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If

  • by Lord Dunsany
  • at the Ambassadors’ Theatre (London, 30 May 1921)

John Beal, a London businessman, is given a magic crystal that allows him to go back in time and change one act; he is happy with his current life, so he decides to merely go back to catch a train that he was annoyed about missing ten years ago—but the resulting changes are more than he ever expected.

This is the earliest story that I’ve seen where the hero goes back into his earlier body and relives something differently. Some of the later stories of this kind have no actual time travel, but merely give knowledge of an alternate timeline (e.g., Asimov’s “What If?”); others live out the two timelines in parallel (e.g., the 1998 movie Sliding Doors, also set in motion by a missed/caught train); and some, like If, are couched in terms of time travel (e.g., the 1986 movie Peggy Sue Got Married). —Michael Main
He that taketh this crystal, so, in his hand, at night, and wishes, saying ‘At a certain hour let it be’; the hour comes and he will go back eight, ten, even twelve years if he will, into the past, and do a thing again, or act otherwise than he did. The day passes; the ten years are accomplished once again; he is here once more; but he is what he might have become had he done that one thing otherwise.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Repeat Performance


After Sheila Page kills her husband in a fit of passion on New Year’s Eve, she wishes nothing other than to have the entire year back—if destiny will only let her. —Michael Main
How many times have you said, “I wish I could live this year over again?” This is the story of a woman who did relive one year of her life.
A determined Joan Leslie, dressed in a shoulderless evening gown, holds a
                smoking gun.
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #31

Dark Room!


In a Chinese tea shop, thirty-something Andrew Wilson wishes he could do everything all over again so that he wasn’t such a financial failure and Jo Clark would marry him. —Michael Main
If I could just go back to my youth, start over! I wouldn’t make the same mistakes I made then!
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #9

The Day I Lived Over Again


While on the lam, hardened criminal Blackie Nelson gets a chance to live the day over—and this time he plans to evade the police and win the girl! —Michael Main
The day’s starting over again! This doll’s going to fall for me . . . Only this time I’m going to work things different!
In the large first panel, a man in a business suit stands in front of a larger
                version of himself as a caveman.
  • Fantasy
  • Weird Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #11

Second Chance


After Dr. Paul Faine accomplishes his life’s work, he begins to reflect on the past and whether the world is ready for limitless power. —Michael Main
Now we will see into the coree of the atom . . . the core which is the basis of all things! We will be able to produce life in the test tube, blow up the world with the touch of a finger!
In three large panels, a white-haired scientist examines something through a
                large microscope.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Peggy Sue Got Married


Middle-aged Peggy Sue has two grown children and an adulterous husband whom she married at 18, so will she do things the same when she finds herself back in 1960 in her senior year of high school? —Michael Main
Well, Mr Snelgrove, I happen to know that in the future I will not have the slightest use for algebra, and I speak from experience.
Holding an old-fashioned key, Kathleen Turner (as Peggy Sue) looks eagerly
                through a giant keyhole.
  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Timestalkers


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. —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?
Gun-toting Lauren Hutton (as Georgia Crawford) and William Devane (as Scott
                McKenzie) look on as lightning comes out of Klaus Kinski (as Dr. Joseph Cole).
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Galaxy Quest


Some TV shows (we won’t mention any names) live on for their fans decades after cancellation. The result might be that aliens think the heroes of these shows are real, in which case the aforementioned heroes could be kidnapped to rescue the aforementioned aliens (and to figure out whether the Omega 13 will destroy the universe in 13 seconds or reverse time for that aforementioned number of seconds).

Tim and I watched this at Lake Cushman during a trip to the northwest in 2003, and I was as surprised as anyone about how much we laughed at Tim Allen’s parody. —Michael Main
Larado: Your orders, sir? [pause] Sir, your orders?
Commander Taggart: Activate the Omega 13. [To be continued . . .]
The NSEA Protector starship blasts its way out of a TV screen showing Tim Allen
                (as Jason Nesmeth), Sigourney Weaver (as Gwen DeMarco), and Alan Rickman (as
                Alexander Dane).
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • 2000 Hugo
  • 2000 Nebula
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

13 Going On 30


Everything that could go wrong is going wrong for 13-year-old Jenna Rink. If only she could be already grown up in the future! —Michael Main
I wanna be thirty and flirty and thriving.
Jennifer Garner (as adult Jenna Rink) stands tall in a polka dot summer dress,
                with skirt blowing in the wind, holding a child
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e01)

Dr. Tom


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e02)

What I Am Is What I Am


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e03)

