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| style="text-align:center" | 1982-83
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| style="text-align:center" | October 3, 1982
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  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|7}}
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  |ShortSummary=After a badly worn-out Omni nearly strands them in Siberia, Bogg and Jeff become separated in the Middle East in 1917 during the conflicts between Arab tribes and Ottoman Turks. Jeffrey barely escapes with the Omni. Bogg meets [[Lawrence of Arabia]], and they are imprisoned by Turks but escape with the help of an Arab woman named Medina. Meanwhile, in Menlo Park, New Jersey (October 19, 1879), Jeffrey helps [[Thomas Alva Edison]] with the invention of the (practical incandescent) electric light. Edison dismantles the Omni and, though unable to learn its secrets, he does manage to repair it. Jeffrey then reunites with Bogg in Aqaba, then travel back to 1879 on December 31 to witness Thomas Edison demonstrate incandescent lighting to the public for the first time.
  |ShortSummary=After a badly worn-out Omni nearly strands them in Siberia, Bogg and Jeff become separated in the Middle East in 1917 during the conflicts between Arab tribes and Ottoman Turks. Jeffrey barely escapes with the Omni. Bogg meets [[Lawrence of Arabia]] ([[Judson Scott]]), and they are imprisoned by Turks but escape with the help of an Arab woman named Medina. Meanwhile, in Menlo Park, New Jersey (October 19, 1879), Jeffrey helps [[Thomas Alva Edison]] ([[Steven Keats]]) with the invention of the (practical incandescent) electric light. Edison dismantles the Omni and, though unable to learn its secrets, he does manage to repair it. Jeffrey then reunites with Bogg in Aqaba, then travel back to 1879 on December 31 to witness Thomas Edison demonstrate incandescent lighting to the public for the first time.
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  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|3}}
  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|3}}
  |EpisodeNumber=9
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  |ShortSummary=In New York, on December 11, 1930, the Voyagers save [[Albert Einstein]] and his wife from a falling desk. They then meet Isaac Wolfstein, an old retired Voyager, whom Bogg recognizes as the legendary "Wildman Wolfstein." But when Isaac asks to go to an island in the [[Oceania|South Pacific]], they end up helping [[Clara Barton]] in 1870 France during the [[Franco-Prussian War]], before going to July 1, 1946, on one of the [[Marshall Islands]]. After leaving Isaac on an island, Bogg and Jeff go to China on August 13, 1275. There, they meet [[Kublai Khan]] and there he tells them that [[Marco Polo]] and the Polo brothers have not come yet with the [[Chrism|Holy Oil]] from [[Jerusalem]]; they then go to [[Persia]] in 1272 to keep the Polo brothers from mysteriously disappearing. Bogg then goes back and retrieves Isaac from a nuclear testing site in [[Bikini Atoll]]; both then go to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] where, with Isaac's help, Bogg frees his young companion from the [[Karuna, Finland|Karuna]], a group of [[Mongol]] [[slave traders]].
  |ShortSummary=In New York, on December 11, 1930, the Voyagers save [[Albert Einstein]] (Nathan Adler) and his wife from a falling desk. They then meet Isaac Wolfstein ([[Michael Fox (American actor)|Michael Fox]]), an old retired Voyager, whom Bogg recognizes as the legendary "Wildman Wolfstein." But when Isaac asks to go to an island in the [[Oceania|South Pacific]], they end up helping [[Clara Barton]] in 1870 France during the [[Franco-Prussian War]], before going to July 1, 1946, on one of the [[Marshall Islands]]. After leaving Isaac on an island, Bogg and Jeff go to China on August 13, 1275. There, they meet [[Kublai Khan]] and there he tells them that [[Marco Polo]] and the Polo brothers have not come yet with the [[Chrism|Holy Oil]] from [[Jerusalem]]; they then go to [[Persia]] in 1272 to keep the Polo brothers from mysteriously disappearing. Bogg then goes back and retrieves Isaac from a nuclear testing site in [[Bikini Atoll]]; both then go to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] where, with Isaac's help, Bogg frees his young companion from the [[Karuna, Finland|Karuna]], a group of [[Mongol]] [[slave traders]].
