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Welcome to The Big List of over 700 time travel movies & shows.
 
Movie and videomakers have machined, tracked, policed, stopped, tunneled, mastered, shifted, stolen, kept, looped and travelled time for a century. Which is why our list of vids is so huge.

Many of these vids have multiple titles, but are only listed once– use your browser's FIND function to search our entire list.
 
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Updated 2008.12.05

 A spasso nel tempo
  1996 Dec 13 - Italia
   MagicDragon says: "One of the few Italian Time Travel films."

 A spasso nel tempo: l'avventura continua
  1997 Dec 11 - Italia
   ...and yet it was good enough to make another, apparently.

 The ABC Afterschool Special
  series; 1972 Oct 04 - 1996 Oct 24
     IMDb: "'ABC Afterschool Specials' was the umbrella show name for various educational shows that were shown in the afternoon, occationally. Each episode was produced by a seperate company."

 "My Mother Was Never A Kid"
  Season 9; Episode 53; 1981 Mar 19
      TV.com: "A 13 year-old girl with a fetish for trouble takes a trip back to the 1940s, when her mother was her age."
  Dennis Higgins writes: "You have a great list. There is a good one missing and very rare. I have a taped copy on VHS which is not very good and have been looking for this for years. It's called 'My Mother Was Never a Kid' and it originally aired as a ABC after school special and then went to Nickleodeon. From there it was lost. It was based on Francine Pascal's novel called 'Hangin' Out With Cici'. I'm sure I was responsible for getting it on IMDB and my review is still there although the email listed there is long gone." Excellent catch, and thanks for sending it in to Timelinks!

 A.J.'s Time Travelers
  series; 1994 Dec 03 - 31
     A.J. Malloy takes his time machine, the "Kyros", into the past for educational excursions. After the first four episodes on Fox, the series went to syndication... and to court. The series seems to have made it to video anyway.

 The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
  series; 1993 Aug 27 - 1994 May 20
             Short-lived series, the main story arc involves a villain from the future posing as a villain in the Old West, attempting to gather all the scattered time-controlling Orbs for himself.

 The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
  animated series; 2002 Jul 20 - 2006 Nov 25
        The hyperintelligent CGI wunderkind invented three time machines in his first season alone...

 "The Big Pinch"
  Season 1, Episode 3; 2002 Sep 13
    Time Warner Cable: "Jimmy uses his Time Pincher to bring Thomas Edison into the present."
 
 "Time Is Money"
  Season 1, Episode 4; 2002 Sep 20
    TV.com: "Through the wonder of time travel, Jimmy goes 15 years into the past to a time when his parents were swinging sweethearts."
 
 "Sorry, Wrong Era"
  Season 1, Episode 20; 2003 Sep 05
    Jimmy invents yet another time machine, trapping himself and some friends back with the dinos.

 Adventures of Timothy Pilgrim
  series/shorts; 1974 - Canada
    Young Timothy discovers a trunk that magically transports him back and forth to 1875, where he helps a snake oil salesman come unstuck in time.

 Aliens in the Wild, Wild West
  1999 Aug 17
   Two teens visit a ghost town, are transported back to 1880, and have run-ins with said aliens.  

 The All New Alexei Sayle Show
  series; 1994 Jan 06 - 1995 - UK
     Broad-humored British comedy/variety show.

 "Drunk In Time" sketches
  Season 2?; 1994?
  Six MPEGs of Sayle's Time Tunnel parody were at NeoLASE's pages (now gone): "For this affectionate spoof, the BBC painstakingly recreated the Project: Tic Toc set, from the Tunnel itself right down to the hourglass symbol on the floor."

 All Over Again
  2000 - aka Against Time
   Teen meets his elder self, a senior citizen from the future, who warns him of impending bad decisions.
Timelinks fan 'Michael' writes: "For the longest time, (no pun intended), I searched out the movie 'All Over Again' which appears on your List, but to no avail. Just this past week, I found a movie named 'Against Time' in the bargain bin of my local KMart. What I found out is that 'Against Time' is actually the very movie you list as 'All Over Again'!" —Sad, since the DVD only came out under that title on 12 June 2007. But thanks for the heads up!

 The Amazing Mr. Blunden
  1972 - UK
   Ghosts ask for help from two children who prepare a potion to travel back in time.

 Amazing Stories
  series; 1985 Sep 29 - 1987 Apr 10 - aka Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories
      Anthology showcase of Spielbergian wonders.

 "Alamo Jobe"
  Season 1; Episode 3; 1985 Oct 20
    Message-bearer from the 1836 battle arrives in the 1980s.

 Amityville 1992: It's About Time
  1992 Jul 16
   A timepiece provides a link between an unsuspecting family and that überevil house on Long Island.

 Andromeda
  series; 2001 Oct 02 - 2005 May 13 - aka Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
        Dylan Hunt is stuck near a black hole for a couple centuries, and discovers his interstellar commonwealth is gone bye-bye. One of the several new crewmembers he acquires is Trance Gemini, a colorful alien babe with special insights into causality (played by Laura Bertram, who resembles a youthful version of exec producer Majel Barrett).

 "Under the Night"
  Season 1; Episode 101; 2000 Oct 02
The opening episode where Dylan finds himself in the dark future with his work cut out for him.
 
 "Angel Dark, Demon Bright"
  Season 1; Episode 106; 2000 Nov 06
Andromeda slipstreams back to before the Nietzschean attack. Many "tough" decisions result in the predictable non-altering of history, and the inevitable return to the dark future.
 
 "The Banks of the Lethe"
  Season 1; Episode 108; 2000 Nov 20
Dylan is able to communicate with his wife in the past, but dare he join her there? Didn't we just sit through the inevitable agony of irresolute TV time travel two episodes ago?
 
 "The Lone And Level Sands"
  Season 3; Episode 305; 2002 Oct 21
The Andromeda encounters a lightspeed Earth ship launched 3000 years before.
 
 "The Unconquerable Man"
  Season 3; Episode 310; 2003 Jan 20
Gaheris Rhade, Dylan's traitorous first officer, is shown as the captain of Andromeda, trying but failing to restore order in a future Dylan is no longer alive in. Trance meets herself, and after a few knowing words, tells Rhade he has to go back and let Dylan kill him in the first episode after all.
 
 "The Dark Backward"
  Season 3; Episode 312; 2003 Feb 03
Trance does her stuff, and sorts through a variety of timelines.
 
 "Abridging The Devil's Divide"
  Season 4; Episode 417; 2004 Apr 12
Harper is forced to build a time bridge, and in come the Magog of the future.

 Angel
  series; 1999 Oct 05 - 2004 May 19
        Joss Whedon's Buffy spinoff, set in the City Of.

 "I Will Remember You"
  Season 1; Episode 8; 1999 Nov 23
    Wikipedia: "Angel spends a day with Buffy, but makes a deal that takes him back to the beginning of the day."
 
 "Happy Anniversary"
  Season 2; Episode 35; 2001 Feb 06
    Wikipedia: "Angel and The Host search for a physicist who plans to freeze time."
 
 "Quickening"
  Season 3; Episode 52; 2001 Nov 12
    Sahjahn, "just your average time-travelling demon," coaches an Eighteenth Century vampire hunter on the Twenty-First– for the hunter seeks revenge on Angel and Darla.
 
 "Birthday"
  Season 3; Episode 55; 2002 Jan 14
    Wikipedia: "Cordelia learns that she will die unless she goes back in time and chooses a different path in life."
 
 "A New World"
  Season 3; Episode 64; 2002 May 06
    Connor left Angel as an infant, but soon returns from hell as a grown teen. Even Joss Whedon couldn't make babies and children coexist inside an ongoing dramatic series.
 
 "Time Bomb"
  Season 5; Episode 107; 2004 Apr 28
      Illyria becomes so mighty, she unsticks herself in time, ultimately resulting in her embarrassment.

 An Angel for May
  2002 Aug 10
  Boy discovers a storm-swept path into the past, and into lives that are to be damaged in World War II.

 Another Day
  2001 Dec 04 - Canada/USA
   Shannen Doherty left Charmed to star in this interminably slow TV movie. She wakes up on Friday May 12 (probably 1995) some five years before she conked out. Some standard time travel bits, like shock at seeing the dead alive again, and unheeded Cassandra warnings, but generally not worth anyone's time.

 APEX
  1994 Feb
      What could possibly go wrong with sending a robot, armed to the teeth, back in time to spook around?
   Yeah. That.

 Army of Darkness
  1993 Feb 19 - aka Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness; Captain Supermarket; The Medieval Dead
        It's a 7 o'clock based on Bruce Campbell at his intense finest, not the time travel content.

 Arthur's Quest
  1999 Mar 03
      Merlin sends boy Arthur to the 20th Century to escape Morgana, then arrives 10 years after to discover his king has become a cynical hipster teen.

 Ashes to Ashes
  series; 2008 Feb 07 - - UK
        Sequel to Life On Mars wherein police psychologist Alex Drake, studying the post-coma stress and suicide of Sam Tyler, suddenly wakes up from her own brush with death—in 1981, and facing down DCI Gene Hunt.

 Ausgestorben
  short; 1995 - Deutschland
   (Title is German for "Extinction") Reviewer from Munich, torsten.dewi, writes at IMDb: "This one has it all: a great story (a scientist of a plague-ridden world goes back to dinosaur times to find an extinct plant that might hold the key to a cure, but bungles up the timelines in doing so...)"

 Austin Powers in Goldmember
  2002 Jul 22
          Mike Myers lampoons his own creation as well as the 1970s in this third installment of the time travel/spy spoof film series.

 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
  1999 Jun 08
        Dr. Evil's inability to get with the decade reaches an hilarious fever pitch as he explains his new "time machine" to his minions, all of whom have a far better grasp of what to do with it than he does.

 Aventuras en el Tiempo
  series; 2001 Mar 19 -   - Mexico
      Alma Latina - Typical Mexican soap opera, only geared for children, and with the added bonus of watching five kids pop around time. (Time Warner: "Cinco niños aventureros viajan a distantes lugares en el tiempo.")

 Babylon 5
  series; 1993 Feb 22 - 1998 Nov 25
        Chronology.org has a list of all Bab 5 episodes involving prophetic dreams, visions, and time travel, including:

 "Babylon Squared"
  Season 1, Episode 20; 1994 Aug 10
    Babylon 4 resurfaces, being caught in an unexplained time warp. Includes odd prophetic moments like Garibaldi dying in some future firefight screaming, 'I understand now! This is what I was born for!' The series has better eps.
 
 "War Without End, Part 1"
  Season 3, Episode 16; 1996 May 16
   
 
 "War Without End, Part 2"
  Season 3, Episode 17; 1996 May 23
   

 Back to the Future
  1985 Jul 03
            In 1985, Marty McFly flees Libyan terrorists in Doc Brown's Delorean, and finds himself stranded in 1955, and messing up his parents' timeline.

 Back to the Future Part II
  1989 Nov 22
            Weakest of the trilogy, partially because of the incomplete nature of the plot, which carries over to the next sequel. But the saddest bit is that Doc's (perfectly reasonable) explanation of how to travel along a split timeline has already been broken earlier in the film, when Old Biff returned the Delorean. (Oh yeah, and why would a villain return a working time machine?) The scene where Marty gets a Western Union delivery is effective, though.
Split-screen synch of the "Enchanment Under the Sea" sequence from Parts I & II, on Google Video.

 Back to the Future Part III
  1990 May 25
            Marty heads to 1885 to rescue a stranded Doc, who is falling in love with a local schoolmarm.

 Back to the Future: the Animated Series
  animated series; 1991 Sep 14 - 1992 Dec 26
               
The cartoon series featured all-new adventures and a Tannen in every time zone.

 Back to the Planet of the Apes
  1981 (1974) - aka The New Planet of the Apes
  1981 TV movie spliced from two 1974 episodes of the Apes series. More astronauts arrive in the simian future, circa AD 3085. Why do we keep sending them up? Maybe this is why the space program was scaled back in the mid-seventies.

 Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World
  animated short; 1987 - aka Barbie and the Rock Stars: Out of This World
      Mattel's favorite daughter travels through space to find rock 'n roll fame, but returns to Earth in the 1950s. A case of Back to the Future envy if ever we saw one.

 Barbosa
  short; 1988 - Brasil - aka Curta os Gaúchos- Barbosa
The 1950 World Cup (Brazil vs. Uruguay) is at stake, in this short film.

 Beasties
  1991 - aka The Bionaut
  Rogue Cinema -  Self-proclaimed "worst movie of all time", Beasties is the story of a spacetime traveller who uses gremlin-like critters to do his recon.

 Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
  1991 Aug 23
  Marc Singer's barechested nature boy Dar comes to battle his evil brother on modern-day Earth. Succeeds with help of animal pals; wins girl, car.

 Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  1970 May 01
    Another astronaut shows up in AD 3955, runs afoul of apes, and discovers mutant humans worshipping a supernuke underground. It all ends in tears.

 Berkeley Square
  1933 Sep 15
A 20th Century American is whisked off to 18th Century London.

 Between Time and Timbuktu: A Space Fantasy
  1972 Mar 13
    Chris Huber's Vonnegut pages (now vanished): "A made-for-tv film based on several short stories of Kurt Vonnegut, and pieced together in a screenplay for a public television broadcast on March 13, 1972."

 Bewitched
  series; 1964 Sep 17 - 1972 Jul 01
        One of the quintessential 1960s sitcoms, often parodied and criticized for making light with the black arts. Time travel frequently played a part...

 "I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight"
  Season 3; Episode 82; 1967 Nov 17
Endora draws Freud into the Stephens house to help their marriage, and the sage Viennese gets into a fistfight with a contemporary psychiatrist. Title is a play on the old Tareyton cigarette ads ("I'd rather fight than switch").
 
 "My Friend Ben"
  Season 3; Episode 85; 1967 Dec 08
Aunt Clara summons a 60-odd-year-old Ben Franklin, who gets himself in trouble in the 20th Century.
 
 "Samantha for the Defense"
  Season 3; Episode 88; 1966 Dec 15
Franklin's modern-day trial.
 
 "Aunt Clara's Victoria Victory"
  Season 3; Episode 98; 1967 Mar 09
This time, Aunt Clara brings Victoria, Queen of England and Empress of India, into modern America.
 
 "Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember"
  Season 4; Episode 117; 1967 Nov 23
The Stephens and Gladys Kravitz are whisked off to 17th Century Salem, where Darrin winds up getting tried as a witch.
 
 "Samantha's Da Vinci Dilemma"
  Season 4; Episode 122; 1967 Dec 28
Aunt Clara summons Leonardo, who gets upset at his work being appropriated for toothpaste ads.
 
