Prohibition
- by Akilah Green, directed by Jeff Tomsic
- TV Episode
- Families
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Prohibition” by Akilah Green, directed by Jeff Tomsic, from Time Bandits, s01e04 (Apple TV+, 31 July 2024).
Kevin and the gang face literal gangsters in Harlem during the prohibition era; Saffron cohorts with Tomoe Gozen, a female samurai in feudal Japan.
—Michael Main
Kevin: Then after that day, no one ever saw him again.
Gangsters: Oh! You had him disappeared?
Kevin: Moved to Preston.
Gangsters: Ahem. Moved to Preston? That’s cold.
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): the Bandits start in medieval England and obtain mead there, and Saffron is in feudal Japan
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: The main story is in prohibition era New York City.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Kevin and Saffron’s home time where minions of the Supreme Being are investigating their family’s disappearance
- Timeline Models
- Outside of Time: The realms of the Supreme Being and Pure Evil may be outside of normal time.
- Unexplained Timeline Model
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Language Difficulties: the time helmet, although it’s not needed in 1929 New York; also Saffron can’t communicate.
- Money Difficulties: Penelope doesn’t understand those “tiny old-man paintings.”
- Save Your Family!: Kevin continues to try to save his parents.
- Real-World Tags
- Bumpy Johnson: Bumpy was a real-world gangster; we don’t know about Ernie Fingers and Larry Always Late.
- Nottingham: briefly, for the mead
- Prohibition in the US
- Stephanie St. Clair: Madame Queenie
- Fictional Tags
- Angels and Demons: sundry
- Deities: the Supreme Being and Pure Evil
- Tomoe Gozen: Saffron’s guide in feudal Japan
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Prohibition” by Akilah Green, directed by Jeff Tomsic, from Time Bandits, s01e04 (Apple TV+, 31 July 2024).
Previous Works
based in part on characters from Time Bandits (1981)