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TODAY IN TIME

Friday May 1st, 2026

Happy 80th Birthday Joanna Lumley!

Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, former model, author and activist, was born on this day in 1946.

Starred in the TV series Sapphire and Steel (1979-1982), and in the film short "Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999).

On this day in 2007,
The Sandlot: Heading Home
was released.

Successful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy "Santa" Santorelli (Luke Perry) travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandlot baseball team.

On this day in 2001,
season 1 of Encounters With The Unexplained
episode 25: Philadelphia Experiment: Has Time Travel Been Discovered?
was first broadcast.

Examining the mysteries of our world and history, questioning the main-stream and exploring the paranormal and the unexplained. This episode; Time Travel. Hosted by Jerry Orbach.

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On this day in 1971,
season 8 of Doctor Who (1963-1989)
episode 18: Colony In Space (Part 4 of 6)
was first broadcast.

The Doctor descends into the Primitive city to try and find Jo (Katy Manning) while the colonists receive a visit from the Adjudicator.

On this day in 1923,
A Christmas Carol
first opened in theaters.

Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Russell Thorndike) is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, as well as the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.

On this day in 2007,
Panic Time
was released.

Elisa goes back in time to kill her cheating husband and commit the perfect crime...or so she thinks. When she returns to her present day existence she encounters more than a few surprises and new revelations about her friends, her husband...and her herself.

John Meillon, Australian character actor, was born on this day in 1934 (and sadly passed away in 1989.)

Traveled in the TV series One Step Beyond episode "Eyewitness" (1961)

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On this day in 2001,
season 3 of Futurama
episode 14: Time Keeps On Slipping
was first broadcast.

Prof. Farnsworth (Billy West) creates a team of mutant, atomic supermen, but the side effects of their rapid growth endangers the universe.

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On this day in 1999,
season 1 of Histeria!
episode 41: The Teddy Roosevelt Show
was first broadcast.

Histeria! meets Teddy Roosevelt and explores the canal of Doom. Featuring Frank Welker as Father Time.

On this day in 1985,
Star Trek: Ishmael
was released.

Spock is aboard a Klingon ship when it travels back in time to Seattle in 1867. Written by Barbara Hambly.

On this day in 1988,
season 4 of Tales from the Darkside
episode 13: The Apprentice
was first broadcast.

College sophomore Sarah McBride (Haviland Morris) accepts a job at Colonial Village, a tourist attraction that recreates Puritan life in 1692 Salem and allows nothing from the 20th century.

Happy 56th Birthday Dave Willis!

Dave Willis, American voice actor, writer, and producer, was born on this day in 1970.

Creater and co-star of the TV series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and traveled in the episode "Cybernetic Ghost Of Christmas Past From The Future" (2002)

On this day in 1984,
season 1 of Out of Control
episode 1: Hurry-Up
was first broadcast.

A segment where Dave (Dave Coulier) answers a letter and uses a device called the "Hurry-Up Machine" to fast forward through a boring activity.

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On this day in 1965,
season 2 of Doctor Who (1963-1989)
episode 27: The Space Museum - The Dimensions of Time (Part 2 of 4)
was first broadcast.

The Doctor and his friends must work to avoid the future they saw for themselves. Featuring Jeremy Bulloch as Tor.

On this day in 1923,
Gems of Literature
first opened in theaters.

A series of short films, some of them fantasy, directed by Edwin Greenwood. Featuring Russell Thorndike as Ebenezer Scrooge.

On this day in 2006,
Sojourn
was released.

A Time Rover from 2057 returns to 1888 London in search of a missing time tourist, only to be caught in the Jack the Ripper murders and the history-changing plots of a mysterious group of shape-shifters called Transitives. Written by Jana G. Oliver.

On this day in 1961,
season 1 of The Hector Heathcote Show
episode 5: The First Fast Mail
was first broadcast.

Hector (John Myhers) is always ready to help out, but...

