TV Series

Having mentioned Doctor Who, let us imagine Poul Anderson's Time Patrol as a TV series. Most installments, starting with "Time Patrol," would have to be serialized to do them justice. But this in turn would make for a very long on-going TV series:

"Time Patrol"
"Brave To Be A King"
"The Only Game In Town"
"Delenda Est"
"Gibraltar Falls"
"The Sorrow Of Odin The Goth"
"Star Of The Sea"
"The Year Of The Ransom"
"Ivory, And Apes, And Peacocks"
"The Stranger That Is Within Thy Gates"
"Women And Horses And Power And War"
"Before The Gods That Made The Gods"
"Beringia"
"Riddle Me This"
"Amazement Of The World"
"Death And The Knight"

Although five of these sixteen items are short enough to become just a single episode each, some of the others could become lengthy serials in their own right - and Merau Varagan is a perfect continuing villain, comparable to Doctor Who's The Master. Most Doctor Who fans do not know where the good time travel fiction is to be found. The three short chapters that are conversations with Guion could be lengthened by dramatizing what the characters are talking about, e.g., in one case, Altamont/Holmes outwitting German spies, then being misled by the Patrol.