 "Samantha Goes South for a Spell"
  Season 5; Episode 142; 1968 Oct 03
Sam is transported to 1868 New Orleans, where she contracts amnesia; Darrin has to go rescue her.
 
 "Paul Revere Rides Again"
  Season 7; Episode 204; 1970 Oct 29
Paul Revere is dropped from 1776 into 1970, and mistakes 20th Century market capitalism for a British invasion.
 
 "Samantha's Old Salem Trip"
  Season 7; Episode 206; 1970 Nov 12
Esmerelda sends Sam back to Salem in the 1600s, where she again contracts amnesia, and Darrin again has to go rescue her.
 
 "How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (Part 1)"
  Season 8; Episode 227; 1971 Sep 15
Sam tries to rescue a nobleman trapped in a painting, and is cursed to wander around 16th Century England, yet again with amnesia...
 
 "How Not to Lose Your Head to King Henry VIII (Part 2)"
  Season 8; Episode 228; 1971 Sep 22
Darrin's attempt at rescue is jeopardized by King Henry's intent to make Sam his next bride.

 Bewitched
  2005 June 04
    At one point, well into this headache of a remake, Samantha (Nicole Kidman) decides everything has gone wrong, and casts a spell, rewinding the entire movie.
  No one involved with making this picture took their own hint.

 Beyond the Time Barrier
  1959
  Mid-20th Century pilot is surprised when he finds his experimental jet has landed in 2024. Then he discovers he's the only fertile guy around.

 Biggles
  1986 Jun 19 - UK - aka Biggles: Adventures in Time
    W.E. Johns' WWI ace has a "time twin" in a 1980s adman, and swaps places with him throughout this odd film.

 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
  1991 Jul 19
        They thought they'd get away with a title like that, and not have to pay. Has some good bits and all, but Bill and Ted don't work as well facing Death, Satan, and God as they do goofing on historical figures.

 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
  1989 Feb 17
               
The tongue-in-cheek premise that a rock band will save the future of mankind is just the beginning of the absurd mayhem in this surprisingly tightly-scripted piece. A gem of time travel playfulness in a shining display case of eighties slacker sensibilities.

 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
  animated series; 1990 Sep 15 - 1992 Sep 05
             
The time slacking continued, courtesy Hanna-Barbera. Then DIC bogarded the license for the second season, and the franchise got totally wasted, dude.

 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
  series; 1992 Jun 08 - Sep 09
            The time slacking struggled on for eight more live action episodes, on Fox.

 Black Knight
  2001 Nov 15
          Martin Lawrence gets the Twain treatment in this screwball comedy.

 Blackadder: Back and Forth
  1999 Dec 06 - UK
      Rowan Atkinson's beloved family-of-one finally gets ahold of a time machine in this pre-millennial special.

 Blue Moon
  2000 Jan 16
  Wish creates time warp causing an older couple to encounter their 1959 younger selves.

 The Blue Yonder
  1985 Nov 17 - aka Time Flyer
  A more sympathetic view of the grandfather paradox: What if little Jonathan borrowed his neighbor's time machine to go back and stop his grandfather from a deadly attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic?

 The Brak Show
  animated series/shorts; 2000 Dec 21 - 2003 Dec 31
         
Some of Space Ghost's nemeses in their own spinoff family sitcom.

 "Time Machine"
  Season 1; Episode 3; 2001 Sep 02 - aka "Diff'rent Braks: Time Machine"
    Brak and Zorak keep stealing Thundercles' time machine to try and convince their junior selves that they have to do their homework. Predictably, this results in hundreds of Braks and Zoraks with incomplete homework. 

 Brick Bradford
  serial; 1947 Dec 18
    Based on the 1930s comic by William Ritt and Clarence Gray, it features two-fisted Brick and his Time Top. DoCMuZiK writes at IMDb: "Brick and company travel to the far side of the moon which suddenly has an atmosphere and a lost civilization that other people from Earth have PREVIOUSLY visited. They also travel back through time to the days of the pirates to find a lost scrap of paper with an equation relating to nuclear physics on it."

 Brigadoon
  1954 Sep 08
      A mighty prayer saved the Scottish village of Brigadoon from evil witches in 1754– but with the devilish twist that it only appears for a day once every hundred years. When an American falls for a local girl, their love seems doomed. Will Tommy ever be reunited with his Fiona? Is this a classic '50s musical?

 Brigadoon
  1966 Oct 15
  TV version of the musical. Marta Dawes at IMDb writes: "Very different than the Hollywood version, this Brigadoon was quietly romantic and vividly atmospheric."

 Brødrene Dal og mysteriet med Karl XIIs gamasjer
  miniseries; 2005 Jan - Norge
    The Brothers Dal return for more wacky time travel, messing up Norwegian history in 1716, 1718, 1814 and 1905.

 Brødrene Dal og spektralsteinene
  miniseries; 1982 - Norge
    The Brothers Dal build a time machine from plans left by an alien.

 Brother Future
  1991
  1990s Michigan teen is purchased by someone in 1822 South Carolina, and becomes entangled in the plans of a doomed slave rebellion.

 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
  series; 1979 Sep 20 - 1981 Apr 16
        Buck is frozen in his spacecraft in 1987 and returns to Earth 500 years later. We don't think he time travels ever again in that faraway Century... but we can't bring ourselves to see it again after all these years. Because all we can remember of the movie or series... is Twiki. And we're not looking at that devilspawn of Artoo and Mel Blanc ever again.

 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  series; 1997 Mar 10 - 2003 May 19

        Joss Whedon's iconic masterpiece about a young woman destined to save the world, a lot.

 "Life Serial"
  Season 6; Episode 105; 2001 Oct 23
    Evil spell puts Buffy in a time loop, serving the same Double Meat for eternity.
 
 "Get It Done"
  Season 7; Episode 137; 2003 Feb 18
    Buffy falls through a time portal to confront the Shadow Men, who created the Slayers in the first place.

 The Bullwinkle Show
  animated series; 1959 Nov 29 - 1973 Sep ? - aka The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle; Rocky and His Friends
             
The regular segment "Peabody's Improbable History" was home to the original time squad: Sherman, Mr. Peabody and their WABAC Machine.

 Bùnéng shuo- de mìmì
  2007 Jul 27 - Zho-nghuá Mínguó - aka The Secret
      The secret is that something in the protagonist's school allows time travel. We should really tell you what it is, but you can just look it up online.

 The Butterfly Effect
  2004 Jan 23
             
Young man has inherited the power to send his consciousness momentarily into his junior self, and tries to use it to undo the deaths and maimings of those he loves. Naturally, he keeps messing up. One nice touch is that his brain keeps getting denser as he remembers all his different pasts whenever he snaps back to his "present"... Not to be confused with A Sound of Thunder (2005), the plot of which partially inspired the term "butterfly effect".

 The Butterfly Effect 2
  2006 Aug 10
          Sequel released in the US direct-to-DVD, October 10, 2006.
Fitted808, an astute observer on YouTube, noted: "....No one from the first movie is in here."

 Butterfly Effect: Revelation
  2009 Jan 09 - aka The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
      Another boy travels time to discover who murdered his girlfriend.
 

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 Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
  animated series; 1990 Sep 01 - 1991 Mar 01
        Mario needed no help from upstart Nintendo employee Captain N, and went on to more seasons and series without him.

 "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel"
  Season 1, Episode 8; 1990 Sep 29
      Wikipedia: "...as a result of the turbulence, the Time Tube malfunctions and de-ages the bodies of the Mario Bros., Toad, Bowser, and Ludwig into baby bodies."

 Captain Z-Ro
  series; 1951 Nov - 1956 Jun 10
                An important message from Captain Z-Ro
Captain Z-RO and Jet go forth in the ZX-99, exploring space and time! TVAcres.com sez: "The Captain's time machine featured an Electro Generator, a Trillatron, and the Lectric Chamber with Spector Wave Length..." Good luck, in Time and Space!

 Carnivale
  animated; 2000 Feb 09 - Ireland/France
   
Fable of children drawn through time to an evil carnival where visitors turn into still life. Beats being a donkey in Italy.

 Catweazle
  series; 1970 Feb 15 - 1971 Apr 04 - UK
         
11th Century wizard accidentally ensorcels his way into the 20th. Humorous mistakes are made.
Thanks to Timelinks reader JB for sending this one in!

 Cave Girl
  1985 May
    A crystal with power over time is used by a chess nerd to try to get laid. Sounds all too sad.

 Cesta do pravěku
  1955 - Československo - aka Journey to Prehistory; Journey to the Beginning of Time
  Kids enjoy a trip to the Museum of Natural History, then take a Central Park boat ride into the distant past.

 Challenge of the Superfriends
  animated series; 1978 Sep 09 - Dec 23
        The mighty rainbow coalition of justice, in their third effort at a series.

 "The Time Trap"
  Season 1, Episode 4; 1978 Sep 30
      The Legion of Doom gets ahold of a time machine, and strand Superfriends all across whenever. But then Superman shows off that ability to travel time, all on his lonesome. 
 
 "Secret Origins of the Superfriends"
  Season 1, Episode 8; 1978 Oct 28
      The Legion attacks the mightiest of the Superfriends' origin timelines. Then they get slapped back! 
 
 "Conquerors of the Future"
  Season 1, Episode 11; 1978 Nov 18
      The Legion decides to conquer Earth in AD 3984! They are discovered and defeated because the Riddler tipped the Superfriends off again. Time travel and blabbermouths don't mix. Someone should seriously look into shutting Riddler the hell up. 
 
 "The History of Doom"
  Season 1, Episode 16; 1978 Dec 23
      The Legion finally succeed in destroying life on Earth. But then some time-travelling aliens arrive and open up a can of deus ex machina. 

 Cha-ojí Xuéxiào Bàwàng
  1993 - Hong Kong - aka Super-School Tyrant; Future Cops
      Street Fighter characters from 2043 descend upon an unsuspecting 1993.

 Charmed
  series; 1998 Oct 07 - 2006 May 21
        Not to be outdone by Bewitched, the long-running WB series also dabbles in the chronomantic arts.

 "That '70s Episode"
  Season 1; Episode 17; 1999 Apr 07
      The Three go to the Me Decade to stop a warlock from making a pact with their mom. 
 
 "Morality Bites"
  Season 2; Episode 24; 1999 Oct 07
      Prue and Piper travel to 2009 to save Phoebe from a latter-day Inquisition.
 
 "All Halliwell's Eve"
  Season 3; Episode 48; 2000 Oct 26
      The Three find themselves in the 17th Century aiding a pregnant witch.
 
 "A Knight to Remember"
  Season 4; Episode 72; 2001 Nov 01
      Paige summons a mediaeval knight, then the Sisters get sucked back with him to his time.
 
 "A Paige From the Past"
  Season 4; Episode 76; 2002 Jan 17
      Piper: "Darryl, I'm sorry, but what do you want me to say? My sister was just possessed with a supernaturally born killer and my husband is in 1994, and I do not mean in the fashion sense. He time traveled back with my other sister so the only one left to help me is you."
 
 "The Three Faces of Phoebe"
  Season 4; Episode 80; 2002 Feb 14
      Phoebe summons her past and future selves to help her decide if she'll marry Cole.
 
 "A Witch in Time"
  Season 5; Episode 96; 2002 Nov 10
      Efforts to defy the deadly fate of a boyfriend leads demons and witches into a time travel mess.
 
 "Witchstock"
  Season 6; Episode 122; 2004 Jan 11
      Paige travels to January 13, 1967, and threatens to alter the past. 

 Cheon gun
  2005 - Daehan-minguk - aka Heaven's Soldiers
      A comet causes a time rift, sending seven Korean nuclear scientists into the 1572 war zone of... Korea.

 The Chronology Protection Case
  2002
  Our complete review (coming soon) - Director Jay Kensinger's take on Paul Levinson's Nebula-nominated novelette. Is physicist-turned-coroner Phil D'Amato just being paranoid? Or is everything really out to get him...?

 Click
  2006 Jun 22
        Adam Sandler vehicle where a remote lets him fast forward and rewind his life. Plus other silly business.

 Clockmaker
  1998 - USA/Romania
    Kids discover a time machine, and sure enough, mess up the space/time continuum. Then they work on fixing it.

 Clockstoppers
  2002 Mar 17
            Teen acquires time-stopping watchlike device. Evil government contractor wants it back. DJ Wackiness ensues. Jammin' franchise announced! Audience yawns.
–If the teen pandering doesn't annoy you, the inconsistencies and made-up fixes likely will. In the shiny climax, lead teen Zak Gibbs, already in "hypertime" suddenly uses the watch to enter an even faster plane of existence (über-doober-goobertime?) where he can pass through walls, but never the floor, and still hit people.
Unexplored plots include the government of Venezuela knowing the US has a time machine.

 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  1977 Nov 16
          First, they were returning various boats and planes in perfect working order. But as the visitors at Devil's Tower disembark the humans they've already guested– a tally of the missing shows that even those gone for decades haven't aged a day.

 The Cold Room
  1984 Mar 24 - UK/Deutsche Demokratische Republik - aka Cold Room - Kalter Hauch der Vergangenheit; The Prisoner
    At least four different sites have this synopsis: "A young woman visiting modern day East Berlin with her father is plunged into the barbaric horrors of Nazi Germany when she enters a strange room located behind her hotel wall. She is somehow transported back in time."

 Colonial House
  miniseries; 2004 May 17 - 25
        26 modern people are thrust into hardscrabble English colonial life circa 1628, courtesy WNET and a clutch of corporate sponsors. Inspired by 1900 House and its sequels.

 Conceiving Ada
  1997 Sep 10 - USA/Deutschland - aka Leidenschaftliche Berechnung
    Emmy Coer attempts to bring 19th Century Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, into the late 20th Century using computers and the code trapped in her DNA.

 A Connecticut Yankee
  1931 Apr 06
  Will Rodgers is more an Oklahoma Sage than some New Englander in this charming outing of the classic.

 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  1921 Mar 14
  1920s youth dreams of travelling back to Arthurian times, and there invents nitro and motorbikes.

 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  1949 Apr 07
    Hank Martin (Bing Crosby), a pre-WWI mechanic, is bumped on the head and awakens in AD 528, where he starts putting all that know-how to use in taking over Arthurian Britain.

 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  1989 Dec 18
  Young black girl falls off a horse, and into Arthurian England. Lancelot thinks she's a demon. Sure enough, her career path is technological sorcery.

 Les Couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2
  1997 Sep 10 - France - aka The Corridors of Time: The Visitors II
  Godefroy de Montmirail has to come back to his future to reclaim his family jewels and his fertility (Is that a joke in French? Gotta be) in this sequel to Les Visiteurs.

