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TODAY IN TIME

Friday May 8th, 2026

On this day in 1999,
season 3 of Early Edition
episode 22: Play It Again, Sammo
was first broadcast.

Gary (Kyle Chandler) tries to save a man who's about to be killed. But when the people who tried to kill the man turns their attention to Gary, he is saved by Chinese cop Sammo Law.

On this day in 2018,
season 2 of Legion
episode 6: Chapter 14
was first broadcast.

David (Dan Stevens)'s mind explores possible lives where he made different choices.

On this day in 1986,
Sky Pirates
first opened in theaters.

An Australian pilot (John Hargreaves) enters a time warp and winds up on Easter Island fighting over a magic stone.

Abe Levitow, American animator and director, died on this day in 1975 (and was born in 1922).

Directed the Tom and Jerry cartoon "Guided Mouse-ille" (1967)

Sidney James, South African born English actor and comedian, was born on this day in 1913 (and sadly passed away in 1976.)

Traveled in the film Carry On Christmas (1969)

On this day in 2002,
season 4 of Felicity
episode 19: The Power of the Ex
was first broadcast.

Felicity (Keri Russell)'s choices affect everyone, and someone unexpected re-enters Noel's life.

On this day in 2011,
season 9 of Family Guy
episode 16: The Big Bang Theory
was first broadcast.

Brian and Stewie travel to the Renaissance period and meet Leonardo da Vinci, and back before the Big Bang, which Stewie then causes. Created by Seth McFarlane.

Fred Ward, American character actor, producer and model, died on this day in 2022 (and was born in 1942).

Traveled as the motorcycle champion thrown into the past in the film, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)

On this day in 2016,
season 1 of Best Friends Whenever
episode 17: Fight for the Future, Part 1
was first broadcast.

Cyd (Landry Bender) and Shelby discover that their future-selves have asked to lose their time traveling abilities; they leap ahead to see that Janet Smythe is involved; Part 1 of 3

Happy 48th Birthday Brian Tyler!

Brian Tyler, American composer, arranger, producer, musician, and songwriter., was born on this day in 1978.

Composed the scores for the film Timeline (2003) and music for the TV series Terra Nova (2011) and Sleepy Hollow (2013- "

On this day in 2019,
season 2 of DuckTales
episode 9: The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck! 
was first broadcast.

In the old west, Scrooge and Goldie start a band of outlaws and stage a heist to save a small town from a corrupt businessman, John D. Rockerduck.

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On this day in 1991,
season 3 of Quantum Leap
episode 20: Heart Of A Champion
was first broadcast.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a wrestler who must convince his partner-brother to quit due to a heart problem.

On this day in 2011,
season 2 of Jin
episode 4: Episode 2.4
was first broadcast.

Dr Jin (Takao Osawa) saves Younglae's life, but Chunhong tells him that another life might have to be sacrificed.

On this day in 2008,
Aliens and Time Machines
was released.

An awkward nerdy boy doesn't know how to talk to women and ruins his date.

Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer, died on this day in 1988 (and was born in 1907).

The "dean of science fiction writers" created these short stories and novels: "For Us The Living: A Comedy of Customs (1938), "LifeLine" (1939), "Elesewhere" (1941), "By His Bootstraps" (1941), "All You Zombies" (1959), "The Door Into Summer" (1957), "Methusaleh's Children (1958), "Farnham's Freehold" (1964), "Time Enough For Love" (1973), "The Number Of The Beast" (1980), "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" (1985), and "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" (1987)

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On this day in 1965,
season 2 of Doctor Who (1963-1989)
episode 28: The Space Museum - The Search (Part 3 of 4)
was first broadcast.

With the Doctor missing, Ian, Barbara and Vicki find themselves in danger from the Moroks. Featuring Jeremy Bulloch as Tor.

Happy 75th Birthday Deborah Harmon!

Deborah Harmon, American film and television actress, was born on this day in 1951.

Traveled in the film Back To The Future (1985) and in the TV series Tales From the Darkside episode "Sorry, Right Number" (1987)

On this day in 1983,
season 1 of Miimu iro iro yume no tabi
episode 6: tooku no koe wo kiko u
was first broadcast.

A little pink genie from a computer helps two kids learn about important people and events from history by taking them to those times. Directed by Kazuyoshi Yokota.

Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian, and radio personality, was born on this day in 1899 (and sadly passed away in 1959.)

Traveled as Elmer Fudd in the film short The Old Grey Hare (1944)

On this day in 2009,
season 1 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
episode 7: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part Six
was first broadcast.

One night, Haruhi (Aya Hirano)'s power is activated without her knowing, and both she and Kyon become trapped in a sealed reality at their school.

On this day in 2009,
Star Trek
first opened in theaters.

The brash James T. Kirk battle a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan (Eric Bana) who is creating black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

On this day in 1944,
Time Flies
first opened in theaters.

A minor music hall star (Tommy Handley) uses a professor's time machine to go back to the days of Queen Elizabeth I.

Happy 63rd Birthday Michel Gondry!

Michel Gondry, French independent film director, screenwriter, and producer, was born on this day in 1963.

Wrote and directed the film The Science of Sleep (2010)

On this day in 2001,
season 3 of Seven Days
episode 19: The Brink
was first broadcast.

An attack with a laser weapon leaves thousands of concert attending teens permanently blind, with a trail leading Parker (Jonathan LaPaglia) back to the Hansen Island mental institute.

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On this day in 2010,
season 5 of Doctor Who (2005- )
episode 6: The Vampires Of Venice
was first broadcast.

The Doctor and Amy (Karen Gillan) cross swords in more ways than one with a horde of blood-sucking vampires in 16th century Venice.

On this day in 2005,
season 7 of Charmed
episode 20: Imaginary Fiends
was first broadcast.

Viccus, a demon who possesses the power of corrupt children through cursed objects (toys), tries to turned little Wyatt into evil. Featuring Holly Marie Combs as Piper.

On this day in 1971,
season 8 of Doctor Who (1963-1989)
episode 19: Colony In Space (Part 5 of 6)
was first broadcast.

The Master offers to help the colonists in exchange for information on the Primitive city and forces the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to act as a guide by taking Jo hostage.

On this day in 2013,
season 1 of Nine: Nine Time Travels
episode 17: Episode #1.17
was first broadcast.

With his life on the line, Sun Woo (Lee Jin-wook) uses the last incense stick to save young Sun Woo, and stop his brother's wedding.

Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction and horror writer and critic, died on this day in 1985 (and was born in 1918).

Author of multiple time travel short stories, including "Poker Face" (1941), "Yesterday Was Monday" (1941), "Dazed" (1971), and "Time Warp" (1978)

Fernandel, French actor and singer, was born on this day in 1903 (and sadly passed away in 1971.)

Traveled in the film Francois 1er (Francis the 1st) (1937)

On this day in 2005,
season 1 of Adventurers: Masters of Time
episode 10: If The Bell Never Rang
was first broadcast.

Kikko (Amy Birnbaum) and the Adventurers travel back to Boston, 1876, where they know that Alexander Graham Bell's famous first phone call must take place that very same night.

MOVIE MONTAGES

Travel through time in the world of pop culture...

TAGLINE TRIVIA

Which title below delivers this tagline?

Whoa dude! Pressed hams!

Dark City

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1408

We Come In Peace

Past Perfect

Iron Sky

Contact

Escape To The Unknown!

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Flight of the Navigator

Escape to Witch Mountain

The future begins.

Star Trek

Bernard and the Genie

Before You Say 'I Do'

This could be magic.

Late For Dinner

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Tomorrowland

If you think your family's different, wait 'til you meet the family of the future.

Zotz!

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Meet the Robinsons

Two captains. One destiny.

Night Watch

Terminal Voyage

Star Trek: Generations

Just when you thought it was safe to watch something else!

Futurama: Bender's Big Score

Sliding Doors

The Matrix

20th Century Fox Wants You To... Go Ape

Project Almanac

Planet of the Apes

Ten O'Clock

Step Through "The Time Portal" beyond the crack in Space and Time where the fantastic world of the Future will freeze your blood with its weird horrors!

The Time Travelers

The Excalibur Kid

Saturday the 14th

It's my time traveling finger!

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Time Traveling Finger

The Day Time Ended

The Future Is In Her Hands

WelgÌ_nzÌ»r

Planet of the Apes

Continuum

The Ultimate Trip.

