Time travel method for Back to the Future 2 & 3 is listed as unknown, but is most definitely the result of a time machine (DeLorean). Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is Deep Freeze. Planet of the Apes is listed as Deep Freeze, but is really the result of the near speed of light travel. In this case, time slowed down for the passengers of the spaceship relative to the time experienced by the denizens of Earth.

Otherwise, an awesome picture.

I was about to make the Dr. Who comment, but ya beat me to it.

Then, I was going to comment that the first Austin Powers movie was deep free and not alien tech, but Matthew beat me to that.

So instead, I’ll suggest you consider adding in Voyargers (unknown?) Quantum Leap, just to make it harder for you on v2.0 :)

Sam Tyler didn’t time travel. It was either all in his head or as its looking more likely in Ashes To Ashes, a pocket universe/alternate reality.

How is a Time Machine distinct from Alien Technology?
Where do you include an Alien Time Machine?

@Dan Biddle: I too would like to see a tiny dense knot for Primer. I’ve seen the movie several times. But the best designed plot timeline here…
http://www.freeweb.hu/neuwanstein/primer_timeline.html
…is still completely incomprehensible.

alucinante!!!!! felicitaciones por todo el trabajo. La investigación y la representación gráfica son claras, entretenidas, y adictivas.

esta es la mejor página del mundo.

millions, billions, and more thanks for such a terrific page. I love statistics, but what you are doing is inspiring. Congratulations!!!! Keep the great work, can´t wait to see what´s next.

salud!

but then as you said in the beggining, “This is a straight data visualisation, rather than information design” or I would understand it “it’s just fun with graphs, not information design)

You forgot Hiro from Heroes!!

Glen beat me to it, but this graphic is woefully incomplete without reference to Futurama. At the very least to the “Space Pilot 3000″ and “Roswell that Ends Well” episodes.

Have you considered making this into a poster? If not, I would love to do so (and give you and your site credit, of course), but would need a higher resolution version.

Time’s Arrow was alien technology, if an out of phase Ophidian serpent spitting flames of temporal vortices can be called “alien”.

How about ‘Somewhere in Time’. Christopher Reeve starts in 1972 and travels back to 1912.

you forgot to add other shows like Dr Who… he went to the future more times than not.
And StarTrek Voyager… they made several trips to the future, including in the last episode

Maybe I’m just seeing things, but it seems the “future” point for TNG: First Contact and TNG: Times Arrow 1& 2 are reversed, as the beginning of First Contact occurred after the conclusion of the series.

FUTURAMA! At least 3 episodes featured time travel (pilot, roswell, and one that goes back to the events of the pilot)

FAMILY GUY! Stewie goes into the future/past with his future self.

Quantum Leap, like Dr Who, would require its own chart…perhaps make them all to the same scale/timeline so they could be overlayed?

This made me think of a another set of data that would make an interesting chart, the Kevin Smith Universe….it probably is out there somewhere…

What ever happen to Dark Shadows ?
The most famous of the 1960′s soap operas! A gothic love story w. vampires, zombies, witches, and such…Before there was back to the future, or even star trek traveling back in time, In 1969, dark shadows broke ground in day time television traveling in time, not once, but TWICE!!! A time traveler vampire!!! Well now that is what I call entertainment !
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It looks like you have the timeline for Back to the Future part 3 going between 1885 and 1995 when in fact it is between 1885 and 1985. I can’t believe I both know this and noticed it.

Wow! That’s pretty awesome.

If you can manage to make a Doctor Who one… that would just be staggering. Don’t forget to add in all the paradoxes and meet-ups!

Someone, perhaps me, ought to make this poster web-interactive for mouse-over (hand-over if using an MS Table) hover info containing links to possible sites or YT vids, and then of course, for submissions to the timeline, perhaps even voting on those submissions for “popularity” strength and to help the community decide inclusion or “shelving” (as, over time – no pun – things not popular now, can become very popular. Fringe comes to mind as such)

Dr. Who IS the black background.

Peggy Sue, where are you?

Timecrimes is a small-budget time travel movie. Highly recommended. It would not likely show up on this timeline, for reasons you would understand after seeing it.