Plenty of Fish


Dr. Tom: Ultimately, Erica, you just have to decide. You have to choose how are you going to be. I mean, you could spend the rest of your life caught up, in that fear. Okay. Or, you could face it. Take the leap. See what comes. Your ice cream’s melting.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e04)

The Secret of Now


Dr. Tom: Do you think that it’s appropriate to address one of your life regrets through plagiarism?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e05)

Adultescence


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e06)

Til Death


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e07)

Such a Perfect Day


Erica: Leave my brother alone. Don't mess with the babysitter.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e08)

This Be the Verse


Dr. Tom: It’s 1974
Erica: ’74? But how can that be? I'm not born until ’76.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e09)

Everything She Wants


Erica: I should have gone to her the next day and talked it through.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e10)

Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma


Erica: Our friendship, it’s still there. And I know that I’ll find my way back to it, but I need some time.
Ethan: What do I do?
Erica: Nothing. You just have to wait for me to be ready.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e11)

She’s Lost Control


Erica: If I could go back, I would not kiss Ethan.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e12)

Erica the Vampire Slayer


I’m giving you one special power: shape-shifting. . . . You know, like Odo on Deep Space Nine.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s01e13)

Leo


Dr. Tom: What have you done?
Erica: I . . . I didn’t have a choice.
Dr. Tom: Really?
Erica: Okay, fine. I did have a choice.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e01)

Being Dr. Tom


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e02)

Battle Royale


I don't want to talk to you about time travel or therapy or anything.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e03)

Mama Mia


Jude: [holding baby] You know I can’t stand these things, right?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e04)

Cultural Revolution


Erica: My dream is to write fiction, and that will happen someday. I am not letting that go.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e05)

Yes We Can


Erica: [with Kai at her side][/actor]
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e06)

Shhh . . . Don’t Tell


There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e07)

The Unkindest Cut


You were expecting robots, flying cars, everybody in silver jump suits?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e08)

Under My Thumb


Erica must deal with her problems without time travel. —Michael Main
Dr. Tom: I think it might be time to rip away the safety net. Erica, today you’re gonna solve your problems like the other six billion souls on this planet: all on your own.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • No Time Phenomena
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e09)

A River Runs through It . . . It Being Egypt


It’s amazing, you know? You stand beneath a car: There’s always so much more going on underneath than you’re aware of.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e10)

Papa Can You Hear Me?


As Erica struggles with her feelings for Kai, the tables are turned on Dr. Tom whose therapist sends him back to his most difficult day. —Michael Main
Dr. Tom: Why am I having the same fight with Erica that I used to have with my daughter?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e11)

What Goes Up Must Come Down


Erica: If I woulda stayed, I woulda been rich in my twenties. I . . . I mean I could have paid off all my student loans, and I never would have needed to work at that stupid call center. I would have had the time and the means to dedicate to my writing, and my life—it would have been completely different.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s02e12)

The Importance of Being Erica


It’s not complicated. You can’t stay in this hallway forever—you have to choose.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e01)

The Rabbit Hole


Erica: I feel ready to start phase two.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e02)

Moving On Up


What do you do when a piece of your life is suddenly missing? We know we’re supposed to move on, but how?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e03)

Two Wrongs


Dr. Tom: And this time?
Erica: I’ll spend every second with Leo. No Trent, no distractions.
Dr. Tom: I wouldn’t count on it.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e04)

Wash, Rinse, Repeat


Kai: In a few weeks, I come back to 2010 on another regret, and while I’m here, we sleep together.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e05)

Being Adam


Adam: I would walk away from Sean instead of hitting him, and that would change everything, Dr. Tom—and I know that’s not how this works.
Dr. Tom: Why don’t you let me worry about how this works.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e06)

Bear Breasts


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e07)

Jenny from the Block


Friendship . . . two people choose each other through some mysterious mix of alchemy and circumstance. On the surface, the reason for our choice seems obvious: They share our interests, they make us laugh—but isn’t there more to it than that? And do we ever really stop and wonder why this person and not another?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e08)

Physician, Heal Thyself


Erica: Can I change this? I mean, can I avoid sleeping with him ’cause Kai said it was gonna happen—which means it’s already happened for him, which means . . .
Darryl: . . . you have to go through with it to avoid creating a paradox.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e09)

Gettin’ Wiggy Wit’ It


Because using information that you have gleaned from a trip to the past to try to fix your life in the present contravenes the rules.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e10)

The Tribe Has Spoken


Like twin phoenixes, we rise from the ashes—right?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e11)

Adam’s Family


Look at me. You went back there and you faced what happened, and now you have to face how it made you feel. And that’s how you break the pattern.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e12)

Erica, Interrupted


Sent you back? No, Miss Strange, you don’t understand. You’ve been in a coma for two weeks.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s03e13)

Fa La Erica


When Erica wakes up in Julianne’s 1980s body, I do wish she’d said “Oh boy” instead of “Oh my God!” —Michael Main
I'm so sorry—I . . . I . . . I didn’t mean to dredge up the Ghosts of Christmas Past.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e01)

Doctor Who?


