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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** In "Battlefield", the Doctor finds a note in his own handwriting with the body of [[King Arthur]], a message from his future self.
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* In one episode of ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series|Friday The 13th The Series]]'', a character tries, and fails, to do this, hiding a note in a desk destined to become an antique. It isn't discovered until after she returns to the present.
** Worse, {{spoiler|the letter ended up [[Stable Time Loop|giving the villain the information he needed to use his cursed antique, which was the cause of the character going back in time in the first place.]]}}
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', after {{spoiler|traveling 1000 years into the past and becoming the prophet Valen, Jeffrey Sinclair}} writes a letter to
** {{spoiler|He}} also wrote a letter to {{spoiler|Delenn.}}
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Hiro, in the past, writes an account of his adventures on a series of scrolls and hides them in the hilt of a samurai sword. Conveniently, even though Hiro has been carrying the sword for several episodes, Ando only finds the scrolls after Hiro travels to 1671. (And somehow he gets them in the right order, too.)
** And considering it's the sword of a famous samurai that has been passed around to many owners over hundreds of years, it's a miracle that not one person has ever noticed that the bottom says "Ando, open" or that there are scrolls falling around inside.
*** Not so unlikely if {{spoiler|Adam, who'd lived through the intervening centuries,}} had kept it all along, and Linderman only got
* Reversal: In ''[[Early Edition]]'', the main character mysteriously receives newspapers a day ahead of time. He then spends the rest of the episode trying to avert the tragedies the newspaper describes before they happen.
* Used pretty well in the sci-fi action series ''[[Time Trax]]''
* In the sixth season of ''[[Charmed]]'', when Chris gets dragged back into the future by {{spoiler|his fiancee, Bianca,}} the sisters write a spell to give him back his powers and stick it under a [[Chekhov's Gun|loose floorboard mentioned previously in the episode]]. Twenty years in the future, Chris pries up the old loose floorboard, finds the note, and returns to the past with his newly-recovered powers. The sequence is also an example of [[San Dimas Time]], as the sisters 'race' to write and place the spell 'before' Chris opens the floorboard, and were surprised when he re-emerged just a few moments after they planted the note.
** Though this is justified when you consider that the girls don't really understand time travel, despite attempted explanations by Leo.
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