The Day Time Ended is a 1980 American science fiction film directed by John 'Bud' Cardos and starring Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum and Dorothy Malone.

A father and his elder son, an architect, welcome back the rest of their family from an extended vacation to a new, state-of-the-art home away from Los Angeles in the Sonoran Desert.

Though there are news reports of a spectacular triple supernova and the young granddaughter has seen a glowing alien construction behind the barn, the family is at ease until later in the evening when UFOs soar overhead and appear to land in the nearby hills.

In the course of the evening, the family: grandfather, grandmother, younger son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter pack up to get away from their home, which is the center of the turmoil.

[4] Bill Warren from Fantasy Newsletter criticized the film for having no story coherence, and spoke negatively of the stop-motion animation for having the wrong "movement-to-frame ratio", making the final result look like it was shot underwater.

[5] TV Guide gave it one star, calling it "derivative" and "overly ambitious" while giving specific criticism towards its special effects and stop-motion animations.

[6] Alan Jones for Radio Times also gave it one star, comparing the special effects to cardboard while calling the movie a "crudely assembled affair".