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The synopsis from the Tezuka webpage says this is a remake of #11 [(18)], Time Machine, but in my opinion, it is more of an act of desperation. I think they were shorthanded of animators that week of May 22, 1965, when this was broadcast, & they cobbled together a story using not just cels from earlier episodes, but entire clips from them.

FROM MY NOTES:

Shares scenes with #11 (18), Time Machine & #69, Rebellion of the Dinosaur People (59, Dinosaur Dilemma)
Wrecks Higeoyaji’s house
Uses frames from #29, Memorable Day (Memory Day)

From #11:






















Not merely influenced by Welles' Time Machine, but using imagery straight out of it, as in these next two frames:












































Back to #68. For those who know little of the B&W series, but are familiar with the 2003 series, the following part was used as the basis for the Franken episode:



Compare “Kazuske-kun” or, perhaps “Karusuke-kun” (“Disko Teck” :lol to Fujimoto Taku (Jack Fuller) on the 2003 Franken episode. Both were separated from the group & captured by the marauders.


appears in a frame from this clip of the crowd fleeing, but I do not have it in the frames from this episode.


Compare Hanako-Sensei (“Miss Ann Thrope” ) with Midori-Sensei (sorry, I have no data on her dubbed name). Hanako-Sensei seems shaped more like a mother, while Midori is more like a big sister.

BTW, unlike more than a few, perhaps most characters given pun names by Ladd & co., Miss Ann Thrope does not live up to her name.

BTW, does appear as both a boy & a man in #69.

I think this was one of only a few clips actually originating in this episode.











Returning from the trip to the past, we find Higeoyaji's home is still a shambles (as was Uran's flower bed in the 1980s time travel episode).








And, another idea that was reused in the 2003!

this episode reminds me of an episode in the 2003 series it's sad I haven't seen the 60s series but I want too

This is because it is essentially the same story, but with certain details changed, racoonangel.

This image, and the sequence before it remind me of "Cecil the seasick sea serpent"

I can't help but face-palm at the image of the dinosaur with breasts, even if they're implied.

I vaguely remember that series, Tetsuwan Penguin.

I thought I had a translation of the marquee, but -- hmm, I think it was among the deleted scenes on the TRSI boxed set extras.