the time-loop ('Groundhog Day') concept in film/TV/novels

[Silvercrest]

So... if you were a member of TrekBBS before you died, and you joined again after you were reborn, would that make you a dual?

 

[Captaindemotion]

And would you retain your 'rank'?

 

[LitmusDragon]

Did Farscape ever do this? I might be thinking of "A Perfect Murder" but if I remember correctly that was just the same event viewed through multiple perspectives.

There was also the episode where Crichton was thrown back to the first episode in the series but I think that only happened once so it wasn't a loop.

Then there was also the episode where Chricton kept flashing forward and was able to alter events, but that wasn't a loop either.

 

[stj]

The Twilight Zone's Shadowplay doesn't have a time loop, strictly speaking, it has a fake universe. It's reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein's short story They.

One early time loop is in The Time Travelers, 1964, an Ib Melchior production starring Preston Foster, Phil Caey, John Hoyt and Steve Franker. The remake Journey to the Center of Time (starring Scott Brady) doesn't have the time loop if I remember correctly.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't know what McGyver is.

Patty and Selma from the Simpsons want to make him the meat in their sibling sex sandwhich.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Farscape's version

Did Farscape ever do this?

Farscape Season 1 Episode 3 #3 "Back and Back and Back to the Future"
Directed by Brian Henson Written by Ro Hume April 2, 1999 (1999-04-02) #10105

The crew comes across a ship that is molecularly de-stabilizing. D'Argo makes everyone bring the ship's escape pod aboard when he discovers that the ship's passengers are Ilanics -- long-time allies of the Luxans. Aboard the escape pod, Crichton gets a shock and starts experiencing strange visions of the future, first of himself and one of the Ilanics, then of Moya's destruction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Farscape_episodes