/1966 )
- The Initiation (aired: 9/25/1966)
- Tailor Made Hero (aired: 10/2/1966)
- The Rainmakers (aired: 10/9/1966)
- Me Caveman - You Woman (aired: 10/16/1966)
- The Champ (aired: 10/23/1966)
- Mark Your Ballets (aired: 10/30/1966)
- Have I Got A Girl for You (aired: 11/6/1966)
- Cave Movies (aired: 11/13/1966 )
- Androcles and Clon (aired: 11/20/1966 )
- Love Me, Love My Gnook (aired: 11/27/1966)
- The Broken Idol (aired: 12/4/1966)
- The Sacrifice (aired: 12/11/1966)
- King Hec (aired: 12/18/1966)
- The Mother-in-law (aired: 12/25/1966)
- Which Doctor's Witch? (aired: 1/1/1967)
- To Catch a Thief (aired: 1/8/1967)
- 20th Century Here We Come (aired: 1/22/1967)
- Shad Rack and Other Tortures (aired: 1/29/1967)
- The Cave Family Swingers (aired: 2/5/1967)
- To Sign or Not to Sign (aired: 2/19/1967)
- School Days, School Days (aired: 2/26/1967)
- Our Brothers' Keepers (aired: 3/5/1967)
- The Stone Age Diplomats (aired: 3/12/1967)
- The Stowaway (aired: 4/2/1967)
[edit] External links
- It's About Time at the Internet Movie Database
- It's About Time at TV Tome
- 'It's About Time' Opening on YouTube
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