Erica: So what do I do? Do I just go out there, hand him the card, and ask him how he’s handling the divorce?
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e02)

Osso Barko


Erica: It’s not that I’m not happy doing what I’m doing—I mean, I love my work. It’s just sometimes I wonder if I shoulda tried harder to be a writer.
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e03)

Baby Mama


Erica: My mother is my patient?!
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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e04)

Born This Way


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e05)

Sins of the Father


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e06)

If I Could Turn Back Time


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e07)

Being Ethan


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e08)

Please, Please Tell Me Now


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e09)

Erica’s Adventures in Wonderland


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e10)

Purim


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Being Erica (s04e11)

Dr. Erica


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  • Fantasy
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Anna Green 1

Time between Us


Somewhat self-absorbed 16-year-old Anna Green manages to fall for the first time traveler she ever meets, not realizing that he’s a time traveler or that he’s hoping his mission to 1995 will be a short-term affair. —Jeff Delgado
It’s too easy for me to say the wrong thing today, and if I do, we may never meet at all
A teenage girl looks into the distance on a beach with her arms clutched around
                her waist.
  • Romance
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
Flash Fiction

Effect and Cause


A pilot on a one-man ship in a space battle repeatedly lives backward through fifteen seconds and then forward again with the chance to do things differently each time. —Michael Main
Ignoring this, I sit down at the table to pick up a cup and spit calding hot coffee into it. Then I proceed to vomit food onto my plate so I can sculpt it with a knife and fork into peas, carrots, and omelette.
A city-sized ring world, covered on the inside by skyscrapers, floats in front
                of a bright nebula.
  • Science Fiction
  • War
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

About Time

  • written and directed by Richard Curtis
  • (Edinburgh International Film Festival, 27 June 2013)

Poor Rachel McAdams—always the bride, never the time traveler. This time it’s romantic comedy with Domhnall Gleeson in the time traveling, co-star role. —Michael Main
I can’t kill Hitler or shag Helen of Troy, unfortunately.
Laughing and smiling Rachel McAdams (as Mary in a red dress) and Domhnall
                Gleeson (as Tim in a grey suit).
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Film

One-Minute Time Machine


James takes his one-minute time machine to a park bench to try to pick up quantum physicist Rachel.

The gang up in the ITTDB Citadel showed this five-minute film to me on my first prime birthday of the 2010 decade. —Michael Main
Rachel: What’s that?
James: Huh? Oh, nothing.
Rachel: Sure it’s not a One-Minute Time Machine?
Erinn Hayes (as Regina) gazes skyward from a park bench while Brian Dietzen (as
                James) stares straight-ahead beside her.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Season

The Flash, Season 1

  • written and directed by multiple people
  • (The CW, USA, 7 October 2014) to 19 May 2015)

Time travel is implied right from the first episode of the CW’s rendition of The Flash where a newspaper from the future is seen in the closing scene. The rest of the first season builds a fine time-travel arc that includes a nefarious time traveler from the far future, a classic grandfather paradox with a twist (sadly not examined), a do-over day for the Flash (which Harrison Wells calls “temporal reversion”), and a final episode that sees the Flash travel back to his childhood (as well as a hint that Rip Hunter himself will soon appear on the CW scene). —Michael Main
Wells: Yes, it’s possible, but problematic. Assuming you could create the conditions necessary to take that journey, that journey would then be fraught with potential pitfalls: the Novikov Principle of Self-Consistency, for example.

Joe: Wait—the what, now?

Barry: If you travel back in time to change something, then you end up being the causal factor of that event.

Cisco: Like . . . Terminator.

Joe: Ah!

Wells: Or is time plastic? Is it mutable, whereby any changes in the continuum could create an alternate timeline?

Cisco: Back to the Future.

