While there, he falls for pretty school teacher Abigail Sloane (Patricia Breslin), but he cannot allow himself to form a relationship with her for fear of altering the future. Instead of putting up with a present he despises, the scientist decides to live in the past, in Homeville, Indiana, in the year 1881.
Despite his efforts, Driscoll fails to make a difference to the present, and comes to the conclusion that the future cannot be easily changed. Dana Andrews plays time-traveller Paul Driscoll who, disillusioned with the present, attempts to change it by altering key moments in history: preventing the bombing of Hiroshima, assassinating Hitler, and stopping the sinking of RMS Lusitania. These form the basis of No Time Like the Past. The yearning for simpler times: a theme often explored by Rod Serling. Time travel: a mainstay of The Twilight Zone. Hanford, you have a great enthusiasm for "planting the American flag deep, high, and proud." But you don't have a nodding acquaintance with what it's like for American families to bury their sons in the same soil! who've never seen the look on a man's face when he realizes he's lost a limb, and his blood is seeping out. or what death smells like after three days on an empty, sun-drenched battlefield. Paul Driscoll: And I take offense at "armchair warriors" like yourself - who clearly don't know what a shrapnel, or a bullet, or a saber wound feels like. and who probably wouldn't last so long as twenty-five seconds in a REAL skirmish if they WERE thrust into it. Paul Driscoll: No, just some sick idiot who's seen too many boys die because of too many men who fight their battles at dining room tables. I *live* for the day when this country SWEEPS AWAY. Treaties, indeed! Peace, indeed! Why, the virility of a nation is in direct proportion to its military prowess. Hanford: Now, I trust this isn't the path you spoon-feed your students. I think anything we can accomplish peacefully, with treaties, we should. I think we were bled dry by the Indian Wars. Then we should have planted the American flag deep, high, and proud!Ībigail Sloan: I think the country is tired of fighting, Mr. What we need are twenty General Custers and a hundred thousand men! What we should have done is swept across the prairie, destroying every redskin that stood before us. We ALL do! Like all this nonsense about giving the Indians land.
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