Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity

TX : 1st March 1997
Director : Brian Farnham

Notes : Before creating Crime Traveller, Anthony Horowitz had contributed to a number of shows including Robin of Sherwood, Boon, Murder Most Horrid and Poirot. A month after the start of Crime Traveller, ITV transmitted The Vanishing Man, Horowitz's re-invention of The Invisible Man. This led to a full series the following year, although Horowitz himself was not involved. More recently he has written a number of episodes for the ITV murder-mystery series Midsomer Murders, an episode of Poirot and for the BBC he has created and written Murder in Mind. His latest work is Foyle's War, a Second World War crime drama for ITV.

Death in the Family

TX : 8th March 1997
Director : Rick Stroud

Notes : Guest star Mary Tamm has appeared in a number of adventure programmes including Return of the Saint, World's Beyond, The New Adventures of Robin Hood and CI5: The New Professionals. In the 1970's she appeared in Doctor Who as the original incarnation of Romana and in the mid-90's she spent several years in the role of Penny Crosbie in the Channel 4 soap Brookside. She will also seen in the 2001 Christmas Special of Jonathan Creek.

Fashion Shoot

TX : 15th March 1997
Director : Brian Farnham

Notes : Michael French came to fame as David Wicks, the wheeler-dealer son of Pat Butcher in Eastenders. After the cancellation of Crime Traveller he won the role of Nick Jordan in the Casualty spin-off Holby City and has most recently been seen in The Gentleman Thief. When Crime Traveller was being planned, The Sun newspaper mistakenly reported that he had been cast in the lead role of a Blake's 7 revival!

The Revenge of the Chronology Protection Hypothesis

TX : 22nd March 1997
Director : Rick Stroud

Notes : Before appearing in Crime Traveller, Chloë Annett had made a number of guest appearances in Cadfael, All Creatures Great and Small and Jeeves and Wooster. Her only major role had been as Kristine Kochanski in Season Seven of Red Dwarf - replacing Clare Grogan who had previously appeared in the role. Since Crime Traveller ended she has made guest appearances in various shows, returned to Red Dwarf for Season Eight and will be appearing in the forthcoming Red Dwarf movie.

Sins of the Father

TX : 29th March 1997
Director : Rick Stroud

Notes : In this episode Jack Slade - Jeff's father, is played by Christopher Ellison - better known as DCI Burnside from The Bill. Viewers in their twenties may also recognise him as the bad-guy from the highly-regarded children's drama Running Scared. Guest star Stephen Greif will be best remembered by telefantasy fans as the original Travis in the first season of Blake's 7.

Death Minister

TX : 5th April 1997
Director : Brian Farnham

Notes : Crime Traveller was produced for the BBC by Carnival Films, the company that had previously been behind BUGS.

The Lottery Experiment

TX : 12th April 1997
Director : Brian Farnham

Notes : Before appearing in Crime Traveller, Sue Johnston was probably best known for her portrayal of Sheila Grant in Brookside, a role she played for eight years. After leaving Brookside she moved on to ITV's Medics for two seasons and made guest appearances in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and A Touch of Frost. More recently she has been appeared in The Royle Family as Barbara Royle and as Dr Grace Foley, a police profiler in Waking the Dead.

The Broken Crystal

TX : 19th April 1997
Director : Rick Stroud

Notes : Time travel on television is nothing new. Amongst the most notable programmes to have used the idea are Doctor Who (1963-1989), The Time Tunnel (1966-1967), Voyagers (1982-1983), Quantum Leap (1989-1993) and Seven Days (1998-2001). The closest in concept to Crime Traveller is Seven Days in which time travel is used to change events such as the assassination of the US President. Crime Traveller was a strictly hands-off show when it came to time travel - if it had already happened you couldn't change it by travelling back.