Timeless (2016): Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

NBC | Season Premiere Date: October 3, 2016

Starring: Abigail Spencer, Goran Visnjic, Sakina Jaffrey

Summary: Garcia Flynn (Goran Visnjic) steals a time machine and its up to a trio that includes the time machine engineer Rufus Carlin (Malcolm Barrett), Delta Force soldier Wyatt Logan (Matt Lanter) and history professor Lucy Preston (Abigail Spencer) to use a prototype to stop Flynn from changing the past.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E16. The Red Scare
Air Date: February 20, 2017
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S1:E15. Public Enemy No. 1
Air Date: February 13, 2017
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S1:E14. The Lost Generation
Air Date: February 6, 2017

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Critic Reviews

Vicki Hyman

Oct 3, 2016

It's an infectious, engaging hour that sets up the rules of this universe efficiently and effectively (i.e., they can't double back to anyplace they might meet themselves), and the cast gels quickly. Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Sep 20, 2016

It’s smart enough to make the mechanics and facts of its premise just plausible enough, but its real interest of exploration are the details that are relevant to the audience--what it is like for us, with our current values and awareness, to enter into times that are so far removed from where we are now. Read full review

Spencer Kornhaber

Oct 3, 2016

NBC’s new show about cops and criminals who zap between the present and the past itself zips along with the merciless efficiency of, well, an expertly made network procedural. Which gives rise to plenty of eye-roll-worthy moments--but also allows the show to successfully deliver the philosophical sugar rush that has made time travel one of the most persistent fiction narratives in history. Read full review

Mark A. Perigard

Oct 3, 2016

If you dwell on time-travel paradoxes too much, you’ll go mad, and that advice holds for this show: Come for the ride, enjoy the appealing cast and the sheer adventure. Read full review

Gail Pennington

Oct 3, 2016

Watching Timeless won't endanger your past or present, most likely, and it might even be a pleasant escape from the history we're currently living. Read full review

Mitchel Broussard

Sep 28, 2016

For better or worse, and in this case mostly better, the show works. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Sep 16, 2016

[An] amateurish effort to summon the ghosts of “Quantum Leap” and “Time Tunnel.” Read full review

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Hello12

Nov 20, 2016

Not sure why the show has negative reviews i enjoyed watching the episodes so far. The characters have good chemistry and story plots are intriguing. I hope we see more episodes.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

kirbylight

Nov 3, 2017

Liked the show a lot. It is also educational because it makes you curious and interested more on history. I used google and wikipedia a lot to research/ fact check things from the show.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Rhiannon

Nov 2, 2016

So fun love this show. The concept is great and I am at the edge of my seat every episode just waiting to see what happens next. So curious as to who Rittenhouse is.

5 of 5 users found this helpful50

mlcarson63

Feb 9, 2017

This is a well written and well acted show, look forward to it every week. Excellent chemistry between our trio to time traveling adventurers. And you get to learn something while watching.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

scrambledeggs

May 24, 2018

Plot certainly isn't original, but I surprisingly enjoyed the show. Historically inaccurate in some details. Interesting enough, though it'd be better if they didn't cast Matt Lanter and made his character fall in love with Lucy....talk about cliche.

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

Bmanne

Oct 29, 2016

Its been done many times before, nothing new to see here. I didn't enjoy much of this show, just the same "if you change the past it affects the future" no thanks

0 of 3 users found this helpful03

Rorassen

Mar 14, 2017

This pilot was actually ripped almost directly from the pilot I sent to the Blacklist in July of 2016. Coincidentally they released the pilot in August of 2016 which garnered a lot of Hollywood attention. The initial premise was a father who was an astrophysicist owned a high tech laboratoryThis pilot was actually ripped almost directly from the pilot I sent to the Blacklist in July of 2016. Coincidentally they released the pilot in August of 2016 which garnered a lot of Hollywood attention. The initial premise was a father who was an astrophysicist owned a high tech laboratory and was trying to bring his wife who had died 10 years ago back to life. His son had been stuck helping him all those years working on the time machine. His father goes in without telling his son and dies, the son goes in after him to prevent his death and then the wave through time unleashes a dictator who discovers their time machine and uses it to alter history. They have to follow this dictator through history and prevent him from altering it so that the world doesn't end up in utter chaos. The points they ripped were the main character's wife being dead and him trying to bring her back to life which resulted in the madman ravaging through time altering history.

I have correspondence with my cohort dating back to January of 2016 on this project and proof of copyright, proof of Blacklist registration, correspondence through the Blacklist in email, correspondence with my cohort in email, etc. So, they somehow mysteriously came up with this idea that ensued a bidding war within weeks of me submitting it to them. I just find the coincidences too slim given the time frame and the plot points and motifs they ripped off of my script.

To further enhance my points, the executives whose "idea" it was didn't even write the script themselves. They pushed it onto other big name writers; and if they were attached to the idea in any way they would have written it themselves. This is the reason for my poor rating and I am extremely disappointed in the executives of the Blacklist for ripping those exact plot points off of my script.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

65

Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: December 20, 2018
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 11, 2018
Season 1

65
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 3, 2016
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  S1:E16. The Red Scare
  Air Date: February 20, 2017
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  S1:E15. Public Enemy No. 1
  Air Date: February 13, 2017
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  S1:E14. The Lost Generation
  Air Date: February 6, 2017
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  S1:E13. Karma Chameleon
  Air Date: January 30, 2017
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  S1:E12. The Murder of Jesse James
  Air Date: January 23, 2017
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  S1:E11. The World's Columbian Exposition
  Air Date: January 16, 2017
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  S1:E10. The Capture of Benedict Arnold
  Air Date: December 12, 2016
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  S1:E9. Last Ride of Bonnie & Clyde
  Air Date: December 5, 2016
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  S1:E8. Space Race
  Air Date: November 28, 2016
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  S1:E7. Stranded
  Air Date: November 21, 2016
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  S1:E6. The Watergate Tape
  Air Date: November 14, 2016
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  S1:E5. The Alamo
  Air Date: October 31, 2016
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  S1:E4. Party at Castle Varlar
  Air Date: October 24, 2016
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  S1:E3. Atomic City
  Air Date: October 17, 2016
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  S1:E2. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  Air Date: October 10, 2016
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: October 3, 2016