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Here is a collection of links around the web that feature/review some of my favorite Time Travel themed films/shows. Just click on the pictures to start your travels.
For more information on time travel theories and conjectures, check out these fascinating websites~
Time Travel
How Time Travel will work
Time Travel Institute
The Time Travel Collective
(A webrings hub with 18 other websites about Time travel and similar notions.)
For more information on time travel theories and conjectures, check out these fascinating websites~
Time Travel
How Time Travel will work
Time Travel Institute
The Time Travel Collective
(A webrings hub with 18 other websites about Time travel and similar notions.)
Back to the Future
A Time Travel Trilogy!
A Time Travel Trilogy!
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by slightly mad scientist, Doctor Emmett Brown. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love -- so he can get back to the future. In the sequel, Marty must save the future of Hill Valley and his family, the adventures take him to 2015, 1955 and an alternate 'bad' 1985 controlled by the bully Biff. In the final film, Marty goes back to Hill Valley of the old west to rescue his friend Doc Brown from being killed by none other than 'Mad Dog' Buford Tannen, ancestor to the bullying Biff Tannen!
Frequency
With an old Ham radio and a natural phenomena known as 'The Aurora Borealis', a depressed cop named Johnny Sullivan reconnects with his firefighter father, Frank, who died tragically 30 years earlier. They bond quickly, and Johnny realizes that he is able to make lasting changes to his immediate present. Together Johnny and Frank help each other solve a decades old crime-spree that could have fatal consequences for both men in the past and future.
Out of Time
A young brother and sister live on a farm in Maryland that is facing foreclosure. After finding a secret trunk in their barn, they find a means travel back to 1850 during a lightning storm and meet their ancestor, Otto Frommer. They gain his trust and help to clear up grave misunderstandings about his life that will change their family's future. This is a cute made for television 1985 family special that is unfortunately out of print. You could try and find a VHS copy on Ebay.
Watch the special below!
Deja Vu
When a bomb explodes on a ferry boat carrying Navy members and their families in New Orleans, special operatives
from the FBI and ATF come to the scene, including ATF agent Doug
Carlin. During the early part of the investigation Carlin stumbles upon
the body of a beautiful woman named Claire Kuchever. Claire had been murdered shortly before the
Ferry tragedy. Carlin is then asked to join a top-secret surveillance team, but he eventually discovers that he can use their surveillance
systems to travel into the past, but only within a 4 day radius. Throughout his investigations, Carlin becomes endeared to Claire. With the help of the team he is able to track down the terrorist to his hideout. When the team tells him that the mission is over and they are shutting operations, he then makes a sacrifice and sends himself a few hours before
the explosion. His goal is to save Claire's life and hopefully the lives of all those on board the ferry.
THE TIME MACHINE
Based on the novel by H.G Wells. A wealthy and bored scientist/tinkerer in the 19th century builds a time machine and uses it to explore the very distant future. There he finds two races. A mild gentle race, the Eloi, and a cannibalistic one known as Morlocks, that live underground. His machine is stolen by the Morlocks and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to save the Eloi and return to his own time.
The Time Tunnel
Scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips are the young heads of Project Tic-Toc, a multi-billion dollar government installation buried beneath the desert. They have invented a Time Tunnel, which will allow people to visit anywhere in time and space. While testing the tunnel for an impatient senator, Newman and Phillips became trapped in time, and each week coincidentally found themselves at the site of an important historical event, be it the Siege of Troy, the sinking of the Titanic or an assassination attempt on President Lincoln. Sometimes they traveled into the future, and battled alien invaders. Ann MacGregor, Gen. Kirk and Dr. Swain are the scientists trying to fix the malfunctioning Time Tunnel and bring Doug and Tony back to the present (1968)
The Lakehouse
In Chicago, lonely architect Alex Wyler has a troubled relationship and lives in the shadow of his father, famed architecht Simon Wyler. In 2004, he buys an old glass house on a lake, designed and built by Simon. He finds a message in his mailbox from the former tenant, the also lonely, Dr. Kate Forster. In it she asks the current tenant to deliver her correspondence to an address downtown. Alex meets his brother Henry in Chicago and when they go to the address with Dr. Forster's correspondence, they find a building of luxury apartments under construction to be finished eighteen months later. Alex and Kate begin to write to each other instantaneously through the mailbox at the glass house. After some messages, Alex and Kate discover that she is living in 2006 and Alex in 2004. They fall in love and then try to find means to meet despite the overwhelming obstacles of time and space.
