The Worst Episodes of Time Trax
Every episode of Time Trax ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Time Trax!
Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Time Trax" is "Split Image", rated 6.4/10 from 22 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Grant Rosenberg. "Split Image" aired on 10/15/1994 and is rated 0.3 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Revenge".
6.4/10 22 votes#1 - Split Image
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/15/1994
A female cat burgler is discovered during a heist, but takes out a weapon and freezes the guard instantaneously. SELMA notices this in a tacky magazine, and Lambert suspects a fugitive from the future. He interviews the guard, and narrows it down to a rich woman. When he attends her party, he's attracted to her. After he leaves we find out that she's a twin. The twins appear to have some psychic connection that allows them to share each others feelings and experiences. That same night he breaks into her house, but is caught before he can steel the loot from her heist. He manages to convince her that he used to be a cop, but that he also is blackmailed by Sahmbi...
Director: N/A
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
- 6.7/10 26 votes
#2 - Revenge
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/1993
SELMA detects something odd on TV - a group of racists carrying the Shrek mark, which isn't due to be invented for another 150 years. Lambert goes to Hawaii and talks to the journalist who got the attack on film. But Lambert is in for a surprise when he discovers who is behind it all, and what the true objective is...
Director: Rob Stewart
Writer: N/A
6.8/10 37 votes#3 - A Stranger in Time (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/1993
As Lambert enters our time, he is discovered by a woman who looks exactly like his now dead girlfriend from the future. Lambert learns that she's a cop too. Together, but with many secrets between them, they pursue a would-be presidential assassain.
Director: Lewis Teague
Writer: Harve Bennett
- 6.9/10 31 votes
#4 - Showdown
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/1993
Lambert is ready to kick himself when he picks up a hitch-hiker in the middle of the desert, and the hitch-hiker steals his car, leaving him without transportation. He starts to walk, but the sun is killing him slowly. Just when he thinks that he's found water, a cowboy stops him. Poisonous water... The cowboy becomes Lambert's mentor, during the trip to wherever the criminal went. They find a ghost town in the desert, but the owner, a young woman, turns out to be on the criminal's side, locking them up in the jail...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10 27 votes#5 - Death Takes a Holiday
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/1993
Lambert takes on a mafia family in New Orleans, whose boss uses his knowledge of future drugs to keep his employees at bay. When the family clashes against another crime family, Lambert gets caught in the middle. And then a drug-taking woman becomes his companion...
Director: Rob Stewart
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/10 23 votes
#6 - Two Beans in a Wheel
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/19/1993
Darien gets a new partner, a policewoman from the future named Eve Thorne. Together they track Sahmbi, who they believe is after the Holy Grail.
Director: Donald Crombie
Writer: N/A
6.9/10 19 votes#7 - Perfect Pair
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 4/23/1994
When Lambert has tracked down a fugitive and prepares to send him to the future, the criminal draws his weapon. Suddenly another man fires against the criminal, incinerating him completely. It turns out that it's one of Lambert's old buddies, Mace. He's sent to catch a crooked police chief, who uses the police force as his private army. Lambert protests against Mace's violent and impatient methods, but on this case they have to co-operate. To his help, Mace has brought his own version of a SELMA, CINDI - with a sexy blonde holographic image. But it takes a SELMA to trace the fugitive. On the road to the fugitive's whereabouts, a man highjacks the plane their on. Mace overpowers the highjacker, which makes their arrival less inconspicous. With Lambert's more thoughtful approach, they manage to sneak away. They decide to talk to one of the police chief's enemies - a good cop in a bad force. But the officer in question is bugged, and soon a SWAT team attacks his trailer. How will they get
Director: Rob Stewart
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/10 27 votes
#8 - Almost Human
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 5/14/1994
Sahmbi creates a Lambert look-alike android and sends him after Lambert. The android attacks Lambert, but a nasty fall disables the android. Lambert takes care of the android against SELMA's advice, becomes friend with the killing machine, and takes its place to come close to Sahmbi. But will Sambhi flush him out?
