Time Travel
Me being, well, me, and not a physicist, I'm not going to pretend to understand the theories behind time travel. Instead, this page will be devoted to something I do understand - time travel in entertainment. :) Time travel has been explored in fiction for decades, in books, television series and on film; below you'll find a partial guide to some of those products.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court || This classic 1889 novel, written by Mark Twain, tells the tale of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself mysteriously transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in 528 CE. Hank uses his advanced technological knowledge and Yankee ingenuity to advance the extremely superstitious, brutal and ignorant old English society and secure high position for himself, but later falls victim to modern society's own darker side. This famous story has been adapted to stage, featured motion pictures, and animated cartoons numerous times since the beginning of the 20th century, as well as numerous variations and parodies. [Text Wikipedia encyclopedia] Click here to read the book online.
Back to the Future || Film series - 1985, 1989, 1990
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure || Film - 1989; sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 1991
Dr. Who ||Television series 1963-1989, 2005-present
The Final Countdown || Film 1980
Freejack || Film 1992
Millennium || Film 1989
The Philadelphia Experiment || Film 1984
Planet of the Apes || Film 1968, numerous sequels, television series, remake 2001
Quantum Leap || Television series 1989-1993
Star Trek (Television series) 1966-1969; also Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Film 1986, Star Trek: First Contact Film 1996, Star Trek: Generations Film 1996, Star Trek: The Next Generation Television series 1987-1994
The Terminator || Film 1984: sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day Film 1991, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Film 2003
Time And Again || Book 1970, sequel From Time To Time 1995
Time Bandits || Film 1980
Timeline || Film 2003
The Time Machine || This novel, written by H G Wells, was first published in 1895, and was an instant bestseller, launching the time-travel storyline. A dreamer obsessed with traveling through time builds himself a time machine and travels over 800,000 years into the future. The world has been transformed with a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, it's surface inhabited by tiny, gentle humans known as the Eloi, but as the Time Traveler stays in this world of the future he discovers a hidden barbaric subterranean class, the cannibalistic Morlocks. Wells' work of fiction portrays what he felt could happen to mankind as the divisive gulf between the indolent rich and hard-working poor became wider and wider. Like so many classics, this original work has been adapted in numerous other mass media products, one of the most notable in a 1960 film of the same name, starring Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux and Sebastian Cabot. Click here to read the book online.
Time Trax || Television series 1993-1994
The Time Tunnel || Television series 1966-1967
Timecop || Television series 1997, also film 1994
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann || Film 1982
Twelve Monkeys || Film 1995
Warlock || Film 1989
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