included · Cosmic

Biggles

John Hough · 108 minutes

Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s......

Action, Family, Science Fiction, War, Fantasy

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 Cosmic.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The time twins repeatedly rescue each other across eras and take a modern police helicopter into 1917 to destroy the sound weapon.

A time hole repeatedly connects the protagonist's present to World War I.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan58.1

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance9/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.8/10

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: 68.52 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: Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison, Peter Cushing, Marcus Gilbert

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

4 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

Blu-ray