Time Travel
Who hasn't wanted to whizz back in time and check out the dinosaurs, or find out just how they built the pyramids? Or perhaps fast forward and see what your grandchildren look like? The concept of time travel has been around long before there was any hope of achieving it, though scientists now feel it is, in theory at least, a possiblility! Meanwhile the closest we can come to travelling through time is via the magic of movies...
Please note: the most famous time traveller of them all, Doctor Who and his trusty police box, make only a token appearance on this list as to include all those titles would quickly transform the collection into a 'Doctor Who Category'.
Pictured: Marty and the Doc test-drive the DeLorean.
Doctor Who: Castrovalva (1982)
8.7/10
Director: Fiona Cumming
Starring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse, Anthony Ainley
Peter Davison makes his debut as the regenerated Doctor, following on directly from the Tom Baker finale, 'Logopolis', he escapes with his companions... Read more
Doctor Who: Earthshock (1982)
8.7/10
Director: Peter Grimwade
Starring: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse
"So we meet again, Doctor...." A fateful landing on Earth in the 26th Century finds the TARDIS deep within a system of subterranian caves and even dee... Read more
Time Bandits (Blu-ray) (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Time Bandits (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
The Final Countdown (1980)
6.7/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles...
The crew of the U.S.S. Nimitz, a state-of-the-art aircraft carrier, encounter a mysterious electrical storm off the coast of Hawaii sending them back... Read more
Sapphire and Steel: Volume 2 (1980)
Director: David Foster, Shaun O'riordan
Starring: David McCallum, Joanna Lumley
A unique blend of drama, thriller and science-fiction, 'Sapphire and Steel' stars David McCallum and Joanna Lumley as time-detectives from another dim... Read more
Sapphire and Steel: Volume 3 (1980)
Director: David Foster, Shaun O'riordan
Starring: David McCallum, Joanna Lumley
A unique blend of drama, thriller and science-fiction, 'Sapphire and Steel' stars David McCallum and Joanna Lumley as sublime time-detectives from ano... Read more
Somewhere In Time (1980)
7.3/10
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Teresa Wright
Christopher Reeve stars in this lush romantic fantasy about a lonely artist, obsessed with a beautiful Victorian woman's portrait, who inexplicably fi... Read more
Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor (The Key to Time: Story 6) (1979)
8.7/10
Starring: Tom Baker, Mary Tamm, Lalla Ward, John Woodvine
With ony one piece of the Key to Time to find, the Doctor, Romana and K9 arrive on Atrios, a planet at war with its twin world of Zeos. If the Key to... Read more
G.I. Samurai (1979)
Director: Kosei Saito
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Isao Natsuki, Miyuki Ono
A squadron of Japanese soldiers find themselves transported through time to Japan's feudal period... 400 years in the past, where rival samurai clans... Read more