Joe: Ah, saw that one, too.
The Flash, in his red costume, zig-zags through an empty city street, leaving a
                yellow electric bolt behind him.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Animated Feature Film

Inside Out


Admittedly, the time travel in Inside Out is just one throwaway Bing Bong joke, but in my opinion it cements the central role of the time travel meme within the popular culture of my lifetime. —Michael Main
Once, we flew back in time . . .
Five colorful cartoon characters act out their emotions inside a black
                silhouette of a head.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Comedy
  • Mainstream
  • Audience: Families
  • Cameo Time Travel
Short Film

30 Second Time Machine


While trying to pick up Mackenzie, Ryan unknowning picks up a small, pink clicker that provides him with a clear path to improving his pick-up lines. —Michael Main
Okay, what are you doing with that clip?
Sitting in a library, Ryan Adams (as Ryan) closely examines a small
                pink-and-yellow clicker.
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Series

내가 이 나라의 평강공주다

  • Mai onri leobeusong
  • My only lovesong
  • My Only Love Song
  • by 김수진, directed by 민두식
  • (Netflix, 9 June 2017)

Diva actress Song Soo-jung drives off in a huff in her manager’s VW van—Boing Boing—only to find herself in the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo where she meets characters from her historical TV show including the real Princess Pyeonggang and the roguish hero On-Dal. —Michael Main
A cheerful Gong Seung-yeon (as Soo-jung) drives a cute white van while a
                frightened Lee Jong-hyun (as On Dal) hangs on beside her.
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Time Freak

  • written and directed by Andrew Bowler
  • (at movie theaters, Phillipines, 7 November 2018)

When Debbie breaks up with often-clueless physics genius Stillwell, he does the normal thing and invents a time machine for him and his friend to go back and fix every wayward relationship moment. —Michael Main
I just love the proofs and the equations and the whole riddle of it all.
Asa Butterfield and Sophie Turner stand nose-to-nose with their eyes closed
                with light drops falling around them.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Miniseries

Il était une seconde fois


At first, Vincent’s only plan for the mysterious 600mm wooden cube that provides a tunnel to the past is to make sure that Louise doesn’t break up with him four months in the past, but new circumstances soon raise the stakes. Then it gets weird in this four-part miniseries. —Michael Main
En fait, je suis passé dans un cube, et ça . . .
translate I actually went through this cube, and it . . .
Freya Mavor (as Louise) sleeps peacefully in the arms of wide-awake Gaspard
                Ulliel (as Vincent).
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Love on Repeat


A light take on a woman repeatedly trying to fix her work life and her love life. —Michael Main
If the universe is giving me a chance to relive the same day over and over, then maybe it’s just giving me a chance to get it right.
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  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Film

A.N.E.W


After his broken watch causes embarrassment, a boy orders a new watch that takes him back to the embarrassing moment more than once. —Michael Main
My watch is not working.
A curious, young Nigerian man opens a Smart Watch box.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

An Hour

  • written and directed by Prasanth Kumar
  • (Youtube: Andhra Pradesh Channel, 2 October 2020)

Young, unemployed Nanna seems to take everything in stride, even the arrival of unexpected package containing an artistic hourglass with the power to take him back or forward one hour in time.

The audio is mostly Telugu, but there are subtitles in broken English. —Michael Main
An old clock with ornate hands and Roman numerals shows behind the words "An
                hour".
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Flashback


After high-powered lawyer Charlie Leroy gets her client cleared from a rape charge by claiming that the accuser’s lacy underwear was consent to have sex, Charlie finds herself transported by a divine cabdriver to historical moments that were key for women’s rights. —Michael Main
Attends . . . si maman n'épouse pas papa, je vais pas naître. Je viens de me tuer.
translate Wait . . . if Mom never marries Dad, I won’t be born. I just killed myself.
Issa Doumbia (as cabdriver Hubert) leans on a cab in front of Caroline Vigneaux
                (as Charlie), who is surrounded by lots of people from history.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Series

De Volta aos 15

  • Back to 15
  • Back to 15
  • written and directed by multiple people
  • 3 seasons (Netflix, 25 February 2022 to 24 February 2024)

Thirty-yeasr-old Anita feels that her life is a failure. If only she could do things over again, starting with that miserable first day of high school at age 15. In the case of the six-episode first season, Anita travels back-and-forth multiple times, with each round of new-found self-assertiveness and fresh mistakes at age 15 creating a new life at age 30. In Season 2, she gains a traveling companion in 17-year-old Joel. —Michael Main
Que vontade de pedir desculpes pra você.
translate If I could press undo in real life, I would do everything differently.
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  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Season

Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

  • by multiple writers and directors
  • (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022)

After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in 2024. —Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
Black-and-white photo of old Patrick Steward (as Jean-Luc Picard) standing in
                from of old John de Lancie (as Q).
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

This Time Tomorrow


After turning forty in a snit because of her career decisions, her unexciting boyfriend, and her dying father, Alice Stern wakes up on her 16th birthday in her teen body. —Michael Main
“I know it’s your birthday,” Leonard said. “You’ve made me watch Sixteen Candles enough times to ensure that I wouldn’t let this one slide.”
A light brown scribble winds its way around a lighter brown cover of Straub’s
                novel, This Time Tomorrow.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel