CREATOR · 1997 · BBC ONE

Crime Traveller

A detective series in which time travel complicates the crime instead of solving it for free.

The source-linked file

  1. 01The 1997 BBC One series was created by Horowitz and produced by Carnival Films.
  2. 02Michael French and Chloë Annett lead the cast as Jeff Slade and Holly Turner; the run comprises eight episodes.
  3. 03The governing pleasure is constraint: travelling into the past creates deadlines and paradoxes, so knowledge never becomes an effortless alibi.

A superfan’s reading

This is the missing bridge between puzzle television and Horowitz’s taste for dangerous machinery: a brilliant premise treated as a rule-bound detective trap.

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