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

2001: A Space Odyssey

Doubting Thomas

She awoke in the past with a chance to rebuild her future.

Peggy Sue Got Married

Millennium

Escape in Time

In The Depths Of The African Jungle.... A Land Of Dinosaurs And Primitive People

The Lost World

Evil Dead II

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

The end of Earth will not be the end of us.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

Dark Country

Interstellar

An adventure beyond time.

The Philadelphia Experiment

Dimensions

Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time

The Ultimate Time Transport must be Destroyed to Save the Future...

Time Chasers

A Wrinkle in Time

Early Edition

This Diwali, forget the present... and change the past!

Masters Of The Universe

Action Replayy

Trapped in Time 3D!

It's all in the mind y'know.

Yellow Submarine

Timemaster

NBC Special Treat

Twelve chances to get love right.

12 Dates of Christmas

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Kate & Leopold

Time flies when you're having fun.

Unidentified Flying Oddball

The Land That Time Forgot

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

One man's future lies in the past.

Timeline

Kate & Leopold

The Brass Bottle

Back In Time.

Escape to Grizzly Mountain

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Men in Black 3

Torn between country and love, time stopped in its tracks when she pulled the trigger!

Time Walker

Repeat Performance

Replay

He travelled to the future, to learn truth for the ages...

The Time Machine

15 Till Midnight

Time Changer

Man's colony on the Moon... a whole new generation has been born and is living there... a quarter-million miles from Earth.

Timeless

Meatballs III: Summer Job

2001: A Space Odyssey

An adventure beyond time. The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago... Is still going on.

Returner

The Transformers

The Philadelphia Experiment

Have a Nice Apocalype.

Southland Tales

Phantasm IV: Oblivion

A.Li.Ce.

He's come from the past to destroy the future.

Warlock

Frequency

Back to the Future

Right place. Wrong time.

Prisoners of the Lost Universe

Land of the Lost

2001: A Space Odyssey

Protecting a world that doesn't know they exist.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Time Changer

Mutant X

From the Wild West to the 26th Century... A Chase Through The Past To The Future!

Timestalkers

13 Going On 30

Total Reality

Everything begins now

End Of Time

The Undead

Black Knight

Helen is about to find that romance was never this much fun.

Prehistoric Park

The Forgotten

Sliding Doors

He raced through time to save a girl not yet born.

Tomorrowland

Life On Mars (2008-2009)

That Was Then

In 6 hours they'll be history!

Timeline

Hindsight

Touchback

What happens when 1990's Jo meets 1890's Van Gogh?

The Time Machine

Time Chasers

Vincent and Me

Rex is taking his first big trip...back 25,000 years!

Cavegirl

The Matrix

The Hunt For the Hidden Relic

The most powerful force in the universe lies within the depths of the human heart.

Another Day

Yesterday Was a Lie

Hamlet A.D.D.

We're Back

Back to the Future Part II

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Star Trek: First Contact

Welcome to a new dimension in fear

Paycheck

Cube 2: Hypercube

Timeline

There is more to fear than you can see.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Meet the Robinsons

Cube 2: Hypercube

If you could go back in your life and change just one thing... Do you know what you would change? Simon Cable knew... and did.

The I Inside

Time & Again

Millennium

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.

Highlander The Final Dimension

The Matrix

Catch-22

The Gal Who Invented Love!

Back to the Future

One Touch of Venus

Doctor Strange

What Happens When The Numbers Run Out?

Paycheck

Time Chasers

Knowing

The system is perfect until it comes after you.

Minority Report

Army of Darkness

Timeless

He's About To Get Medieval On You.

Beyond the Time Barrier

Black Knight

Traveler Zero

Everyone wants one

Frequency

Meridian

1

Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.

What Dreams May Come

Three Days

Army of Darkness

Their war has come to our time.

95ers: Time Runners

Timeserver

The Matrix

The seas master beast of the ages- raging up from the bottom of time!

Ben 10

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

Lancelot: Guardian of Time

Rewind your life

Action Replayy

Interstellar

Frenchman's Farm

Get off on...Interstate 60.

Yanlis zaman yolculari (Wrong Time Travelers)

Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road

The Man from Earth

An adventure that started 2000 years ago...

The Hunt For the Hidden Relic

17 Again

Premonition

The Future Is Listening

Frequency

Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road

Push

We all have two lives... the one we live in and the one we could have lived...

