Blu-ray
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
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- Release date
- Mar 19, 2013
- Studio
- Shout Factory
- Resolution
- 1080p
- Region / playback
- 2K Blu-ray: Region A
- Discs
- Blu-ray Disc | Single disc (1 BD-50)
included · Mechanical
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
Western, Science Fiction
Before you choose
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)
The western adventure ends with a future helicopter rescue and Claire taking the inherited pendant, revealing Swann as his own ancestor.
An experimental time-transfer project accidentally transports a motorcycle racer into the Old West.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan29.2
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance7/10
high confidence
Quality consensus5.6/10
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: 49.27 base × 59.2% 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: Fred Ward, Peter Coyote, L.Q. Jones, Tracey Walter, Richard Masur
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Releases & formats
2 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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DVD
Timerider (1982)
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- Release date
- Oct 09, 2001
- Studio
- Starz / Anchor Bay
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD-5)