Interestint thoughts, Cuidadora and Morgana. I hadn't thought about that.
I researched a bit. Perhaps it was just an kind of "Retcon" error.
Wehn "Tempus Fugitive" aired, Terry Kiser, the first Wells-actor, was 55. However, it was only said in this episode that wells died in 1946 (that's true) but nothing about his age /year of origin at that time.
When Tempus Anyone was filmed, they replaced Kiser with Hamilton Kemp. Perhaps Kiser wasn't available at that time. I assume that they made the 1899/1916 explanation to let the look-a-like difference make sense. Kemp was 62 at that time. With the things you two said, it makes sense that he would look like a man around 50 from that era (1916). However, the writers of that episode perhaps didn't remind the look/age of Terry Kiser in the first episode or the fact that Wells would be than only 33 at the time of his first visit. And no one from the show's team realized this "error" (Kemp was only 4 years older than Kiser). This could be an explanation, too.
