Time Travel

Time Travel has been a plot device used in many Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
==The Flintstones==
* "The Time Machine" - At the World's Fair, the Flintstones and Rubbles enter a scientist's time machine, and begin a journey into the future. They end up in ancient Rome, Camelot, Christopher Columbus' ship, 18th century Philadelphia, when Ben Franklin performed his experiment to discover electricity, and finally the modern World's Fair of 1964. Upon their return to their own time, Fred chastises the inventor.
* "The Long, Long, Long Weekend" - Gazoo sends the Flintstones into the 21st century, where Bedrock resembles the Jetsons' hometown of Orbit City. They even take a space bus to Mars. 
* "The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones" has both families time traveling to each other's eras.
==Jonny Quest==
* "Forty Fathoms into Yesterday" - While trying to raise a sunken German sub, the Quest team is sent back in time to 1944, where they encounter Professor Wolfgang Krueger, who invented the time teleporter that sent them there, and a tribe of pygmies who know how to hang glide. This episode is from the 1986 iteration.
==Atom Ant==
* "Dragon Master" - Atom Ant is sent back in time to Camelot, where he defeats and tames a dragon, and then brings it back with him to deal with the bad guys.
*"Knight Fight": Atom Ant goes back in time to the year 1100 to save a kingdom from the Black Knight.
==Sinbad Jr and His Magic Belt==
* "Sad Gladiator" - Dr. Roctoddam and Egoots send Sinbad Jr and Salty back in time to ancient Rome, where they become the unwilling opponents of the gladiator Taurus Borus. They return, followed by a lion.
==Space Ghost==
* "The Time Machine" - Jayce invents a time machine, and accidentally sends Jan back to the Viking era. He goes there to rescue her, and like her, is captured by Tarko The Terrible. Space Ghost and Blip quickly follow. Space Ghost fights Tarko, and beats him. Conceding defeat, the Viking invites the group to stay at his lodge, but they opt to return to their own time instead.
* "Clutches of Creature King." In the second episode of the Council of Doom story arc, Jayce accidentally sends Space Ghost and one of Creature King's monsters back in time to the Stone Age. There, Space Ghost is saved by Mighty Mightor and Tog when the primitive heroes take out the monster. They show confusion when Space Ghost tells them about a time warp. Space Ghost then returns to the present.
* "Time Chase" - One of the Space Ghost episodes of Space Stars had the Space Ghost team and Kid Comet going back in time to the prehistoric era of an alien planet.
== The Impossibles ==
* "Timeatron" - Timeatron used his own time machine to bring Jesse James and Captain Kidd into the 20th century to steal for him. When the Impossibles arrived at his lair, he brought Goliath in to fight them. Finally, he decided to personally bring back Alexander The Great. But when he did, The Impossibles destroyed the machine, and Timeatron unwillingly joined Alexander The Great's army. When he protested, Alexander just said, "Keep marching, or I'll put you on KP."
*"The Fiendish Dr. Futuro." Dr. Futuro travels from the future into the present to commit his crimes.
== The Herculoids ==
* "The Time Creatures" - Oton and the Time Creatures are a highly evolved race from Amzot's future, who can project objects from their minds and turn invisible. They go back in time 5,000 years to destroy those who existed before them. They capture Dorno, and take him into the future. Zandor and the Herculoids, but not Tara, go into the future to rescue Dorno, and eventually return safely. Zandor hopes the Time Creatures have learned that one cannot change the past.
==Birdman==
* "The Menace Of Dr. Millennium" - Dr. Millennium revives a mammoth and pterodactyl and brings in a caveman and mummy to steal missile plans and destroy missiles. Birdman eventually confronts Dr. Millennium at the museum, but the villain returns all his accomplices to the past, and also uses the millennium machine on himself, leaving behind his glasses and a pile of dust.
* "The Revenge Of Dr. Millennium" - Dr. Millennium uses a new time machine to bring Birdman and Birdboy to ancient China. Birdman is captured after destroying a mechanical dragon. Birdboy frees him, and they defeat the Chinese warriors. Refusing to be taken, Dr. Millennium once again uses the time machine on himself, going into another bygone era. Birdman and Birdboy return to 1967.
== The Galaxy Trio ==
* "The Eye of Time" - The Galaxy Trio pass through a time cyclone, and find themselves in a Scandinavian village of the first century BCE The inhabitants tell them their village is under attack from Roman invaders. Vaporman refuses to believe this, since this fact was never mentioned by his history teacher. Then he sees for himself, and the Galaxy Trio defeat the Romans and send them packing. The Scandinavians worship them as gods, but then they return to Condor 1, since they programmed the Lason cube to bring them back in 24 hours. They now wear Viking helmets, and when the Chief asks them where they've been, Gravity Girl replies, "You wouldn't believe us if we told you, Chief."