Happy Accidents
A woman named Ruby from New York begins a fun and loving relationship with a wildly eccentric man named Sam. Sam claims he's from the very distant future. Soon, all the strange clues fall into place. But by then she is torn between loving him or committing him! This movie has a terrific soundtrack!
Quantum Leap
Doctor Sam Beckett led a group of top scientists into the desert to research his theory that a man could time travel within his own lifetime. Unfortunately, in order to save his funding, he was forced to enter the accelerator prematurely and vanished. He then found himself in someone else's body with partial amnesia. His only contact from home is Al, a holographic image only he can see and hear. Setting right things which once went wrong, Sam leaps from life to life, hoping each time that this is the final leap home.
Early Edition
A bartender owner begrudgingly accepts the fantastic assignment of getting Tomorrow's newspaper, today. With the help of good friends and a strange cat he runs around the City of Chicago preventing disaster before it happens!
Time cop
The government sets up a special police force (T.E.C.) to ensure that new time travel technology isn't abused. Max Walker, one of these time cops, learns of a corrupt politician's plot to become president using the device. Senator McComb discovers Walker on his trail and the real action begins--in Walker's own past!
Planet of the Apes
In the year 3978A.D. a spaceship with a crew of 4 crashes down on a distant planet. One of the crew members had died in space and the other 3 head out to explore the planet. They soon learn that the planet is much like their own. They then find the planet is inhabited b a race of intelligent apes. One of the men is shot and killed and the others are taken to the apes' city. There, one undergoes brain surgery and is put into a state of living death. The other, Taylor, befriends some of the apes but is feared by most. After helping his ape friends through a religious heresy trial, he escapes out into the wilderness with the female. There he learns the planet might not be so distant after all...
Time Trax
Darien Lambert is a cop from the 22nd century, he searches out criminals from the future hiding out in our present time. (At that point, the 90's!) He is armed with a credit card that houses a powerful computer. She is a holographic image know-it-all named Selma. He also carries his powerful PPT that can make a man unconscious or send him back to the 22nd century. Lambert cannot return to his own century until all the fugitives are captured.
Somewhere in Time
Based on the book by acclaimed author, Richard Mattheson. Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s, Elise McKenna. He becomes obsessed with her and he manages, by self hypnosis, to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. How long can their love last?
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!
Bill and Ted are two hard rock-obsessed teenagers in San Dimas, California (1988) who are in danger of failing high school. This is "heinous" because Ted's father has threatened to ship him to the Alaskan Military Academy. Miraculously, a guitar-playing guru named Rufus arrives from San Dimas of the future (2688) to help them pass a vital history report. Their garage band Wyld Stallyns holds the key to world peace and ultimate truth. However, they will not achieve this destiny if they flunk out. Rufus lends them a time machine disguised as a phone booth to help them get an A+ on their oral report. Things get crazy as they proceed to "collect" various historical figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Socrates, Billy the Kid, Sigmund Freud, Beethoven, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, and Abraham Lincoln to help them with their final history presentation.
Peggy Sue Got Married
A 43 year old mother and housewife that's facing divorce is thrust back in time when she is crowned queen at her high-school reunion. Peggy Sue blacks out from the stress and wakes up in her old family home of the fifties. Given the chance to change the course of her life, she finds herself making many of the same choices, even with her adult outlook.
