Crime Traveller
| Crime Traveller | |
|---|---|
Title card | |
| Genre | Crime drama Science fiction |
| Created by | Anthony Horowitz |
| Starring | Michael French Chloë Annett Sue Johnston Paul Trussell Richard Dempsey Bob Goody |
| Music by | Anne Dudley |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Brian Eastman |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company | Carnival Films |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 1 March – 19 April 1997 |
Crime Traveller is a 1997 British television science fiction detective series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC. It was based on the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes.
Anthony Horowitz created the series and wrote every episode. He had the idea while writing an episode of Poirot. Despite having over eight million viewers on a regular basis, Crime Traveller was not renewed after its first series. According to Horowitz, "The show wasn't exactly cut. There was a chasm at the BBC, created by the arrival of a new Head of Drama and our run ended at that time. There was no-one around to commission a new series...and so it just didn't happen."