On this day in 1981,
Neco je ve vzduchu (Something's In The Air)
first opened in theaters.

To Alice's great surprise, her grandfather (Ivan MistrÕk) 's urn is empty and he didn't die -- but instead disappeared under mysterious circumstances on the 2nd September 1946 in the town of Telc.

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On this day in 1991,
season 3 of Quantum Leap
episode 19: Last Dance Before An Execution
was first broadcast.

Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a death row convict moments before his execution. A last minute stay of execution order gives him 48 hours to determine his innocence in a leap with an unclear mission.

On this day in 1966,
season 3 of My Favorite Martian
episode 32: Pay The Man The $24
was first broadcast.

Tim (Bill Bixby) uses Martin's CCTBS to go back to do some research for his historical novel on the 1626 sale of Manhattan from the Indians to the Dutch.

Earl Hammond, American theater, radio, film and television actor, and voice actor, died on this day in 2002 (and was born in 1921).

Traveled in the films Twelve Months (1980) and Gandahar (1989), and multiple episodes of the TV series Thundercats (1985-1989), and Silverhawks (1986)

Joseph Heller, American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was born on this day in 1923 (and sadly passed away in 1999.)

Author of the novel Catch-22 (1961) and the screenplay (1970)

On this day in 1983,
season 1 of Miimu iro iro yume no tabi
episode 5: hashire! j kikikansha
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.

On this day in 2009,
The Princess and the Bear
was released.

He was once a king, turned into a bear as punishment for his cruel and selfish deeds. She was a once a princess, now living in the form of a hound. Wary companions, they are sent in human form back to a time when magic went terribly astray. Written by Mette Ivie Harrison.

On this day in 2011,
season 2 of Jin
episode 3: Episode 2.3
was first broadcast.

Dr Jin (Takao Osawa) saves the King's life. Younglae gets diagnosed with breast cancer before her marriage.

Paolo Stoppa, Italian actor and dubber, died on this day in 1988 (and was born in 1906).

Traveled in the film It's Never Too Late (1953)

On this day in 2009,
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
first opened in theaters.

A bachelor (Matthew McConaughey) is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends at his younger brother's wedding.

On this day in 2008,
season of Mighty Avengers
episode 10: Time Is On No One's Side
was first broadcast.

Part 2: Iron Man and the Sentry are stuck in the past with none other than Doctor Doom. Any interaction with anything or anyone could jeopardize the future of the Marvel Universe! Written by Brian Michael Bendis

Happy 84th Birthday Stephen Macht!

Stephen Macht, American television and film actor, was born on this day in 1942.

Traveled in the video "Amityville 1992: It's About Time" (1992)

On this day in 2007,
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
was released.

Characters participate in "Party Crashing" which can, under certain conditions, cause time travel. Written by Chuck Palahniuk.

George Moorse, American director and writer, was born on this day in 1936 (and sadly passed away in 1999.)

Directed the TV series Das Vebotene Spiel (1979)

On this day in 1995,
season 2 of Goodnight Sweetheart
episode 10: Don't Fence Me In
was first broadcast.

Phoebe's license for the pub is due to be renewed and sleazy brewery rep Harrison says he will sanction it if she sleeps with him. Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary.

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On this day in 1999,
season 3 of Early Edition
episode 21: Home Groan
was first broadcast.

Gary (Kyle Chandler) tries to convince a prison that two criminals are escaping, however they do not believe him. Featuring Robert Duncan McNeill as Police Chief Frawley.

On this day in 2009,
season 1 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
episode 6: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Part Five
was first broadcast.

Kyon (Tomokazu Sugita) is dragged into helping Haruhi attempting to investigate what happened to Ryoko's strange disappearance without notice.

On this day in 2010,
season 5 of Doctor Who (2005- )
episode 5: Flesh and Stone (Part 2)
was first broadcast.

The Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy, Dr. Song and the remaining soldiers manage to escape from the crashed ship and into the forest...

