included · Mechanical
Running Against Time
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time
TV Movie, Science Fiction
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Successive rescue journeys change the Kennedy aftermath, worsen Vietnam and finally save Chris through a personal visit rather than national intervention.
Professor Koopman's time machine allows David to try preventing Kennedy's assassination.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 34.06 base × 84.8% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Robert Hays, Catherine Hicks, Sam Wanamaker, Wayne Tippit, James DiStefano
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Releases & formats
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