• Hugin@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    There was a not very good TV show Seven Days that used this well. They had a time machine that could go back in time seven days. The pilot had to fly the machine chasing the earth as he traveled back in time.

    He would usually end up crashing it somewhere and have to find a phone to call for pickup.

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      5 days ago

      Yep, and he had to also solve the problem of the week given everything they could figure out in the 7 days following it happening. A cool set of limitations for the writers, the execution was a little sloppy, but overall a cool idea.