Anthony Horowitz’s Crime Traveller deserves to be better remembered in the history of British sci-fi…
This article comes fromDen of Geek UK.
The 1990s areDoctor Whos lost decade.
The rest, as they say, is history.
There was no-one around to commission a new series… and so it just didnt happen.
The series was generally inventive with its premise and regularly indulged it.
In one episode, Turner accidentally positions herself as the prime suspect in the murder of her aunt.
In another, her attempts to prevent Slade from being shot actually cause the event itself.
Crime Traveller, likeDoctor Who, benefitted from the strong chemistry between central protagonists Jeff Slade and Holly Turner.
French and Annett play the parts with that adroit self-awareness required to play the seemingly farcical with strait-laced seriousness.
The rules of time are an arbitrary and a cumbersome equivalent of the much-derided BBC health and safety policies.
Boundaries are rarely pushed in the episodes and it tends to spend too much time within its own logic.
In one episode, Slade attempted to place a bet and win on a horse race.
An interesting, albeit terse logic, that would likely have become weary after multiple seasons.
The unsung third main character in the show, like withDoctor Who, is the time machine itself.
Its a sad indictment that the series doesnt even appear as a credit on Anthony Horowitzs home page.
