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Whatever Happened to Crime Traveller (1997): A Look Back at the Short-Lived Sci-Fi Series

Crime Traveller was a British science fiction television series that aired in 1997, starring Michael French and Chloë Annett. The show followed the adventures of Jeff Slade, a detective with the Metropolitan Police’s scientific support unit, and Holly Turner, a time traveler from the 22nd century. Together, they used a time machine called the “SID” to solve crimes.

Despite its promising premise and decent ratings, Crime Traveller was cancelled after just one season. Fans of the show have been left wondering whatever happened to it and why it was cancelled. Some speculate that the show was too complicated for audiences to follow, while others believe that it simply didn’t have enough viewers to justify its production costs.

Despite its short run, Crime Traveller has developed a cult following over the years, with many fans still hoping for a revival. The show’s unique blend of science fiction and police procedural elements made it stand out from other shows of its time, and its use of time travel as a storytelling device was ahead of its time. In this article, we will take a closer look at the show and explore why it was cancelled, as well as what its legacy has been in the years since it aired.

Overview of Crime Traveller

Crime Traveller is a British science fiction television series that aired for one season in 1997. The show was created by Anthony Horowitz, who is known for his work on other successful TV series such as Foyle’s War and Midsomer Murders. Crime Traveller follows two detectives, Jeff Slade and Holly Turner, as they solve crimes using a time machine.

The premise of the show is that Jeff and Holly use a time machine to travel back in time to the scene of a crime. They then use their knowledge of the future to solve the crime before it happens. The time machine is called the “Time Machine” and is housed in a secret laboratory beneath London’s St. Pancras Station.

Cast and Crew

The show starred Michael French as Jeff Slade and Chloë Annett as Holly Turner. French is best known for his role as David Wicks in the long-running British soap opera EastEnders. Annett is best known for her role as Kristine Kochanski in the science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

The show was created by Anthony Horowitz, who also wrote several episodes. Other writers on the show included Terry Nation, who is known for creating the Daleks in Doctor Who, and Robert Banks Stewart, who created the popular detective series Bergerac.

The show received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike. Some praised the show’s unique premise and strong performances, while others criticized the show’s writing and pacing. Despite this, the show has developed a cult following in the years since its cancellation.

Overall, Crime Traveller was an ambitious and innovative show that blended science fiction and crime drama in a unique way. While it may not have been a commercial success at the time, it has since become a beloved cult classic among fans of both genres.

Cancellation and Legacy

Reasons for cancellation.

Despite the show’s initial success, Crime Traveller was cancelled after only one season. There were several reasons for this decision, including low ratings, high production costs, and creative differences between the show’s creators and the network.

The show’s time-traveling premise was also seen as a potential obstacle to its longevity, as it limited the types of stories that could be told and made it difficult for viewers to invest in the characters’ relationships and development.

Fanbase and Cult Following

Despite its short run, Crime Traveller developed a dedicated fanbase and has since gained a cult following. Fans have praised the show’s unique premise, witty writing, and strong performances from its cast.

The show’s legacy has also been kept alive through various fan sites, social media groups, and online discussions, as well as DVD and digital releases.

Possible Revival

Over the years, there have been occasional rumors and discussions about a possible revival of Crime Traveller. However, nothing concrete has materialized, and it remains uncertain whether the show will ever return to the small screen.

Despite this, the show’s legacy and influence continue to be felt in the sci-fi and crime genres, and it remains a beloved cult classic among its fans.

Crime Traveller aired for only one season, consisting of eight episodes. Each episode followed the adventures of Jeff Slade and Holly Turner as they traveled through time to solve crimes. Here is a brief overview of each episode:

• Pilot: In the pilot episode, Jeff and Holly travel back in time to solve the murder of a young woman. They discover that the killer is someone close to the victim.
• Fashion Shoot: Jeff and Holly travel back to the 1980s to solve the murder of a fashion model. They find themselves in the middle of a fashion shoot and must navigate the world of high fashion to catch the killer.
• Death Minister: Jeff and Holly travel back to the 1970s to solve the murder of a minister. They discover that the minister was involved in a cult and that his death may have been a ritual sacrifice.
• A Death in the Family: Jeff and Holly travel back to the 1950s to solve the murder of a wealthy businessman. They discover that the victim’s family has a dark secret.
• The Lottery Curse: Jeff and Holly travel back to the 1930s to solve the murder of a lottery winner. They discover that the victim’s family is cursed and that the killer may be a member of the family.
• The Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis: Jeff and Holly travel back to the 19th century to solve the murder of a scientist. They discover that the victim was working on a time machine and that his death may have been related to his research.
• The Broken Crystal: Jeff and Holly travel back to the 1960s to solve the murder of a scientist. They discover that the victim was working on a top-secret project and that his death may have been related to his work.
• The Last Word: In the final episode, Jeff and Holly travel back to the 1920s to solve the murder of a writer. They discover that the victim’s death may be related to his latest book.