5ive Days To Midnight

Timesweep

Una Mujer Bajo la Lluvia (A Woman In The Rain)

The 80's are back and it's criminal.

Ashes to Ashes

The Time Machine

Zotz!

It's a jungle in there!

Jumper

Jumanji

Demolition Man

There is nothing wrong with your television set...

The Outer Limits (1963-65)

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard

The I Inside

"So you too, divine figures, have turned to dust."

Dustclouds

Extreme Movie

FlashForward

He's Your Friend and a Whole Lot More!

Denver, The Last Dinosaur

Cyborg 2087

Yellow Submarine

Remember the action. Remember the danger. Remember the emotion. Remember the mission.

The Flight of Dragons

Timeslip! (Time Tunnel Adventure #2)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

The Wildest Space Adventure on... or off the Earth! Now on the Big Screen in COLOUR!

Carol For Another Christmas

Dr. Who and the Daleks

Timeline

In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created 'THE TERMINATOR'

The Eliminators

The Terminator

The Lost World

The Battle for the Future has begun.

Trancers

Tutenstein

One Touch of Venus

They cut a hole through time

The Philadelphia Experiment 2

Gargoyles

Wil

To save the future he must reshape the past.

Frenchman's Farm

Predestination

Timeless

To change the future, he must change the past.

Lost

Counter Clockwise

Kamen Rider OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders

Will you survive?

Bewitched

The Philadelphia Experiment

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

How far would you go for love?

Tomorrowland

Contact

Fetching Cody

They're lost in eternity, and trapped in...

Time of the Apes

The Man with the Broken Time Machine

Encino Man

Haunted by a past they could not remember... Trapped by a future too gruesome to ignore...

A Kid in Aladdin's Palace

Yesterday

Meet the Robinsons

You can go there even though it doesn't exist.

Knowing

The Thirteenth Floor

Nemesis 3: Time Lapse

An adventure across time and space

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

The Time Machine

Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe

Today may be the strangest day of my life.

Out of Time

My Science Project

Rewind

Your Fate Has Been Adjusted.

The Adjustment Bureau

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

The Time Machine

Over the past 50 years, thousands of people disappeared. This July, they're back

The Legend of Hillbilly John

The 4400

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Beware the task of the savage goddess - ruler of a kingdom of women

The Time Traveler

Minority Report

Prehistoric Women

They're on a mission for Junior.

Galaxy Quest

Mr. Nobody

Raisin' Junior

A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind.

Prince of Darkness

Jumanji

Edge of Tomorrow

What if you had the power to stop time?

Andy Colby's Incredble Adventure!

Time and Again

Clockstoppers

They've saved the best trip for last... But this time they may have gone too far.

Back to the Future Part III

The Lost World

Minority Report

A Man Becomes Unstuck In Time In The Film That Became A Classic.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Minority Report

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Vegas needs a new king.

Aliens in the Wild, Wild West

Retroactive

Six-String Samurai

A high tech story of split personalities, fractured time zones and true love...when reality becomes wilder than fantasy!

The Langoliers

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Future Past

When you fight the past, the past fights back.

Army of Darkness

11.22.63

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

Sometimes you can be gone forever and still make it back in time.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The Matrix

Late For Dinner

Based on the terrifying story by Stephen King

1408

Star Trek: Generations

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

He was a visitor from another world, an alien in medieval times. So they called him a Knight, and his spaceship, a Dragon.

Doctor Strange

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Star Knight

Pure evil never really dies.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Back to the Future

Flight of the Navigator

Forget the Sun. Forget Time. Forget Your Memories.

Dark City

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Every woman has a secret - hers is really magical.

13 Going On 30

Jumanji

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Brace yourself amigos for a most triumphant video!

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1408

The Returning

Some hide. They seek.

Timefighters In The Land Of Fantasy

2001: A Space Odyssey

Sanctuary

Everyone deserves a second chance... will he get one?

Austin Powers in Goldmember

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Three Days

One push can change everything.

Push

The Science Of Sleep

Stay

The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end.

Johnny and the Bomb

The Terminator

Time Warp

He's Johnny Twennies, and boy does he have moxie!

Epilogue

Man Of The Century

The Matrix

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