included · Mechanical

Time Kid

Will Meugniot · 74 minutes

An adaptation of H.G Well's Time Machine for Nickleodon. Tom's scientist father, overwhelmed with grief over the loss of his wife, invents a time machine. He attempts to go in to the future to find a cure that he can take back in time to his wife, so that she might live. He never comes back, only his time machine. So Tom goes into the future to rescue his dad.

Animation, Family, 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)

Confirmed 7/10: in 19th-century New Jersey, Tom Spender finds his missing father's time machine and a note that he is stuck in the future, then travels to 2002 and on to 11,902, where he frees Lira and his father from the Sub-Men. The journey drives the whole Time Machine-inspired adventure, which settles mostly in one far-future era.

A boy uses his scientist father’s time machine to rescue him in the future.

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

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan20.7

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance7/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.5/10

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: 34.92 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: Michael Monroe Heyward, America Young, John Dittrick, Nils Haaland, Travis Howe

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

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

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