Overall, Crime Traveller was a unique and interesting show that combined science fiction and crime drama. While it only lasted for one season, it left a lasting impression on those who watched it.

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Crime Traveller was a BBC science-fiction drama first broadcast in 1997. It followed the adventures of Detective Jeff Slade ( Michael French ) and Scientific Officer Holly Turner ( Chloë Annett ) as they use a make shift time machine to help solve crimes.

Written by Anthony Horowitz ( Midsomer Murders , Alex Rider , Pirot , Foyle's war ) it only lasted one season of eight episodes.

This website is a labour of love by a fan of time travel in it's many forms who would have dearly loved a second series.

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Crime Traveller was a sci-fi crime drama that aired on BBC 1 in 1997.

Sleuths come and go, working on intuition, luck and clues, but Slade and his science officer colleague, Holly, are armed with something extra in their fight against crime - their very own time machine.

Invented and developed over the years by Holly's father, quantum physicist Professor Fredrick Turner, the Time Machine is a bizarre mixture of DIY technology, but it works. Unfortunately the Professor disappeared during one of his time travel experiments, leaving his daughter convinced that he is still out there somewhere, stuck in another dimension.

Holly is now in charge of the Professor's extraordinary legacy, which is kept hidden in her apartment. When Slade, a charming maverick detective discovers the Time Machine's existence, he convinces Holly to use it to solve major crimes. The scene is set for a rollercoaster ride, through the present and the past.

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Jeff Slade (Michael French) is a detective with the CID department of the local police force led by Kate Grisham (a scowling Sue Johnston who seemed to have realised from day one what a horrorshow she’d found herself a part of).

Slade gets results although his approach is somewhat maverick and his methods leave a lot to be desired – and have landed him in trouble more than once.

Amongst Slade’s colleagues at the department is science officer Holly Turner (Chloë Annett) who has a secret that Slade manages to uncover.

Holly owns a working Time Machine that was built by her late father. Yes, it was as bad as that description makes it sound . . .

With its opening episode attracting over 11 million viewers, Crime Traveller initially appeared to be a success – subsequent episodes however showed a marked decline in viewers and this thoroughly miserable BBC series has, over the years, become something of a by-word for everything that is crass and unoriginal about TV. The show was cancelled after one season.

Detective Jeff Slade Michael French Science Officer Holly Turner Chloë Annett Detective Chief Inspector Kate Grisham Sue Johnston Detective Morris Paul Trussell Graduate Trainee Nicky Robson Richard Dempsey Danny, the caretaker Bob Goody Frank Jack Chissick

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When Holly's aunt is murdered, she and Slade travel back to find out who is responsible, only to be arrested for the crime herself. When Holly's aunt is murdered, she and Slade travel back to find out who is responsible, only to be arrested for the crime herself. When Holly's aunt is murdered, she and Slade travel back to find out who is responsible, only to be arrested for the crime herself.

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Crime Traveller – TV series

a review by Nalini Haynes

Crime Traveller  is a time travelling detective TV series from the BBC in Britain starring Chloe Annett (Kochanski from  Red Dwarf ) and Michael French ( East Enders  and  Casualty ).

The basic premise is that Holly Turner (Annett) is a science officer for the police.  Holly’s father invented time travel then disappeared.  Holly is trying to develop time travel further, but maintaining the machine is consuming all her income.  That is, all her income not spent on accommodation, nice clothes, make-up, car, taxis…  Jeff Slade (French) is supposed to be a charming detective who needs some help solving a crime.  Holly revealed her secret time travel machine to Slade and started helping him solve crime at great personal expense, without financial assistance from Slade although he knows that time travel is expensive.  There is a ‘crime of the week’ that, in order to be solved easily, necessitates Slade and Turner travelling back in time to witness events so they can catch the bad guy or guys.