 Crime Traveller
  series; 1997 Mar 01 - Apr 19 - UK
           
Short-lived series about cops with limited time travel capacities. They have "Ten Rules of Time" that seem to be made up as they go along.

 Cube 2: Hypercube
  2002 Jul 29
         
Eight strangers awaken in a cubic tesseract, "a perverted funhouse world ... where time is sped up for one person and slowed for another, with no way to say who is at 'normal' speed ... and where alternate realities, different what-ifs, play out with results both poignant and repugnant."

 Cyborg 2087
  1966 - aka Man From Tomorrow
      Michael Rennie vehicle about time travellers struggling for a future free of thought control– and their time travelling enemies out to keep history the way they prefer it.

 
 

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 Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
  1966 - UK
    Will Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) and his companions be able to stop them? What do you think.

 Danny Phantom
  animated series; 2004 April 03 - 2007 Aug 24
        Nickelodeon's tale of a half-ghost boy. Only Nick could get away with making an entire series out of what others would dismiss as a one-line riff on impossible genres of meta internet memes.

 "The Ultimate Enemy"
  Season 2; Episodes 28 & 29; 2005 Sep 16
    Danny comes under the unyielding eyes of the Observants, who send Clockwork to ensure that Danny doesn't trick corporate America become evil by cheating on his school aptitude test. Cheating on an exam gets you a visit from a time-travelling ghost? Time was, you had to live a lifetime as a miser to get that kind of attention.
 
 "Masters of All Time"
  Season 2; Episode 36; 2006 Mar 24
    Wikipedia: "Fed up with Vlad, Danny asks Clockwork to travel back in time to prevent the accident that caused Vlad to be half ghost..."
 
 "Infinite Realms"
  Season 3; Episode 42; 2007 Jul 09
    Danny gets ahold of the Infi-Map, and gets his chuckles bopping around Ancient Rome and Puritan Salem.

 Dark Shadows
  series; 1966 Jun 27 - 1971 Apr 02
      The travails of the Collins family are played out in three different centuries, with various time trips via the dark arts.

 Dark Shadows
  series; 1991 Jan 13 - Mar 22 - aka Dark Shadows: The Revival Series
      Remake follows Victoria Winters to 1790, where the confused girl gets accused as a witch.

 Dave the Barbarian
  animated series; 2004 Jan 23 - 2005 Jan 22
        Disney attempt at making inroads into Cartoon Network/Nickelodeon edginess with a mock-Conan family vehicle.

 "Ned Frischman: Man of Tomorrow"
  Season 1; Episode 3; 2004 Jan 23
    21st Century nerd tries to conquer Udrogoth via video game addiction. 

 Day Break
  series; 2006 Nov 13 - Dec 13
      Fandango - "The surrealistic ABC cop drama Day Break was aptly characterized by most observers as '24 Meets Ground Hog Day.'" -- Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide. Cop wrongly arrested for the murder of a D.A. keeps being shown the death of his girlfriend, and then sent back to beginning of the same day, only to fail in stopping her demise again.

 The Day Time Ended
  1980 Nov - aka Earth's Final Fury; Time Warp; Vortex
  A solar-powered house only leads to trouble, as its occupants discover when they are visited upon by spaceships and dinosaurs.

 Déjà Vu
  2006 Nov 22
          Denzel Washington as an ATF agent given the chance to travel back and stop a terrorist attack. The plot is surprisingly well-scripted for a Jerry Bruckheimer production, (despite the transparent apologias for discarding liberty that, say, Minority Report refuses to sanction,) and the time travel is pretty tight, too.

 The Devil's Arithmetic
  1999 Mar 28
      Gary Hoffman writes: "A teenaged girl cared little about her Jewish heritage until she was transported back through time to a Nazi death camp." Works every time. Please don't bring any Nazis back with you, though. That's never good.

 Dexter's Laboratory
  animated series; 1995 Feb 23 - 2003 Sep 26 - aka Dexter's Lab
        Cartoon Network has shown their penchant for time travel (see Samurai Jack and Time Squad) –and it showed up here on Dexter's first.

 "Dee Deemensional"
  Season 1, Episode 4; 1996 Apr 28
      BCDb: "Dexter sends Dee Dee back in time to save him from attack when he releases an inter-dimensional monster. But the Dexter of the past doesn't believe Dee Dee..."
 
 "Morning Stretch"
  Season 2; Episode 49; 1997 Aug 06
    Dexter invents a helmet that stretches 30 seconds into 30 minutes... but only for him. Dexter waiting for his shower water to fall from the spigot is a gem of the genre.
 
 "sdrawckaB"
  Season 2; Episode 91; 1998 Apr 01 - aka "Backwards"
    TV.com: "Dexter creates a belt that can have its wearer do everything backwards, only to get in trouble when Dee Dee manages to get control of the time directional switch."

 Dimension 5
  1966 Oct - aka Dimension Four
  Agents Justin Power and Kitty are all that stand between the Chinese and their plans to blow up L.A. Luckily, our heroes have access to a time-travel belt.

 Dinosaur Valley Girls
  1996
    Rotten Tomatoes: "The discovery of a magic stone catapults Hollywood action hero Tony Markham backwards through time, into a mysterious prehistoric land populated by fierce, predatory dinosaurs...and nymphomaniacal cave vixens in strangely modern animal-print underwire bikinis."

 DNA²: Dokokade nakushita aitsu no aitsu
  animated series; 1994 Oct 07 - Dec 23 - Nippon - aka Dumb Nerd Always Astray
        Time traveller Aoi Karin tries to prevent the rise of the male "Superlover" to mastery of the world, but winds up creating him through her incursion on the life of a maladjusted nerd. Oversexed hilarity ensues.

 Do Over
  series; 2002 Sep 19 - Dec 05
         
Time-travel comedy series, quickly cancelled by the WB. Four episodes remain unaired.

 Doctor Who
  series; 1963 Nov 23 - 1989 Nov 22 - UK - aka Doctor Who: The Classic Series
          Big Finish   
Beloved cosmic meddler uses his TARDIS to aid various civilizations in trouble. Until its cancellation, the longest-running SF series in the world. New official audio adventures have been released by Big Finish.

 Doctor Who
  14 May 1996 - USA/UK - aka Enemy Within
    Sylvester McCoy returns to hand the reins over to Paul McGann... for this single, dull movie. The Master is a CGI snake who wants the Doctor's remaining regenerations; there's shouting and chase scenes in San Francisco while the new Doc slowly infodumps as he gets his memory back. The expensive sets make the otherwise typically simple Who plot look tawdry, and the hype that December 31, 1999 could be the End of the World simply doesn't resonate anymore. In this film, it never did.

 Doctor Who
  series; 2005 Mar 26 - ? - UK
               
The classic has returned with all new episodes, two new Doctors (so far), and a much more dark and mature tone.

 Doctor Who and the Daleks
  1965 - UK
    Peter Cushing as the good Doctor, here imagined as the "inventor" of the TARDIS. More space travel than time travel, though, much like the series that inspired it.

 Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time
  1993 Nov 26 - UK
    Thirteen-minute "charity skit" featuring many faces from the classic series. dr_foreman at IMDb: "Overall, a fun time-killer that was more than welcome when it debuted during Doctor Who's long (and mercifully over!) period of purgatory."

 Doctor Who: The Missing Years
  1998 - UK
      Tribute and showcase to what remains of 110 episodes of Doctor Who destroyed by the BBC in the 1970s.

 Donnie Darko
  2001 Jan 19
         
Young Donnie Darko is having prophetic visions of a devil-faced rabbitman, despite taking his meds. In this amazing film, set in 1988, the intricacies of fate and parallel worlds slam up against the sensibilities of a postpunk/Lynchian America.

 The Drivetime
  1995
"When the dreamtime and the daytime overlap, you're in THE DRIVETIME..."

 Duckman
  animated series; 1994 Mar 05 - 1997 Sep 06
       
Eric Duckman was a minor icon of nineties postmodernism, but ironically never knew it himself.

 "Once and Future Duck"
  Season 3; Episode 34; 1996 Apr 13
    Andy's Anachronisms: "Ajax... opens a rift in the space-time continuum with his clock radio. Duckman discovers from a future version of himself that his future hangs on Charles and Mambo's... tuba recital." 

 Dungeons & Dragons
  animated series; 1983 Sep 17 - 1985 Dec 07
       
Eighties D&D would not have been complete without this bizarre cartoon take on the game, which ran for three seasons. Occasonal fits of unhelpful prophecy occured, as any fiendish Dungeon Master might dangle, but one episode stands out in the time travel genre, as the effort to stop Hitler suddenly falls to a set of children's player characters:

 "The Time Lost"
  Season 3; Episode 23; 1985 Oct 12
    Wikipedia: "Venger... uses his Crystal of Chronos to pull both a futuristic plane and a WWII Nazi fighter pilot who crash lands his Stuka into the Realm. Venger intends to send Josef Mueller, the pilot, back to Earth to win the war for Germany and by changing earth's Timeline prevent the Kids from ever coming into the realm, but after meeting the kids, Josef has other plans." 

 Durango Kids
  1999
    AOL: "Children battle crooks and a corrupt sheriff for gold after time-traveling to the 19th century."

 
 

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 Early Edition
  series; 1996 Sep 28 - 2000 May 27
         
Cat delivers tomorrow's newspaper to Gary Hobson, providing a new ethical dilemma each week.

 La edad de piedra
  1964 Dec 24 - Mexico
    EoFFTV: "Viruta and Capulina travel back in time to the stone age in search of a rare element."

 Electric Blue 37
  1986
  IMDb: "A nerdy college student accidentally gets sent back to 1959 when his equally nerdy roommate's time machine malfunctions." Straight-to-video, and presumably, soft porn.

 11 Minutes Ago
  2007 Apr 26
      A "time-tumbler" from 2050, searching for clean air, becomes an inadvertant wedding crasher. Film Threat: "Even when you think you might be getting confused, and worried about losing your place (which can happen with this genre) it becomes obvious that the confusion is intentional, and that you are in the hands of a clever storyteller."

 Eliminators
  1986 Jan 31 - USA/España
      Evil scientist intends to use time machine to usurp ancient Rome; only a band of mighty misfits– including a cyborg dubbed "Mandroid"– can stop him. Stars Denise Crosby of Tasha Yar fame, before her brief stint on Trek.

 Erasmus Microman
  series; 1988 Mar 03 - 1989 Dec 15 - UK
    SciFi Television Database: "Erasmus Microman is a 1005-year old cross between Dr. Who and a mad scientist who takes two children on an educational time-trip through their TV set."

 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  1971 May 21
    Cornelius and Zira travel back to the 20th Century, and discover that all this time travel has made them a human's uncle.

 Escape Through Time
  1993
  A ring that sends its users through time with a word leads to hijinks in predictably visitable eras of history. (I.e. Ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages, and the American West of the 1800s.)

 Escape to Grizzly Mountain
  2000
  Millennial boy Jimmy brings 19th Century mountain man Jeremiah forward through time to rescue a circus bear cub. Sequel to the family cockle-toaster Grizzly Mountain.

 Eureka
  series; 2006 Jul 18 -   - aka A Town Called Eureka
        Sci-Fi Channel series about a small town full of mad scientists and those who love them.

 "I Do Over"
  Season 3, Episode 4; 2008 Aug 19
      Complete episode on SciFi Rewind -  Sheriff Carter experiences all the joys only a time loop can bring. 

 The Excalibur Kid
  1999 Mar 23
  Another modern teen, another King Arthur, another Merlin, another evil witch.

 The Exotic Time Machine
  1997
    Soft porn for the chronally challenged.

 The Exotic Time Machine II: Forbidden Encounters
  2000
    More soft porn. The plot is better than the porn, so beware. AOL: "To save their time-travel technology, voyagers must plant beacons that will destroy any government attempt to steal their program."

 Eyes of a Cowboy
  series; 1988 Mar 03 - 1989 Dec 15 - Canada
  Lonesome Cooper plies his blues from here to the 1870s, and learns the consequences of singing across time.

 
 

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 Family Guy
  animated series; 1999 Jan 31 - 2002 Feb 14; 2005 Jul 01 -
       
Once cancelled, the misogyfest returned in 2005, due to high DVD sales.

 "Mind Over Murder"
  Season 1; Episode 4; 1999 Apr 25
      Andy's Anachronisms: "After his blueprints for the time machine are accidently circulated throughout Peter's basement bar, Stewie decides to use his device to go back to a time when no one was aware of his plans." The episode's Narnia reference doesn't hurt, either.
 
 "Stewie B. Goode"
  Season 4; Episode 78; 2006 May 21
    First of three parts of the reedited straight-to-DVD Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (see).
Stewie has a near-death experience that sets up the time travel in the next two eps.
 
 "Bango Was His Name Oh!"
  Season 4; Episode 79; 2006 May 21
    Second of three parts of the reedited straight-to-DVD Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (see).
Stewie sees a man he believes to be his father on the TV, and connives to find him in San Francisco. But it turns out he's his elder self, on holiday.
 
 "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure"
  Season 4; Episode 80; 2006 May 21
    Last of three parts of the reedited straight-to-DVD Family Guy movie, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (see).
Stewie struggles to rescue his elder self from his acceptance of ennui, and get his destiny as world dictator back on track.

 The Fantastic Journey
  series; 1977 Feb 10 - Jun 16
        20th Century scientists blunder onto an island in the Bermuda Triangle that is rife with rifts in time. There they team up with one Varian from the 23rd Century, and his tuning fork of many wonders.

 Farscape
  series; 1999 Mar 19 - 2003 Mar 21 - USA/Australia - aka Far Horizon; Space Chase
         
The adventures of John Crichton and the crew of Moya, their struggles against oppression, and their fresh takes on old SF standbys– including time travel. A return miniseries ran, beginning 2004 Oct 17.

 "Back and Back and Back to the Future"
  Season 1; Episode 5; 1999 Apr 02
  Crichton gains visions of possible futures, but each attempt to stop bad things from happening makes things worse.
 
 "The Locket"
  Season 2; Episode 38; 2000 Aug 25
  Moya becomes trapped at the edge of a pocket universe (a "senta-hole"), resulting in Aeryn aging 165 cycles and having lived an entire life elsewhere. Crichton goes to rescue her, and winds up stuck there, growing old with her. The time anamolies are solved by Zhaan and Stark meditating really hard and reversing the engines.
 
 "...Different Destinations"
  Season 3; Episode 49; 2001 Apr 13
  Most of the crew fall through an odd rift in time into the midst of a siege which they have to guarantee to turn out just as history says– they fail constantly, of course, but discover that what's in history books isn't the same as what actually happens...
 
