Quality Time

"Quality Time is a sci-fi adventure/drama masquerading as an animated sitcom. It follows the lives of a family born from the exploits of an alcoholic 19th century time-traveler (a fictionalized version of H.G. Wells).

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The main focus is on the relationship between the (now former) time-traveler (WELLS, 35) and the son he fathered when he visited the early 1980’s (SIMON, also 35). Having a wildly successful dad who always expects more from you is hard enough when you aren’t the same age and regularly mistaken for his twin (he’s dashing and British; you’re an average Mid-Western schmuck). Wells has already had thrilling adventures and achieved amazing things (he built a freaking time machine for one) while Simon has settled for what life has dealt: an unsatisfying career; repeated romantic failures; marijuana dependence). Most of the conflict comes from Wells meddling in Simon’s life (with the best of intentions—at least the best that a supremely arrogant, self-obsessed man can come up with).

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Due to an agreement with the Time Council (a mysterious alien group that polices time travel), Wells was spared from execution for crimes against the space-time continuum and exiled to 2020 where he lives with Simon and their hyper-extended family: Simon’s mother who holds a bitter grudge against the man who loved her and left; Wells’ new feral girlfriend and their adopted genius daughter (both from the 24th century); Wells’ son from his marriage in the late 1800’s; and Wells’ caseworker who comes from another dimension, reports to the Time Council, and lives above the garage. There is also a rotating door of Wells’ fathered children from his drunken days as a time traveler, their visits coordinated by the aforementioned case worker. Despite being a genius, Wells never quite grasped the concept of birth control.

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Stuck in our PRESENT. Running from the PAST. A dangerous FUTURE ahead!