== Young Samson and Goliath ==
* "The Terrible Dr. Desto" - Dr. Desto uses his time shield to bring a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Cyclops, and a Rok into modern times. All of these disappear quickly. The latter is seen by Samson and Goliath destroying part of a bridge. Samson tells the General that Dr. Desto may be the culprit, so he and Goliath go to Desto's lab, and discover the time shield. Desto brings in a Mongol, a Viking, and a Norman Knight, all of whom Samson easily defeats. They are followed by a caveman and saber-toothed tiger, but Samson and Goliath take them out. Then come Persian charioteers and Hannibal's elephants. These are sent back to their own time. Finally, after immobilizing the heroes, Desto unleashes a plague of locusts. Samson and Goliath regain their ability to move, and go after the locusts. Goliath drove the insects back with a smoke screen, and Samson reversed the time shield. The locusts and Dr. Desto were pulled into the time shield, and Samson and Goliath permanently destroyed it to prevent them from coming back. Afterwards, Samson commented that someday man would invent a time travel device they could all use.
==The Fantastic Four==
* "Rama-Tut" - Upon seeing a stone with Ben's face carved on it, the Fantastic Four go back in time to ancient Egypt. There, they encounter Rama-Tut, himself a time-traveler from the 30th century, who uses a device to dominate them. Ben temporarily becomes human again, due to a passing comet. After defeating Rama-Tut, they return to modern day New York City.
==The Great Grape Ape==
* "A Knight to Remember" - Grape Ape and Beegle Beagle enter an experimental time machine and go back to the time of King Arthur.
==Jabberjaw==
* "No Helpin' the Sculpin" - Mistaking Clamhead for Dr. Thorsten, the Sculpin and his henchmen kidnap him, and force him to repair a time machine. The rest of the Neptunes disguise themselves as scientists and a computer, and try to sabotage the machine. They discover that they did in fact fix it when the Sculpin brings back a Viking, and then sends him back. Eventually, Jabberjaw, Shelley, and Clamhead end up in the machine, and go back to prehistoric times, where Jabber hypnotizes a dinosaur. They bring it back with them, and put ear muffs on it so it won't snap out of the trance. The villains are captured, and Dr. Thorsten finally shows up to send the dinosaur back.
== The All-New Superfriends Hour ==
* "Planet of the Neanderthals" - When Varko reverts Earth to the way it was in prehistoric times, and turns all people except for the Superfriends into Neanderthals, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman go back in time to repair the damage.
* "Time Rescue" - Superman, Hawkman, and Hawkgirl travel into the future to rescue a scientist who's trapped there.
==Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels==
* "Prehistoric Panic" - Captain Caveman carries the Teen Angels' van uphill so they can go skiing. But he goes too fast to stop, and they end up thousands of years in the past. Cavey is reunited with his parents, and the Teen Angels solve another mystery.
==Godzilla==
* "The Time Dragons" - Godzilla catches a satellite that falls from the sky. Its radiation sends him, Godzooky, and the crew of the Calico back to prehistoric times, where they find themselves up against a diplodocus, cavemen, a carnivorous plant, and a dinosaur resembling a dragon. They eventually return to 1978 when Quinn tells the cavemen to use pitchblende on the dinosaur. Once back in their own time, they relive the events with the satellite, but this time, tell Godzilla not to touch it. He obeys them, and the dinosaur is returned to the past.
* "The Colossus of Atlantis" - While trapped in Atlantis, Quinn and Brock use the Atlanteans' time machine to go back to when Atlantis sank beneath the sea. As a result, they end up in suspended animation along with the Atlanteans. Captain Majors, Pete, and Godzooky find them in stasis, and they're revived when Godzilla destroys Colossus, a robot built by the Atlanteans that malfunctioned. Later, Kara-El sends them back to when the Calico was intact, since it was destroyed earlier.
==Challenge of the Superfriends==
* "The Time Trap": Gorilla Grodd uses his Time Gate so that he and the Legion of Doom can steal treasures of ancient civilizations. The Legion also sends Aquaman and Apache Chief into the prehistoric era, Green Lantern and Samurai into Camelot, and Batman and Robin into ancient Rome.
