After the death of his wife and child, Dr. Scott McKenzie stumbles upon a tintype photograph from the Old West showing three corpses, a shooter, and a modern Magnum 357, leading him to develop a theory of time travel that is confirmed when a beautiful woman from the future appears and takes him back to the Old West to chase the shooter, save President Cleveland, and pursue other obvious plot developments.

Spoiler: At the end, I believe that Georgia uses her time crystal to send Scott back for a do-over on the day of his family’s death. This is disappointing since up until that point, the film has set up a perfect example of a single, nonbranching timeline.
Michael Main
What if Cole came back to set off a chain of events that would eventually destroy the one man who stood in his way?

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Variants

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  1. Timestalkers by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz (CBS-TV, USA, 10 March 1987).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Brian Clemens
    Ray Brown (based on a work by)
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by Michael Schultz

Indexer Notes

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  1. Cole’s plan is a self-defeating act since had it succeeded, there would have been no need for him to have carried out the plan.