Director: Colin Budds
Writer: David Loughery, Laurie Stevens
7.0/10 23 votes#9 - Treasure of the Ages
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/1993
Lambert comes to Florida in search for a treasure hunter who will stop at nothing to find a sunken ship. But a storm is closing in. The treasure hunter captures Lambert in a motel, where they are forced to wait the weather out. To make things worse, the treasure hunter's girlfriend is due to deliver her baby very soon.
Director: Donald Crombie
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 21 votes
#10 - To Live and Die in Docker Flats
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/12/1994
The search of some missing future fugitives leads Lambert to Docker Flats, a small village in the middle of nowhere. He finds that no-one wants to talk to him, and everyone seems scared of being seen with him. Soon he is under siege in a restaurant, not knowing who he can trust. And then there's the lynch mob when night sets in... (Ref. 'Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)')
Director: Chris Thomson
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 21 votes#11 - Lethal Weapons
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/12/1994
Two criminals stop an armoured car, trying to break in. They bring with them a strange ray weapon, but grow impatient and raise the volume. The armoured car blows up and one of the criminals are killed. Lambert watches the news and recognizes the weapon from the future. He goes undercover as an agent from the board of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco, recovers the weapon and interviews the surviving criminal, but the criminal doesn't know who sold them the weapon. Lambert has an idea who made the weapon - a weapons inventor from the future. But before he can do something about it, he is attacked and left for dead. The weapon is stolen. When Lambert recovers, he comes up with an idea of how to reach the inventor. But the inventor and an associate is waiting for him, with a 21st century gauntlet ready. Can Lambert reach them?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 17 votes#12 - The Dream Team
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 5/7/1994
In this episode Darien befriends an NBA player from his time. At the beginning scene the two are together and an attempt is made to kill Trey (the NBA player), and he divulges to Darien that he has been having numerous death threats. Darien tries to help Trey, but he has to wade through various stories (Trey being discredited by the church) to do so. Ramon (the man who wants Trey dead) traps Trey using the cover story that he wants to deliver a confession. The question is whether or not Darien will get there in time to save Trey--and himself.
Director: Harve Bennett
Writer: Harve Bennett
7.0/10 18 votes#13 - Cool Hand Darien
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/22/1994
The widow of a fugitive from the future calls Lambert with a request. She doesn't believe that her husband is dead, and asks that he investigate what has happened. Her husband worked as a jailer, but when he opposed the warden, he was interned himself. When Lambert shows up, asking questions, he is also imprisoned. The warden runs a very tight jail. The prisoners must dig for diamonds in a mine, and punishments for disobedience are severe. And Lambert of course has to release SELMA to his captors. Now it's a question of how he will get out of there before the warden decides to kill him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 19 votes#14 - The Scarlet Koala
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 11/12/1994
A distress call from the future lets Lambert know that he must find a scarlet koala to stop a plague. He enlists the help of a woman scientist whose father was the last person to see the rare koala, but when they reach the jungle they are captured by aboriginies who believs that the scarlet koala is sacred. Then Lambert discovers that they aren't the only ones after a koala.
Director: Rob Stewart
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 27 votes#15 - The Prodigy
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/1993
The whole world is baffled when a little boy breaks the world short distance record. Lambert suspects that the boy comes from the future, but he is stopped by the boy's father, a criminal, who has Lambert's speed and strength.
Director: Donald Crombie
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 24 votes#16 - Face of Death
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/14/1993
A criminal from the future whom Lambert has been chasing for some time, has his appearence altered. Lambert finds a trace, and sets out in the jungle to find him. But how do you find a person, when you don't know how they look or sound? And what do you do if you find out who he is, when you're in the middle of nowhere?