 "Unrealized Reality"
  Season 4; Episode 77; 2002 Aug 23
  A mysterious being seizes and tests John to see if he can handle his wormhole knowledge, or should be killed. The alternate-universe scenes range from profound to silly excuses for more character-swapping by the cast– but the ep is ultimately redeemed by John's learning the "correct answer" as to how one should face time travel.
 
 "Kansas"
  Season 4; Episode 78; 2002 Dec 30
    Crichton succeeds in getting the crew to Earth– in October 1985. Another tour de force of the series' trademark ability to make a tired SF plot– in this case, fixing a personal timeline– into something original and real. Also notable for its broadcast barely a month before the Columbia disaster, the plot revolves around John keeping his father off the doomed Challenger mission.

 Fetching Cody
  2005 Sep 12 - Canada
        A junked time machine/Barcalounger is a young man's only chance to stop the events leading to his girl being thrown into a coma.

 Fiddlers Three
  1944 Oct - UK - aka Fiddled, While Nero
  Three sailors (two guys and a gal) step into Stonehenge and out into ancient Rome in this wartime romp.

 The 5th Quadrant
  series; 2002 Jan 20 - Apr 14 - Canada
      Second City vet Lee Smart parodies the paranormal in this short-lived series.

 "Dream Soda/Time Traveller's Cheques"
  Episode 8; 2002 Mar 10
  TV.com: "The 5th Quadrant uncovers troubling evidence of invaders from the distant future, and their perverse and alarming agenda."

 The Final Countdown
  1980 Jul 09
      Kirk Douglas leads an all-star cast and a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier back to the Pacific just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Well acted and thoughtfully written, but the outcome is as predictable as it was when we watched it the first time...

 5 Days to Midnight
  miniseries; 2004 June 07 - 10 - USA/Canada - aka 5IVE Days to Midnight
        Man discovers briefcase filled with information from his impending autopsy.

 The Flash
  series pilot?; 2004?
  Yep. If he lost the tights, he'd be fast enough to travel time. The "series" announced by the WB was removed from the Fall 2004 schedule. Possibilities of a movie are mentioned at Wikipedia.

 Flight of the Navigator
  1986 Jul 30
      Kid is shanghaied by a spacecraft, and is returned a few years late. Misadventures with a markedly evil NASA, and some now-creepy puppy love scenes between the kid and Sarah Jessica Parker leave much... undesired. Not to be confused with the truly excellent The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (see).

 The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
  animated series; 1980 Nov 08 - 1981 Nov 28
          Jean-Marc Rocher writes at IMDb: "Richie, Ralph, The Fonz and Mr. Cool (The Fonz's dog) meet a time traveler named Cupcake and accidentally get stuck in her time machine."

 For All Time
  2000 Oct 18
  Pocketwatch allows an unhappily married executive to travel between the millennium and March 1896 on a St. Louis-Somerville express train, where he discovers a new love.

 The 4400
  series; 2004 Jul 11 - 2007 Sep 16
        A Ball of Light deposits four thousand four hundred people who have been missing from various times over the last 60 years, near Mt. Rainier. Homeland Security debriefs them and lets them go before their spooky new powers are discovered. The spookiest: An eight-year old girl from the 1940s who keeps predicting events.

 Frankenstein Unbound
  1990 Nov 02
    John Hurt as a 21st Century physicist who winds up driving his car to 18th Century Europe, and taking Mary Shelley for a spin. MagicDragon writes: "Fine adaptation of the even better novel by Brian Aldiss."

 Freejack
  1992 Jan 17
      Loosely based on the novel Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley. Emilio Estevez' racecar driver is transported from 1991 to November 23, 2009 because Anthony Hopkins' rich guy needs the young "meat" to download his old mind into. Mick Jagger's distracted performance only underscores the absurdity of the whole thing.

 Frenchman's Farm
  1987 - Australia
    Woman travels back to 1944, witnesses a murder, and upon return finds she has to investigate it on her own. Calvacade of Schlock says: "Frenchmen in Australia? Another Aussie horror film? Where are these movies coming from? Please don't answer that... It's a fairly intriguing setup, and for the most part reasonably well executed."

 Frequency
  2000 Apr 28
            Millennial cop tries to save the life of his 1960s firefighter dad when freak atmospheric conditions allows a ham radio set to communicate to itself across time.

 Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
  2009 Mar 13 - UK
        Three pubmates discover Anna Faris has fallen in from the future via a portal in the men's loo.

 Friday the 13th: The Series
  series; 1987 Oct 03 - 1990 May 26 - Canada - aka Friday's Curse
      While the cursed items once sold by Curious Goods always required a human sacrifice to activate, some of them allowed for time travel...

 "The Baron's Bride"
  Season 1; Episode 13; 1988 Feb 20
  Micki and Ryan chase a vampire back to the 19th Century to recapture his evil brooch, and run across Bram Stoker.
 
 "13 O'Clock"
  Season 2; Episode 35; 1989 Jan 07
  A pocketwatch that can stop time for an hour is being abused by a couple– until Ryan is alerted.
 
 "Eye of Death"
  Season 2; Episode 39; 1989 Feb 04
  Antique dealer Atticus Rook uses a cursed magic lantern to travel to Civil War battles, and clean up. His primary target: Robert E. Lee's sword, lost at the Battle of Sharpsburg, 1862.
 
 "Hate On Your Dial"
  Season 3; Episode 59; 1989 Nov 18
  A racist tries to save the life of his Klan father by using a cursed car radio to drive back to the 1950's South.
 
 "The Charnel Pit"
  Season 3; Episode 72; 1990 May 26
  A double-fac painting allows a professor and the Marquis de Sade to trade notes and bodies. Micki gets caught in the past, and attempts to leave a note to her friends in the future... but her evil uncle Vendredi winds up intercepting it, and so learns of the painting's power in the first place. Last show of the series.

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From Time to Time (short; 1992 Apr 12) aka Timekeeper; aka Le Visionarium
    - France/USA - Disney theme park ride featuring Robin Williams as the Timekeeper, who makes his flying robot travel time for some reason. All-star cast.

Frontier House (miniseries; 2002 Apr 29)
      WGBH Boston takes three real modern families to the Montana wilderness to relive conditions circa 1884. Inspired by 1900 House.

Futurama (animated series; 1999 Mar 28 - 2003 Aug 10)
          Philip J. Fry, 20th Century pizza delivery boy, gets himself frozen for 1000 years, and awakens into Matt Groening's bent vision of the future. Despite the cryogenic impetus, only a few eps are really about travelling time. Cancelled by Fox, the series is currently running on Cartoon Network.

• "Space Pilot 3000" (Season 1; Episode 1; 1999 Mar 28)
      Opening episode of awakening to a new cartoon world.
• "Anthology of Interest I" (Season 2; Episode 29; 2000 May 21)
      Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Hawking and Gary Gygax all guest star as guardians of time.
• "Time Keeps On Slipping" (Season 3; Episode 43; 2001 May 06)
      A plan to beat the Harlem Globetrotters results in annoying but humorous time slips.
• "Roswell that Ends Well" (Season 4; Episode 45; 2001 Dec 09)
      The Planet Express winds up crashing in New Mexico in 1947, and Fry gets to be his own grandparent.

Future Hunters (1986) aka Deadly Quest; aka Spear of Destiny
  A man seizes the Spear of Destiny in 2025, and is sent back to the 1980s, where he begs a couple, with his dying wish, to seal it back in its sheath in order to stop its evil. One might wonder if the junior version of the spear is already in said sheath... if the movie itself wasn't causing such excessive waves of pain.

Future War (1997 Jan 28)
    MST3K  - Slaver cyborgs and their dino trackers hunt an escaped human from the past. Crow T. Robot's take: "It's not the future, and there isn't a war."

Future Zone (1990 Jul 18)
  David Carradine's 21st Century cop is doomed to die in an ambush– if not for his son Billy travelling back in time to save him. But the rewrite of the timeline causes its own problems for them.  
 

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Galaxy Quest (1999 Dec 23)
        Adequately spoofs the time travel climaxes of many of the other vids on this list.

The Georgian House (series; 1976 Jan 02 - Feb 13)
    - UK - Dimensional Decade: "Two students who work at a georgian house in Bristol are transported back in time to the year 1772 where they help a young slave boy called Ngo to return home."

The Girl From Tomorrow (miniseries; 1991 May 03)
      - Australia - Time travel malfunction lands a 31st century teen and a 26th Century criminal in 1990.

The Girl From Tomorrow (1992)
      - Australia - Movie culled from the miniseries...?

The Girl From Tomorrow Part Two: Tomorrow's End (miniseries; 1993 Jun 13)
    - Australia - Jenny and Silverthorn have to fix the year 2500, and give up time travel for good.

The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite (1981 May 25)
  IMDb: "A magical watch that can stop time becomes the focal point in a land swindle."

The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything (1980 Jun 13)
    Kirby inherits a watch that can stop time, and bad guys want to seize it from him. One of many possible inspirations for Clockstoppers.

Gojira vs Kingugidora (1991 Dec 14) aka Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
    - Nippon - Gary Hoffman writes: "Time travellers from the 23rd century came back to warn that Godzilla will cause a major catastrophe (something bigger than his usual catastrophes)." In fact, the Caucasians from the future are secretly attempting to use King Ghidorah to destroy Japan before it becomes the most powerful nation on Earth. Oh, and be warned: "Do not drive in vehicles when King Ghidorah is in your area."

Goodnight Sweetheart (series; 1993 Nov 18 - 1999 Jun 21)
      - UK - 1990s man finds an alleyway that leads to the WWII era, and starts leading a double life, loving different women in each decade.

Gost'ya iz budushchego (miniseries; 1984) aka Guest from the Future
      - CCCP - Young Kolya Gerasimov finds a time machine in a Moscow basement, and discovers adventure in the 21st Century.

Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992 May 09) aka Disaster in Time; aka The Grand Tour; aka Timescape
        A troop of strange tourists arrive at a bed and breakfast seeking rooms before it is ready to open. Based on the short story "Vintage Season" by Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore.

Grizzly Mountain (1997 Oct 31)
    Time Warner Cable sez: "1990s children meet an 1870s Oregon mountain man." For a sequel of heartwarming family time-travel nature rescue, see Escape to Grizzly Mountain...

Groundhog Day (1993 Feb 13)
        Bill Murray plays a weatherman who is forced to repeat the same day until he gets it right.  
 

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Happy Accidents (2000 Aug 24)
      Ruby Weaver keeps picking losers for boyfriends, until she meets this great guy... who says he's from AD 2470. And fleeing the murder of his sister.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004 Jun 04)
        True to the book, Hermione handles horological hijinks at Hogwarts.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (animated series; 1983 Sep 25 - 1984 Dec 08) aka He-Man
            Time travel visited the classic '80s cartoon about Prince Adam, Skeletor, and the glorification of action figures with good morals.

• "The Time Corridor" (Season 1; Episode 8; 1983 Sep 12)
    Skeletor travels to the past and hides a bomb to blow up Castle Grayskull.
• "The Time Wheel" (Season 2; Episode 297; 1984 Oct 26)
    Tamask, ancient King of Eternia, is brought into He-Man's time and starts feeling cheated.
• "Time Doesn't Fly" (Season 2; Episode 315; 1984 Nov 17)
  Hexon has captured the Emperor of Sinba and the Keeper of Time, and made Eternia's sun stop moving in order to gain the throne through a legal technicality.

The Hector Heathcote Show (animated shorts/series; 1959 Jul? - 1965?)
      BCDB: "Based on cartoons originally shown in theatrical release, this show combined Hashimoto, Hector Heathcote and Sidney re-runs with new productions made just for the Television show." TVAcres.com: "the animated misadventures of a time traveling scientist who bumbled about in America's past..."

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (series; 1994 Apr 25 - 1999 Nov 27)
        - US/New Zealand - And a few of those journeys were through time...

• "The End of the Beginning" (Season 3; Episode 56; 1997 Apr 01)
      Autolycus steals the Chronos Gem, sending Herc and himself back five years to relive painful events.
• "Armageddon Now, Part 1" (Season 4; Episode 72; 1998 Feb 09)
      Among other transdimensional hijinks, Hope sends Callisto back in time to kill Hercules' mother before he is born, and Iolaus convinces Ares to send him back too. Ares seems more worried about using time travel itself than defying Hope and Callisto.
• "Armageddon Now, Part 2" (Season 4; Episode 73; 1998 Feb 16)
      Callisto manages to kill not only Hercules' mother, but her own parents before she's born. Iolaus gets ahold of the Chronos stone, and with Herc's help, tosses Callisto into a vortex that somehow fixes everything.
• "Once Upon a Future King" (Season 5; Episode 100; 1999 Apr 26)
    Merlin sends an evil Arthur and Mab back a thousand years, where Hercules straightens Mr. Pendragon out.

Herculoids (animated series; 1967 Sep 09 - 1968 Jan 08; 1981 Sep 12 - Nov 21)
      Tales of a faraway planet with a unique ecosystem and sociopolitical structure, ruled by an athletic family and their intelligent creature pals, who attract a range of villains whose sole intent is to defeat them.

• "The Time Creatures" (Episode 26; 1967 Nov 18)
      Oton, from 5000 years in the future, desires to destroy everything in the past. First stop: Amzot.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail (animated; 1971 Apr 04)
      Time Warner: "Peter oversleeps and must go back in time to fulfill his Easter Bunny duties..." and to stop the fascist takeover of the holiday by the evil January Q. Irontail. Danny Kaye's character lets him borrow the Yestmorrowmobile to help kick said Irontail.

Herrliche Zeiten im Spessart (1967 Sep 21) aka Glorious Times in the Spessart Inn
  - Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Heroes (series; 2006 Sep 25 - )
          Uncanny ensemble cast of everyday people with incredible powers struggle to elude one of their kind who is eating their brains to absorb said powers. One Indian geneticist plainly had a hard time finding them, since they live in disparate areas of the globe– but they seem to coincidentally cross each others' paths a lot. Perhaps this isn't an example of a classic faux pas of dramatic writing after all, since one of them, Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) can stop and/or travel time at will. Another, Isaac Mendez (Santiago Cabrera) paints clairvoyant comics of future events.
Like a nuke going off in Manhattan. Happily, that's not even the most interesting thing about this excellent new series.

Hex (series; 2004 Oct 17 - 2005 Dec 18)
      - UK - Boarding school girl gains the unwholesome attention of Azazeal, but she has a lesbian ghost pal to help her cope.

• "Where the Heart Is" (Season 2; Episode 13; 2005 Nov 13)
    Angelic/infernal meddling leads to a date in 1928 Berlin.

The Highwayman (series; 1987 Sep 20 - 1988 May 06)
      epguides.com  Short-lived series about a high-tech semi and its crew.

