Series Description:

The It's About Time TV show was a 30 minute comedy series with a sci-fi twist that aired on CBS. It was about two astronauts who somehow broke the "time barrier" during their flight and ended out back in the days of the caveman. Most of the comedy involved the really stupid cave people and the highly intelligent astronauts' difficulties in communicating. In the final eight episodes, the astronauts and the main cave people characters returned to 1966. Then the jokes revolved mostly around the cave people's reactions to and interactions with modern technology.

It's About Time Cast:

Theme Song Lyrics

Title: "It's About Time"

By: "Gerald Fried and Sherwood Schwartz"

It's About Time Trivia:

It's About Time was produced and created by Sherwood Schwartz who was also the mastermind behind "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island".

Gilligan's Island and It's About Time were generally trashed by critics for their goofy comedy but both series were adored by children and those adults who simply wanted to laugh away the stress of their day.

Many of the props used on It's About Time were also used on Gilligan's Island to keep production costs down.

The initial concept of civilized people being stranded from civilization was pretty obviously a rip-off of Gilligan's Island. When the cast returned to 1966, the concept of the cave people living in a society that they didn't understand was modelled after "The Beverly Hillbillies". Actor Frank Wilcox was added to the cast as the astronauts' commanding officer who was nearly identical to the bank President, "Milburn Drysdale" on "Hillbillies". Frank Wilcox actually played the role of "John Brewster" on that series. He was the oil company President who payed the Clampetts for their oil. Unbelieveably, neither of those concepts worked for It's About Time!

Imogene Coca's character was named "Shagg" in the fall previews and in the first episode. When the censors at CBS finally realized (probably due to viewers' calls and letters) that the word also meant "making love", the producers quickly had Imogene's character's name changed to "Shadd".

Joe E. Ross had been a comedian who performed in strip clubs before he got into acting. If you never saw It's About Time, you may remember him from "Car 54, Where Are You?".

Many fans were thrilled to see Imogene Coca on It's About Time twelve years after her ground-breaking comedy series, "Your Show of Shows". That legendary program introduced many cast and crew members who would go on to great things in television including Carl Reiner of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and comedy writers "Mel Brooks", "Neil Simon", and "Woody Allen"!

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

The First and Only Season

1. And Then I Wrote Happy Birthday to You (9/11/1966)
2. The Copper Caper (9/18/1966)
3. The Initiation (9/25/1966)
4. Tailor Made Hero (10/2/1966)
5. The Rainmakers (10/9/1966)
6. Me Caveman - You Woman (10/16/1966)
7. The Champ (10/23/1966)
8. Mark Your Ballets (10/30/1966)
9. Have I Got A Girl for You (11/6/1966)
10. Cave Movies (11/13/1966)
11. Androcles and Clon (11/20/1966)
12. Love Me, Love My Gnook (11/27/1966)
13. The Broken Idol (12/4/1966)
14. The Sacrifice (12/11/1966)
15. King Hec (12/18/1966)
16. The Mother-in-law (12/25/1966)
17. Which Doctor's Witch? (1/1/1967)
18. To Catch a Thief (1/8/1967)
19. 20th Century Here We Come (1/22/1967)
20. Shad Rack and Other Tortures (1/29/1967)
21. The Cave Family Swingers (2/5/1967)
22. To Sign or Not to Sign (2/19/1967)
23. School Days, School Days (2/26/1967)
24. Our Brothers' Keepers (3/5/1967)
25. The Stone Age Diplomats (3/12/1967)
26. The Stowaway (4/2/1967)