History Film / BigglesAdventuresInTime

Inspired by the recent success of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', and attempting to provide a hook for the American market, the film has a time travel plot in which Jim Ferguson, an inhabitant of present-day New York, is transported back to World War I and helps Biggles defeat a German superweapon.

* SecretWeapon: The Germans have developed a sound-based super weapon that is the main driving force of the plot. Raymond fears that it may be used by the Germans to win the war and change history. It appears to transmit high energy soundwaves that creates an affect similar to ionising radiation, and can destroy almost anything, from human bodies to artillery guns. Biggles and Jim manage to blow it up at the end of the film by using the [[spoiler: speaker system mounted on the side of their helicopter to bounce the high frequency sound it creates right back at the transmitter dish, causing an overload that eventually destroys it.]] The weapon itself was apparently based on a real sonic device that the Nazis were in the process of developing during the Second World War.

''Biggles'', re-released under the title ''Biggles: Adventures in Time'', is a 1986 movie featuring the fictional flying ace Literature/{{Biggles}}. It stars Creator/NeilDickson as Biggles and Alex Hyde-White as Jim Ferguson, a character created for the movie, with Creator/PeterCushing appearing in his final feature film role as Biggles' commanding officer, Commodore Raymond.

''Biggles'', re-released under the title ''Biggles: Adventures in Time'', is a 1986 movie featuring the fictional flying ace Literature/{{Biggles}}. It stars Neil Dickson as Biggles and Alex Hyde-White as Jim Ferguson, a character created for the movie, with Creator/PeterCushing appearing in his final feature film role as Biggles' commanding officer, Commodore Raymond.

* RealityEnsues: After discovering Jim in his hotel room dressed as a nun and in possession of a firearm, Chuck calls the hotel switchboard and requests they call an ambulance for him, casually mentioning that Jim has a gun. Naturally, they call the police, and Chuck is almost arrested before they see Jim with a gun.
** Toward the end of the film, Hauptmann von Stalhein makes a pass at the protagonists in his plane, and opens up with machine gun fire with everyone taking cover on the ground. After he passes over, everyone stands up and it seems that, despite him peppering the entire area with gunfire, he somehow missed all of his shots. [[spoiler: Only he didn't; Biggles' lover Marie was actually hit and seriously injured. She survives however.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: At the end of the film, Jim once again is sent back in time (during his own wedding no less) to save Biggles and his team before they are eaten by cannibals in New Guinea. The film ends as they make their escape from the cave they're in with the cannibals in hot pursuit, with Jim asking Biggles where they're going.

* GhostTown: The protagonists eventually come across a deserted French town that looks as if it has been bombed to hell. It turns out to be the testing site for the German sound weapon, which after repeated tests has scorched the entire town into an unrecognisable husk.

** Biggles and company have one when they realise they're about to be used as test subjects for the German superweapon, [[spoiler: and then the Germans after they're overpowered and locked out of their own protective bunker.]]

** Hauptmann von Stalhein has a major one when he sees the [[spoiler: Metropolitan Police Helicopter flying over the battlefields of France. His reaction is justified as he has never seen anything like it before.]]

* Debbie when she comes face to face with a German soldier in the cave system.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Debbie. While she doesn't appear to be unintelligent in any capacity, when she's sent back in time, she turns rather ditzy as she refuses to believe that yes, she has gone back to WWI, despite it being all around her. However, when the group are captured by Germans, she manages to create a much needed distraction when she maces a German officer in the face, kicks him to the floor and fires off his gun, which allows the others to overpower their captors before they can finish tying them up.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Time travel in this film is depicted as an unnatural lightning storm that sends a person either backward or forward in time whenever they are randomly struck by a bolt. Going somewhere requires getting hit by the lightning and takes a few moments, whilst going back appears instantaneous. For some reason, it also appears to only happen to select people in different time periods who are apparently connected somehow, and appropriately sends them to help out whenever one or the other is in trouble (or soon will be.) Throughout the film, Jim repeatedly finds himself being sent back to 1917, [[spoiler: whilst Biggles travels to 1986 on one occasion to save Jim from the police.]]

* SecretWeapon: The Germans have developed a sound-based super weapon that is the main driving force of the plot. Raymond fears that it may be used by the Germans to win the war and change history. The weapon itself appears to transmit high energy soundwaves that creates an affect similar to ionising radiation, and can destroy almost anything, from human bodies to artillery guns. Biggles and Jim manage to blow it up at the end of the film by using the [[spoiler: speaker system mounted on the side of their helicopter to bounce the high frequency sound it creates right back at the transmitter dish, causing an overload that eventually destroys it.]] The weapon itself was apparently based on a real sonic device that the Nazis were in the process of developing during the Second World War.

* CaptainObvious: When Jim and Biggles take the [[spoiler: police helicopter back to 1917 when they are flying over the thames,]] Jim announces to Biggles that they just went back in time. As if it wasn't obvious from how London had just disappeared and a French Battlefield was suddenly in its place.

** Jim when he hears the telltale thunder and realises that he's about to be sent back again. He even says "aw shit" aloud.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Time travel in this film is depicted as an unnatural lightning storm that sends a person either backward or forward in time whenever they are randomly struck by a bolt. Going somewhere requires getting hit by the lightning and takes a few moments, whilst going back is apparently instantaneous. For some reason, it also appears to only happen to select people in different time periods who are apparently connected somehow, and appropriately sends them to help out whenever one or the other is in trouble (or soon will be.) Throughout the film, Jim repeatedly finds himself being sent back to 1917, [[spoiler: whilst Biggles travels to 1986 on one occasion to save Jim from the police.]]