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  2. Category:British time travel television series - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "British time travel television series" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. Timeslip - Wikipedia

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    Timeslip is a British children's science fiction television series made by ATV for the ITV network, and broadcast in 1970 and 1971. It was first shown on Monday evenings at around 5:15-5:20pm, beginning on 28 September 1970, in all ITV regions, apart from Thames (London) and Southern which broadcast the series the following Friday.

  4. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa. 1983 Millennium: John Varley: In the far distant future, a team of time travellers snatch the passengers of a crashed aeroplane, leaving behind prefabricated bodies for rescue teams to find. The novel is the basis of the 1989 film. 1983 The ...

  5. Accidental travel - Wikipedia

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    Accidental travel is a speculative fiction plot device in which ordinary people accidentally find themselves outside of their normal place or time, often for no apparent reason, a particular type of the “fish-out-of-water” plot.

  6. Time travel in fiction - Wikipedia

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    A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]

  7. Timeslip (1955 film) - Wikipedia

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    The script for the film was a substantial reworking by Charles Eric Maine of his BBC TV play Time Slip, which was transmitted live on 25 November 1953, [3] and not recorded. In the original play, Jack Mallory (Jack Rodney) dies and is brought back to life with an adrenaline injection, but this results in his perception of time being 4.7 seconds ...

  8. Timeslip (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Time slip, plot device used in fiction in which a person can travel in time; Time slip recording, a feature of some digital video recorders allowing earlier parts of a program to be viewed while later parts are being recorded; Timeslip, in drag racing, a record of the vehicle's elapsed time, top speed, and the driver's reaction time

  9. J. B. Priestley's Time Plays - Wikipedia

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    The English author J. B. Priestley wrote a number of dramas during the 1930s and 40s, which have come to be known as his Time Plays. [1] They are so called because each constructs its plot around a particular concept of time. In the plays, various theories of time become a central theatrical device of the play, the characters' lives being ...