• "Summer of '45" (Episode 4; 1988 Apr 01)
    Lightyear writes: "one episode had the guys travelling back to 1945 in their futuristic Big Rig... I can't remember much about it but I do remember I really liked that episode and I risked failing my exams because I stayed up to watch it."

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (series; 1997 Sep 01 - 2000 May 01)
      Wayne Szalinski (Peter Scolari) is the kooky inventor and absent-minded dad we all loved from the series of Disney family films about his invention of a matter-shrinking machine. But did you also know he invented a means to travel time? It's true.

• "Honey, We're Stuck in the 70's" (Season 1; Episode 4; 1997 Oct 18)
    The Szalinski Time Hopper seems to hold one important flaw: the traveller stands the risk of crystalizing.
• "Honey, You're Living in the Past" (Season 1; Episode 11; 1997 Dec 15)
    How about an invention that lets you "see yourself in the past"? Only it makes you that person.
• "Honey, Meet the Barbarians" (Season 1; Episode 13; 1998 Jan 07)
    Losing Diane's election at her school board, Wayne decides to travel time to run a recall on his actions, resulting in an invasion of Conan-like warriors. Maybe this is just how they do things in California.
• "Honey, We're Past Tense" (Season 2; Episode 29; 1998 Nov 14)
    Tent invention drops the Szalinskis in prehistory.
• "Honey, the Future's Coming Back to Me" (Season 2; Episode 35; 1999 Feb 06)
    TV.com: "Amy and Nick are kidnapped by a cyborg from the future, a result of Jennings' misuse of Wayne's environment-friendly car."
• "Honey, Name That Tune" (Season 3; Episode 45; 1999 Sep 25)
    The pursuit of the origin of a song results in crosstime espionage.
• "Honey, You Won't Believe What Happens Next" (Season 3; Episode 56; 2000 Jan 15)
    Wayne accidentally invents glasses that can see the future.
• "Honey, It's An Interplanetary, Extraordinary Life" (Season 3; Episode 61; 2000 Feb 19)
    The Time Hopper is broken, and unleashes mayhem.

Horizon (series; 1964 Sep 01 - )
        - UK - BBC2's science documentary series.

• "The Time Lords" (1996 Nov 29)
      An hour filled with explanations and interviews with the leading thinkers in time travel, circa the mid-1990s. Later sold to PBS' Nova series, and most recently incorporated as part of TechTV's series Secret, Strange & True.

The House in the Square (1951 Dec 07) aka I'll Never Forget You; aka Man of Two Worlds
  - UK - Scientist travels to the 18th Century, falls in love. Remake of Berkeley Square.

Hua yue jia qi (1995) aka Love in the Time of Twilight
  Love HK Film.com  - Hong Kong - Lightbulbs allow for time travel along the entire lengths of their existence in spacetime, in this romantic comedy.  
 

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Idaho Transfer (1973 Jun 15) aka Deranged
    The Unknown Movies  A team of isolated scientists in Idaho discover that their matter transference research has yielded up a time machine. But their research leads them to believe mankind is soon to be wiped out in an ecological disaster, so they send the smartest teens they can find 56 years into the future to start anew. Notable for its prescience of the 1973 oil crisis.

If Only (2004 Jul 15)
    - USA/UK - Man loses his love and has the chance to live that last day with her over again.

In His Father's Shoes (1997 Jun 15)
  Grieving son is given magic wingtips to travel back in time, and learn about his father's life.

Into the Labyrinth (series; 1981 May 13 - 1982 Sep 08)
      - UK - IMDb: "Three children stumble upon the imprisoned sorcerer Rothgo and are drawn into a mysterious search through time for the magical Nidus which has been stolen by the evil witch Belor." Part of The Third Eye series when brought to the US by Nickelodeon.

Invader ZIM (animated series; 2001 Mar 30 - 2002 Dec 10)
      The insane series that was once on Nickelodeon; a few episodes remain to be aired...

• "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" (Season 1, Episode 15; 2001 Aug 24)
      ZIM builds a "space-time object-transfer device", which only accepts rubber piggies for travel to the past. His attempts to destroy the timeline of his nemesis, Dib, merely results in making Dib a mighty, and furious, cyborg.

It Happened Tomorrow (1944 May 28)
    Reporter receives tomorrow's news today. Likely inspiration for Early Edition.

It's About Time (series; 1966 Sep 11 - 1967 Aug 27)
      Two astronauts in the spaceship Scorpio get stuck in prehistory, and have wacky adventures with a cave family. Then the show changes from Gilligan's Island into The Beverly Hillbillies, once the crew brings the Cro-Magnons into the 20th Century. Theme song at tvparty.com [Realaudio]

Ivan Vasilyevich menyayet professiyu (1973)
aka Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Occupation; aka Ivan Vasilyevich: Back to the Future
      - CCCP - IMDb: "Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to the 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973."

Izo (2004 Aug 21) aka Izô: Kaosu mataha fujôri no kijin
    - Nippon - Time Warner Cable: "After being crucified by the Shogun, Izo travels through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo where he becomes a killing machine." His method of time travel seems to be pure rage. dbborroughs writing at IMDb: "You will either find this to be a philosophical tour de force or you will find it a load of dingos kidneys."  
 

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The Jacket (2005 Jan 23)
          - USA/Deutschland - Veteran locked in an asylum has visions of his impending death.

Jacob Two-Two (animated series; 2003 Sep 01 - )
        - Canada - Nelvana Studios' adaptation of Mordecai Richler's tales of the boy who has to repeat himself to be heard.

• "Jacob Two-Two's Time Trials" (Season 2; Episode 15; 2004 Feb 22) aka The Hunt for the Hidden Relic
      Jacob's theme of repetition takes the trifecta as he travels time to fix a broken record.

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968 Apr 26)
    - France - Time travel experiment goes awry.

Das Jesus Video (2002 Dec 05) aka The Hunt for the Hidden Relic
  - Deutschland - Videographer's bones dug up at archaeological site in Israel. Then a tape turns up behind the Wailing Wall...

La Jetée (short; 1962) aka The Pier; aka The Jetty
        - France - Post-WWIII experiment to send a man back before the collapse of civilization results in heartbreak. Inspiration for Twelve Monkeys.

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (animated; 1987 Nov 09)
      Boy Elroy is just fooling around, making a time machine, when the ultimate in "stunting" happens– decades after anyone in the audience would be expected to care.

Ji dong ji xia (1989 Aug 18) aka The Iceman Cometh (UK); aka Time Warriors
  - Hong Kong - Tibetan prayer wheel transports Ming Dynasty subjects to 20th Century British Hong Kong.

Jikuu tantei Genshi-kun (animated series; 1998 Oct 01 – 1999 Jun 24) aka Flint: The Time Detective (USA); aka Time Detective Genshi
      - Nippon - Wikipedia: "Flint's job as a Time Detective was to go back in time and convince a race of time-shifters to ally with him to protect the timeline."

Johnny and the Bomb (miniseries; 2006 Jan 15 - 29)
        - UK - BBC Adaptation of the Terry Pratchett children's novel.

Josh Kirby... Time Warrior (series; 1995 Jan - 1996 May)
      IMDb: "Irwin 1138 separates the Nullifier into 6 pieces which he scatters throughout time. When the evil Dr. Zoetrope goes after the pieces, Irwin 1138 must try to stop him, with the help of a 20th century teenager, Josh Kirby, and a half-human warrior named Azabeth Siege." At 88 min. apiece, they're more a series of small movies, which is perhaps why the IMDb has them listed separately:  

• Chapter 1, Planet of the Dino-Knights (1995)
      Young Josh Kirby battles stop-motion dinosaurs and the ignorant who sacrifice to them, in this first installment.
• Chapter 2, The Human Pets (1995)
      Josh, Erwin and Azabeth become human pets in mediaeval England. It's where all the better time travellers get their human pets.
• Chapter 3, Trapped on Toyworld (1995)
      cooperlewis at IMDb: "In this chapter, Josh randomly and inexplicably flies out of the spaceship and lands on a Toy (here, toys apparently include Mexicans) planet where he is assaulted by an extremely horny ragdoll and a semi-retarded bear." And what, pray, is so wrong about time-traveling Mexican toy people?
• Chapter 4, Eggs From 70 Million B.C. (1995)
      Azabeth Siege's people are encountered.
• Chapter 5, Journey to the Magic Cavern (1995)
      Rotten Tomatoes: "Josh swings into another adventure, this time crashing into an underground cavern populated by mushroom people who are suffering at the hands of 'the Muncher.'"
• Chapter 6, Last Battle for the Universe (1996) aka Lost World of the Giants
      The mushroom people hold the key to defeating Dr. Zoetrope.

Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
      The new CEO of Stanton Industries is pressuring his researchers for big results from their temporal projects, and fast. Pretty soon the cohesion of spacetime is in jeopardy from corporate foolishness.

Journeyman (series; 2007 Sep 24 - Dec 19)
        Successful newspaper reporter, occasionally thrown back and forth in time, finds himself forced to meddle in other people's lives, and his own timeline. Possible hat tip to CºNTINUUM (he carries a spanner for no reason in one ep), and was a good effort overall. NBC did not option a new season during the 2007 Writers' Strike.
The series still failed the consistency test, even in such matters as whether his vanishing can't be seen by others (frequently he appears/disappears in the middle of a crowded San Francisco street) or whether it easily can (when he's driving a car, which crashes, or whenever else the writers decide a character or crowd needs to witness his antics). Boils down to a Bush-era Quantum Leap: a prettier and more helpless "Al", selectively enforced rules of time, and the suggestion that his personal missions are decided by a favorites-playing God.

Jubilee (1977)
          - UK - Richard O'Brien does the time warp again as Dr. John Dee, who is called upon by Elizabeth I to reveal the secrets of the universe, including England's future.
   And behold! a post-punk wasteland does unfold, for Her Majesty's subtle pleasure.
   This arthouse oddment's dated, we measure.

Just Visiting (2001 Apr 06)
    American remake of Les Visiteurs with the lead time travellers reprising their roles. Critically panned, the film has a lower audience expectation than the original.

Justice League (animated series; 2001 Nov 17 - 2006 May 13)
  :   DC Comics' super-squad in their latest incarnation.

• The Savage Time (2002 Nov 09)
  : "Originally aired as a feature length movie - divided into three separate episodes for subsequent reairings." The League prevents the Axis from winning WWII.

 
 

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Kappatoo (series; 1990 May 23 - 1992 May 21)
        - UK - 23rd Century kid trades places with a 20th Century one. BBC: "A children's sci-fi comedy show, not noticeably high on laughs, that combined the time-travel element of Doctor Who with the gadgetry of Star Trek, the futuristic speak of Luna and the role-switching of The Prince And The Pauper."

Kate and Leopold (2001 Dec 25)
    A rift in time results in a chance at romance for Meg Ryan's character. Some nice commentaries on the nature of time, and on those who dream of traversing it. But the old saw of a woman choosing love in some un-air-conditioned century over breaking the glass ceiling is pretty tiresome.

The Kid (2000 Jun 25) aka Disney's The Kid
      Bruce Willis' eight-year-old junior self appears, reinvigorating his existence.

A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995 Aug 11)
    Merlin-induced time tunnel results in another modern teen summoned to save Camelot.

Kim Possible: A Sitch In Time (animated; 2003 Nov 28)
      The Tempus Simia Idol (aka Time Monkey) falls into the hands of Shego, giving Kim & Co. a temporal headache. Time travel gets the usual Buffy Lite treatment the series is famous for. Presented in 2004 as three separate Kim Possible episodes, "Present", "Past", and "Future".

A Knight in Camelot (1998 Nov 08)
  Whoopi Goldberg and Michael York in yet another take on Twain.  
 

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The Lake House (2006 Jun 16)  
      Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock portray residents of the same house, two years apart, who correspond and fall in love, thanks to a mailbox that sends their letters through time. Typical time travel romance fare. One scene stands as a charming, understated establishment that this relationship can alter events: He plants a tree in 2004 that quietly appears in 2006 to shelter her from a downpour.

Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997)
  An Arthurian Knight in John Major's England... Lancelot has to guard Arthur's butt all across spacetime.

The Langoliers (1995 May 14) aka Stephen King's The Langoliers
      It's got Dean Stockwell, so time travel must be involved. But time travel was never so unrewarding; horror, never so dull.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001 Jun 11)
      The Illuminati are about to get their hands on an artifact with the power to control time, and it's up to a woman with an incredible package to look good stopping them. The game is said to be better by most critics.

The Last Day of Summer (2007 July 20)
      Labor Day becomes Groundhog Day as young Luke Malloy makes a wish for summer vacation to never end, and to be totally left behind.

Last Exit to Earth (1996)
  Women in 2500 are in charge, but can't figure out how to propagate without sperm, which apparently no longer works in the 26th Century. So they time travel to 2100 to get... well, to get some male villains and an action hero. Not without its moments: sound clip [MP3 1 Mb]

The Last Mimzy (2007 Mar 23)
      Time travel toys enter the lives of two ordinary children, and they're not playing around. But the screenwriters are, as a nicely-anticipated link to ancient mandalas quickly goes uncomfortable. And stupid. Based on the 1943 short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett.

Life On Mars (series; 2006 Jan 09 - 2007 Apr 10)
          - UK - BBC series featuring a DCI who's thrown back in time from 2006 to 1973 via a motor accident. Miraculously, he already has a job, an apartment and a car waiting for him in the seventies. Or maybe he's just in a coma...
Has a sequel series, Ashes to Ashes (see above).

Life On Mars (series; 2008 Oct 09 - )
        - USA - American remake, set in New York 1973, with Harvey Keitel as the hardass boss.

Lilovyj shar (1987) aka The Purple Ball
  - CCCP - Edited from MagicDragon (who edited from Boris Shafir): Spacefaring scientists discover a planet where the inhabitants have all perished from a virus, then realize they somehow left said virus on Earth 26,000 years in the past: "The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people."

Logan's Run (series; 1977 Sep 16 - 1978 Feb 06)
      Short-lived series based on the movie, where the main problem the characters have with time is that their society forbids anyone to live beyond the age of 30.

• "Man Out of Time" (Episode 5; 1977 Oct 17)
      A time traveler from the runners' distant past (AD 2118) makes contact, and desires to prevent the disaster that led to Logan's world. Episode written by David Gerrold, of The Man Who Folded Himself fame.

Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (series; 1993 Sep 12 - 1997 Jun 14)
       

• "Tempus Fugitive" (Season 2; Episode 40; 1995 Mar 26)
  H.G. Wells' time machine starts playing a role in the life of Superman.
• "Tempus Anyone?" (Season 3; Episode 58; 1996 Jan 21)
• "Soul Mates" (Season 4; Episode 70; 1996 Oct 13)
• "'Twas the Night Before Mxymas" (Season 4; Episode 77; 1996 Dec 15)
  Mxyzpltlk time loops Christmas Eve.
• "Meet John Doe" (Season 4; Episode 80; 1997 Mar 02)
  AOL: "An evil time-traveler seeking the presidency brainwashes the country."
• "Lois and Clarks" (Season 4; Episode 81; 1997 Mar 09)
  TVTome.com: "Lois needs to find a way to bring Clark back to this world, and she will count with the help of H.G. Wells and the Clark from the alternate world, but they need to act quickly, or the real Clark will disappear in time, forever."

Lola Rennt (1998 Aug 20) aka Run Lola Run
          - Deutschland - Lola has twenty minutes to get 100,000 marks, or her boyfriend Manni will lose his life. Fortunately for her, she seems to have a special power over time and fate. Even more fortunately for the boys in the audience is watching Franka Potente getting all that exercise. The girls, however, will wonder what she's doing with such a jerk like Manni.

The Lords of Magick (1988)
  IMDb: "A pair of sorcerer brothers from 10th-century England show up in modern-day California and wreak havoc."

Lost In Space (1998 Apr 03)
      Oh, the pain... the pain. As if being Lost In Space weren't enough, Dr. Smith gets himself lost in time, and emerges as some hideously mutated... Well. Who cares. A pointless film.

The Lost Saucer (series; 1975 Sep 06 - 1976 Sep 04)
      Sid and Marty Krofft escapade wherein robots (played by Jim Nabors and Ruth Buzzi) drag a couple kids around time.

The Love Letter (1998 Feb 01)
  Antique desk delivers mail between lovers separated by 130 years.

The Low Budget Time Machine (2003 May)
    It doesn't get much lower budget than a glowing hula hoop, does it?  
 

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Magic Müller (1993 Nov 02)
  - Deutschland - Müller borrows his roomate's time machine, but fails to heed his roomate's warnings.

Les Maîtres du temps (1982 Mar 24) aka Time Masters
    - France - Synopsis from dvdplanet.com (now gone): "Jaffar, a hero for hire, finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime as he races across the galaxy to save a young boy from a menacing evil. Can he stop the heartless Masters of Time from turning back the clock and stealing his home planet?"

The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998 Aug 30)
aka If Only...; aka Lieber gestern als nie; aka Lluvia en los zapatos; aka Twice Upon a Yesterday
      - USA/UK/France/Deutschland/España - Magic sanitation workers give actor another chance with a girl by allowing him to relive some of the past.

Mandog (series; 1972 Jan 03 - Feb 07)
    - UK - Dimensional Decade (now gone): "Three children - Kate, her brother Duncan and her friend Sammy, after discovering a timewarp in a junkyard, help a group of scientists from the 26th century escape capture from the secret police of the future by transferring the mind of their leader, Levin, into Sammy's dog Radnor."

Manhunt of Mystery Island (serial; 1945 Mar 17) aka Captain Mephisto and the Transformation Machine
    IMDb: "A young couple journeys to Mystery Island to rescue the girl's father, who is being held prisoner by the evil Captain Mephisto, a pirate from 200 years ago who uses his Transformation Machine to travel forward in time and disguise himself as one of the four owners of Mystery Island."

Manor House (miniseries; 2003) aka The Edwardian Country House
        - UK - "This house has become a time machine..." Another reality show sequel to Channel Four's 1900 House, this time recreating household life in an Edwardian manor, with moderns taking the roles of a titled man's family and their staff. Brilliant insights into the labor and social tensions of the day.

Marching Out of Time (1993) aka Back to the Fuehrer
    An attempt to invade 1940s Britain lands fascist troops in 1990s US suburbia. What did we say about not bringing Nazis through time? And we're sure Mr. Spielberg just adores that hommage...

The Meeksville Ghost (2001)
  Sub-standard evil land developer yarn, with a helpful-but-annoying ghost. However, the titular spirit can drag the kid that can see him back to 1878, with interesting results. The kid believes it's just another spectral illusion, until he gets knocked over by a horse. "I'm the ghost," chortles his tormentor. "You're real!"

Meet the Robinsons (2007 Mar 30) aka A Day with Wilbur Robinson
        Disney ignored all challenges from the Lost in Space and Jimmy Neutron franchises in its bid for retro boy genius/time travel entertainment dominance. They even threw in an unnecesary rip-off of Futurama. Plot hinges upon villains bent on destroying Wilbur by stealing his ideas. Bald-faced and irony-free, folks.

Megas XLR (animated series; 2004 May 01 - 2005 Apr 26) aka LowBrow
        Gamer discovers mecha rusting in junkyard since the 1930s; performs mod, encounters its sexy creatrix from the future and some enemy aliens. Since he's broken the mecha's time travelling element, don't expect a lot of it during the series.

Mentors (series; 1999 Jun 12 - 2004 Apr 05)
      - Canada - Young Oliver Cates has invented a time portal– the "VisiCron"– through which he brings famous figures of the past to teach him heartwarming lessons for 36 hours at a time.

Metal Mickey (series; 1980 Sep 06 - 1983 Jan 15)
    - UK - Robot exhibits wacky powers (including time travel) resulting in presumed hilarity for his respectible British owners. The title character first appeared in the summer of 1978 on STV's Saturday Banana.

Millennium (1989 Aug 24)
      Future humans kidnap airline passengers in an effort to restore the genome.

Minority Report (2002 Jun 21)
          Many exciting and frightening possibilities are explored for a civilization with a tech that can show what mortal crimes lay in the near future... But then there are scenes like the one where Tom Cruise is trying to catch his severed eyeballs as they bounce away with great speed down a corridor. Please.

Miraklet i Valby (1989 Oct 06) aka The Miracle in Valby
  - Danmark - Motorskallen at IMDb: "...the time machine is a - caravan. That's right - a caravan! What more can I tell you? Well, it's fun to see a bunch of kids go back in time and fight against middle age soldiers. It's fun to see how they change history in many ways."

Mirror, Mirror (miniseries, 1995 Sep 30 - Dec 23)
      - Australia/New Zealand - Mirror allows two girls– one in 1995 and the other in 1915– to visit each others' decades.

Mirror, Mirror II (miniseries, 1997 Oct 11 - 1998 Mar 20)
      - Australia/New Zealand - Now the mirror has a 130-year time differential, and is in the lives of two other families.

Miss Morison's Ghosts (1981)
    Two women stray down a path in Versailles in 1901, and visit the 18th Century. Based on actual claims. Shown on PBS' Mystery.

Miu haan fook wood (2002 Jan 11) aka Wu xian fu huo; aka Second Time Around
  - Hong Kong - Vegas gambler stumbles upon the legend of stones with powers over time and parallel universes.

My Science Project (1985 Aug 01) aka Timebuster
    Teen automotive aficianado digs up device that generates time warps and eighties tomfoolery.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (series; 1988 Nov 24 - 1999 Sep 12)
        Clock ratings below are of course rating the MST3K episode, not rewarding the film itself.

• The Undead (Season 8; Episode 162; Experiment 806; 1997 Mar 08)
      Hooker hypnotised to travel to a previous life, to meet the devil and his witches, and to enjoy the musical stylings of Digger Smolkin.
• Terror From the Year 5000! (Season 8; Episode 163; Experiment 807; 1997 Mar 15)
      MST3Kinfo.com: "The increasingly whiny and oleaginous Victor manages to use his time machine to summon a human from the year 5000, the above-named Terror, who in a gesture of good will rips the face off an unsuspecting nurse and hits on Victor, accidentally irradiating the poor dope."
• Prince of Space (Season 8; Episode 172; Experiment 816; 1997 Aug 16)
      Wormhole distortion in the host segments is entertaining overall– but the Chicken Puppet Sketch is a time-travel masterpiece.
• Time Chasers (Season 8; Episode 177; Experiment 821; 1997 Nov 22)
      Man builds time machine out of a Cessna and some 286-or-earlier computer. If any film was destined to be MSTied, it's this one.
• Future War (Season 10; Episode 199; Experiment 1004; 1999 Apr 04)
      MST3Kinfo.com: "Meanwhile, killer dinosaurs from the future are tracking down Runaway... fitted with special collars which cause the dinosaurs to explode and disintegrate if they are harmed. The reason for this isn't clear, but I'm sure the filmmakers knew what they were doing."

 
 

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Nautilus (1999 Jan 18)
Submarine crew tries to prevent century-old catastrophe. Chas Lane at IMDb: "There is one interesting scene where a scientist sees himself commit suicide in the future. Don't think I've seen that before!"

The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988 Nov 16)
aka The Navigator: An Odyssey Across Time
    - Australia/New Zealand - Time travel as seen from inside the minds of realistic mediaeval peasants. Story takes refugees of a Mercian village to a modern New Zealand city, and doesn't let up for a second. Brilliant achievement.

Nem Sansão Nem Dalila (1955)
  - Brasil - Jeep crashes into time machine, propels protagonists back into the "Gaza kingdom, circa 1153 B.C., where they get involved in many funny situations." –lukejoplin, IMDb. A notable chanchada, directed by Carlos Manga.

Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995 Sep 26)
    Human and Cyborg clash across time in this derivative straight-to-video sequel.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (animated series; 1972 Sep 09 - 1973 May 27)
      Not so new now, are they? They never were very movie-like. But the Scoobies were present, and occasionally past...

• "Mystery in Persia" (Season 2; Episode 19; 1973 Sep 08)
  aka "Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie"
  AOL: "The gang travels back in time with Jeannie to help a prince battle ghosts."

Next (2007 Apr 27)
      Nicholas Cage plays a Vegas entertainer who can see a few minutes into the future. Based on the Philip K. Dick short story "The Golden Man".

Night Gallery (series; 1970 Dec 16 - 1973 May 27)
      Rod Serling's latter foray into macabre storytelling presented works framed for the observer.

• "The Little Black Bag" (Season 1; Episode 2; 1970 Dec 23)
  21st Century experiment foolishly sends a medical bag from their era into a 20th Century trash can, where it is found by a disgraced doctor-turned-mendicant played by Burgess Meredith.
• "Lone Survivor" (Season 1; Episode 5; 1971 Jan 13)
• "The Diary" (Season 2; Episode 14; 1971 Nov 10)
  Precognitive diary drives Patty Duke's character off the deep end.
• "Tell David..." (Season 2; Episode 20; 1971 Dec 29)
  A woman visits a couple with strange tech in their house, and only afterward realizes it was her son, grown and married, providing some kind of warning of impending murder.

1900 House (miniseries; 1999 Sep 22)
      - UK - Channel Four selects a real millennial family and makes them live as if it was 1900. Then videotapes all their trials, complaints, and responses. Inspiration for the American miniseries Frontier House.

The 1940s House (miniseries; 2001 Jan 01 - Feb 01)
      - UK - Sequel to Channel Four's 1900 House, this time with a family living, in speeded up time, the privations of a wartime British family. Not as fresh as the original, and the harmlessness of the pretend buzzbomb attacks border on a disservice to those who truly lived through the blitz.

El Niño Invisible (1995)
  - España - IMDb: "A group of children find a magic stone that transports them to the XII century."

Non ci resta che piangere (1985 Jan 15) aka Nothing Left to Do But Cry
  - Italia - Teacher and companion emerge from a storm in Tuscany to find themselves in the 15th Century. Then they go about harrassing Leonardo and Columbus.

Norman's Awesome Experience (1988) aka A Switch in Time
    - USA/Canada - MagicDragon points out: "The only known Sci-Fi feature with Latin dialogue."

Nostradamus (2000 Sep 22)
    He's a modern cop, having bumbled back to the 16th Century and gotten his timeline erased. Betcha never knew that.  
 

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Odyssey 5 (series; 2002 Jun 21 - 2004 Oct 14)
          A space shuttle team witnesses the destruction of Earth, and then is sent back five years with full memory, and the chance to stop it.

Of Tomorrows Unknown (1991)
  Student film that borrows heavily from The Terminator.

The Olden Days Coat (short; 1982)
  Girl whisked to Christmas past after donning an old piece of granny's outerwear.

Onésime horloger (1912 Nov 01) aka Onesime, Clockmaker
  - France - Carl Bennett writes at silentera.com: "...a Gaumont production starring comedian Ernest Bourbon. Onésime inherits a fortune but cannot collect it for twenty years. To speed up the passage of time, he alters the pneumatic central clock to a time-speeding clock." Early exploration of speeded-up motion via an undercranked camera.

Out of This World (series; 1987 Sep 17 - 1991 May 25)
      SciFi Television Database: "This show was syndicated in the US and was about a teenaged girl whose mother was the mayor of a small California coastal town and whose father was an alien... This dual-parentage gave the girl (Evie) strange powers, such as the ability to suspend time."

Out of Time (1988 Jul 17)
    Bill Maher plays an LA cop/inventor whose cop great-grandson is temporally incorrect. The time travel effects are simple but effective in this well-paced procedural, but purists can enjoy gnashing at the trivia that the major action takes place on "Saturday, October 19, 1988" –which was a Wednesday.

The Outer Limits (series; 1963 Sep 16 - 1965 Jan 16)
      "There is nothing wrong with your television set..." that a few weird stories wouldn't cure.

• "The Man Who Was Never Born" (Season 1; Episode 6; 1963 Oct 28)
      TV.com: "An astronaut travels to the 23rd century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters."
• "The Forms of Things Unknown" (Season 1; Episode 32; 1964 May 4)
      Mr. Hobart has invented a "time-tilting device" which allows him to slide things from the past into the present– including people who have been murdered. Edited from a failed pilot for a series titled "The Unknown".
• "Demon With a Glass Hand" (Season 2; Episode 37; 1964 Oct 17)
      Robert Culp in a classic turn as a traveller who has come back 1000 years in order to save future humanity from his alien pursuers, with the help of his talking artificial limb. Said to be the inspiration for The Terminator, it likely seemed less silly back in the sixties.
• "The Premonition" (Season 2; Episode 48; 1965 Jan 09)
        EoFFTV: "When a test pilot is involved in a crash, he recovers to find that he and his wife are caught in a time warp and the rest of the world is moving much slower than them. As the rest of the world slowly catches up with them, they have to get back to the places they were when the accident happened or they'll be trapped in limbo."

The Outer Limits (series; 1995 Mar 26 - 2002 Jan 18)
          "We shall control all that you see and hear..." down to repeatng the original series' stentorian narrator that rammed The Moral Of The Story down your throat at the beginning and end of each episode.

