10 Best Time Travel TV Episodes

And not a paradox in sight... Allons-y!

By Philip Haynes /

Ever since Marty McFly and the Doc went back to the future in 1985, time travel has become a bit of a phenomenon in popular culture. After all it€™s interesting to think about what you€™d get up to in a certain era in history. Would you kill Hitler? Or would you roundhouse kick the painkiller out of Bruce Lee's hand or pre-emptively remove Justin Bieber's vocal chords? The possibilities of time travel are endless and often lead to alternate futures, time paradoxes and other fun, potentially universe-breaking stuff. Time travel is certainly complicated, but because of that it can be used in a variety of ways. That€™s why Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi show ever: it has the entirety of human history to make stories out of. And when that starts to get stale they can explore another planet or throw a new alien race in to keep things interesting. The potential for time travel is only limited by the imagination of the writers. Of course, it€™s easy to say that when we don€™t have to think about causality, continuity errors and all the other headache-inducing complexity that comes with constructing timey-wimey plotlines. Still, despite the challenges the following 10 TV shows managed to pull off amazing time travel episodes without a hitch. Starting with€