Bill & Ted I

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Stephen Herek

Release: 17 February 1989
Format: Feature Film
Genres: Science Fiction, Comedy
Audience: YA and Up
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

The Two Great Ones, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted “Theodore” Logan, are the subjects of time-traveler Rufus’s mission, but instead they end up using his machine to write a history report to save their band, Wyld Stallyns.

— Michael Main

Most excellent!

DEBUT

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (at movie theaters, USA, 17 February 1989).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Stone Age (3.4 Ma to 3000 BC: Paleo/Epipaleo/Meso/Neo/Chalcolithic)
Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): Socrates.
Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): Princesses Elizabeth and Johanna, Henry VIII, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan.
Circa AD 1800 to 1899: Napoleon, Billy the Kid, Freud, Beethoven, Lincoln.
Circa AD 1970 to 1999: AD 1988.
Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: Rufus is from AD 2688..

Timeline Models

Single Static Timeline

Time Travel Methods

Wellsian Time Machines

Themes

Self-Visitation

Real-World Tags

Fictional Tags

Groupings

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.