Curiosidades

All four of the real H.G. Wells' children were still alive at the time of this film's release.

Malcolm McDowell listened to recordings of H.G. Wells to prepare for the role. According to him, Wells' voice was high-pitched and Cockney-accented so he decided not to imitate it.

The movie's title inspired Cyndi Lauper's song "Time After Time" when in 1983 she browsed through a copy of TV Guide for "imaginary song titles."

Wells always refers to his time machine simply as "the time machine" or "the machine." When the machine is first shown however, the name "Argo" is visible on the front. This is the name H.G. Wells gave to his machine in the novel that inspired the film.

A deleted scene featured Wells meeting a punk who was playing extremely loud boom-box music on a bus in San Francisco. Nicholas Meyer later reused this idea in Jornada nas Estrelas IV: A Volta para Casa (1986).

Nicholas Meyer: [Holmes] Wells' landlady is named "Mrs. Turner." Sherlock Holmes refers to his landlady as "Mrs. Turner" once (in "A Scandal in Bohemia") even though her name is "Mrs. Hudson" in all the other stories. Meyer, a Holmes aficionado and author of three well-known Holmes pastiches, is familiar with this inconsistency in the Holmes canon (he even mentions it at one point in his DVD commentary on Jornada nas Estrelas II: A Ira de Khan (1982)) and apparently included it as an inside joke, along with the several other Holmes references in the film.