The Internet Time Travel Database

Time after Time

Strobe images of a man in front of a giant stopwatch.

Eloi Silver Medal

written and directed by Nicholas Meyer

Feature Film
Science Fiction, Mystery and Crime
Adults
Definite Time Travel
English
Time after Time, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer (Toronto International Film Festival, 7 September 1979).

Apart from the hero in The Time Machine movie (1960), this is the earliest that I’ve seen of the H.G.‑Wells-as-time-traveler subgenre. Our hero chases Jack the Ripper into the 20th century.

—Michael Main

Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I am an amateur.

Tags

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Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999
Time Travel Methods
- Wellsian Time Machines
Themes
- Chases through Time
Real-World Tags
- H. G. Wells
- Jack the Ripper
Groupings
- Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl

Variants

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Time after Time, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer (Toronto International Film Festival, 7 September 1979).

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Karl Alexander (story)

Steve Hayes (story)

Karl Alexander (based on a work by)

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Previous Works

based on Time after Time by Karl Alexander (1979)