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  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|1|16}}
  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|1|16}}
  |EpisodeNumber=13
  |EpisodeNumber=13
  |ShortSummary=The Voyagers appear in an empty courtroom with a non-functioning Omni. A defense attorney named Susan claims Bogg has violated the Voyager Code and will be put on trial by Voyager Drake, a tough prosecutor. Three judges take the bench, and Bogg is charged with endangering Jeff's life. However, evidence of [[perjury]] during the trial is discovered, showing that Drake had tampered with the Omni Memory Recorder. When Drake attempts to escape with his Omni, the Voyagers grab him and end up in the [[Texas Revolution]] in [[Mexico]] in 1836. Drake escapes somewhere in time while Bogg & Jeff help [[Sam Houston]] and the Texan rebels. Susan then brings them back and a judge tells them that Jeff's destiny was to be a Voyager. He gives Bogg his Omni, but they go back to work and disappear before he can give them a new Guidebook.
  |ShortSummary=The Voyagers appear in an empty courtroom with a non-functioning Omni. A defense attorney named Susan claims Bogg has violated the Voyager Code and will be put on trial by Voyager Drake (Stephen Liska), a tough prosecutor. Three judges take the bench, and Bogg is charged with endangering Jeff's life. However, evidence of [[perjury]] during the trial is discovered, showing that Drake had tampered with the Omni Memory Recorder. When Drake attempts to escape with his Omni, the Voyagers grab him and end up in the [[Texas Revolution]] in [[Mexico]] in 1836. Drake escapes somewhere in time while Bogg & Jeff help [[Sam Houston]] and the Texan rebels. Susan then brings them back and a judge tells them that Jeff's destiny was to be a Voyager. He gives Bogg his Omni, but they go back to work and disappear before he can give them a new Guidebook.
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  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|7|10}}
  |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|7|10}}
  |EpisodeNumber=20
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  |ShortSummary=In London, November 19, 1889, an American journalist named [[Nellie Bly]] is attacked by a man, but the attacker vanishes when Bogg and Jeff appear. When her friend Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] begins to question Bly about her attacker, she suspects Bogg is the infamous [[Jack the Ripper]] and gets the police. [[Inspector Lestrade]] of [[Scotland Yard]] arrests Bogg, and the Voyagers realize renegade Voyager Drake was Bly's attacker. After they escape from Lestrade, they find Drake about to kill Bly and Doyle in order to "ruin history," but Bogg and Jeff stop him before he vanishes in time.
  |ShortSummary=In London, November 19, 1889, an American journalist named [[Nellie Bly]] ([[Julia Duffy]]) is attacked by a man, but the attacker vanishes when Bogg and Jeff appear. When her friend Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] ([[Michael Ensign]]) begins to question Bly about her attacker, she suspects Bogg is the infamous [[Jack the Ripper]] and gets the police. [[Inspector Lestrade]] of [[Scotland Yard]] arrests Bogg, and the Voyagers realize renegade Voyager Drake was Bly's attacker. After they escape from Lestrade, they find Drake about to kill Bly and Doyle in order to "ruin history," but Bogg and Jeff stop him before he vanishes in time.
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[[Category:Alternate history television series]]
[[Category:Alternate history television series]]
[[Category:American English-language television shows]]
[[Category:American English-language television shows]]
[[Category:NBC television dramas]]
[[Category:NBC science fiction dramas]]
[[Category:Television series by Universal Television]]
[[Category:Television series by Universal Television]]
[[Category:American time travel television series]]
[[Category:American time travel television series]]

