Have you ever wanted to travel in time?

[MonicaMC]

An American film that I like is Somewhere in Time, in which a playwright hypnotizes himself to go back in time to find an actress from a bygone era. Have you ever dreamt about that premise, and if so, whom would you like to go back in time to meet - or have him or her go forward in time to meet you?

[Rowdon]

Sorry to ignore the actual question, Monica, but you've reminded me of Barry Norman's review of that film which said something like "his time-travelling method seems to consist mainly of having a haircut and lying on the bed hoping" - maybe I'm remembering unfairly. My question about the film is, where does the watch come from? I mean

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at the beginning of the film, the very old Jane Seymour meets the young Christopher Reeve at a party, and gives him a watch. He then travels back in time and meets her as a young woman, and gives her the watch as a present ... so where did the watch originate?

Or have I remembered it wrongly? I only saw it once many years ago, and quite liked it.

As for your original question, there are many events I would love to be able to drop into and witness, from the sermon on the mount to the Beatles in Hamburg, but I know I would just be there thinking "where's the nearest toilet" or "where did I park my car" or "this is overrated... why isn't everyone looking at ME" or "why is everyone looking at ME" etc etc. In other words, my own personality would get in the way of appreciation, and the moment itself would be a letdown because it would look so ordinary without the benefit of the mythology lent it by time. Or something.

I'd love to have a couple of days dressed in foppish 18th Century finery, though. But I suppose I could do that today if I wanted to.

[Steve Crook]

I do it all the time
I travel into the future at a rate of one minute every 60 seconds

Steve

[Moor Larkin]

Somewhere in time there was another movie starring the fragrantly English Jane Seymour...... and some ugly old guy.....



The original Time story was by the great writer, Richard Matheson. As someone who came to Matheson via his horror output I was seduced by his romantic tale too.

[ShirlGirl]

I'd love to go back in time to see my parents as children, and to travel back up through my family tree and see all my ancestors at different times of their lives, where and how they lived and what they were like - know their personalities, their mannerisms, their voices. That sort of thing.

[Arfur Teacake]

I am quite bitter and angry about time- the way it swallows up people and precious moments and turns it all into dust leaving no trace.

[jimw1]

Personally No.....but I bet Nick Clegg would like to

[icetorch]

You can travel back in time just by watching old film. In 1962, aged 4, I watched (with an aunt) a procession in Newcastle, along the famous Scotswood Road, to celebrate the centenary of the "Blaydon Races". Afterwards I told my mother I'd seen the Queen. "I don't think so!" she laughed. Occasionally over the years I wondered what it was I'd seen. Now, was it this year or last that I saw a BBC4 programme about Newcastle, that contained lots of old film. It showed something I dimly recognised - then, there I was, back in 1962, watching the procession - and there was the "Queen": a beauty queen, wearing a crown and standing on a float. How I laughed...

[jaycad]

i'd like to go back in time to the victorian period,stay there and live through to the 1930s.

[Steve Crook]

i'd like to go back in time to the victorian period,stay there and live through to the 1930s.

Are you sure you really want to go back before the time of penicillin - or before Savlon?

Steve

[jaycad]

Are you sure you really want to go back before the time of penicillin - or before Savlon?

Steve

if i was to go 'back in time' i would have the opportunity to stock up with such items prior to the journey!
actually,i would be happy to take the higher risk of fatal illness if it meant living in an era before 1950s style concrete architecture,i don't like much about modern life and would only miss my tv/dvds.

[moonfleet]

i'd like to go back in time to the victorian period,stay there and live through to the 1930s.

As an aristocrat ?? ... or as an industrial slave worker ??

[jaycad]

As an aristocrat ?? ... or as an industrial slave worker ??

either! i would work my way up to rival john singer sergeant as the top society portrait painter!

[Dandy Forsdyke]

I'd be happy to pop to tomorrow to get 6 numbers and come back.

[frame69]

I would like to go back to the time of column change,bench seated cars,ploughmans lunches,country roads with hump-back bridges and Roy Orbison pouring out of my 6 by 9's in the rear shelf on the way to have cucumber sandwiches and whiskey with Sir J Betjeman. Maybe on the lawn if weather permits.

Frame.

[jaycad]

I would like to go back to the time of column change,bench seated cars,ploughmans lunches,country roads with hump-back bridges and Roy Orbison pouring out of my 6 by 9's in the rear shelf on the way to have cucumber sandwiches and whiskey with Sir J Betjeman. Maybe on the lawn if weather permits.

Frame.

sounds good......apart from the roy orbison part!

[Wolfgang]

I want to travel to 2015; I want flying car, hoverboard and clothes that dry themselves.

[Rowdon]

I want to travel to 2015; I want flying car, hoverboard and clothes that dry themselves.

In three and a half years?

[Steve Crook]

In three and a half years?

Yes, they promised it all in Tomorrow's World

Steve

[James Fox]

Somewhere in time there was another movie starring the fragrantly English Jane Seymour...... and some ugly old guy.....



The original Time story was by the great writer, Richard Matheson. As someone who came to Matheson via his horror output I was seduced by his romantic tale too.

Yes, Matheson's original novel "Bid Time Return" is much better than the film imo.

(Love the injoke where the narrator muses that he belongs in "The Night Gallery"--which of course Matheson wrote for.)