Time on TV

Lorna Jowett is Reader in Television Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. Kevin Lee Robinson is Lecturer in Scriptwriting for TV and Film, University of Northampton, UK. David Simmons is Lecturer in English and Film and TV, University of Northampton, UK.

"With detailed analysis and thoughtful case studies, the authors in this engaging volume approach one of the most salient - and yet overlooked - modes of television content: time travel. Each chapter deepens and extends temporal exploration of such varied shows as Star Trek, Quantum Leap, Timeslip, Sapphire & Steel, Torchwood, and Life on Mars, among many others. It's about time we had a volume that's all about time." - Paul Booth, De Paul University, author of Time on TV (2012), "This volume feels like the beginning of an important and emerging area of TV Studies. It examines a range of frequently-overlooked examples of telefantasy and provides innovative readings of how these shows engage with discourses of genre, memory and affect. During a period when television's narrative representations of temporality are becoming increasingly complex and viewers' access to television history are being reconfigured, Time on TV's contributions to examining these issues are incredibly timely and welcome." - Dr Ross P. Garner, Cardiff University

• AcknowledgementsTimey wimey stuff: Introduction to Time on TVLorna Jowett, Kevin Robinson and David SimmonsPart I: Structuring Time‘Time is a companion... who goes with us on the journey’: Star Trek, Time Travel and Patterns of Narrative History’Lincoln GeraghtyReality Resets: Changing the Past in EurekaStan BeelerTimeslip: Putting Aside Childish ThingsPete BossThe Primeval AnomalyJohn Jeffreys‘There is a corridor’: The Work of P.J. Hammond in Sapphire & Steel and TorchwoodKevin Lee RobinsonPart II: Experiencing Time‘No one can touch the Gene Genie’: The Past as Fantasy Space in Life on Mars and Ashes to AshesNicola AllenWatchmaking in the Dark: the Intricacy of Intimacy in Crime TravellerDavid Hipple‘Centuries of evil… wacky sidekicks… yadda, yadda’: Vampire Television and the Conventions of FlashbackLorna JowettTimeless: Memory, Temporality, and Identity in Once Upon A TimeGwyneth Peaty‘Bonanza was never like this’: Quantum Leap and Interrogating NostalgiaDavid SimmonsTime on TV: AfterwordLorna Jowett and David SimmonsWork Cited TV and FilmographyIndex