The name of a time travel movie.?

Question

Late 80's or early 90's movie about kids (maybe a dad too?) traveling through different time periods. They used time portals that looked like TV static. There might be a scene with a train coliding with a hut containing one of the portals. One of the time periods was the French Revolution I think.

It's not Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. It might be a TV show.

Answer 1

the only thing I can think of is Time Bandits.... I know it isnt Timeline, it was made in 2003 I think

Answer 2

Are you sure it was about time travel because it sounds kinda like the movie "Stay Tuned" made in 1992 that has John Ritter in it.
It is about a man and wife that get sucked into the TV by the Devil, the kids keep changing channels and they jump from channel to channel.
It may seem they are going through time because they go to a western and stuff like that. I believe that since it is TV, there is static at times.

This may not be the movie you are thinking of, but just maybe.

A link is below that tells more about the movie.

Answer 3

Timeline” stars Paul Walker of “The Fast and the Furious” as Chris Johnston, one of the time travelers, who goes back to a 14th France to find his father, Professor Edward Johnston (played by Billy Connolly of “White Oleander”). The movie does not explain why Chris Johnston's father and brother both have thick Scottish accents, while he has none. The movie also fails to explain time travel, except that it involves a mysterious stable wormhole (which would swallow the earth if it existed) and a teleportation device (also known as a disintegrator-integrator in the old “The Fly” movies). You put a person in the device, he is converted to electrons, transmitted to another location and reassembled into matter. This is theoretically possible, maybe a hundred years in the future. Anyway, the matter transmission beam has been hijacked by the wormhole, sending everyone back in time. The problem with this kind of time travel is there is no teleportation device in 14th century France to turn the time travelers from electrons back into matter, or to turn them from matter back into electrons and transmit them back to the future. Probably these logical matters are explained by Michael Crichton in his book on which this film is based, but they are not explained in the movie

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure you are talking about the movie "Stay Tuned" in which they weren't traveling through time, but through different TV channels.

Answer 5

I think maybe Bill and Teds excellent adventure?

Answer 6

Back to the future? I know it wasn't the french revolution but it's all I can think of for that era.

Answer 7

It was more about sleestacks and dinosaours,
but are you refering to "The Land Before Time"?
I don't recall the train.
Another along that line is "Time Bandits".

Answer 8

Do you mean "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure".

Answer 9

Sounds like a TV show...the name escapes me though..

Answer 10

Are you positive it replaced into about time vacation using very truth it sounds kinda like the movie "stay Tuned" made in 1992 that has John Ritter in it. it truly is a few guy and companion that get sucked into the television by using the devil, the children keep replacing channels and they leap from channel to channel. it may want to look they are coping with time using very truth they pass to a western and stuff like that. i imagine that using very undeniable truth it truly is television, there is static at situations. this gained't be the movie you're questioning of, yet only perchance. A link is lower than that tells more desirable concerning to the movie.