Time Travel Shows

Time travel will put everyone's brain in a knot...

Here's a list of all shows I know of and / or have watched in which time travel is a major repeating plot element.


My list

Perhaps it is time (no pun intended) we'd find some other tropes to beat to death... The 'bad-future-reaches-through-time-into-the-past-to-make-the-future-better' theme has been done (too) many times...

And even though I think time travel can't exist (because if it could it wouldn't) it is always fun to play with alternative what if's.

I've added a link to the shows I (re)viewed.

Shows that only use time travel as a theme for yet another 'episode of the week' do not qualify (Star Trek comes to mind). There's no movies in this list either but I did include non-physical time travel (such as Flash Forward).

There are probably a few more I've forgotten, or never knew about. Only time can tell if I will ever add them...  Enough bad punts, here's the list of shows in which time travel is a major, repeating plot element:

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - very underrated
• Travelers - teaming up to save the future
• Continnuum - ticks all the boxes, confusing last season with a bittersweet ending
• Heroes - great first season, then it goes down... fast
• The 4400 - we all become supers, at the risk of dying
• Fringe - well, only the last season is about time travel, sort of...
• 12 Monkeys - couldn't get into it, probably because I did not like the movie either
• Quantum Leap - Sliders in time, very episodic, sudden death
• Frequency - okay'ish
• Odyssey 5 - boring
• Flash Forward - promising, but canceled, only watched a few episodes
• Legends of Tomorrow - beat 'm up using time travel as an excuse
• Primeval - time travel plays a role but it isn't the core theme, monster hunting is!
• Terra Nova - the present reaching into the past, instead of the future reaching into the present
• Seven Days - low budget and too generic
• The Time Tunnel - the original, ask your granddad
• Timeless - watched a few episodes, but couldn't get into it (yet)
• Journeyman - never seen it
• Time Trax - uh...
• Life on Mars - seriously?
• Doctor Who - ah, who could forget that one!

Any that I missed?