| Crime Traveller | |
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 Crime Traveller opening sequence |
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| Format | Crime / Sci-Fi |
| Created by | Anthony Horowitz |
| Starring | Michael French Chloë Annett Sue Johnston Paul Trussell Richard Dempsey Bob Goody |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
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| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Brian Eastman |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | 1 March 1997 – 19 April 1997 |
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Crime Traveller is a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based around the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Carnival Films is a British television production company founded by Brian Eastman in 1978 as Picture Partnership Productions Limited This article details time travel itself For other uses see Time Traveler. In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment
Anthony Horowitz created the series and wrote every episode. Anthony Horowitz (born 5 April 1956 is an English Author and Screenwriter. He got the idea while writing an episode of Poirot. Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television Drama that has aired on ITV1 since 1989 Despite having over eight million viewers on a regular basis, Crime Traveller was not renewed after its first series, because according to Horowitz, "The show wasn't exactly cut. There was a chasm at the BBC, created by the arrival of a new Head of Drama and our run ended at that time. There was no-one around to commission a new series. . . and so it just didn't happen. " Other sources cited at the time that the BBC was concerned by a steady decrease in viewing figures from 11m to 7m by the end of the show's run, and feared viewing figures would continue to decline if the series was recommissioned.
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Rules of time travel
The rules of time travel in the series are as follows.
- The time machine sends the traveller back in time by a random interval. Usually this is about a day but it may be as little as a few minutes or as much as a week. (N. B. In the final episode of the series it is found that the length of time traveled back can be controlled by altering the length of the photon rods, this is discovered by the research company Webb Biotech, who have also invented a time machine) If you travel back twenty-four hours, you must relive those twenty-four hours all over again.
- You must not meet yourself in the past. It is not clear what would result if you did, but the consequences are likely to be dire.
- You cannot change the past. One of the results of this restriction is that the effects of the time traveller's journey back in time are already visible "before" the journey is made.
- You cannot exist more than twice in the same time frame. If you try to go back a second time, the machine will simply fail.
- When "in the past", you must get back to the time machine by the time you "left". If you don't, you will be trapped in a "loop of infinity". This is what happened to Holly Turner's father.
- The time machine never travels into the future. Holly clearly points out to Jeff in the first episode "You can't travel into something that doesn't exist. " However this isn't to say that future time travel couldn't at some time have been achieved. The first episode contradicts Holly's comment about the future not existing, because a future version of Jeff and Holly had gone back in time, posed as caterers which in turn got Jeff interested in Holly's time machine only for them to go back and pose as the caterers, thus completing the cycle.
Characters
| Character | Artist | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Jeff Slade | Michael French | Detective and the only person other than Turner who knows about the time machine. Michael French (born 17 September, 1962 in Bow, East London) is an English Actor. |
| Holly Turner | Chloë Annett | Forensic scientist whose father invented the time machine, which she keeps and adjusts in her apartment. Chloë Victoria Annett is an English actress, born in London on July 25 1971. |
| Kate Grisham | Sue Johnston | Slade's irritable boss whom, thanks to his methods, he is constantly getting on the wrong side of. Susan Johnston, usually known as Sue Johnston, (born 7 December 1943) is an English actress. |
| Morris | Paul Trussell | Slade's slow-witted colleague, who usually takes the credit for his success. Paul Trussell is an English Actor. Born in Wimbledon, he has appeared in many plays television series and films |
| Nicky Robson | Richard Dempsey | Posh, intelligent but naive trainee detective, too helpful and trusting for his own good. Richard Dempsey (born 16 May 1974 in Hertfordshire, England) is an English Actor. |
| Danny | Bob Goody | Janitor at Turner's apartment block, who is constantly having to deal with the power outages caused by Turner and Slade's use of the time machine. |
Episodes
| # | Title | Original airdate | Director |
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| 1 | Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity | Saturday 1 March 1997 | Brian Farnham |
| 2 | Death in the Family | Saturday 8 March 1997 | Rick Stroud |
| 3 | Fashion Shoot | Saturday 15 March 1997 | Brian Farnham |
| 4 | The Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis | Saturday 22 March 1997 | Rick Stroud |
| 5 | Sins of the Father | Saturday 29 March 1997 | Rick Stroud |
| 6 | Death Minister | Saturday 5 April 1997 | Brian Farnham |
| 7 | The Lottery Experiment | Saturday 12 April 1997 | Brian Farnham |
| 8 | The Broken Crystal | Saturday 19 April 1997 | Rick Stroud |
See also
- Quantum Leap (an American science fiction show involving time travel to fix the past; this often involves crime solving). Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 238 - Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperor. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 456 - St Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series that ran for 96 episodes from March 1989 to May 1993 on the NBC network
- Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd century (an American cartoon featuring Sherlock Holmes and a robotic Dr. Watson). Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 A robot is a mechanical or Virtual Artificial agent In practice it is usually an electro-mechanical system which by its appearance or movements
- Life on Mars, a more recent BBC time travel crime drama. Life on Mars is
- Seven Days. Seven Days (also written as 7 Days) is a Science fiction television series based around the premise of Time travel.
External links
- Crime Traveller fan site
- Crime Traveller at the Internet Movie Database.
- Action TV Crime Traveller page