Timestalkers
- by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz
- Feature Film
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Timestalkers by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz (CBS-TV, USA, 10 March 1987).
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.
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?
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: AD 1886.
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: AD 1986.
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: George is from AD 2586..
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Wellsian Time Machines: The time crystal.
- Themes
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- Timestalkers by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz (CBS-TV, USA, 10 March 1987).
Brian Clemens (story)
Ray Brown (based on a work by)
Indexer Notes
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- 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.