Sixty years ago today, on the evening of 9 September 1966, ABC viewers in America tuning in to a new hour-long adventure series would have watched two young scientists tumble, quite literally, onto the deck of a doomed ocean liner. The Time Tunnel had arrived. It would last barely seven months on the air, a single season of thirty episodes, and yet six decades on it remains fondly, stubbornly remembered by… me.

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 left its launch pad and hurled three men towards the Moon. Exactly one year earlier, the BBC had given us The Time Tunnel's own take on a journey to the Moon. One Way to the Moon was actually my first sighting of The Time Tunnel, having missed the first episode the week before (a fact that still infuriates me to this day).