What if you couldn't stay where you are trying to be?
What if you couldn't stay what TIME you are trying to be in?
That's the question raised in...
He sees a flash and his car goes off the road.
He's picked up the next morning and goes home, only to find out that it is New Year's Eve 1959 now.
Huh?!?
A Doctor is now help, as his body shows no signs of aging or trauma.
He doesn't have amnesia and that can't explain 10 years away!
He falls asleep in their home and wakes up, only to find that it is now New Year's Eve 1969!
His Wife remarried a few years earlier (to a damn Hippie!) and he has a son, since the duo *celebrated* his return last time.
To find any help, he finds the Doctor from 1959 at a Vietnam War Rally (it's opposed to it) and he's older now.
Still no luck- see you in 1979!
During his abrupt trips, he sometimes has flashes of what happened.
He remembers falling in a pool and seeing strange creatures.
He gets helps from Hippie Husband and his now Adult Son.
He eventually has to sleep, but they film things this time.
In 1989, things have changed- Hippie Husband is dead and the Wife is now an expert- and they find out the (bizarre) truth.
Weird aliens bonded with his body and every trip back home to report in creates the 10 year jump. Something something worm holes.
The Wife gets the being to agree to let him go and he's back in 1949 to try again!
The End.
A bad case of the Quantum Leaps!
The End.
This is an odd premise and it needs many things to work.
The main thing is really genuine Actors and, most importantly, a strong Lead to anchor it. Cryer absolutely delivers.
If you only know him from Superman IV or Two and a Half Men, think again. He can really act and he's really motivated here.
The Special Effects here are minimal and maximized for effect. You see enough to know that weird stuff is going on, but not so much that the game is given away.
It's nice to see a sweet and happy Ending for a change too. They're usually bittersweet at best.
Just enjoy it now, because I know one of the more famous Bad Endings is coming up in this Top 10...
Just enjoy it now, because I know one of the more famous Bad Endings is coming up in this Top 10...
Next time, we get a proper Alien Episode and another one about the Military. Will there be less Body Horror in this one? See you then...
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