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#Usually only one attempt to correct it is necessary or in fact possible.

Combinations of [[Groundhog Day Loop]] and '''Set Right What Once Went Wrong''' are possible, however, and have been used on occasion: see for example "The Siege" on ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', the ''[[Tru Calling]]'' episode "The Longest Day", ''[[Early Edition]]'''s "Run, Gary, Run." In fact, this combination is the entire premise of ''[[Day Break]]''.

Combinations of [[Groundhog Day Loop]] and '''Set Right What Once Went Wrong''' are possible, however, and have been used on occasion: see for example "The Siege" on ''[[The Dead Zone]]'', the ''[[Tru Calling]]'' episode "The Longest Day", ''[[Early Edition]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "Run, Gary, Run." In fact, this combination is the entire premise of ''[[Day Break]]''.

Sometimes, trying to '''Set Right What Once Went Wrong''' is what [[You Already Changed the Past|sets everything wrong in the first place]], resulting in a [[Stable Time Loop]] and [[Two Rights Make a Wrong]]. Succeeding would create a [[Temporal Paradox]] (i.e. if you do manage to set right what was wrong, you would have no reason to travel back in time in the first place, which means the wrong-ness would still be there, so you'd travel back in time, etc.) When the purpose of the time travel is to save a person (but not alter the timeline) by pulling the person out of time, it's a [[Time Travel Escape]].