included · Mechanical
A Hitch in Time
Children travel into history using an inventor’s malfunctioning machine.
Family, Science Fiction
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Confirmed 8/10: Professor Wagstaff's malfunctioning, talking time machine sends Fiona and Paul through the Stone Age, the Civil War, witch trials and the Second World War, meeting ancestors of the same characters, including their hated teacher. Repeated jumps make up the film.
Children travel into history using an inventor’s malfunctioning machine.
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The scores
Partial inputs
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: 33.64 base × 71.2% weighting. Letterboxd counts and available averages supplied by the user on 2026-10-19. Revenue remains unreported or unverified, not a confirmed zero. Letterboxd average rating is unavailable. Do not reject solely on the Titan cutoff while footprint data is incomplete.
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: Not recorded
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Releases & formats
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