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Canceled [[NBC]] series that got a brief run in late 2007. It was about an [[The Everyman|Everyman]] who [[Time Travel|goes back in time]] involuntarily, regularly experiencing [[Mister Sandman Sequence|Mister Sandman Sequences]], to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]].
Canceled [[NBC]] series that got a brief run in late 2007. It was about an [[The Everyman|Everyman]] who [[Time Travel|goes back in time]] involuntarily, regularly experiencing [["Mister Sandman" Sequence|Mister Sandman Sequences]], to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]].


Later in the show (now finished), 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).
Later in the show (now finished), 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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* [[The Everyman]]: Dan Vassar
* [[The Everyman]]: Dan Vassar
* [[Fake American]]: Kevin McKidd as Dan Vassar
* [[Fake American]]: Kevin McKidd as Dan Vassar
* [[For Want of a Nail]] and [[In Spite of a Nail]]: 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 [[Timeline Altering MacGuffin]]) and erases his son strongly insinuates that whoever is sending him back is also protecting his family from minor alterations.
* [[For Want of a Nail]] and [[In Spite of a Nail]]: 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 [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]]) and erases his son strongly insinuates that whoever is sending him back is also protecting his family from minor alterations.
* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: Varies between being used straight and subverted; Dan gets all the information he needs on his subjects by typing their names into a [[Brand X]] version of Google, but somethings he has to narrow down the search four or five times before he gets anything relevant.
* [[It's a Small Net After All]]: Varies between being used straight and subverted; Dan gets all the information he needs on his subjects by typing their names into a [[Brand X]] version of Google, but somethings he has to narrow down the search four or five times before he gets anything relevant.
* [[Meanwhile in The Future]]
* [[Meanwhile in The Future]]
* [[Mood Lighting]]: Just about every time Dan travels to the past, a yellowish filter is used.
* [[Mood Lighting]]: Just about every time Dan travels to the past, a yellowish filter is used.
* [[Mister Sandman Sequence]]: It seems each episode had to have at least one.
* [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]]: It seems each episode had to have at least one.
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: Dan seems to assume this applies, later subverted.
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: Dan seems to assume this applies, later subverted.
* [[Newspaper Dating]]: [[Once an Episode]], more or less.
* [[Newspaper Dating]]: [[Once an Episode]], more or less.
* [[The Nineties]]
* [[The Nineties]]
* [[Ripple Effect Proof Memory]]
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]
* [[San Dimas Time]]: 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."
* [[San Dimas Time]]: 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."
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Whole premise of the show.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Whole premise of the show.
* [[The Seventies]]
* [[The Seventies]]
* [[This Is My Boomstick]]: Subverted; Dan's iPhone doesn't work in the past, though it still looks awfully weird in 1987.
* [[This Is My Boomstick]]: Subverted; Dan's iPhone doesn't work in the past, though it still looks awfully weird in 1987.
* [[Timeline Altering MacGuffin]]: 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.
* [[Timeline-Altering MacGuffin]]: 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.
* [[Time Travel]]
* [[Time Travel]]
* [[Victim of the Week]]
* [[Victim of the Week]]
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[[Category:Journeyman]]
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