As of now, there's no way to watch the seven remaining episodes of "Time After Time." But that could change.

ABC hasn't officially canceled the show, though networks rarely cancel anything officially. Rather, it has simply replaced the show in its time-slot. That means it could bring back the show at any point and just call it a hiatus.

Indeed, networks have been doing that for a long time now -- they pull low-rated shows from the schedule during the regular season, when lots of people are at home looking for something to watch, and schedule the leftover episodes in the summer, when the ratings wouldn't have been great anyway.

This is simply an economic measure, since they've already paid for the shows to be produced and would rather that money not go totally to waste. In the case of "Time After Time," 12 episodes were produced and only five have aired. And the show was definitely low-rated -- it started with just 2.5 million viewers and dropped steadily from there. 

The remaining seven episodes could show up on the ABC schedule this summer, but the modern era provides new venues as well: The show could pop up on Netflix or another streaming service.

The show's weird premise, which combines sci-fi, fantasy and alternate history, could make it a good candidate for Internet success. Speculative fiction (the catch-all term for those various genres) generally does well online.

In terms of plot resolution, "Time After Time" is based on a novel of the same name by Karl Alexander, so you could go there for answers.

For the uninitiated, the show's premise imagines a world where real-life sci-fi author H.G. Wells (who wrote "The War of the Worlds," but more saliently, the 1895 classic "The Time Machine") invents a real time machine, and uses it to travel to the future to catch Jack the Ripper (for reasons that are too complicated to get into here).

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