On this day in 1955,
"Sam, This Is You"
was released.

While up on a pole, lineman Sam Yoder gets a call from his future self who proceeds to tell him exactly what to do, even if is suspiciously criminal and it makes his girl, Rosie, furious. Written by Murray Leinster.

On this day in 2002,
season 4 of Felicity
episode 18: Time Will Tell
was first broadcast.

The death of a friend sinks Felicity (Keri Russell) into a depression, and when she finds out Ben has been cheating on her she reevaluates the choices she has made.

Happy 54th Birthday Julie Benz!

Julie Benz, American actress, was born on this day in 1972.

Traveled in the TV series Angel episode "Quickening" (2001), and the No Ordinary Family episodes "No Ordinary Animal" and "No Ordinary Future" (2011)

On this day in 2018,
season 2 of Legion
episode 5: Chapter 13
was first broadcast.

An uneasy reunion leads to a shocking truth. Starring Dan Stevens as David Haler.

Happy 60th Birthday Charlie Schlatter!

Charlie Schlatter, American actor, voice actor and writer, was born on this day in 1966.

Traveled in the TV series Loonatics Unleashed episode "Time After Time" (2006)

Happy 41st Birthday Nikki Hsieh!

Nikki Hsieh, Taiwanese actress, was born on this day in 1985.

Traveled in the TV series Love @ Seventeen (2016)

On this day in 2008,
season 7 of Smallville
episode 18: Apocalypse
was first broadcast.

Clark (Tom Welling) is shown by Jor-El what life on Earth would have been like, had he not sent him there instead of facing the doom of his fellow Kryptonians.

MOVIE MONTAGES

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

TAGLINE TRIVIA

Which title below delivers this tagline?

It was a special time... and a special place.

Vlad

Tom's Midnight Garden

Almost Normal

The laws of space and time are about to be violated.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Journey To the Center of Time

Retroactive

Smile. You're about to meet your new hero.

Tin Man

Rewind

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

What would our world have become if JFK had survived that day in Dallas?

The Forgotten

TimeQuest

Back to the Future Part III

Time does not exist. Only choice.

Man Of The Century

95ers: Time Runners

TMNT: Turtles Forever

He Lived And Died A Hundred Times. Now He Has 24 Hours To Unravel 2000 Years Of Mystery.

The Time Travelers

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

The Swordsman

A Christmas Classic Everyone Can Believe In

Interstellar

The Langoliers

Ms. Scrooge

He Survived the Past...But Nothing Could Prepare Him for the Future.

Future Zone

Slipstream

The Time Machine

The times they are a changing...

Vlad

Time Chasers

Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann

Where the future meets the past... and our world collides.

Continuum

Earth: Final Conflict

Carol For Another Christmas

The Truth Will Be Revealed (Season 2)

Throg

Lost

The Butterfly Effect

What would have happened to love and sex if Adam hadn't taken a bite?

Iron Sky

Second Time Lucky

Minority Report

If you're not early you're late.......Think about that.....Facts don't lie....

Eureka

Wait a Minute

2000 Years Later

A love trapped between two worlds

Back to the Future

Julia and Julia

Les Visiteurs

Fear Comes In Waves

Predestination

Triangle

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The hunt for the "Brain" is on!

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Timeslip! (Time Tunnel Adventure #2)

A Man Called Nereus

The movie with the mystic touch for grownups who are still part youngsters... and youngsters are already part grownups!!!

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine

Action Replayy

Time's Last Gift

You Will Be Assimilated

Hamlet A.D.D.

The Time Machine

Star Trek: First Contact

Let's Make Time Tracks!

The Drivetime

A.J.'s Time Travelers

Freejack

Step Through "The Time Portal"

Army of Darkness

The Time Travelers

The Forgotten

In an age of darkness. At a time of evil. When the world needed a hero. What it got was him.

Army of Darkness

The 25th Reich

Yor, the Hunter from the Future

They're back... and they're hungry.

