The very first image of the series is a famous and iconic scene still. On the back of the original press prints, the caption reads: "Rod Taylor plays role of the Time Traveller at M.G.M. for George Pal's Production of H.G. Wells' famed science-adventure story, The Time Machine. In the film, Rod travels through time from 1899 to 802,701 A.D. and it is in that far-off year that he meets danger from the evil Morlock monsters."