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1[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/journeyman.jpg]]
2 [[caption-width-right:350:Moon Bloodgood, Creator/KevinMcKidd, and Gretchen Egolf.]]
3Canceled Creator/{{NBC}} series that got a brief run in late 2007. It was about Dan Vasser (Creator/KevinMcKidd), an [[TheEveryman Everyman]] who [[TimeTravel goes back in time]] involuntarily, regularly experiencing {{Mister Sandman Sequence}}s, to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
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5Later in the show, the impact of his travel on his present-day life was essentially the focus of the show, and the actual reasons for the travel into the past were dealt with in each episode as an afterthought (both by the writers and by the main character himself, who often got yelled at by his more experienced companion for inattention to duty).
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7Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'', a series of point-and-click adventure games which ''also'' deal with time travel but are otherwise unrelated.
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10!!This show provides examples of:
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12* BlessedWithSuck: Yay, he can travel through time, helping people! But he can't control it, his wife thinks he's cheating on her, his friends think he's addicted to gambling, and his brother thinks he's a possible criminal.
13* CellPhonesAreUseless: When Dan travels back to 1987, his [=iPhone=] doesn't work, so he has to break into an apartment and steal a contemporary phone. From himself.
14* CosmicPlaything
15* DistaffCounterpart: Liv, Dan's ex-fiance who vanished suddenly. [[spoiler: He slowly learns she is also bouncing through time, though in her case she moved forward from her home time in the [[TheForties 1940s]].]]
16* TheEighties
17* TheEveryman: Dan Vassar
18* ForWantOfANail and InSpiteOfANail: Both apply. Little things Dan does add up--such as saving a woman who is going to be the mother of a gifted surgeon. But on the other hand, he always comes back to his life exactly as he left it. The episode where he accidentally jumpstarts technology (see TimelineAlteringMacGuffin) and erases his son strongly insinuates that whoever is sending him back is also protecting his family from minor alterations.
19* IncrediblyInconvenientDeity: The show hinted that the character's time jumps were for a purpose. They were seriously inconvenient, and he could disappear when driving down the road, end up without clothes in snow, etc. In one particularly inconvenient case, he jumps off a passenger jet mid-flight, which puts him on a watchlist - and the no-fly list.
20* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: Varies between being used straight and subverted; Dan gets all the information he needs on his subjects by typing their names into a BrandX version of Google, but somethings he has to narrow down the search four or five times before he gets anything relevant.
21* MeanwhileInTheFuture
22* MoodLighting: Just about every time Dan travels to the past, a yellowish filter is used.
23* MisterSandmanSequence: It seems each episode had to have at least one.
24* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Dan seems to assume this applies, later subverted.
25* NewspaperDating: OnceAnEpisode, more or less.
26* TheNineties
27* RippleEffectProofMemory
28* SanDimasTime: Somewhat subverted considering that Dan doesn't have any control over when he time-travels; however, he is always returned to the present "later" than when he left it, though it doesn't seem to be proportional to how long he was "gone."
29* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Whole premise of the show.
30* TheSeventies
31* ThisIsMyBoomstick: Subverted; Dan's iPhone doesn't work in the past, though it still looks awfully weird in 1987.
32** Causes a StableTimeLoop where, while he's in the past and his 2007 cell phone doesn't work, he breaks into his past-self's apartment and steals the charger for an older model phone - now he knows he didn't "lose" it back then.
33* TimelineAlteringMacGuffin: Dan accidentally leaves a digital camera in the early 1980s, which caused rapid technological progress in his own time, such as holographic monitors and newspapers that play video; also, his son is replaced by a daughter due to a "nanotech accident" causing Dan and his wife not to conceive a child at a specific moment.
34* TimeTravel
35* VertigoEffect: Used very effectively at a climactic point in the story arc. Dan has tried to convince his brother, Jack, that Dan and his supposedly dead ex-fiancée Livia have been moving through time. Jack doesn't believe him--until, across a room, he catches a glimpse of Livia, who's come to him in desperation because Dan is in great danger. Cue contra-zoom on Jack as he realizes all the implications of seeing Livia alive.
36* VictimOfTheWeek
37* WhatYearIsThis
38* WriteBackToTheFuture: Dan does a version at the end of the pilot; burying his wedding ring beneath their patio in the past before the concrete was poured, then smashing the patio to dig it up in the present - thus proving to his wife that he's actually traveling in time.
39* YouCantFightFate: "Game Three"

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