Many TV series with simple premises successfully use sexual tension and character work to engage viewers.   Crime Traveller hints at and almost achieves sexual tension in some episodes only to fall flat, the tension disappearing into the cracks of later episodes where Slade’s entirely selfish, manipulative and deceitful character is exposed in all its seedy glory.  I’m not sure how much this was due to acting and how much was due to the dialogue and directing.

Probably the characters who annoy me most are Holly Turner and Jeff Slade.  Holly is her father’s daughter, living in the shadow of her father’s work.  Although she’s a respected scientist both within the police force and in broader scientific circles, viewers are constantly reminded that it’s not her work that gets the credit.  It’s  her father’s  invention,  her father’s  research into time travel – even though Holly has made huge sacrifices to further this work, this is discounted in favour of male privilege.  Worse still, Holly acts as Slade’s side-kick by enabling the time travel to solve crimes, never taking any credit even for honest detective work.  Slade is content with this situation, never giving Holly any credit.  The most he’s ever done in return is give Holly a meal and somewhere to stay when she’s needed it, which doesn’t balance out the hospitality she’s given him previously.

While there is a reasonable ensemble cast, the majority of characters are under-utilised, remaining two-dimensional caricatures serving only as back-drops for Slade and Turner.  Take Detective Morris, for example.  Paul Trussell was clearly cast for his overhanging eyebrows and deep-set eyes that, along with studied facial expressions, slow responses and stilted dialogue, create a stereotypical slightly evil comic relief.  Although he’s a police officer and is apparently not actually bent, Morris seems antagonistic towards our hero – Jeff Slade – so he is, inherently, evil.  The reason for this antagonism isn’t quite clear: perhaps professional rivalry plays a part, although it doesn’t account for the level of malice in some episodes.

Detective Inspector Kate Grisham (Sue Johnston) is the team’s boss.  At first she seems to have it in for Slade.  About to fire Slade for bad attitude and worse performance, Grisham inexplicably cuts him slack.  Later in the series Grisham starts worrying about Slade’s unlikely success rate in solving crimes, so she entrusts Morris with an investigation of his colleague.  While I would assume that a woman who had climbed to a managerial position in the police force would be reasonably intelligent and dynamic, Grisham is cast as comically stupid at times, while being portrayed fairly consistently as less than competent.

In contrast to Grisham and Morris, Nicky Robson (Richard Dempsey – Peter from the BBC series The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ) is a try-hard and intelligent trainee whose intelligence is never undermined.

Each of these secondary characters is under-utilised and under-developed.  It’s also interesting to note that Grisham and Morris have exchanges together in isolation from the other characters but otherwise the characters tended to relate to Slade and Turner but not to each other.

In order to distract the viewer from the improbable pairing of Turner and Slade, Crime Traveller needs sub-plots.  Each episode there is one main plot but, while there might be a few intricacies in that plot, there isn’t a secondary story to counter-point the main thread.  The intricacies include spotting the witness statement that reports seeing Slade and/or Turner, which becomes quite predictable towards the end of the series, largely because these sightings are repeated so many times, just in case you miss them the first time or two.

I’m not sure if the series became tired or if I just tired of the series, but by episode six I was consciously listening to the rhythm of the dialogue.  There were two bloodstains at the scene of the crime, both were checked by the science officer (Holly) who confirmed two different blood types.  Pause. Comment a few times about this – there were five people in the room so let’s see how long we can stretch that out for. Pause. Try-hard trainee says maybe one bloodstain is from the killer.  No shit, Sherlock?  No-one even slapped him down for stating the obvious.  Pause. Morris pulls out a tape deck to replay an emergency call (that he just happens to have obtained before coming to the scene of the crime but hasn’t shared with anyone yet).  When Morris says it’s a recording, Slade slaps him down for stating the obvious, but even this bit of banter is too slow, like a tape stretched to breaking point.

The silliness of the plot devolved from there, with Morris so distracted by a garbage bin lid rolling on the ground that he got out of the car and looked in the opposite direction so Slade could enter a building.

Crime Traveller tries to be intelligent in engaging with the paradox of time travel, with Turner and Slade discussing paradoxes.  In the first episode Slade travells back in time and places a bet; when he returns to his time, the betting slip is blank.  Holly said that’s because he couldn’t cause a paradox by taking information back in time to change the past, however Holly travells back in time and changed the past in other episodes.  When they discuss this, Holly’s excuse is that it had already happened, therefore she wasn’t changing the past – fail.  Worse still was the basic premise of the time machine.  They travell back in time but can’t look themselves in the eye without causing a catastrophe (how would Holly know this?)  At the end of each time travel jaunt, they also have to return to the time machine just before they left so they won’t get lost in time.  Returning to the point before they left is intended to be humorous as each time they meet Holly’s caretaker who has only just seen them, but they never meet themselves.  Even though they are in the room with the time machine at the same time before and after their time travel jaunt .   Hello ?

