The Time Machine
by Wallace Bennett, directed by Henning Schellerup
For me, the update to the 1970s took this made-for-TV movie too far away from the
original novel. For example, the Traveller (now a rocket scientist called Neil Perry)
explains the workings of the machine with gibberish, whereas the original Traveller
expressed himself with up-to-date mathematical terminology. The travel to the Salem witch
trials and the California gold rush were also off the mark, as was the dreamy Weena who
immediately speaks English.
— Michael Main
Well, in principle, it utilizes a electromagnetic force field to molecularly reconstruct
the space-time continuum.
The Time Machine by Wallace Bennett, directed by Henning Schellerup (NBC-TV, USA, 5 November
1978).