# Time travel, forward to the Present **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297 "2016-10-12T00:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/21 "2016-10-12T09:31:51Z")
Kate & Leopold. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/22 "2016-10-12T10:08:28Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [Brigadoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon) Yes, in the popular suspended-animation musical genre. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/23 "2016-10-12T10:37:55Z")
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/24 "2016-10-12T10:55:10Z")
[The Second Hundred Years](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061293/) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/25 "2016-10-12T11:40:38Z")
I remember a Judge Dredd strip which gives this trope short shrift: a squadron of WW2 Luftwaffe fighters suddenly appear over Mega City One and are very quickly shot down and that is that. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/26 "2016-10-12T11:59:36Z")
_Lightning_ by Dean R. Koontz involves Nazi time travelers who are raiding the present for war-winning technology. In the Time Wars series by Simon Hawke one of the major characters is a medieval woman who joins up with the protagonists and spends the rest of the series all over the timeline, including the present. There’s also one book where Jules Verne semi-inadvertently ends up on a present-day nuclear submarine that’s been stolen by an eccentric villain. One of the protagonists comments to Verne that while he can’t be allowed to talk about time travel and endanger the timeline, there’s no reason why he couldn’t write a novel _inspired_ by his experiences… ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/27 "2016-10-12T12:25:24Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure In a similar vein, I remember a couple episodes of Bewitched where a historical figure was (accidentally?) brought forward to the present. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/28 "2016-10-12T12:41:30Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > There’s also the TZ episode [The Last Flight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Flight_(The_Twilight_Zone)), about a WWI pilot transported to the present. > > And the episode about a criminal brought to the present at the moment of his hanging. Mel Gibson played a WW II pilot who was frozen or something until present day (early 90s). Forever Young, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/29 "2016-10-12T12:43:20Z")
There was the children’s TV series [Catweazle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catweazle) about an 11th century wizard who travelled to the modern day. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/30 "2016-10-12T14:08:55Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > In a similar vein, I remember a couple episodes of Bewitched where a historical figure was (accidentally?) brought forward to the present. George Washington! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/31 "2016-10-12T14:28:30Z")
[_The Philadelphia Experiment_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(film)). ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/32 "2016-10-12T14:51:43Z")
The 1966 sitcom _It’s About Time_ ran for one season of 26 episodes. For the first 18 episodes, two astronauts who passed through a time warp were trapped in a prehistoric era. In episode 19, they returned to the present, and brought a cave family with them. The final 8 episodes were about the cave family trying to understand modern times. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/33 "2016-10-12T15:03:27Z")
There was a TV series called _Outlaws_ in which a sheriff in 1899 caught up to a gang of bank robbers, when the whole group of them is struck by lightning that somehow transports them to the 1980s. They call a truce while they adjust to their new surroundings, and, this being a 1986 TV series, they decide to open a detective agency. (No, this was not a comedy. Not intentionally, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/34 "2016-10-12T15:20:22Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > The 1966 sitcom _It’s About Time_ ran for one season of 26 episodes. [_It’s About Time_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg) opening and closing themes. ♬ _It’s about time It’s about space It’s about time to slap your face!_ ♬ 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/35 "2016-10-12T15:27:00Z")
People from a remote English village at the time of the Black Death end up in a modern New Zealand city in _The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey_, a very somber, strange little movie. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/36 "2016-10-12T15:57:52Z")
Maybe too convoluted, but the protagonist in Heinlein’s Door into Summer travels from (1) a future just ahead of the then-present to (2) 30 years in the future via cryo-sleep, then (3) returns to his original time with a time machine and (4) cryo-sleeps his way back to his new present. Yeah, too convoluted. And it involves cats. But it starts with one of the most lovely paragraphs the old grump ever wrote. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/37 "2016-10-12T16:27:30Z")
I enjoyed “The Man From Earth,” about a time traveler of sorts. It’s about a prehistoric man who just happened to survive for thousands of years and lives now in contemporary America. > **[The Man from Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth)** > > The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film directed by Richard Schenkman. It was written by Jerome Bixby, who conceived the screenplay in the early 1960s and completed it on his deathbed in April 1998. It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, a departing university professor, who claims to be a caveman who has secretly survived for more than 14,000 years. The entire film is set in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party and is composed almost entirely of dialo Th... ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/38 "2016-10-13T00:11:14Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Asimov’s [_The Ugly Little Boy_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Little_Boy) involved a Neanderthal boy brought to the present (or 1958 at the time). I loved that story but it was so sad. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/39 "2016-10-13T12:52:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > People from a remote English village at the time of the Black Death end up in a modern New Zealand city in _The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey_, a very somber, strange little movie. To find a cure for the plague they tunnel deep into the ground, where they find Hell, suitably represented by night-time Auckland after the shops have closed. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297/40 "2016-10-13T15:53:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [_It’s About Time_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg) opening and closing themes. And the [revised version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pPtYb0z80) used in the last 8 episodes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-travel-forward-to-the-present/768297.md?page=3)