THE TIME TUNNEL

THE GHOST OF NERO - by Leonard Stadd


The Time Travellers wrestle with the avenging ghost of Nero during an Italian-German battle in W.W. l.

Tony and Doug tumble out of the Vortex of Time into the basement of a villa in the Italian Alps and soon see that the time is W.W. I. They do not notice that the lid of a coffin has moved in a crumbling crypt and that something unseen has emerged. Meanwhile Germans, under the leader-ship of Major Neistadt and Sergeant Mueller, are moving into the villa to use it as a lookout post. As Doug and Tony run through basement corridors in flight from the Germans, the ghost follows, leaving a sword stuck through a soldier along the way. The two find the villa's owner, Galba, frail and old. He is soon convinced they are Friends, and as they plot to outwit the Germans the pursuing ghost begins to pound on walls and hurl objects. They soon discover he is the ghost of Nero, seeking vengeance on the man who got his throne - Galba, the present Count's ancestor . The ghost enters the body of Mueller and attacks Galba, who is saved by Doug and Tony. In the Time Tunnel, Ann, Swain and Kirk hurry to try to move the pair but find their efforts obstructed by Nero's ghost. Sending for an expert on the super-natural, Steinholtz, they soon see that the ghost is now possessing Tony. Steinholtz recommends shock treatment and the Tunnel directs a momentary current of electricity at him. But as he falls unconscious, the mad .spirit descends on the Tunnel. Steinholtz remembers fire was used against poltergeists in the Middle Ages, and flame guns are sent for. The spirit is then herded into the Tunnel by flames and stubbornly heads back through the Tunnel to the villa of Galba. He appeals to it to take out its vengeance on the real enemy, the Germans. But the spirit attacks him, and Doug, at hand succeeds in knocking it out so that he and Galba can flee. Coming on Tony, still unconscious, they revive him. By this time the battle outside is escalating. The Italians are fighting back like demons, and Neistadt gives orders to abandon the villa and blow it up. But the Italians begin swarming in. They arrive accompanied by a stocky Corporal. The Corporal then encounters Neistadt, and Mueller who are both killed. The ghost there-upon enters the body of the Corporal and Tony and Doug finally see that he is Bent Mussolini. Then they are swept into the Vortex of Time.
C A S T

Dr. Tony Newman ................. James Darren 
Dr. Doug Phillips ............... Robert Colbert 
Dr. Ann MacGregor ............... Lee Meriwether 
Lt.Gen. Heywood Kirk ............ Whit Bissell 
Dr. Raymond Swain ............... John Zaremba


G U E S T  C A S T

Galba ........................... Eduard Ciannelli
Neistadt  ....................... Gunnar Hellstrom
Dr. Steinholtz .................. John Hoyt
Mussolini ....................... Nino Candido
Mueller ......................... Richard Jaeckel

Director ........................ Sobey Martin

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Created: 97/04/24 Updated: 97/12/02