Hindsight

Primeval: New World

The Time Machine

This is the first time.

Running Against Time

Yor, the Hunter from the Future

Mine Games

What's real? What's not?

Lost

Escape in Time

Meridian

Thru the Time Barrier, 552 years Ahead... Roaring To the Far Reaches of Titanic Terror, Crash-Landing Into the Nightmare Future!

The Timekeeper (From Time To Time)

World Without End

Time Traveling Finger

Even things that go bump in the night need protection.

Paycheck

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Sanctuary

They've Found the Missing Link... To Mayhem!

Inspector Gadget 2

The People That Time Forgot

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

She Has The Power

The Brass Bottle

Lucy

Clockstoppers

What If Today Was The Only Day Of The Rest of Your Life?

Before I Fall

Timeserver

deja vu

Death is the road to awe.

Prisoners of the Lost Universe

Clockmaker

The Fountain

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

Meet the Robinsons

Two-Wheeled Time Machine

Epilogue

To escape his future, he must control his past

Subconscious

Star Trek: Generations

Easton's Article

Take an Incredible Journey from Prehistoric Times to the Distant Future!

Timefighters In The Land Of Fantasy

Timeless

Crusade In Jeans

Nothing Is As Simple As Black And White.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Pleasantville

Backtime

The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable.

The Forbidden Kingdom

Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

Time After Time

They built the city to see what makes us tick. Last night one of us went off.

Frequency

Time of the Apes

Dark City

If you thought you had seen it all...look again!

Alcatraz

Past Perfect

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

... a chilling trip into the unknown.

Night of Dark Shadows

Frenchman's Farm

Deuxieme Vie

It's way past time to kill the future...

Timestalkers

Minority Report

Continuum

What if you could love forever?

The Fountain

Meet the Robinsons

The Forgotten

An astonishing quantum voyage to the far future.

The Time Ships

Austin Powers in Goldmember

The Others

The Matrix has you.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells

The Matrix

You'll come Unglued with laughter!

Stuck On You!

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Phil of the Future

A chance meeting, a band of friendship, and a wondrous miracle.

Tuesday

A Stranger In Time

2001: A Space Odyssey

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

My Science Project

Star Knight

The Philadelphia Experiment

Who Says You're Only Young Once?

The Flight of Dragons

17 Again

2000 Years Later

They opened a hole in time. Now there is no going back.

The Dead Zone

The Philadelphia Experiment

Sphere

Freeze the future

Clockstoppers

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

Adventures of Baron Munchausen

In a world of 1s and 0s...are you a zero, or The One?

The Matrix

Time Changer

Slaughterhouse-Five

Who am I? Who Are You? Where Is The World?

The I Inside

Sophie's World

The Machinist

The world as you know it is ending....soon!

The Undead

Traveler Zero

11.22.63

This fall, Claudia and Travis get a second chance at first love.

That Was Then

The Time Trap Series: Time Trap

Tales That Witness Madness

Be Careful What You Wish For

Time Gal

The Time Machine

Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road

Out of Bodies. Out of Time.

Andy Colby's Incredble Adventure!

Action Replayy

Xchange

What if you could see the impact of your beliefs? One man will.

Time Changer

Justin Time

Masters Of The Universe

See Timmie and his friend Robby the Robot combat the Super Computer

Donovan's Echo

The Invisible Boy

2000 Years Later

Can T.J.'s leap into the past change his future?

Meridian

Brother Future

The Kid

Man is faced with the ultimate question, of whether to have a world of Magic or a world of Science. Which will it be?

Boris and Natasha

The Flight of Dragons

Interstellar

Free your mind

Prehistoric Park

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

The Matrix

See Him Topple Two Ton Newspaper Rolls! See Him Toss Tough Men Like Toothpicks!

Hercules in New York

Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Cube 2: Hypercube

There is more to fear than you can see.

Cube 2: Hypercube

A.J.'s Time Travelers

The Matrix

But if you think you've seen it all...look again!

