Mansa Musa
- by Tyrell Williams, directed by Armagan Ballantyne
- TV Episode
- Fantasy, Comedy
- Families
- Definite Time Travel
- English
Mansa Musa
by Tyrell Williams, directed by Armagan Ballantyne (Apple TV+, 7 August 2024).
Kevin is faced with a tough decision when when the people of the Mali Empire appreciate his quirkiness and offer to take him in.
—Michael Main
His hajj to Mecca comprised 60,005 people . . . The number of people is different. We changed something! There’s five more people—us!
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454): AD 1324
- 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
- Multiple Naive Timelines: Kevin discovers that they can change things (because he has created a new timeline!), giving him hope to save his parents.
- Outside of Time: The realms of the Supreme Being and Pure Evil may be outside of normal time.
- Remembering Other Timelines: Kevin remembers the previous timeline where the hajj comprised only 60,000 people.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Language Difficulties: The time helmet allows Kevin to communicate.
- Save Your Family!: Kevin continues to try to save his parents.
- Stuck in Hypertime or Outside of Time: At the start, the bandits are stuck in a place outside of time.
- Real-World Tags
- Mali Empire
- Mumluk Sultanate: the Egyptian sultan
- Mansa Musa
- Fictional Tags
- Angels and Demons: sundry
- Deities: the Supreme Being and Pure Evil
- Groupings
Variants
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Mansa Musa
by Tyrell Williams, directed by Armagan Ballantyne (Apple TV+, 7 August 2024).Terry Gilliam (characters)Michael Palin (characters)
Previous Works
based in part on characters from Time Bandits (1981)