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Thursday, February 18th, 2021 8:33 PM

Live Poll: The Clash of Time Zones

Hello, another idea for your review, feedback welcome, thank you.

The Outer Limits (1963) - rated 8.2/10 by IMDb - is a remarkable Sci-Fi television series that is often compared to the legendary fantasy series The Twilight Zone (1959) - rated 9/10 by IMDb - but with more emphasis on science fiction.

In the episode Soldier (1964) - rated 8/10 by IMDb - a soldier from the far future (Michael Ansara) is accidentally teleported back to the present time. Then, a second soldier from the future materializes and the two warriors transform the present time into their battlefield (does this plot sound familiar?).

Here follows a list of movies/episodes where time zones clashes, past with present, present with future.

Which title deserves the wow-factor the most?

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Brijesh

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I think timezone might not be the right word here. Timezone is mostly for different time based on country or location. The best example comes to my mind is 'Around the World in 80 Days'.

Past-Present-Future is more like Timeline and what you are suggesting looks similar to time travel. There are some polls for your reference:

Top Time Travel Films

Best Time Travel Movie Part 2

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Breumaster

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Mario, FYC:

The Philadelphia Experiment with Michael Paré.

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I don't know how necessary a high rating is for you and this idea, but another fyc:

Time Cop

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Breumaster

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Ted & Bill: They brought Beethoven into modern times. ;)

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mariojacobs

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>necessary a high rating is for you

the only thing for me is the subject. Movies, cartoons, episodes, my motto is "it is in the imdb database, it is in my list" :) i would include even youtube videos if they were indexed by imdb and accepted :) all added , thank you.

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dan_dassow

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mariojacobs,

For your consideration:

(1966–1967)

Two astronauts, after breaking the speed of light, accidently travel back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the "natives" [i.e. cave people]. Note: when it was clear that the show was in trouble with ratings, the astronauts returned back to their own time with four of cave people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_About_Time_(TV_series)

Show creator Schwartz ... retooled the series beginning with the January 22, 1967 episode, after 18 episodes set in prehistoric times, essentially reversing the premise which had been followed the first half of the season. The astronauts repair their space capsule and return to 1967, with Shad, Gronk, and their children in tow. ...

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(TV Series): (1961)

In 1890, janitor Woodrow Mulligan [Buster Keaton] uses his employers' invention to transport himself to the future. He imagines an Eden but finds a polluted, busy world that he doesn't find at all attractive. He meets Rollo who is also disgusted with the world he lives imagining life in the 1890s as idyllic. When Woodrow goes back to his own time Rollo goes with him but he is soon bored without any of the conveniences of modern life.

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> (1961) I watched some years ago this episode, I recalled being impressed by Buster Keaton being old. Both added, thank you.

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Good poll with some very good choices. I'm thinking probably the Twilight Zone's episode or maybe Primer.

I seemed to remember a Star Trek episode (series) in which they teleport to 20th century San Francisco so I went looking for it and instead found two back-to-back Star Trek: Next Generation episodes in which at least some characters end up  in 19th century San Francisco (first episode here) and I also found this: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense/542280/

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Ruby,

This is the Star Trek: TOS series you remembered:

(TV Series): (1967)

  • When an accident causes Dr. McCoy to go temporarily insane, he escapes to a strange planet. There, the search party discovers a device left by a superior, vanished civilization, a time portal that plays the history of Earth for them - but then Bones jumps through it into the past, causing a change in history important enough to make the Enterprise vanish. Kirk and Spock, who fortunately made a tricorder recording, must attempt to go through to just before McCoy's arrival and stop him from changing history in the United States during the Great Depression, where they have no advanced technology available.

The Star Trek fan site Memory Alpha has a lot more information on this episode:

The City on the Edge of Forever (episode)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever_(episode)

This is my second favorite ST:TOS episode; my favorite is The Trouble with Tribbles. ( (1967)). Harlan Ellison wrote the script for this episode along with

(TV Series): (1964).

With all that being said, I'm not certain whether The City on the Edge of Forever qualifies for Mario's poll. Although Spock complains about the lack of technology during the 1920s, the emphasis of the episode was not on the difference between the 1920s and the era for Star Trek.

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Ruby,

It just occurred to me that you are thinking of (1986). 

The most acclaimed Star Trek adventure of all time with an important message. It is the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien probe is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In their frantic attempt to save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien to them as anything they have ever encountered in the far-off reaches of the galaxy. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy return as Kirk and Spock, along with the entire Star Trek crew.

In my humble opinion, 'The Voyage Home' clearly qualifies for Mario's poll. There are multiple comments by the Enterprise crew on how primitive 20th Century Earth is.

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That's the one! Thanks, Dan. : )

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May I suggest just a few minor edits? (underlined  below)

Here follows a list of movies and TV episodes where Time Eras clashes, past with present, present with future. For example, when a dinosaur is found in our Present Era or a caveman is thawed from a block of ice.

Also, in the first paragraph, the hyphens should be em dashes but I don't think it's that big of a deal. (Commas, of course, could also be used.)

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The bold part should say Time Eras clash

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@Peter_pbn @rubyfruit76 @dan_dassow all edits done. suggestions included.

 (1967)

I was very sad at the end. My favorite episode: A taste of Armageddon.

 "em dashes" I didn't know that existed⌨⌨

removed:

16. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode: The Invaders (1965)

19. Loch Ness (1996)

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FYC:

 (2014– )

 (2019– )

 (2013–2017)

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Demolition Man (1993)

Back to the Future (1985)

 Primer (2004)

deleted, time gap to small.

thank you for your suggestions, 3 included.

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