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Orville Smith New user 87 Posts 
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This update is somewhat belated but among the New tv-shows is a series called "Timeless." It somewhat reminds me of the 1960s TV series Time Tunnel. The difference, though, and its advantage is that in "Timeless" they can control where they travel, in sharp contrast to Time Tunnel where Doug and Tony were at the mercy of time. Not to be a nitpicker about that 1960 series but one thing that sort of irked me about it was when the two men got their clothes soiled such as in a coal mine where they got dusty and dirty and then in the final scene they tumble through the time warp to a different time-era. Although the travel took only an instant, their clothes are seen to be immaculately clean! Unless there is something about time travel that has a "restorative" effect. Maybe somebody can explain.
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Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts
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I actually liked it when Christopher Reeve bought a period suit to go back in time, then got constantly laughed at for being ten years or so out of date.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Apr 2, 2017, Orville Smith wrote: I remember that show, it got even worse. In at least one story, they were wearing period clothing and, as they time effect grabbed them, they were changed into the regular clothes before disappearing.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Mar 21, 2002, Greg Arce wrote: "Teahouse of the August Moon" is a serious story made in the 60's. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0595418/?ref_=nv_sr_1 I'm sorry, it's also apparently the title of a "comedy/drama" made in 1956 with Marlon Brando. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049830/?ref_=tt_rec_tt The story you're thinking of, which was in fact written by Douglas Adams as part of his "Dirk Gently" series (although the actual sequence was from the "Dr. Who" episode "Shada" in which a distinguished professor turns out to be a retired Time Lord whose apartment is actually his TARDIS) is called "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul"
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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Time and Again - the TV series
or "He's Back" if you like movies in German Tuesday is the season finale of DC's Legends of Tomorrow I liked the time machine as method for a magic trick part of Douglas Adams' story.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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Time and Again, is that the one where the guy walks into a burned out pub next door and comes out in the 1940's?
I haven't watched Legends of Tomorrow. I'm a bad fan. "Time After Time," Jack the Ripper steals H.G. Welles time machine and Welles has to go chasing after him when the machine auto-returns. This is supposed to be a series in the fall.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On Apr 3, 2017, ed rhodes wrote: You're right - and the first few episodes have been shown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_After_Time_(TV_series)
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On Apr 3, 2017, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Wow, I AM out of the loop! Apparently it's been on and cancelled and I never watched it! However, with five episodes, at least the "complete box set" won't be very expensive.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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wulfiesmith Inner circle Beverley, UK 1339 Posts
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Time Travel ... whilst we are talking about films ...
Somewhere In Time - Christopher Reeve (beautiful music) The New Twilight Zone Season One - A Message from Charity (heart-warming) |
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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As this is beyond me I do have one observation or comment. If one could travel back in time, I would have to believe that is all they could do. By that I mean. They would not be able to interact with their "time travel environment" and possibly not even be really present. I believe they could only experience (possibly observe) what happened in the past.
This from someone who is just enjoying pondering this. (Last sentence begins and ends with "this" ... sort of like time travel.) 
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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A panopticon view? ...how close "now"?
Scary
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Orville Smith New user 87 Posts
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The way I see it,Kevin Williamson's tv series failed after just five episodes because the Jack the Ripper gimmick fizzled out. Granted,the Ripper gimmick was effective as an attention-getter but to stretch it out for the entire series made it too protracted. Seen in that light and in comparison, the movie version worked much better.
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karnak Special user Connecticut 747 Posts
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Classic Time Travel Paradox: you have a time machine, and you use it to travel back in time in order to meet your great-grandfather when he was a young man and not yet even a father. You do so, but things go catastrophically awry; because of your presence, history is changed and rewritten, such that you inadvertently end up being the cause of the sudden death (right then, right there) of your young (and then still childless) great-grandfather.
You just killed your great-grandfather, prior to him siring your grandfather. No grandfather, no father, no you. You've just erased your own birth from history. You were never born. You do not exist. You never did. So here's the paradox: if you do not exist -- if you were never born -- then who killed your great-grandfather? (More to the point, perhaps: how might this line of thinking be turned into patter for a clever card or coin trick?)
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1777 Posts
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Ray Bradbury explored this concept in a short story. I remember it from his Golden Apples Of The Sun short story collection. About a man who, during his trip back to the dinosaur age, accidentally steps on a butterfly. And when he returns to his own time, people are different, their clothes are different, and even the language being spoken is radically different.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On Apr 9, 2017, karnak wrote: There could be some inspiring fiction in the future along your personal time line including Palimpsest by Charles Stross and Heinlein's classic All You Zombies. The presupposition that the time/place you leave is a place you can return to is... not so useful in stories beyond wishful thinking. Try William Gibson's "The Peripheral", Bruce Sterling's "Mozart in Mirrorshades", Ray Bradbury's "Sound of Thunder" for options. or Greg Egan's story "Quarantine" for other ideas. 
http://martzin.dreamwidth.org/14945.html Enjoy exploring - change blindness could be your friend in tricks using the presentation of "but in some universe... like this one..."
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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"Yesteryear," a Star Trek animated story where Spock discovers that HE was the mysterious "cousin" who saved him during a manhood trial.
"The Men Who Murdered Mohammad" (sp) an angry genius builds a time machine to go back and kill his cheating wife's grandparents, keeping her from being born. Nothing he does seems to effect the present and he comes, too late, to a realization about time and reality that I won't spoil for you.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On Apr 9, 2017, arthur stead wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder :)
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karnak Special user Connecticut 747 Posts
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I LOVE "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"! In college (decades ago), for a screenwriting class as an exercise I adapted it from its original short-story format into a film/TV script.
Would have made a great "Twilight Zone" episode....
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1777 Posts
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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Ellison's "Shatterday" takes the notion more personally
On the physics side of storytelling for time travel - it's been other universes pretty much since Crichton's book "Timeline" through Clines's "The Fold". The notion of attempting to exploit information in a "this looks like a century ago" universe is also being explored in fiction.
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