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If you like time-travel TV shows, you might like NBC's "Timeless" (Monday, 9 p.m, Ch. 5). It's not great, but it's not bad.

As the series begins, a criminal and his henchmen steal a secret time machine and head into the past, determined to change the world. A ragtag trio — a scientist (Malcolm Barret), a soldier (Matt Lanter) and a history professor (Abigal Spencer) — hop in a second time machine and take off after the bad guys.

(The second time machine looks remarkably like the CBS Eye logo … which is kind of weird for a show on NBC.)

Monday's premiere involves the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, and it's kind of weird that the bad guys are trying to prevent the explosion and crash that killed 36 people and the good guys are trying to prevent the bad guys from preventing it.

If that sounds confusing, just wait until all this messing with time causes all sorts of disruption. Which tends to be the problem with time-travel shows — they eventually collapse under the wait of their increasingly convoluted storylines.

Maybe "Timeless" can avoid that trap. Maybe not.

The jury is still out on this show.