Time travelers

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Movie
Original title Time travelers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1976
length 78 minutes
Rod
Director Alexander Singer
script Jackson Gillis
Rod Serling
production Irwin Allen / 20th Century Fox
music Morton Stevens
camera Fred Jackman
cut Bill Brame
occupation

Time Travelers is a 1976 science fiction film starring Sam Groom, Tom Hallick and Richard Basehart . The script was written by Jackson Gillis and Rod Serling . The producer was Irwin Allen , who was planning a remake of the 1960s series The Time Tunnel . The pilot was not received well enough and was broadcast as the ABC Movie of the Week .

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During a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, a young woman falls ill with a mysterious new virus, previously known only as "XB". Dr. Clinton Earnshaw has diagnosed several similar cases with no therapy yet and fears an epidemic will break out . In his office he is surprised by Jeff Adams, who draws parallels to a similar epidemic over a century ago known at the time as "wood fever". The notes of the explorer Dr. Joshua P. Henderson, however, were destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871 .

Adams makes earnshaw with Nobel Prize winner and former NASA administrator Dr. Amos Cummings and his colleague Dr. Helen Sanders who experimented with time travel . Earnshaw and Adams, dressed in historical clothing but equipped with modern instruments, were immediately sent to the year 1871, but ended up in the middle of Chicago instead of Henderson's country house, closer to the place and time of the fire than planned.

They find Henderson and introduce themselves as Washington colleagues assigned to assist him, but Henderson cannot explain to them why his patients are surviving. Henderson's daughter falls in love with Earnshaw, who returns her affection. While the fire is raging, Earnshaw and Adams try to get Henderson's notes back, but are surprised and confronted by him, whereupon Adams shows him the virus samples under his modern microscope .

Eventually, Earnshaw and Adams find the solution and reach their departure point just in time, but Earnshaw discovers that he has become infected with the disease himself. Back in the present in 1976, Henderson's results succeed in healing Earnshaw and the patients. In the final scene, the time travelers learn that Henderson and his daughter were killed in the fire.

Further spread

The film was shown in dubbed version on German television .

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