 This is the SF Productions podcast network If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times people love time travel from the pop culture bunker I'm Mindy and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast How I got my wife to read comics on itunes or on our website SF podcast network comm We're coming up on the new fall TV season where the overriding theme there always is one is Reboots and last year it was military dramas two years ago The theme was time travel, which made me think of all the examples of time travel in the media It's always been a popular topic in fiction for Centuries of not millennia It was generally used as a way to discuss social issues of the time or maybe just mock them Memoirs of the 20th century was a 1733 book about diplomatic letters from 1997 to 98 and was a warning about Jesuits Golf in the year 2000 shows us a world where men's activities are limited to the links and for some strange reason politics While Masculinized women do the rest women's suffrage was a major social discussion of the time on all 7603 involved a group sent to the year 7603 ad by a fairy to see a world where gender roles were reversed Rifang Winkle in 1819 is the classic story of a man who sleeps 20 years only to find he has been forgotten Christmas Carol in 1843 provides both past and future time travel via ghosts looking backward 2000 to 1887 from 1887 had a hypnotized man sleep until the year 2000 and familiar to everyone is a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court from 1989 Where Mark Twain has a straw man trap time travel back to well King Arthur's time 1895 brought us HD Wells is the time machine a story. We'll get back to in just a minute Armageddon 2019 ad from 1928 introduces us to time traveler Buck Rogers Ray Bradbury is the sound of thunder 1952 explained the butterfly effect By the 60s time travel became its own fictional genre with hundreds of novels and short stories So let's move on to films We already mentioned the time machine a man watches the world rise and fall ending up in the year eight 802 601 ad where humans have split into the childlike Eloi and the underground more locks that prey on them There have been three film versions There is a 1960 version with Robert Taylor and Alan Young the one you've likely seen with the ornate velvet chair Slash time machine. There's also a 1978 made for TV movie and the 2002 version with Guy Pierce The 1960 version is rather modlin and Robert Taylor is serviceable in the main role of George that Alan Young shines playing three roles this be in 1900 this be son in 1917 and 1966 the letter rolls affected by war which George sees happen in fast motion during his travels This is rather unique in time travel usually it's instantaneous or the result of a long sleep The machine itself became the subject of an episode of the Big Bang Theory now We also mentioned a Connecticut Yankee which also had three film versions a silent version in 1921 a 1931 version starring Will Rogers and a 1949 musical comedy starring Bing Crosby 1968 brought us Planet of the Apes based on a French novel Astronauts including Charles and Eston go off course to what they think is another planet where apes evolve from men But spoiler it's actually a future earth post nuclear war some memorable quotes Get just sticking paws off me a damn daddy ape They blew it up. God damn you. They blew it up. And if you think I haven't heard those a million times you're insane It's been parody many times from the Simpsons stop the Planet of the Apes I want to get off to mad men and of course there were many many sequels beneath the escape from conquest of battle for and 70s TV shows both live-action and animated and of course the recent cinematic reboot Woody Allen's sleeper in 1973 shows a shlubby man of 1973 becoming a hero in a near-future fighting a totalitarian government Time after time in 1979 turns HG Wells into an action hero chasing Jack the Ripper into modern times Malcolm McDowell stars 1980s the final countdown asks the question. What if a modern aircraft carrier is thrown back to December 7th? 1941 just in time to stop the Japs Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen star This was a period where Hollywood was trying to mesh classic Hollywood tales with the sci-fi explosion caused by Star Wars at all 1984's Philadelphia experiment is similar in concept except the time jump goes into the future Somewhere in time 1980 sees Christopher Reeve fresh from his Kryptonian role use self-hypnosis to travel back to meet a girl Jane Seymour he sees in a portrait That one never made sense to me Time Bandits in 1981 comes from the Monty Python school with director Terry Gilliam Directing and John Cleese co-starring a boy runs into time-traveling dwarves looking for loot the Terminator 1984 and its various sequels reboots and TV series Surround a mere future where robots have taken over and how the only answer is to go back in time to stop it from happening And of course it made a star out of Arnold of course it was basically a rip-off of an Outer Limits episode The back to the future trilogy 1985 89 and 90 turned Michael J. Fox from a TV star to a movie star It all took us back in time to the 1950s and the 1880s as well as the far-flung world of 2015 the trilogy made almost a billion dollars at the box office and spawned countless commercial tie-ins Bill and Ted's excellent adventure 1989 has two idiots Keanu Reeves and Alex winter receive a time machine because their high school band ends up transforming a future society And so they're given that as a gift so that they can complete a school history project Because if they don't they don't graduate and the band doesn't become big I watched that and remembered nothing about it. I had to look it up on Wikipedia a sequel TV shows comics and theme park rides came out of it Army of Darkness in 1992 is part of the evil dead franchise with Bruce Campbell going back to 1380 to find the necromicon Groundhog Day 1993 introduced the concept of a time loop with Bill