What are your fave time travel movies/episodes/issues/etc?

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

Groundhog Day has to be the best time travel movie. Its on in 15 mins and I can't wait! Star Trek IV is also a ton of fun.

I love the episode The Constant (from Lost) but my fave has to be Window of Opportunity (from Stargate SG1). The TNG two parter where they meet up with Mark Twain and olden day Whoopi Goldberg is also enjoyable.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a really nice time travel anime movie.

I'm sure there are others but those are the ones that come to mind. What about you guys?

[Tim H]

Back to the Future

Avengers Forever

Quantum Leap

[MarioMuscar]

Probably not my fav if I thought about it but the finale of Doctor Who last season was pretty good.

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

Back to the Future

Avengers Forever

Quantum Leap

Love it.

Haven't read it but seems right up my alley.

Love it.

Probably not my fav if I thought about it but the finale of Doctor Who last season was pretty good.

I might have to check it out.

[Steve Raker]

I really liked the old 'Dr Doom's time travelling platform' saga in Marvel Team Up #41-46, by Bill Mantlo....it was the only multi-issue tale I remember from those earlier Marvel Team-ups, and starred Spidey, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Dr Doom, Moondragon, Killraven and Deathlok!

...and speaking of Deathlok, that 'Deathlok Lives' story from Captain America #286-288 with the memorable Mike Zeck cover was pretty enjoyable for a time travel tale.

...and who can forget Ben Grimm as Blackbeard the pirate in the original Doom's time machine story from FF#5?

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

I really liked the old 'Dr Doom's time travelling platform' saga in Marvel Team Up #41-46, by Bill Mantlo....it was the only multi-issue tale I remember from those earlier Marvel Team-ups, and starred Spidey, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Dr Doom, Moondragon, Killraven and Deathlok!

...and speaking of Deathlok, that 'Deathlok Lives' story from Captain America #286-288 with the memorable Mike Zeck cover was pretty enjoyable for a time travel tale.

...and who can forget Ben Grimm as Blackbeard the pirate in the original Doom's time machine story from FF#5?

I love time travel stories but I have not read any memorable time travel issues/arcs. I wish I could read all that at some point.

[Doug!]

Probably not my fav if I thought about it but the finale of Doctor Who last season was pretty good.

I might have to check it out.

You should also check out the third season episode called Blink.  It's both incredibly creepy and uses time travel to great effect.

The Angels are coming for you, but listen, your life could depend on this; don't blink.  Don't even blink.  Blink and you're dead.  They are fast, faster than you could believe.  Don't turn your back, don't look away and DON'T BLINK.

[Lucien21]

Best Time travel movies

Back to the Future
Groundhog Day
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
12 Monkeys
Donnie Darko
Terminator

On TV:

Quantum Leap
Stargate Episode where they are caught in a time loop and They play golf through the Stargate
The Lost episode with Desmond and Penny
Red Dwarf episode where time goes backwards
Deep SPace Nine ep with the tribbles in it
Babylon 5 - Babylon Squared

[Jay Tomio]

Back to the Future is probably my favorite ever. Love 12 Monkeys.

In comics I've always LOVED Hulk: Future Imperfect

A couple of books I like:

The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll (all of Carroll's books should be read - one of the great unheralded American writers)
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Reply by Ken Grimwood
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Bones of the Earth by  Michael Swanwick
Star Rover by Jack London (a lot of people don't know what a political SFish author he was at some points)

A nice short piece is Time Gifts by Zoran Zivkovic.

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

You should also check out the third season episode called Blink.  It's both incredibly creepy and uses time travel to great effect.

Thanks! That gif is creepy as heck but it seems interesting.

Deep SPace Nine ep with the tribbles in it

Yes! Trials and Tribble-ations! How could I forget this...

[DGoodhart]

A couple of favorite time travel movies of mine include Nicholas Meyer's excellent Time After Time with Malcolm MacDowell and an a classic from (I think) the 60s called The Time Travellers.

[Jon_Samuelson]

I love the two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the first of which involves an alternate timeline when Tasha Yar goes back in time to assist a doomed starship which everyone thought was okay because she was sure to die in the attack anyway, and the second episode (which I think was several years later) in which the crew of the Enterprise encounters the Romulan progeny of Tasha, who had in fact NOT been killed in the attack.  I just love it when the screwing around with the timeline actually has consequences.

[Dave Faust]

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

the first of which involves an alternate timeline when Tasha Yar goes back in time to assist a doomed starship which everyone thought was okay because she was sure to die in the attack anyway

I like that one as well although it doesn't really have a feel good ending but I thought they handled the time travel stuff well. Another TNG episode I liked was the Groundhog Day type episode Cause and Effect where Kelsey Grammer's ship kept hitting the Enterprise and they kept looping the last few hours.

Every tv show should do one Groundhog Day type episode

[Papercut]

I think one of my first exposures to the concept of time travel was the Illustrated Classic edition of Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which holds a special place in my heart. And I'd throw these along side it: Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" short story,  and all of Julian May's Pliocene Exile/Intervention/Galactic Milieu series.


In regards to films, I'd echo the PRIMER, TWELVE MONKEYS and BACK TO THE FUTURE mentions, and also toss out: ARMY OF DARKNESS, TIME COP and the original PLANET OF THE APES. Though I think I believed that you could go backwards in time if you could just get the planet spinning the opposite direction. 


In Television, it doesn't get any better than QUANTUM LEAP and LOST, IMO.


In comics, besides all the X-Men "Days of Future Past" stories, follow-ups, revisions and regurgitation, I guess I enjoyed Walt Simonson's FANTASTIC FOUR runs that featured a futuristic crisis that was threatening the present, the TVA, and Reed vs Doom battle across time!  Also a fan of the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES time traveling stories. And yeah, AVENGERS FOREVER was a great read.


And in gaming, CHRONO TRIGGER and THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME are time-shifting classics, but none compare to MANIAC MANSION: DAY OF THE TENTACLE for sheer time travel tomfoolery and awesomeness.

[Matt H.O.W.L.]

[Kenney]

I'll echo the love for Primer (such an amazingly smart movie), Replay by Ken Grimwood, the anime The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and A Sound of Thunder. 

I also really liked the movie Triangle.

[Kilmarock]

I love time travel stories, in comics, movies, books, etc. There's a lot of good ones mentioned above. One that does come to mind that no one has mentioned yet:

* Time Bandits

and thanks for all the mentions of good Star Trek episodes. I'm in the mood for a bunch of good Star Trek (regardless of what series or season) without bothering to try and watch it all.

[leafinsectman (Dan)]

and thanks for all the mentions of good Star Trek episodes. I'm in the mood for a bunch of good Star Trek (regardless of what series or season) without bothering to try and watch it all.

Speaking of which, one of the few Voyager episodes that I like is the Year of Hell two parter which sort of isn't a time travel tale but does involve messing about and erasing stuff out of the timeline and the ripple effects that come with it. Also, I just rewatched the DS9 episode Visionary where O'Brien repeatedly jumps forward 5 hours into the future. Its no Michael Bay explosions type episode but pretty fun! And if you want a bit more DS9, there's The Visitor with a kickass performance by Tony Todd.

[JimN]

The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll (all of Carroll's books should be read - one of the great unheralded American writers)

Amen to that! I love Carroll's work, although he's been living in vienna so long I wonder how many even consider him an American writer anymore. I was just thinking a couple of days ago that I should re-read The Land of Laughs.

I'm glad you mentioned Moorcock's Behold the Man too. Good book...

Jim