• "Virtual Future" (Season 1; Episode 8; 1995 May 05)
  Young scientist accidentally invents a time viewing device out of his VR set, then struggles to save his future.
• "A Stitch In Time" (Season 2; Episode 23; 1996 Jan 14)
  Dr. Givens' minority report issues from the barrel of a 9mm in this well-executed tale. Why 7-month-old fetuses are needed to travel time is explained.
• "Vanishing Act" (Season 2; Episode 43; 1996 Jul 21)
  Newlywed man goes for some champagne on New Year's Eve, 1949, encounters a bright light, and begins a process of reappearing at 10-year intervals.
• "Tribunal" (Season 5; Episode 100; 1999 May 14)
  Meet Nicholas Prentice, witness to history, as he watches the Holocaust and rescues a wayward survivor's descendant, for his future humanitarian concern.
• "Deja Vu" (Season 5; Episode 104; 1999 Jul 09)
  Wormhole teleportaton device is sabotaged, creating a time loop.
• "Gettysburg" (Season 6; Episode 127; 2000 Jul 28)
  Prentice transports Civil War buffs back to the great battle, to see if history can be tweaked after all.
• "Patient Zero" (Season 7; Episode 134; 2001 Mar 23)
  Time traveller arrives to kill the first carrier of a doomsday disease.
• "Time to Time" (Season 7; Episode 147; 2001 Aug 21)
  TV Tome: "A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny." The last of the Prentice trilogy.

Outlaws (series; 1986 Dec 28 - 1987 May 02)
  The Pike Gang and the sheriff that hunted them are sent forward 100 years to open a detective agency. (Thanks to EmeraldIsle for tipping off Timelinks.)  
 

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Past Perfect (1998 Jun 23)
    Gang members start turning up dead, and officer Dylan Cooper begins to realize he's facing killers from the future, attempting to improve their timeline.

Paycheck (2003 Dec 25)
        2003's amnesiac movie bears a time travel twist, as Ben Affleck's character's erased memory holds the building of a time-viewing device, and its dire warnings from the future (including the finality of a President launching pre-emptive strikes based on information from the device). Intelligent, it's still a John Woo action flick– though the action tropes feel stale whenever prescience is not involved.

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986 Oct 10)
      Kathleen Turner's Peggy Sue faints at her high school reunion, and awakens with full memory as her teen self in 1960, with the seeming chance to undo all her youthful mistakes.

Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon (animated series; 1964 Sep 16 - 1966 Feb 06)
aka The Peter Potamus Show; aka Peter Potamus and So-So
        Hippo and monkey sidekick travel time via a special compass installed on their combination balloon-boat. Any backstory written for this would simply boggle minds.

Peut-être (1999 Nov 10) aka Maybe; aka Perhaps
    - France - A man, left to ponder whether he should start a family, winds up meeting his decendants.

Phil of the Future (series; 2004 Jun 18 - 2006 Aug 19) aka The Out of Timers
      Disney sitcom about a future family trapped in our time.

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984 Aug 03)
      WWII naval experiment accidentally throws sailors into the future.

The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
  Stealth aircraft sent back to Nazi Germany. Nazi 1993 ensues.

Piratas en el Callao (animated; 2005 Feb 24)
    - República del Perú - Peru's animation industry kicked off in 2005 with a time travel pirate adventure: "De pronto cae, accidentalmente, por un portal del tiempo y aparece en el puerto del Callao del siglo XVII, el cual està a punto de ser atacado por el temible pirata Jacques L'Hermite (quien, por si no lo saben, existó en la vida real)."

Pirates of the Plain (1999)
Tim Curry plays Jezebel Jack, a pirate made to walk the plank, who falls into 20th Century Nebraska. Then he's pursued there by his mutinous crew.

Planet of the Apes (1968 Feb 08)
            SF classic where Charlton Heston's lost astronaut begins as a sardonic realist– aware that he's travelled so far ahead in time that planting the US flag is laughable– but ends up crying over lost Liberty.

Planet of the Apes (2001 Jul 27) aka The Visitor
        gamepro.com review at archive.org  - Marky Mark's astronaut has dimensional problems out by Saturn. Time dilations are in effect, since he arrives on the planet centuries after the space station he left from crashed there, but before the test chimp he sent out arrives, late in the film. The "surprise" ending stands dumb beside the original's.

Play for Today (series; 1970 Oct 15 - 1984 Aug 28)
      - UK - BBC anthology series with a notable time travel entry:

• "The Flipside of Dominick Hide" (1980 Dec 09)
            Comedy/drama about Dominick Hide from 2130. He's only supposed to observe while visiting 1980– but falls in love. Theme [MP3 3Mb]
• "Another Flip for Dominick" (1982 Dec 14)
          Dominck's student, Pyrus Bonnington, tries to save a princess from terrorists in 1982.

Playing Beatie Bow (1986 Aug 07)
- Australia - Lace collar transports girl to Victorian Era Sydney.

Pokémon 4Ever (2002 Oct 11) aka Pokémon 4: The Movie; aka Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi - Voice of the Forest
    - Nippon/USA - Meet Celebi, the pokémon who can travel time. If you capture him, you can erase all the others from existence and win.

Portrait of Jennie (1948 Dec 25) aka Jennie; aka Tidal Wave
    John Seavey at IMDb: "Every time he sees her, she is older, and talks of things that happened long ago."

Power Rangers: Time Force (series; 2001 Feb 03 - Nov 17)
      The ninth series of the Power Rangers franchise capitalized on millennial angst by fighting it in multicolored costumes.

Power Rangers Time Force - Quantum Ranger: Clash for Control (2001 May 05)
    Presumably a mashup of a two-part Power Rangers: Time Force episode of the same name, designed for home video sales.

The Powerpuff Girls (animated series; 1998 Nov 28 - 2004 Aug 27) aka PPG
          PPG continued the time travel mayhem tradition begun in Dexter's Laboratory. Besides, we have a theory about why we never see Ms. Bellum's face... Let's just say we suspect her irises are hot pink.
(A few new episodes, sans time travel, appeared on March 25, 2005; more may still be unreleased.)

• "Speed Demon" (Season 2; Episode 25; 2000 Jun 02)
    A race home from school results in the girls travelling 50 years into a dark future ruled by Him.
• "Get Back Jojo" (Season 4; Episode 42; 2001 May 4)
    The Professor shows off a time machine for the Pokey Oaks class, which Mojo attempts to use to prevent the junior Utonium from becoming interested in science in the first place.

Prehistoric Park (miniseries; 2006 Jul 22 - Sep 24)
        - UK - Real-world 'wildlife adventurer'/'zoologist' Nigel Marven gathers extinct species and brings them live through a time portal in this clever mashup of genres from the creators of Walking With Dinosaurs. Don't step on that butterfly, Nigel.

Prehistoric Women (1967 Jan 25)
  - UK - Hammer Films sends a lucky explorer back through time via a magic rhino horn to an era when brunettes enslaved blondes.

Premonition (2007 Mar 16)
      Normally, we don't include merely prophetic stories on The Big List, but this one looks like Sandra Bullock's character damn well pre-lives future events. Early debut at the European Film Market, Feb 8 2007.

Primer (2004 Oct 08)
          Young engineers accidentally invent a time machine in their garage, and distrust ensues. While critics have compared it to Kubrick, it actually falls just shy of true time travel (and storytelling) perfection– but still one of the finest entries to the genre in years. Best line: "He reverse engineered a perfect moment." Shown at the 2004 Sundance (Jan 16); winner of the Grand Jury Prize.

Primeval (series; 2007 Feb 10 - ) aka Primaeval
          - UK - Nick Cutter and crew chase after creatures falling into our time through an anamoly in the Forest of Dean.

Punching Hitler (short; 2004 Mar 26)
    Complete short film on MySpace
Beer-drinking buds discover time machine. IMDb: "After a quick jaunt to 1908 Austria to punch an 8 year old Adolf Hitler, the trio go on a madcap journey across Hitler's timeline to punch him every single day of his life."

La Puppé (short; 2002 May 15)
    A toy dog relives his fate in this charming spoof of La Jetée.  
 

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Quantum Leap (series; 1989 Mar 26 - 1993 May 05)
          Dr. Sam Beckett steps into the quantum accelerator, and into TV time travel history. He trades bodies and recent eras at the behest of an unknown force, "setting right what once went wrong," but never explains how that doesn't rewrite everything else he is and does– except at the bittersweet end. It's got Dean Stockwell, so time travel must be involved.  
 

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The Ray Bradbury Theatre (series; 1985 May 21 - 1992 Oct 30)
aka The Bradbury Trilogy; aka Le Monde fantastique de Ray Bradbury; aka Mystery Theatre; aka Ray Bradbury présente
        - France/UK/Canada/USA/New Zealand - The SF grandmaster hosts a showcase of his life's work in fiction.

• "A Sound of Thunder" (Season 4; Episode 24; 1989 Aug 11)
    Masterpiece about why you should never step on a protozoic butterfly.
• "Touch of Petulance" (Season 5; Episode 36; 1990 Oct 12)
    Man encounters his elder self, and a future headline.
• "The Toynbee Convector" (Season 5; Episode 38; 1990 Oct 26)
    TVTome: "A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to."
  innermind.com: "A man time travels to the past to perfect the future."
  Hmm...

Red Dwarf (series; 1988 Feb 15 - 1999 Apr 05)
        - UK - Classic series of misfits in space.

• "Future Echoes" (Season 1; Episode 2; 1988 Feb 22)
• "Stasis Leak" (Season 2; Episode 10; 1988 Sep 27)
• "Backwards" (Season 3; Episode 13; 1989 Nov 14)
• "Timeslides" (Season 3; Episode 17; 1989 Dec 12)
• "The Inquisitor" (Season 5; Episode 26; 1992 Feb 27)
• "Out of Time" (Season 6; Episode 36; 1993 Nov 11)
• "Tikka to Ride" (Season 7; Episode 37; 1997 Jan 11)
• "Ouroboros" (Season 7; Episode 39; 1997 Jan 31)
• "Cassandra" (Season 8; Episode 50; 1999 Mar 11)
   

The Ren and Stimpy Show (animated series; 1991 Aug 11 - 1996 Nov 14)
      One of the earliest and best deconstructive cartoons, created by the master of the form, John Kricfalusi.

• "Space Madness" (1991 Aug 25)
      Ren loses his mind on a 36-year-long space journey, and assigns Stimpy to guard the History Eraser Button. What happens if you push it? "Could be something bad... could be something good! I guess we'll never know..." An ironic production note: Nickelodeon editors kept the Button, but deleted a time travel climax where our heroes would try to fix it all.

Repeat Performance (1947 May 22)
    Actress gains the chance to relive the previous year of her life. Remade as Turn Back the Clock (1989).

Retroactive (1997 Jan 01)
      Disgraced Chicago police psychologist winds up using a lone scientist's time machine to pop back and stop a homicidal Texan from killing everyone in sight. –Except for a videotape that travels early in the film, consciousness is all that ever makes the trip. But annoyingly, the cop seems to know more about the ramifications of time travel than the physicist doing the experiment.

The Ripping Friends (animated series; 2001 Sep 15 - 2002 Oct 13)
        - USA/Canada - Kricfalusi's demented take on supers included a time travel villain...

• "The Man From Next Thursday (1)" (2002 Jan 19) aka "Thursday Man (1)"
    A miscarried thumb operation turns a fan into a foe.
• "The Man From Next Thursday (2)" (2002 Jan 26) aka "Thursday Man (2)"
    Thursday Man's revenge!

Ritaanaa (2002 Aug 19) aka Returner
        - Nippon - Girl from 2084 is sent back to 2002 to warn the world of an impending alien invasion. Action hero shoots her shortly after she arrives. Being a time traveler, she manages to get even. (Premiered in US theaters 2003 Oct 15.) Read our full review.

Roman Scandals (1933 Dec 25)
    A man dreams of Rome in this grand old musical.

Rumik World: Faiya torippa (animated; 1986 Mar 21) Firetripper; aka Rumik World 1: Fire Tripper
    - Nippon - Explosion throws girl 500 years into the past.

Running Against Time (1990 Nov 21)
    Professor David Rhodes wishes to go back and save JFK, thereby saving his brother killed in the Vietnam War.

Running Out of Time (1989)
IMDb: "A teen-age girl returns to the times of slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement through her dreams."

Russkij Kovcheg (2002) aka Russian Ark
- Russia - Modern filmmaker finds himself 300 years in the past, unable to be seen, but able to record some of Russia's lost history.  
 

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S. Darko (2009 Jul 10)
    In this sequel to Donnie Darko, Samantha Darko is racing away her youth, and her grief for her late brother, across Clinton-era America. Then the future starts haunting her, too.

Saint Sinner (2002 Oct 26) aka Clive Barker's Saint Sinner
    A monk from 1815 is sent on the "Wheel of Time" to hunt down a couple succubi he let loose on us 21st Century types. Half-hearted, retread Clive Barker freakfest.

Samurai Jack (animated series; 2001 Aug 10 - 2004 Sep 25)
          Achieving time travel ("back to the past") is mainly Jack's motivation rather than something that happens to him every week, or the show would earn an even higher rating. But the most profound comment on time in this series is not the premise of a samurai displaced by a demon to a future ruled by the fiend, it's the pacing of the show itself. Perhaps the only show on television that actually demonstrates the strength of being able to wait, and rewards a patient viewer.

Sanatorium pod klepsydra (1973)
aka Sanatorium Under the Hourglass; aka The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
    - Polska - Wojciech Has' interpretation of Bruno Schulz' paean of surreal decay, set in a sanatorium where they "reactivate past time". Lavish production, dreamlike and disturbed, the film's jumbling of events is not mere dadaism; it warns against revisiting the past– "time vomited back by humans"– and makes efforts like The Langoliers look like childish pranks.

Sapphire and Steel (series; 1979 Jul 10 - 1982 Aug 31)
        Big Finish  - UK - Dimensional agents Sapphire and Steel intrude on the lives of those assaulted by an insane universe. New audio adventures from Big Finish are set before the last story of the TV series.

Scontri Stellari Oltre la Terza Dimensione (1979 Jan)
aka Starcrash; aka The Adventures of Stella Star; aka Female Space Invaders; aka Star Crash; aka Stella Star
      - Italia - Christopher Plummer as the Emperor of the First Circle of the Galaxy intones the immortal words: "Imperial battleship! Halt the flow of time." Thus allowing our heroes to escape a time bomb. Plus, one character can see the future for no useful reason.

Sealab 2021 (animated series/shorts; 2000 Dec 21 - 2005 Apr 25)
        A fan favorite among Adult Swim's many recycled Hanna-Barbera sardonifests, the show is set a year after the original series, after budget cuts and insanity have swept Sealab.

