Simply Perfect

Best movie ever!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I remember watching this show also as a kid. I was saddened that they didn't continue it at the time. I too have been waiting/looking for it to show up on TV Land or something eventually, but it hasn't. I think TV LAnd should run it some Saturday or Sunday in the future as an all day marathon type thing. After 40+ years, I'd like to see it again myself. I found it quite funny & it had some good actors of the day portraying the astronauts and the cave man clan. Plus all the dinosaurs & volcanoes always kept my interests as a young person in 2nd grade. This, just like Gilligans Island never ran enough episodes. They were good shows to a person of THIS generation, that maybe the OLDER generations didn't like. You know, the Sinatra, Gary Cooper, & John Wayne generation. I do suppose it was cornball/stupid to those folks, but to a kid like me, I waited for it to come on each and every week.

It made have been labeled as one of the worst sitcoms of the mid-1960's. The short-lived series "It's About Time" ran for one season on CBS-TV producing 26 episodes in color for Gladysya-Redwood Productions in association with the CBS Television Network and United Artists Television. "It's About Time was produced by the same people who brought you "Gilligan's Island",under the creative brainchild of executive producer Sherwood Schwartz. The series starred Jack Mullaney and Frank Aletter as the two astronauts whom after their space capsule made a wrong turn somewhere in outer space,and cracked the time barrier. Astronauts Lt. Hector Canfield(Mullaney),and Captain "Mac" MacKenzie(Aletter) discovered that they were headed back to a world quite different from the one they had left. However,they landed in a swamp smack in the middle of the prehistoric Stone Age,and not far from a tribe of friendly cave dwellers. Among their new prehistoric neighbors were a friendly couple,Shad(Imogene Coca),and Grunk(Joe E. Ross),and their two children,Mlor(Mary Grace),and Breer(Pat Cardi),and their suspicious chief Boss(Cliff Norman),and his wife,Mrs.Boss(Kathleen Freeman).This was basically a standard silly concept of a show that was basically designed for its target audience. "It's About Time" audience were mainly kids and older children,which basically got some good laughs and outrageous comedy from its two main characters who each week got into one mischief situation after another with Aletter in the Alan Hale,Jr.role(as the skipper),and Mullaney in the Bob Denver role(as Gilligan). The episode with the main characters in the prehistoric world were just as corny and laughable as they were and they prove it. One episode of the series that was telecast on January 22,1967 changed all that titled "20th Century,Here We Come!". This was the episode where the astronauts finally got there spaceship repaired,and managed to return to the 20th century,bringing back Shad,Gronk and their children with them. As for the astronauts adjusting to the prehistoric period,their counterparts Shad and Gronk had more trouble adjusting to living in modern day Los Angeles,aka 1967. Even more trouble and hijinks ensues when they have encounters with the superintendent of their apartment building Mr. Tyler(Alan DeWitt),and their supervisor at work at the Army base,General Morley(Frank Wilcox).When it premiere on September 11,1966,the series "It's About Time" was placed on CBS' Sunday night lineup where the show replaced "My Favorite Martian",after four seasons. The show came on after the long-running animal series "Lassie"(which was still on the air and dominating the Nielsens on Sunday nights). Because of the low ratings that this series got,the series was on Sunday nights opposite NBC's "The Wonderful World of Disney",and the ABC action-adventure science fiction laced series "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea",which brought it to its death knell. After 26 episodes,the series was canceled on April 2,1967. To this day,whatever happened to this series? Out of the original cast members after this show ended,only actor Frank Aletter went on to bigger and better things,most known for his portrayal of Professor Irwin Hayden on the Hanna-Barbera live-action serial "Danger Island" which was part of the live action-animation "The Banana Splits Show".

I agree, I remember this show and that SONG and I can remember a few episodes, MY neighbors told me about this show I was like 5 years old at the time when it first aired, and I had no idea what the heck they were talking about. But I watched it and saw a few episodes. I guess looking at the number of episodes maybe I saw all of them there weren't that many. I would at least like to find the song on the internet and hear it....once for laughs. From kids point of view it was a good, clean, wholesome, funny family show to watch, unlike many that are on today! Many shows today other then Star Gate SG1 are a bit racy, Smallville is and show on the Disney channel even many cartoons. This wasn't.

"It's About Time" was a very short lived sitcom released in 1965 that mercifully died a quick death. It's television dreck, full of clichés and cornballs, idiocy peppered with a relentless jangling laugh-track. It may have pleased an eight year old in pajamas with a mouth full of sugar cereal, but apparently not enough of them to remain on the air. One would like to call it charming, simple, and quaint, but remember that it was made by adults working as executives in television production, and adult actors who took acting as their avocation. This television is so ridiculously & admittedly stupid, and it's unsettling to think that it was made by grown-up people.The producers must have decided that the way to create a hit was to take elements from several successful shows and combine them into something new. In this way, "It's About Time" is a amalgamation of what was popular on the box in the USA in 1965. The caveman elements come from Captain Caveman and the Flintstones, the nyuk-nyuk castaways come from Gilligan's Island, and the adventures of two moderns trapped among yokels in the wild is from Green Acres. Sherwood Schwartz had nothing left except the ability to imitate himself.Why did it fail? a) The continual unga-bunga dialect ("Me like sharp stick, take food to mate") is very grating and annoying -- alone it's enough to make you flip the channel. b) No pretty girls to prance about in a tiger-fur bra. Did Eva Marie Saint turn the part down? c) It's hard to cheer for the two dorky spacemen. They don't rouse sympathy or interest.