* "Conquerors of the Future": This time, the Legion of Doom goes into the distant future with plans of conquest, while the Superfriends travel across time and space on a wild goose chase created by the Riddler.
== Superfriends: The Lost Episodes ==
* "The Krypton Syndrome": Superman is thrust into the past when he enters a black hole. He finds himself on Krypton before it was destroyed, meets his own father, Jor-El, and realizes he can prevent the planet's destruction. Superman does just that, and returns to his own time, but discovers that without him on the team, his teammates were defeated. So he goes back and undoes the damage so that he can once again travel to Earth as an infant, and become the most powerful member of the Justice League. This episode also aired on Superfriends: The Legendary Superpowers Show in 1984.
==The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang==
* Every episode of this series had Fonzie, Richie, Ralph, Cupcake, and Mr. Cool traveling into the past and future.
==Richie Rich==
* "Caveboy Richie": Richie and Dollar the Dog travel back to the prehistoric era in Professor Keenbean's time machine to learn about his stone-age ancestors and learn how they started their road to riches.
* "Richie Hood": After Professor Keenbean finds an 800-year-old solid gold bust of Richie buried in England, Richie, Dollar and Reggie Van Dough take Professor Keenbean's time machine back to the time of Robin Hood.
==Pac-Man==
* "Sir Chomps-a-Lot" - Mezmaron has built a time machine to send the Ghost Monsters into the past, before Pacland decided to hide its Power Pellet Forest. Inky sets the time machine for 1,000 years into the past, sending the ghosts to a world resembling medieval England.
==The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo==
* "It's a Wonderful Scoob" - When Scooby-Doo quits the team out of fear, Vincent Van Ghoul takes him into the future, and reveals that Time Slime has taken over, and that Daphne Blake, Shaggy Rogers, Scrappy-Doo and Flim-Flam have completely forgotten him. Scooby then decides to set things right.
==Wildfire==
* "A Meeting in Time" - Princess Sara falls off Wildfire, and goes back in time, where she meets her own mother, Queen Sarana, as well as Diabolyn, Alvinar, and even Wildfire, none of whom recognize her. This episode also shows Diabolyn's goons, when they were human. They opened the urn containing the Specters, and as a result, turned into hideous creatures. Sara returns to her own era.
==The Smurfs==
* "Gargamel's Time Trip" - Gargamel steals Father Time's hourglass, and book containing a time travel spell so that he and Azrael can go back in time to when they first met the Smurfs.
* Every episode of Season 9 had a small group of Smurfs and Smoogle traveling through time, and trying to reassemble the Time Crystals after the key is destroyed. For the most part, they meet the ancestors of their enemies.
==Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures==
* All episodes of this series had the title characters traveling back and forth through time, meeting everyone from Christopher Columbus to Babe Ruth.
==The Halloween Tree==
* This animated adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel had Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud take four youngsters on a journey through time to save their friend Pip. Along the way, they learned the stories behind their Halloween costumes by learning about customs and traditions, such as Mexico's Day of the Dead. It was narrated by Bradbury himself. 
==The Super Globetrotters==
* "The Super Globetrotters vs. The Time Lord" - The Super Globetrotters go up against the Time Lord, who has brought in criminals from the past to help him in his schemes. 
* "The Super Globetrotters vs. Attila the Hun" - When Attila the Hun and his followers come through time via Professor George's Time Transporter, they wreak havoc in 1970s San Francisco until they compete against the Super Globetrotters in a game that determines who goes back to the past. 
== The Peter Potamus Show ==
Every episode of Peter Potamus had him and So-So traveling through time via a time dial built into their hot air balloon.
== Casper and the Angels ==
* "Prehistoric Hi-Jinx": Hairy Scary, Nerdly, and Fungo tamper with a time machine, and end up in the prehistoric era. Casper the Friendly Ghost, Mini, and Maxi follow, and save them from a caveman who's made them his slaves.
== The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible ==
* Every episode of this direct-to-VHS series had Derek, Margo, and Moki journeying through the Biblical era, and witnessing such events as the voyage of Noah's Ark, and the Battle Of Jericho.
== The Flintstones Comedy Show ==
* "Futuro": Captain Caveman deals with Futuro, who has time traveled into prehistoric Bedrock to steal goods. Cavey, Wilma Flintstone, and Betty Rubble head into the future to stop him.
== Superfriends (1980) ==
* "Elevator to Nowhere." Wonder Woman and the Atom end up in an elevator that takes them back in time to the prehistoric era, 1667, and 1776.
 
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