• "Lost in Time" (2001 Sep 30)
      Stormy and Quinn are caught in a time loop, but keep being imprisoned with more and more of themselves. Save it for Queen Dopplepopolous!

SeaQuest DSV (1993 Sep 12 - 1996 Jun 09) aka SeaQuest; aka SeaQuest 2032
          Spielberg-produced series about a supersub of the near future.
Aetherco offers condolences to the family and friends of the late Jonathan Brandis (1976 Apr 13 - 2003 Nov 12)

• "Playtime" (Season 2; Episode 29; 1994 Oct 23)
  SeaQuest is drawn into the 23rd Century, where the crew discovers that mankind has nearly videogamed itself into oblivion.
• "Second Chance" (Season 3, Episode 55; 1995 Dec 27)
  A "space-time sphere" sends the SeaQuest back to October 1962, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Search for the Jewel of Polaris: Mysterious Museum (1999 Dec 21) aka Mysterious Museum
    Kids travel via magic painting back to 1632, where danger awaits. A few funny lines do nothing to offset the surprise-free plot.

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (series; 2000 Jun 18 - Dec 16)
      - Canada/UK - Jules Verne and Phileas Fogg encounter many famous real and fictional extraordinary gentlemen as they steampunk their way around the world for Her Majesty's secret service. A marvelous series overall, but since the real Verne never wrote about time travel (considering it unachieveable fantasy) their stab at the genre doesn't quite fit.

• "The Cardinal's Design" (Episode 4; 2000 July 09)
    Alexander Dumas has written a code into The Three Musketeers hiding a secret which international spies will kill for. It takes up a lot of screentime, and seems to have nothing to do with the time machine he's built from plans signed by Cardinal Richelieu. By the end of the ep, the crew are in the 1620s, and the time travel plot seems well under weigh...
• "The Cardinal's Revenge" (Episode 5; 2000 July 16)
    ...but then it devolves into a "parallel history" mistaken-identity yarn, and a lame excuse to swashbuckle with D'artagnan. And no clue as to how or if Richelieu ever designed the infernal machine, or was even much out for revenge, adding up to a pretty but pointless episode.

The Secret World of Polly Flynt (series; 1987 Feb 18 - ?)
  - UK - SciFi Television Database: "The adventures of a girl in a village lost in time."

See Ya Later Gladiator (animated short; 1968 Jun 29)
    Time machine whisks Daffy and Speedy to AD 65, where Nero awaits.

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007 Oct 05)
      Boy travels time as part of his initiation into the order of The Light. Based on The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper.

Sengoku Jieitai (1979 Dec 05) aka Time Slip; aka G.I. Samurai
    - Nippon - Modern platoon sent back in time to feudal Japan.

Sengoku Jieitai 1549 (2005 Jun 11) aka Samurai Commando Mission 1549
    - Nippon - Modern platoon sent back in time to feudal Japan.

Seven Days (series; 1998 Oct 07 - 2001 May 29) aka 7 Days
          Frank Parker travels back in time, and phones in to the Project: "This is Conundrum". You got that right. He should be at the office every time he calls in, but no, he's just not there. Shouldn't we be facing a Frank Parker glut as elder Franks arrive to fix problems and hang around with juniors who have no need to go back and fix any problems?
Dave Fooden's theory: Every time Frank phones in, the Project offs the Frank at the base. Must be a meadow somewhere stuffed with bodies of extra Franks...

SF Shinseiki Lensman (animated; 1984 Jun 07) aka Lensman; aka Lensman: Secret of the Lens
  - Nippon - MagicDragon says: "Excellent Japanimation combining Space travel and Time travel in unexpected and poignent way."

Shadow Chasers (series; 1985 Nov 14 - 1986 Jan 16)
      A stuffy anthropologist and a gregarious tabloid reporter are thrown together to investigate the paranormal.

• "Ahead of Time" (Episode 14; unaired in US?)
  TVTome.com: "A student journeys back in time to prevent an assassination." Also according to RieSheridan at TVTome: "Only nine episodes were actually shown in the U.S. Four others were only shown overseas on the Armed Forces network in the original run of the series." Including, apparently, this one.

Il Signor Rossi cerca la felicità (1975)
aka The Fantastic Adventures of Mr. Rossi; aka Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness
- Italia - Rossi and his dog Gastone are whisked off across space and time by a fairy godmother. Presented as a TV series in the UK: The Fantastic Adventures of Mr. Rossi.

Silent Möbius (animated series; 1998 Apr 07 - 1998 Sep 29)
        - Nippon - Anime series about an all-girl demon-fighting squad of the 21st Century: the Attacked Mystification Police Department. Based on the manga by Kia Asamiya.

• "Labyrinth" (Episode 16)
      Yuki is thrown from 2027 into 1997 armed only with an antique coffee grinder, and meets the guy of her dreams. A few espresso moments amidst the usual anime grind.

The Simpsons (animated series; 1989 Dec 17 - )
        Matt Groening's interest in SF themes surfaced long before Futurama, in the longest-running comedy series in the world.

• Treehouse of Horror V: "Time and Punishment" (Season 6; Episode 109; 1994 Oct 30)
    Ned Flanders becomes the ruler of an Orwellian world after Homer adversely uses a toaster to change the past.

Sky (series; 1976 Apr 07 - May 19)
        - UK - Time travelling youth finds himself stuck on Earth, pursued by the evil Goodchild.

Slaughterhouse-Five (1972 Mar 15)
      Faithful and arresting version of the Vonnegut classic about Billy Pilgrim, who has come unstuck in time.

Slipstream (2005 Feb 03)
          - USA/South Africa - Sean Astin plays a scientist with a handheld time machine that lets him trip back ten minutes into the past. Premiered on Sci Fi Channel, February 12, 2005.

Somewhere In Time (1980)
        Playwright hypnotizes himself back to 1912 in pursuit of romance. The love story and most of the time travel elements are presented movingly, and for many this film remains their favorite of the genre. But this reviewer can't believe that hypnotism is quite that powerful a medium.

A Sound of Thunder (2005 May 15)
          - USA/Deutschland - Yahoo! Movies reported the release date had been pushed back to August 20, 2004, then October 8, then March 11, 2005... it finally premiered in the US on September 2nd. Movie loosely based on the Ray Bradbury short story of a time safari having dire (albeit muddled) consequences.
Production company Crusader Entertainment originally had the following synopsis on their site, until, it seems, the company itself vanished from the web: "Travis tracks down Allison, the inventor of modern time travel, just as a 'Time Wave' rolls through New York city. Instantly, swarms of bugs overwhelm New York. Whole buildings disappear. People cease to exist. Enlisting Allison's help, Travis deduces that one of the self-indulgent billionaires must have brought a butterfly back from the past, despite dire warnings against this." (The final Warner version sets the safari origin in Chicago 2054, and restores the butterfly-squashing of the original tale.)
Not to be confused with The Butterfly Effect, released in January 2004, the title of which comes from a term partially inspired by the plot of the original Bradbury story.

South Park (animated series; 1997 Aug 13 - )
          The vile, ugly– albeit hilarious– tireyard that is South Park takes on time travel with the same satiric bravado it uses to defend selfish human squalor against the forces of progress.

• "4th Grade" (Season 4; Episode 59; 2000 Nov 08)
    College students build a time machine out of Timmy's wheelchair, sending him back to some saurian epoch.
• "My Future Self N' Me" (Season 6; Episode 95; 2002 Dec 04)
    Stan and Butters are visited by what appear to be their loser future selves.
• "Goobacks" (Season 8; Episode 118; 2004 Apr 28) aka "Goobacks From the Future"
    Angry, jobless descendants from 4035 illegally emigrate to 2004, resulting in mass homosexuality in order to stop their existence.
• "Go God Go II" (Season 10; Episode 151; 2006 Nov 01)
    Cartman cannot wait for the release of the Nintendo Wii, and so has Butters freeze him in a glacier. Buried beneath an avalanche, he awakens five hundred years later in a world of rival atheist organizations.
• "Go God Go XII" (Season 10; Episode 152; 2006 Nov 08)
    Trapped in the future, Cartman, known there as "The Time Child," struggles through various adventures to attain the lost Nintendo Wii. He finally resorts to making crank calls to the past, which prove to be mostly useless.

Southland Tales (2007 Nov 14)
      Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) presents a vision of world-shattering authoritarian apocalypse.
It sounds like there's a lot we'd want to like about this movie... but an ocean turbine so powerful it disrupts the fabric of space-time? Well, maybe it works as "art".

Space Patrol (series; 1950 Mar 13 - 1955 Feb 05) aka Satellite Police
      TVAcres.com: "Terra V was the last space ship in the series. It was equipped with a Paralyzer Ray and a time drive... Another ship used on the series was the XRC (Experimental Rocket Ship) also called the Rocket Cockpit Ship, equipped with a magnetically controlled time drive."

• "Lunatics from the Future" (Season 1; Episode 42; 1951 Oct 13)
   
• "The Chase in Time" (Season 2; Episode 103; 1952 Dec 13)
   
• "Marooned in the Past" (Season 4; Episode 173; 1954 Apr 17)
   

Space Precinct (series; 1994 Oct 03 - 1995 Jul 24)
        Obscure Gerry Anderson series about cops in space.

• "Time to Kill" (Episode 6; 1994 Nov 07)
    Kessler: "Brogan is stalked by a time-travelling cyborg which manages to kill just about everyone but the cop himself." Thanks to Timelinks reader JB for sending this one in!

Sphere (1998 Feb 13)
      A US spaceship from the future is found buried in coral dating from the 1700s. Intriguing most of the way through, it winds up having a very silly ending.

The Spirit of '76 (1990 Oct 12)
      Americans from the far future confuse 1776 with 1976 in their wacky attempt to recreate the perfection of US culture.

Sport Billy (animated series; 1982 Jun - Aug)
aka The Adventures of Sport Billy and Lilly– Space Champions
          - USA/Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Strange Filmation effort based around a German sports equipment logo. Sport Billy has a bag filled with an infinite amount of said sports equipment with which he fights the evil Queen Vanda and her plans to spread unsportmanlike behaviour across the Earth. He also has at his disposal a time machine.

Star Trek (series; 1966 Sep 08 - 1969 Jun 03)
          Julia Huston writes at about.com: "Whatever people do in the Star Trek universe, as long as they've got a starship, they can undo and redo to their heart's content, so why don't they? ...So instead of chaos -- which makes for a really lousy TV show -- we have denial."
Which makes for really lousy time travel. To its credit, the Original Series delved into some interesting territory– but made no hard-and-fast limits to the effects of travelling time. The subsequent series just keep shooting in the dark whenever time travel comes up– episodes that are nevertheless some of the most popular.

• "The Naked Time" (1966 Sep 29)
    After "cold starting" the engines, the Enterprise crew find they've gone back in time a few days.
• "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (1967 Jan 26)
    An unwelcome trip around a black star has landed the Enterprise over 1960s Earth, thus 'inventing' the slingshot effect. Much is made of covering up '60's photographic evidence of the ship– even though the crew seems to have methods of entirely erasing their presence, including the power to beam local witnesses back into their junior selves.
• "The City on the Edge of Forever" (1967 Apr 06)
    Classic tale of ensuring the death of one good person, so that uncounted future generations might live. Also the suggestion that time travel is a cornucopia of adventure is rebuffed with cold anger by a heartbroken Kirk –an important lesson the franchise would never quite recapture.
• "Assignment: Earth" (1968 Mar 29)
    Slingshot effect is used to spy on the 20th Century, which is also being watched by Mr. Gary Seven. Mr. Seven is from farther in the future, but is surprised to see Kirk and crew there.
• "All Our Yesterdays" (1969 Mar 14)
    Mr. Atoz' atavachron sends Kirk, Spock and McCoy into the past of the planet Sarpeidon. Just the thought of bringing to life alien Middle Ages and alien prehistory was pretty neat for TV in 1969.

Star Trek (animated series; 1973 Sep 08 - 1974 Oct 12)
        The decanonized orphan series of the franchise had its share of time travel, too.

• "Yesteryear" (Episode 2; 1973 Sep 15)
      After a visit to the Guardian of Forever, Spock must return to his Vulcan childhood (AD 2237) to restore his timeline.
• "The Time Trap" (Episode 12; 1973 Nov 24)
      Less a real time travel story than an inspiration for an episode of Voyager ("The Void").
• "The Counter-Clock Incident" (Episode 22; 1974 Oct 12)
      The franchise's own take on a Bizarro universe, complete with black stars in white space, and a planet called "Arret". People there age backwards, including visitors from the Enterprise, resulting in... Trek Babies. A delightfully silly end to the kiddie series.

Star Trek (2009 May 07) aka Star Trek XI
     
The Federation would be a great place to live... if it weren't for all the damn time travelers.
It's almost as though someone wants Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future to fail. This time around, the Romulans take a shot at erasing Kirk from existence, only not, since old Spock goes and tells young Spock all about it in this long-anticipated return to the years of Classic Trek.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (series; 1993 Jan 03 - 1999 Jun 02) aka DS9
       

• "Past Tense, Pt. I" (1995 Jan 02)
   
• "Past Tense, Pt. II" (1995 Jan 09)
   
• "Visionary" (1995 Feb 27)
   
• "The Visitor" (1995 Oct 09)
   
• "Little Green Men" (1995 Nov 13)
    Ferengi Quark, Rom and Nog crash at Roswell in 1947.
• "Trials and Tribble-ations" (1996 Nov 04)
    A Trek tour-de-force where Sisko's crew travels back to insure that Kirk's crew survives the tribble incident. One of the few times that the tech and look of the Original Series is faced by a later series. Most notable: Worf's disinclination to explain why Klingons look so different.
• "Children of Time" (1997 May 05)
   
• "Wrongs Darker than Death or Night" (1998 Apr 01)
    Kira uses the Orb of Time, and lands in the past, in a Bajoran refugee camp.
• "Time's Orphan" (1998 May 20)
   

Star Trek: Enterprise (series; 2001 Sep 26 - 2005 May 13) aka Enterprise
        The Star Trek prequel took the bold move of making a "Temporal Cold War" its widest story arc.

• "Broken Bow" (2001 Sep 26)
  In the series opener, much revolves around Capt. Archer's mission to return a lost Klingon home, but in the process he and his crew run afoul of the shape-shifting Suliban, and Archer learns of the existence of the Temporal Cold War.
• "Cold Front" (2001 Nov 28)
  Daniels, a humanoid soldier from 900 years in Enterprise's future, reveals himself among the crew, and aids Archer in defeating the Suliban Silik. T'Pol voices doubt that time travel is really possible, but after Daniels disappears, Archer has his room sealed anyway.
• "Shockwave, Part I" (2002 May 22)
  The Suliban attempt to frame the Enterprise with the destru