Crime Traveller (1997)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1 March 1997 - 19 April 1997
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 8
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

A police scientist, Holly Turner, continues her missing father's work and develops a working time machine. It has a few limitations - it can't take you back very far and you can only stay a certain time before returning to Holly's flat where the machine is housed; failure to do so will consign the time traveller to the "loop of infinity" - but it works well enough to allow her and her detective partner Jim Slade to solve otherwise baffling crimes.

Not at all well liked when it was first shown, Crime Traveller is actually a harmless and moderately entertaining piece of fluff. The science may be wonky and some of the performances wonkier still, but the writing was generally amusing and the situations inventive. It's certainly no masterpiece but it's not the dog's dinner most people seemed to think it was.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1997
March
1: UK - Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity first television broadcast (on BBC1)
8: UK - Death in the Family first television broadcast (on BBC1)
15: UK - Fashion Shoot first television broadcast (on BBC1)
22: UK - The Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis first television broadcast (on BBC1)
29: UK - Sins of the Father first television broadcast (on BBC1)

April
5: UK - Death Minister first television broadcast (on BBC1)
12: UK - The Lottery Experiment first television broadcast (on BBC1)
19: UK - The Broken Crystal first television broadcast (on BBC1)

MAGAZINES

Thermal Lance 34 pp.12-13
illustrated article

SFX 19 p.12
note

scientists; time travel; police; criminals; time paradoxes