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Methods of Time Travel

 
 
The TARDIS:
 
 

The TARDIS in Doctor Who - it's bigger on the inside!

 

 

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7 Days:
 
 

The backstep device in 7 Days.
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The Delorian
 
 

The Delorean in Back to the Future (1,2, and 3)
(when it receives a hover conversion is best and makes for my personal favourite - it's cool, practical and cobbled together by a "crazy wild-eyed scientist"). Also the train at the end of Back to the Future part III.

 

 

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Heroes:
 
 

Hiro's ability in Heroes. (Daphne the speedster with the aid of Ando's newly acquired ability in the final episode of the third series was able to run fast enough to travel through time - apparently in accordance with Einstein's theory of relativity).

 

 

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The Golden Gate:
 
 

Step off the Golden Gate Bridge in Kate & Leopold.

 

 

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Puddle-Jumper / Stargate SG-1:

 

The "Puddle-Jumper" in Stargate SG-1. In the episode Moebius (8.19), the team travel back to Egypt in 3000BC to acquire a ZPM power source using a Puddle-Jumper modded by the ancients. The Puddle-Jumper was found in the episode It's Good to be King (8.13).

 

 

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The Stargate:

 

The stargate in Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis when the path of the wormhole passes close to a black hole or other large cosmic event stepping through the Stargate causes travellers to end up in an alternate reality.

 

 

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Time Cop:

 

The device in Time Cop.

 

 

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Others:
  • Planet of the Apes.

  • Somewhere in Time.

  • Peggy Sue Got Married.

  • Goodnight Sweetheart - the main character simply walks down a street and ends up in WWII.

  • Sliders.

  • Quantum Leap.

  • The radio in Frequency.

  • The Enterprise in Star Trek when it travels around the Earth real quick.

  • Superman when he flies round the Earth super quick.

  • The phone box in Bill & Ted.

  • Being in a coma in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

  • The device in the little known children's TV series The Girl from Tomorrow.

  • Something I have yet to see is Next starring Nicolas Cage. The storyline looks great (he can see into the future).

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Time Travel in Books

A Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain

 

In this book an engineer receives a blow to the head (great Scott, that sounds strangely familiar) and is somehow transported in time and space.

The Chronic Argonauts
by H. G. Wells

 

In the film Time After Time about Wells, his time machine has "ARGO" on the front.

Looking Backward
by David Bellamy

 

A utopian science fiction novel about time travel published in 1888 but set in the year 2000.

Planet of the Apes
by Pierre Boulle

 

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A 1963 French novel from which the 1968 film was loosely adapted.

The Key to the Universe
by Nigel Calder

 

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