Contact

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

It's not your imagination.

The Last Mimzy

Planet of the Apes

Premonition

Will time and space be on her side?

Time After Time

2001: A Space Odyssey

Travelers

Fast food executive Jim Ferguson stepped out of his 47th floor office to go to the bathroom... and ended up in the middle of World War I. History will be grateful forever.

Biggles: Adventures in Time

Highlander II: The Quickening

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

To Save the Past, He Must Change The Future

Zathura: A Space Adventure

Clive Barker presents Saint Sinner

Back to the Future Part II

A magical quest through time!

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard

15 Till Midnight

Prince of Darkness

Time waits for no man but true love waits forever.

Forever Young

Mr. Destiny

Lancelot: Guardian of Time

What Happens When The Numbers Run Out?

The Time Machine

Stuck In The Past

Knowing

All mankind is facing an epic choice. A world of magic or a world of science. Which will it be?

Tomorrowland

Judas Kiss

The Flight of Dragons

They had to travel into the past to save the future

Timeline

The Jacket

Convergence (aka Premonition)

Evil will strike again... it's only a matter of time.

Terminator Salvation

Hercules in New York

Ticking Clock

Same planet...different flippin' world.

The Time Hoppers

Napoleon Dynamite

The Dead Zone

He was never in time for his classes . . .Then one day he wasn't in his time at all.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Back to the Future

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

From the Academy Award-winning director of "Forrest Gump" and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Contact" take you on a journey to the heart of the universe

Contact

Dark City

13 Going On 30

I love her. She's married. I built a time machine.

Time Trackers

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Juko's Time Machine

Synchronize your watches. The future's coming back...

Star Trek: Generations

Back to the Future Part II

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

The future is history.

Men in Black 3

Terror from the Year 5000!

Returner

Would You Give Up Everything You Have... For Everything You've Ever Wanted? Then Meet...

Travelers

Mr. Destiny

Iron Sky

Never has a time warp been quite as warped as this.

Biggles: Adventures in Time

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Mr. Nobody

Which universe would you choose?

Dimensions

Magna Aura

Beyond the Time Barrier

Aladdin's Lamp comes of age in a hip Christmas fantasy for all ages!

Bernard and the Genie

Time Bandits

Men in Black 3

Have a Nice Apocalype.

The Last Mimzy

Southland Tales

Frequency

They're not the survivors they think they are. (Season 2)

Lost

Out of Time

Dr. Plonk

They say no one can change the past... One man must.

The Man from Earth

End Of Time

Time Changer

The ultimate adventure.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

I'll Follow You Down

Biggles: Adventures in Time

Close your eyes. Open your heart.

The Science Of Sleep

Johnny and the Bomb

The Deaths of Ian Stone

He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born.

Blackadder: Back & Forth

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Back to the Future

Meet the future of criminal rehabilitation.

Ten O'Clock

Hindsight

Past Perfect

In the past... Lies our future

Retrograde

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms

95ers: Time Runners

Don't let the future pass you by.

Freejack

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

A message from deep space. Who will be the first to go? A journey to the heart of the universe.

Total Reality

Night of Dark Shadows

Contact

An absent-minded professor discovers a super-secret that will give you the greatest lift since love!

Sky Pirates

That Was Then

Zotz!

You'll believe a man can fly...

Superman

A.J.'s Time Travelers

A Christmas Carol

Most Amazing Picture Ever Made

Fetching Cody

Frequency

The Lost World

They're Coming.

12 Monkeys

Jumper

Madman's Dance

The torch of adventure is about to be passed.

Star Trek: Generations

Groundhog Day

The Man with the Broken Time Machine

Robots in disguise! More than meets the eye!

Jumanji

Time Squad

The Transformers

A Land Where Time was Forgotten!

Escape in Time

Cyborg 2087

The Last Dinosaur

Nothing in the world can prepare you for ...

The I Inside

The Final Countdown

The Matrix

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