Back There
- by Rod Serling, directed by David Orrick McDearmon
- TV Episode
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Back There” by Rod Serling, directed by David Orrick McDearmon (CBS-TV, 13 January 1961).
An engineer in the 1960s slips back to the night of Lincoln’s assassination.
—Michael Main
I’ve got a devil of a lot more than a premonition. Lincole will be assassinated unless somebody tries to prevent it!
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: back to 14 April 1865
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: starting on 14 April 1961
- Timeline Models
- Creation of One New Timeline
- In a Changed Timeline, You Don’t Remember Your Changed Life
- Resilient Timeline: Although the timeline can be changed, there is the suggestion that it’s resistant to big changes.
- Sensing Unfamiliar Timelines
- Time Travel Methods
- Timeslips: The camera goes out of focus to indicate the timeslip.
- Themes
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Back There” by Rod Serling, directed by David Orrick McDearmon (CBS-TV, 13 January 1961).