Crime Traveller is a 1997 British television science fiction detective series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC.

There was a chasm at the BBC, created by the arrival of a new Head of Drama and our run ended at that time.

"[2] Jeff Slade is a detective with the Criminal Investigation Department of the local police force led by Kate Grisham; although unusually for such a position he is an armed officer, carrying a handgun as routine.

Slade is a good detective who gets results although his approach is somewhat maverick and his methods do leave a lot to be desired and have more than once landed him in trouble.

The machine is able to take Slade and Holly back far enough in time to witness a crime as it happens and discover who committed it.