Director: Rob Stewart
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 24 votes#17 - Darien Comes Home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/12/1993
When Lambert discovers that two computer genius brothers from the future has come to the present, he goes undercover as a computer expert. He soon finds that the secretary of one of the brothers saw her boss killing a government agent. She can't say why, though. Lambert digs some more, and finds that he's really hired to hack into a federal computer to steal a fortune. But before he can something about it, the brothers leave with the secretary's brother as hostage. How can Lambert hope to catch them without harming the hostage?
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
- 7.1/10 24 votes
#18 - A Close Encounter
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/1994
SELMA picks up the distress signal from an alien from another planet. The alien crashlands on Earth near a small town. Now Lambert has to get to him before someone else finds him. But a sheriff has seen the crash and rounds up a posse. Lambert manages to find the alien first, and hides him from the posse. Then the alien tries to leave Lambert. Lambert catches up, and the alien explains his reason for being there - love. His girlfriend crashed on Earth some time ago. But since their race age very quickly he has no idea what his girlfriend looks like. How will they find her, with the posse looking for them? And will she still love him?
Director: N/A
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
7.1/10 21 votes#19 - Happy Valley
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/5/1994
A woman living in a suburb wakes up and sees flames all around her. She runs out and calls for help but noone else sees the fire. When the fire seems to follow her, she tries to flee in her car, but she crashes and dies. This gets the attention of new ISA agent Tulsa Giles. She brings in her friend Lambert, and asks him to investigate this death and 20 other couples moving from what would seem to be a paradise. She wants to go undercover and have Lambert as her husband. The ""newly wed"" couple buy a house. The contract gets SELMA's interest, since anyone that moves out of the house inside 2 years breaches the contract. Soon however, things get worse when their neighbour thinks that he's back in Vietnam, and starts shooting. SELMA analyses his brain and discovers that it has been manipulated by a futuristic method. But the situation is about to get even worse, when the method is applied to Tulsa too, and she believes that Lambert wants to kill her.
Director: Chris Thomson
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 19 votes
#20 - The Last M.I.A.
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 5/28/1994
While in pursuit of a fugitive, Darien is shot. He finds himself in the care of a army veteran, Ev Rankin. Rankin needs Darien's help to free his son, who's still missing in Cambodia. Darien doubts that the son would be alive, but according to SELMA, a ransom demand will be made 48 hours later - and shortly thereafter, Rankin's son will be killed. Darien and Rankin seek out a notorios double agent, who may have information about Rankin's son, but before they can question him, the agent is killed. How will they now find the right rebel hideout? And will they get there in time?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10 19 votes
#21 - The Lottery
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 10/29/1994
Lambert finds that his favourite comedian from the future is in the present, but the comedian is a compulsive gambler, and uses a primitive future-database to predict lottery-numbers. Then he crosses some casino owners, and Lambert is caught in the middle.
Director: Mark DeFriest
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 25 votes#22 - The Contender
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/1993
One day, a man comes to Lambert, claiming he's also from the future. He explains that he worked for Sambhi, and that he came back in time to stop his son, a world-famous boxer, from killing a man in the ring. But the son refuses to listen, and Lambert is forced into the ring to fight it out.
Director: Rob Stewart
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
- 7.2/10 25 votes
#23 - Night of the Savage
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/17/1993
In London, a Jack the Ripper-type killer is on the loose. Lambert discovers evidence that suggests that the killer is from the future. Befriending a journalist, he starts to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity. But can Lambert stop him before The Savage commits his next murder?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 18 votes#24 - The Gravity of It All
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/1994
Lambert and SELMA hear reports of people flying without planes, and investigates. They find that an inventor from the future has brought his banned invention - a belt that can lift you from the ground - to the present. But Lambert isn't the only one after the inventor. A gang of thugs sees the possibilities of the belt and goes after it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 17 votes#25 - Out For Blood
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 11/5/1994
An innocent woman is targeted by a killer from the future who is bent upon stopping the bloodline of his future girlfriend's killer to survive to the future. Lambert tries to protect her, but the killer is very skilled. The question is, if the woman can trust Lambert if he doesn't reveal all the why's and how's.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A