Murray trapped Celebrating the same day over and over and wooing Andy McDowell by trial and error Time cop in 1984 is a Jean-Claude van Damme vehicle and his beat is to protect the past and the future Pleasantville 1998 has teams Tommy McGuire and Reese Witherspoon Sent to a mythical 50s black-and-white TV town by magical TV repair man Don Knotts Frequency in 2000 uses a ham radio to connect Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviesel over a 30-year span And that was made into a TV show. Yeah recently. Yeah, the butterfly effect in 2004 stars Ashton Kutcher Remember when he was a movie star as a man who can supernaturally inhabit his young self to change the past and screw up The present as a result Idiocracy 2006 stars Luke Wilson who was chosen as an average American for a government experiment He winds up 500 years later as the smartest man on earth How well the rest of the world has become stupid because smart people realized over a population was a problem But dumb people did not it could be argued that it won't take 500 years to reach that point and we may be entering it already The time traveler's wife in 2009 stars Eric Banna as a man who jumps forward in time due to a genetic defect Which causes problems in his marriage Safety not guaranteed in 2002 is a tiny budgeted film where a classified ad seeking a time travel companion changes the life of Aubrey Plaza Actual time travel only occurs in the very last scene and it's questionable even then Looper in 2012 sees the mob using time travel to clean up issues in this case Sending Joseph Gordon-Levitt to kill his older self Bruce Willis. It's rather confusing Edge of tomorrow in 2014 has Tom Cruise fighting aliens in a time loop and Restarting every time he dies like a video game and there's plenty more But let's jump over to TV There were certainly series that touched on time travel like the Twilight Zone and Star Trek But we're gonna limit this to shows where that's the main focus The time tunnel 1966 to 67 was an Irwin Allen production. Mr. Disaster a Secret government time travel project goes awry Sary sending James Darren and Robert Colbert into the time stream Conveniently landing each week at a critical event mostly on backlots or existing film sets Using stock footage while Whit Bissell and Lee Merriweather watch through a literal tunnel it's about time in 1966 to 67 and see even then TV networks did concepts and cult clusters is a Sureward Schwartz slapstick comedy from the man who brought us Gilligan's Island in the Breedy Bunch Where as the theme song explains? It's about time. It's about space about two men in the strangest place It's about time. It's about flight traveling faster than the speed of light Here is their tale of the brave crew as through the barrier of time they flew To this ancient site that being prehistoric Earth where they befriend cavemen The show quickly tanked and flipping the script bringing the cavemen back to 1966 did not help Quantum leap from 89 to 93 Starr Scott Bacula who inhabits the bodies of people in the past writing wrongs and learning a lesson or two He's helped out by an AI named Al a hologram only he can see played by Dean Stockwell life on Mars 2006 to 2007 is a British series where a modern police detective Involved an auto accident finds himself in 1973 still as a cop now. You really like that show Yeah, they remade it as an American show too. Yeah, so we see the inverse of this on Continuum in 2012 to 2015 where a detective from 2077 Finds yourself thrown back to 2012 now catching criminals from the future Outlander which began in 2014 sees 1945 British nurse Catalonia Balf swept back to 1743 where she meets and marries Scottish warrior Sam Hugen And it's based on a series of books Of course this CW DC comic series tend to deal with time travel especially the flash But legends of tomorrow in 2016 to now is all about it a team of DC heroes and villains band together with Rip Hunter played by Arthur Darval to fix problems in the time Stream the show was rather pedestrian until one of the precepts of time travel fiction that changes in time have consequences Was basically thrown out of the window turning the show into a hoot to watch a big boss fight this past season Involved a demon and a faux Teddy Ruxpin who won the fight and we mentioned the 2016 plethora of time travel series and this was only one of three Time after time was a TV reboot of the 1979 film Timeless 2016 and ongoing now involves yet another government project gone awry as well as a shadowy conspiracy throughout history Leaving a small team to stop the bad guys from changing history and this series is still in question as a whether it's going to continue or not They still haven't made the call So of course we didn't forget Doctor who? 1963 to 1989 2005 and ongoing a show that started as a way to educate kids about history Quickly turned into a sci-fi mainstay in the UK and later in the US an alien and his human companion or companions Go through time in what looks like a British police box Which is much larger on the inside and save the day in the universe Invention being the mother of necessity and ill health of original lead William Hartnell Created the idea of regeneration that the doctor would live multiple lives changing into a different actor each time We're on doctor number 13 Jodi Whitaker the first female in the role today The show ran for decades on the BBC only stopping due to an ill-planned film project Then restarting with a much larger budget a few years later We could talk about doctor who for a whole episode and we have so as you see there's a just a a boatload of time travel is something that is an evergreen concept and We'll continue to be generated in films and TVs and books and video games and whatever else right and you can travel through time by checking out old Episodes of our audio podcast how I got my wife treat comics on iTunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com From the pop culture bunker. I'm mark and I'm Mindy. Thanks for watching. Alonzi