I think I caught a few episodes of Crime Traveller back in the 1990s when it was on TV; back then it was B grade sci fi.  Even the weaker episodes of  Deep Space 9, Babylon 5 and Stargate SG1 all leave Crime Traveller for dust, but Crime Traveller was – and remains – a fix for the SF-deprived.  Personally I think I’d rewatch all of the above, Angel, Buffy, Dark Angel, Farscape and a number of other series before I’d be sufficiently desperate to watch  Crime Traveller again.

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The 1990s are  Doctor Who ‘s lost decade. Although the eponymous Timelord found a brief home with Paul McGann’s American pilot in 1996, the revival was never picked up. So began an even longer winter on the long road to 2005’s regeneration under Russell T. Davies with Christopher Eccleston. The rest, as they say, is history.

What is seldom remembered, however, is that while the failed reboot had proven the franchise hadn’t recovered from 33 years worth of plot, nor had there been any marked improvement on the production, the entire exercise had given a solid indication that the proud tradition of mad British eccentrics and their wild inventions still had an appeal.

The answer from the BBC was the ambitious, if slightly sideways, restoration of time travel to a Saturday night slot with science fiction detective series  Crime Traveller .

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Produced by the BBC and Carnival Films (famous for producing  Downton Abbey ), the show follows Detective Jeff Slade (Michael French) and Science Officer Holly Turner (Chloë Annett) as they solve crimes with the benefit of time travel. Turner owns a time machine which operates from a room in her home to the benefit of maverick Slade’s detective career. Plot lines usually revolved around the duo solving a crime by travelling back before it occurred with the complication that they occasionally paradox themselves and become involved in the event. Other episodes are more clichéd and entail Slade trying to win the lottery, Holly preventing Slade from getting shot and a case of mistaken identities.

The eight-week run was a huge success, joining the ranks of  Bugs ,  Noel’s House Party ,  The Generation Game  and  The New Adventures Of Superman  as being an unmissable fixture of weekend TV.  EastEnders  veteran Michael French was at this stage a household name, as was Sue Johnston as superintendent Grisham. The premise was both unusual in that it didn’t belong to  Doctor Who  and that it starred actors whose credibility lent a previously unknown seriousness to science-fiction on prime time television.

Despite its popularity with an on average eight million people audience share, series creator Anthony Horowitz has said the series wasn’t renewed because:

“The show wasn’t exactly cut. There was a chasm at the BBC, created by the arrival of a new Head of Drama and our run ended at that time. There was no-one around to commission a new series… and so it just didn’t happen.”

More’s the pity, for there was a compelling one season plot development that would most likely have guaranteed  Crime Traveller  several seasons at least on the seemingly endless pantheon of shows in today’s streaming era.

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. The complex and often multi-layered time travel scripts are all the more surprising given that Horowitz has penned episodes for teatime treats like  Poirot ,  Foyle’s War  and  Midsomer Murders . The final episode of  Crime Traveller , in particular, features not only the appearance of a second time machine but a memorable villain with a disturbing demise that still holds up twenty years later.

In addition to the sci-fi side, the detective element of the show was not only interesting but answered nicely the clarion call for a more off-beat interpretation of the standard time travel formula.  Doctor Who  had been cancelled in part because it became too predictable;  Crime Traveller , by contrast, offered time travel as a plot device, rather than the plot in itself, which was very refreshing.

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Rewatching the show and the intricacies of most of the plots bear an uncanny resemblance to what immediately succeeded the series when it was cancelled.  Jonathan Creek , a show which has survived, albeit sporadically to the present day, essentially replaced the time travel premise with magic and illusion. Murder-mystery storylines are not only resolved in relation to both each show’s respective premise, but both feature a male-female combo with one playing the neophyte muse and the other the expert.

Crime Traveller , like  Doctor 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. With this it’s a shame both actors never had the opportunity to develop their relationship; the roguish cavalier of Slade versus the unflinching positivism of Turner had the great potential to establish a British equivalent of Mulder and Scully in the show’s American contemporary,  The X-Files . Creek ultimately has both made a longer lasting household name of Alan Davies than French and has also aged better, in large part due to its simple premise which more matched the BBC’s production capabilities.

