No Time Like the Past
- Episode aired Mar 7, 1963
- TV-PG
- 51m
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.
- Bartender
- (as Lindsay Workman)
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Fire Spectator Restraining Driscoll
- (uncredited)
- Lusitania Steward
- (uncredited)
- Man Hearing of Garfield
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
- Man at Dining Room Table
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe small town set is the same as that used in A Stop at Willoughby (1960).
- GoofsThe U-boat that launches the torpedo at the RMS Lusitania has a spinning sonar mast, unlikely for a submarine in 1915. Obviously it is stock footage of more contemporary vintage to 1963.
- Quotes
Paul Driscoll: We live in a cesspool, a septic tank, a gigantic sewage complex in which runs the dregs, the filth, the misery-laden slop of the race of men: his hatred, prejudices, passions, and violence. And the keeper of this sewer: man. He is a scientifically advanced monkey who walks upright, with eyes wide open into an abyss of his own making. His bombs, fallout, poisons, radioactivity. Everything he designs as an art for dying is his excuse for living. We live in an exquisite bedlam. An insanity. Maybe all the more grotesque by the fact that we don't recognize it as insanity.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Twilight-Tober-Zone: No Time Like the Past (2023)
In the first half the plans are big, to prevent three catastrophes of world history. He fails in all three.
The second half hour has Andrews moving to a sleepy backwater town in Indiana of 1881. He meets and falls in love with Patricia Breslin a schoolteacher who senses something odd with him. And he has a more local catastrophe to deal with.
Some interesting questions about time travel are asked and answered. Do we really want to experiment like this? Can we really be effective?
Time itself is gazillions of stories from the beginning of it. Change one and you have a ripple effect over the years. Only the Creator/Deity can navigate those waters safely.
An episode that will make you think.
- bkoganbing
- Sep 3, 2019
Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1