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Welcome to The Big List of over 670 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
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Updated 2007.11.03
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.
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.
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
 ![[as]](imgx/adultswim29x20.gif "[adult swim]")
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.
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."
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.
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
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