{"id":321,"date":"2009-08-01T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-08-01T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T16:23:18","slug":"crime-traveller-why-i-like-it-in-5-minutes-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Crime Traveller &#8211; Why I like it, in 5 minutes or less"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5904\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-321-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrimeTravellerHerdNurdle.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrimeTravellerHerdNurdle.mp3\">http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrimeTravellerHerdNurdle.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staggeringstories.net\/musings\/StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrimeTravellerHerdNurdle.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"StaggeringStoriesAudioMusing-AdamCrimeTravellerHerdNurdle.mp3\">Download<\/a> (1.9MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"Crime Traveller - Jeff Slade and Holly Turner\" id=\"image320\" alt=\"Crime Traveller - Jeff Slade and Holly Turner\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/crimetraveller.jpg\" \/>Welcome to the Staggering Stories Audio Musings.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m Adam Purcell, and I&#8217;ll be your host for this musing.<\/p>\n<p>This is my second in a group of three musings about Herd Nurdles &#8211; things I like that make other people think I&#8217;m mad.<\/p>\n<p>So I present to you my justification for liking the 1997 BBC1 Sci-Fi\/detective series Crime Traveller&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My two favourite genres are Science Fiction and Detective series.\u00c2\u00a0 Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Morse, Columbo!\u00c2\u00a0 How can I not like Star Cops and Crime Traveller?<\/p>\n<p>Crime Traveller wasn&#8217;t the best series ever, I won&#8217;t pretend otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 It was designed as a lightweight Saturday teatime programme but it was more than that.\u00c2\u00a0 What would a detective want more than a Time Machine?\u00c2\u00a0 They could travel back and witness the crime!\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, they&#8217;d probably prefer doughnuts but let&#8217;s pretend! Anyway, that&#8217;s the premise of the series.\u00c2\u00a0 It is set in 1997, when the series aired and is about a regular CID&#8230; department (and they carry guns &#8211; lets gloss over that, too).\u00c2\u00a0 Their science officer (yes, played by second Kochanski, Chlo\u00c3\u00ab Annett) owns a time machine her father built into their living room.\u00c2\u00a0 None of that matters, though.<\/p>\n<p>The point is &#8211; there are two theories of time travel, as I&#8217;m sure you all know.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s branching timelines &#8211; when you go back your arrival creates a new timeline.\u00c2\u00a0 You can then happily murder your own grandfather and have fun like you won&#8217;t believe &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t matter because you&#8217;ve come from a different timeline where this didn&#8217;t happen, so no paradox.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the single timeline theory.\u00c2\u00a0 When you go back, you aren&#8217;t actually changing anything because you always went back &#8211; it is part of established history already.\u00c2\u00a0 It is impossible to kill your own grandfather when he is still a child, for example &#8211; fate will always conspire to stop you, no matter how hard you try &#8211; your attempts and failures are set in historical stone.\u00c2\u00a0 You don&#8217;t see many time travel stories like this.\u00c2\u00a0 Crime Traveller is one of the few.<\/p>\n<p>They go back a few hours, no more than a day, to observe the crime.\u00c2\u00a0 The viewer is shown the crime taking place.\u00c2\u00a0 Every now and then you might catch a glimpse of someone watching the events or something bizarre might happen.\u00c2\u00a0 Then our heroes are called in.\u00c2\u00a0 They are stumped, jump in their time machine and now you see the crime again from their perspective &#8211; they were the ones we saw the first time around hiding in the bushes, or whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 Events unfold exactly as they did the first time but now they have the evidence and can arrest the evil doers.<\/p>\n<p>It a great premise.\u00c2\u00a0 The execution wasn&#8217;t always as great but they played it pretty light and I think it&#8217;s highly underrated.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t expect too much and you might be pleasantly surprised.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, sadly the DVDs are deleted but a determined search might bring the episodes up from somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Staggering Stories Audio Musings.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m Adam Purcell, and I&#8217;ll be your host for this musing. 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