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Voyagers! is an American science-fiction television series about time travel that aired on NBC from October 3, 1982, to July 10, 1983, during the 1982–1983 season. The series starred Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.

Plot

Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) is one of a society of time travelers called Voyagers, who with the help of a young boy named Jeffrey Jones (played by Meeno Peluce) from 1982, uses a hand-held device called an Omni (which looks like a large pocket watch) that flashes red when history is wrong and green when the timeline is corrected, to travel in time and ensure that history unfolds correctly.

Bogg and Jeffrey first met when Bogg's Omni malfunctioned and took him to 1982 (the device was not supposed to reach any later than 1970), landing him in the skyscraper apartment of Jeffrey's aunt and uncle, who were caring for him after his parents' deaths. Bogg's guidebook, which contained a detailed description of how history was supposed to unfold, was grabbed by Jeffrey's dog Ralph, and in the struggle to retrieve it, Jeffrey accidentally fell out his bedroom window and Bogg jumped out to rescue him by activating the Omni. With his guidebook stuck in 1982, Bogg (who, being more interested in girls than in history, apparently never paid much attention in his Voyager training/history classes) had to rely on Jeffrey, whose father had been a history professor, to help him. Jeffrey's knowledge proved invaluable; for example, in the first episode, Jeffrey ensured that baby Moses' basket traveled down the Nile, where it was met by the Pharaoh's daughter.

Phineas is a great womanizer and manages to fall for a beautiful woman in almost every episode. Whenever Jeffrey's wisdom was paired up against Bogg's stubbornness, Jeffrey usually wins out, to which Bogg would always mutter, "Smart kids give me a pain!" Another catchphrase used by Bogg as an expletive was "Bat's breath!"[1] They develop a strong relationship and become a formidable team. In the course of their adventures together, they sometimes encounter other Voyagers whose missions happened to overlap with theirs.

As revealed later in the series, despite Jeffrey's age and the accidental circumstances of his first encounter with Phineas, he was always destined to become a Voyager.

Over the closing credits of each episode, regular cast member Meeno Peluce said in voice-over: "If you want to learn more about [historical element from the episode], take a voyage down to your public library. It's all in books!"

Cast

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Meeno Peluce as Jeffrey Jones (left) and Jon-Erik Hexum as Phineas Bogg (right)

Reception

Tom Shales of The Washington Post praised the series as "a live-action version of the Mr. Peabody and Sherman cartoons on the delightful old 'Bullwinkle' show" and "largely a joy ride from start to finish."[1]

Voyagers! ran for one season of 20 episodes, broadcast opposite the top-rated 60 Minutes. The series averaged a 17 share. Voyagers! seemed likely to be renewed for a second season, but controversies in 60 Minutes reporting led executives to believe that 60 Minutes might successfully be challenged by a competing news program, instead.[2] NBC cancelled Voyagers![3] and replaced it with the news magazine program Monitor, which averaged only a 7 share.[2] David Letterman poked fun at NBC's cancellation of the series by airing a sketch on his Late Night program titled "They Took My Show Away", a parody of an after-school special in which the host comforts a boy who was a Voyagers! fan.[4]

U.S. television ratings

Season Episodes Start date End date Nielsen rank Nielsen rating Tied with
1982–83 20 October 3, 1982 July 10, 1983 95[5] N/A N/A

Home media

Television film

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1985, following the death of series lead Jon-Erik Hexum, Universal re-edited several episodes of the show into a television film. Entitled Voyager from the Unknown, the story combined the pilot episode and "Voyagers of the Titanic" into one feature-length film. This version incorporates new video special effects, some voice-over dubbing for Hexum and Peluce's characters that changed, and added dialogue and new footage to include a supercomputer directing Voyager missions.

The opening begins with a narration and painted illustrations of Bogg receiving his guidebook on "Planet Voyager" by artist Jerry Gebr.

"Far out in the cosmos there exists a planet known as Voyager, where the mystery of travel into space and through time has been solved. It is inhabited by a race who call themselves Voyagers. Their purpose is to keep constant surveillance on history. These people have a time machine device, the Omni, which will take them into the past, present or future. As each Voyager graduates he is given an omni and a guidebook. One such graduate Phineas Bogg, who was assigned as a field worker to operate in certain time zones."

VHS release

The re-edited telefilm was issued on VHS by MCA Home Video in 1985. It was the only official release of Voyagers! on home video in the US until the DVD release in 2007.

DVD release

On July 17, 2007, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released all 20 episodes of Voyagers! on DVD in Region 1.[6] It was released in Region 2 on October 29, 2007.

Streaming

All 20 episodes are also available in the United States by streaming through Amazon Prime Video.

As of September 2024, the series is available on The Roku Channel.[7]

Episodes

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References

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Bibliography

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External links

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