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Have you noticed that time travel is having a moment?

I'm Anne Strain Champs, stuck here in the present, but on network TV this season,

the stars of four new series are wandering all over time.

You're HG Wells? Yes. You wrote the time machine?

No, not yet. I haven't.

My father wasn't murdered. I remember it both ways.

Life when he was murdered. Life when he wasn't.

Everything has changed. Something screwed up the American Revolution and you're the only person

that knows enough about history to help me out. Prepare to have your mind blown.

A really big duffel bag? It's a time machine. I'm not sure you realize where you are, boy.

I hope you live long enough to see Michael Jordan Dunk, Michael Jackson, dance, Mike Tyson, punch, really, just any black guy named Michael.

Because the future is not on your side.

Time travel and time machines are big themes on TV this season.

And what exactly does that say about the present?

That we'd like a chance to hit Rewind, fix some mistakes, take a different path?

Of course, time travel has been a popular theme in movies and TV shows for a very long time.

Remember Back to the future?

Doctor Who?

Or one of Steve Paulson's all-time favorites?

Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages

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