10 Greatest Time Travel TV Shows Of All Time

10. Journeyman

Journeyman has a bit of The Time Traveler's Wife to it, as a happily married man is forced to deal with the inconvenience of being occasionally jettisoned through time to fix other people's problems. It explores the experience of an unwilling time traveler, but not one who is sucked into a different historical period and has to just sort of make do (as we often see in these types of shows), but a character who is routinely returned to his own time and has to make excuses for his frequent absences to those he cares about.

In a lot of time travel shows, it seems like the characters are either returned to the moment they left, making the trip more or less instantaneous to an outside observer, or the idea that the characters might be missed is barely remarked upon. The practical result of this decision made by Journeyman is that time travel forces the main character to confront his own abandonment issues, which is a really interesting take on the well-worn subgenre.