Episode 1
Pilot
A history professor's life is turned upside down when she's tapped to join an unlikely team tasked with stopping a man bent on changing the past - and possibly destroying the future.
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Timeless
2016TV-PG2 seasons7.2 / 10
Protect the past. Save the future.
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
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Synopsis
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 2
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The team travels back to the assassination of Lincoln to stop Flynn from making that night an even bigger tragedy.
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Episode 3
Atomic City
In Rat Pack-era Vegas, the team is hot on Flynn’s heels with the era’s most infamous mistress in toe.
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Episode 4
Party at Castle Varlar
The trio teams up with one of literature's most popular figures, James Bond creator Ian Fleming, to defeat Flynn's sinister plot in Nazi Germany.
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Episode 5
The Alamo
The team races to stop Flynn before the bloody Battle of the Alamo ensues, but will it be victory or death for our time-traveling trio?
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Episode 6
The Watergate Tape
The trio races to catch Flynn in 1972 before he can steal the mysterious missing minutes of the Watergate tape, but personal secrets threaten to tear the team apart.
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Episode 7
Stranded
The team must battle the French, Indians and Mother Nature after Flynn sabotages the Lifeboat and traps them back in Western Pennsylvania circa 1754.
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Episode 8
Space Race
Back in 1969, the team goes undercover at NASA to stop Flynn from sabotaging the moon landing and killing the crew of Apollo 11.
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Episode 9
Last Ride of Bonnie & Clyde
On the run with the bank-robbing Barrow gang, the team needs to gain the trust of ill-fated lovers Bonnie and Clyde in order to find out Flynn's target in the Depression-era South. While Agent Christopher tracks down a lead in present day, Lucy, Rufus, and Wyatt risk getting caught in the crossfire, suspecting that whatever Flynn's after may be a key piece of the whole puzzle.
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Episode 10
The Capture of Benedict Arnold
A stunning turn during the American Revolution prompts Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus to question whether they've been fighting on the wrong side this whole time. While Agent Christopher prepares for the worst back in present day, the team encounters the Father of the Country, makes a dubious pact, and confronts the possibility they may not be a trio for long.
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Episode 11
The World's Columbian Exposition
Lucy's situation grows desperate after she's taken captive by Flynn and brought to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. In their dogged pursuit of Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus fall into a sinister trap.
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Episode 12
The Murder of Jesse James
Flynn teams up with legendary outlaw, Jesse James. Together they cut a bloody swath across the American frontier. Hot on Flynn's trail, Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus enlist the help of an iconic Marshal to help bring the fugitives to justice.
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Episode 13
Karma Chameleon
Wyatt convinces Rufus to steal the Lifeboat for an unauthorized mission to prevent Wyatt's wife's killer from ever being born. Lucy must cover for them in the present, as Agent Christopher discovers the ship is missing and Anthony Bruhl makes an alarming confession.
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Episode 14
The Lost Generation
As Lucy grapples with her newfound identity, Flynn disappears to 1927 France on the day that Charles Lindbergh completes his transatlantic flight. Now, Rufus, Lucy and their new soldier scramble through the City of Lights and team with young reporter, Ernest Hemingway, to keep history intact.
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Episode 15
Public Enemy No. 1
Flynn travels to 1931 Chicago to partner with gangster Al Capone. Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus, meanwhile, team up with the only man who can bring Capone down: federal law-enforcement agent Eliot Ness.
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Episode 16
The Red Scare
With one of our heroes' lives on the line, the team chases Flynn to 1954 through the paranoid corridors of Joe McCarthy's Washington D.C., en route to a secret, once-a-generation meeting of Rittenhouse leaders. While there, Lucy must wager the ultimate sacrifice to save history as we know it.
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More about Timeless
Cast
Abigail SpencerLucy Preston
Matt LanterMSG Wyatt Logan
Malcolm BarrettRufus Carlin
Goran VišnjićGarcia Flynn
Paterson JosephConnor Mason
Sakina JaffreyAgent Denise Christopher
Claudia DoumitJiya
Drew RoyJoelCredits
- Created by
- Shawn Ryan, Eric Kripke
- Written by
- Arika Lisanne Mittman, Matt Whitney, Tom Smuts, Anslem Richardson, Jim Barnes, Lana Cho, Kent Rotherham, Anne Cofell Saunders, Lauren Greer, David C. Hoffman, Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan, Nancy Baird
Production details
- Status
- Canceled
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 26
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
NBCUnited States
Sony Pictures TelevisionUnited States- MiddKid ProductionsUnited States
Davis EntertainmentUnited States- Kripke EnterprisesUnited States
Universal TelevisionUnited States
Themes
american historybutterfly effectchanging historycomputer scientistcriminalhistorical eventshistoryhistory professor