For all its strengths, Crime Traveller’s biggest turn-off   is that it was analogous to the heavy plot burden of  Doctor Who  which wore most old fans down and intimated most newcomers. 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. Classic  Who , even in all its fastidiousness, never laboured the conditions of time travel to such a point that made watching the show a game of legalese.

Knowing that the show had one series, however, and the parochial nature of the plots can actually serve to its benefit. In one episode, Slade attempted to place a bet and win on a horse race. Every avenue for moot plot points is cornered and there is a satisfactory resolution in Slade opening the betting slip and finding it blank. An interesting, albeit terse logic, that would likely have become weary after multiple seasons. The show ultimately never had a chance to establish a sense of joie de vivre that  Doctor Who  brought back in 2005, which canonically crushed the notion that the show’s past must, ironically, define its future.

While  Crime Traveller  may be considered a 20-year old flop by some, its real legacy is influencing how mainstream science-fiction on the BBC has been handled since.  Doctor Who  of course returned, but  Life On Mars  (2006-2007) and its sequel  Ashes To Ashes  (2007-2010) made national discussion with their intricate, time travelling nature all while never engulfing the concurrent, solid episode detective stories. Both are the natural heirs to  Crime Traveller  in so much as they felt like someone wanted to set an old wrong right and unleash its potential.

The unsung third main character in the show, like with  Doctor Who , is the time machine itself. While the series is undeniably low-budget, the time-machine is a fantastic nod to 1990s technology with its retro sound effects and cobbled together hardware. Time travel in a small space was hardly a new concept for the BBC, yet here the tawdry nature of the machine itself distracts away from the more compelling plot moments, particularly when contemporary American shows – including the  Star Trek  series – were being produced with more spectacle and effort. The small scale nature of the device requires that the show avoids the universe-ending paradoxes that may well have been required to make future series more interesting later on, but if there is a plus then the deterrence away from big budget effects inspired even more creative and detailed stories, as was the case with  Star Trek: The Next Generation .

What merits there are to  Crime Traveller  are largely memorable because of its realism and commitment to an everyday experience of time travel. All of this is made tangible and emotive because of Anne Dudley’s spine-tingling and eerie opening credits and her understated but punchy score for the season. Dudley not only went on to win an Oscar for her work on The Full Monty  but also worked on  American History X  and the stunning 2012 adaption of  Les Misérables .

Parallels to modern BBC science-fiction are no more prescient than in the remarkably similar opening of  Crime Traveller  to the Twelfth Doctor’s opening season. The strange music and shifting clock face are a very elemental statement of what they’re both about, most likely why they stay in the mind.

It’s something of a tragedy that  Crime Traveller  never gets remembered as fondly or as often as other staples of Saturday night television in the 90s. It’s a sad indictment that the series doesn’t even appear as a credit on Anthony Horowitz’s home page. Buoyed by strong central performances, complex narratives and an underplayed sense of humour, it was everything right about British science-fiction before the idea became fashionable.

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Starring: Michael French (Detective Jeff Slade) Chloë Annett (Science Officer Holly Turner) Sue Johnston (Detective Chief Inspector Kate Grisham) Paul Trussel (Detective Morris) Richard Dempsey (Trainee Detective Nicky Robson) Bob Goody (Danny)

When Detective Jeff Slade discovers that his colleague Holly has perfected time travel he quickly turns it to his advantage using the time machine to travel back in time to aid his investigation. This novel method of detective work enables him to become the best detective on the force much to the bemusement of his colleagues.

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Ep.1 Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity Another model visible in the murder victim's study is this replica of the rare Lockheed Model 286... Two prototypes were made but the Model 286 never made series production.

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Crime Traveller

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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Detective Jeff Slade teams up with scientist Holly Turner, who's late father has created a time machine that can travel back several hours. Together they solve mysteries using the device. In the beginning of episodes (before they travel back in time), things happen because they DID travel back in time, and they are constantly working to avoid paradoxes. This approach to time-travel is unusual in sci-fi movies, and keeps the plot twisted. ...Crime Traveller

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• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.5 ounces
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 6 hours and 40 minutes
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael French, Chloë Annett, Sue Johnston, Paul Trussell, Richard Dempsey
• Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00008MJ0N
• Writers ‏ : ‎ Anthony Horowitz
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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