This blog is all about Voyagers!
Voyagers! was a 20 episode series on NBC in 1982-1983.
PLOT: Phineas Bogg [the late John-Erik Hexum] is a member of a group people called Voyagers. They help history along. Give it a push where it's needed. He is a regular human that was living as a pirate a few hundred years ago, when he was chosen to be a voyager. He travels by way of a gold pocket watch like device called an omni. When the light is flashing red, it means history is wrong. His job is to fix it. In the pilot episode, Bogg ends up in 1982 when his omni malfunctions. (He is only supposed to be able to go as far as 1970.) He ends up in the apartment where 12 year old Jeffrey Jones [Meeno Peluce] and his aunt and uncle live. (Jones parents were recently killed in an accident.) While there, Jeffrey's dog grabs hold of Bogg's guide book (basically a history book.) Bogg being a pretty inept history person has no clue what to do without his book. One thing leads to another and Jeffrey falls out of the building's window. The only way to save him is for Bogg to jump out after him and travel through time. Now Bogg is stuck in time with a 12 year old kid (Jeffrey), no guide book, and no way of getting Jeffrey back. But he does have an ace in the hole. Jeffrey's dad was a history professor and Jeffrey picked up much of his knowledge. So now the two of them, travel through time, giving history a push along where it is needed.
episode 01: Voyagers (Pilot)
Plot: Time traveler Phineas Bogg accidentally goes to New York City in 1982 using a hand held time machine known as an Omni. There he meets 11 year old orphan Jeffrey Jones, whose parents have died. But when Jeffrey falls out a window, Bogg goes after him and they both disappear. Bogg cannot bring Jeff back to 1982, because Bogg's Omni only has circuits up to 1970. (Bogg was only able to go to 1982 because his Omni had malfunctioned.) In saving Jeffrey's life, Bogg was unable to retrieve his Guidebook (a book that told how history should have happened) in 1982, so in 1450 BC, Jeff helps Bogg as a Voyager by putting baby Moses in the Nile river in Ancient Egypt, but in France, an alternate ending to World War I is taking place in 1918, without airplanes. They meet an aspiring US actress played by Faye Grant. They both go back in time to 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and there, Bogg angers Jeffrey when he says something about his father. Later, Jeffrey sadly tells Bogg about how his mom and dad died. He cries when he says he could not get anyone to stop. Bogg tells Jeffrey not to blame himself and covers Jeff up, whereupon Jeff falls asleep. The two then travel to Dayton, Ohio and inspire the Wright brothers [Ed Bagley, Jr plays Wilbur Wright] to invent the first Wright Flyer. Next, they jump ahead in time, making sure the Allies have airplanes in World War I--battling the Red Baron in an aerial dogfight along the way. Then they go to England, on October 14, 1066 in the middle of the Battle of Hastings.
episode 02: Created Equal
Plot: The issue of slavery is focused on as the Voyagers end up in Italy in 73 BC during a gladiator training session overseen by Cicero. They meet Spartacus and are thought to be slaves, but they escape to Missouri in 1847. There, they meet 12 year old Samuel Langhorne Clemens and end up helping Harriet Tubman with the Underground Railroad. They then return to Ancient Rome and free Spartacus so he can rally his fellow slaves back in Capua.
episode 03: Bully and Billy
The Voyagers end up in Santiago, Cuba on July 1, 1898 during the Spanish-American War, but the Spanish are winning, because Theodore Roosevelt [who was played by Gregg Henry who starred as Sheriff Bourne in the 'The Train Job' episode of Firefly, Jack MacReady in Slither and Val Resnick in 1999's Payback] and the Rough Riders are not there to help because Billy the Kid had killed Roosevelt in 1880. After helping Leonardo Da Vinci with his painting of the Mona Lisa in Florence, Italy in 1505, they travel to 1880 and team up with Billy's outlaw gang to prevent the future U.S. president from being shot in the American Old West.
episode 04: Agents of Satan
episode 05: Worlds Apart
episode 06: Cleo and the Babe
episode 07: Day the Rebs Took Lincoln
episode 08: Old Hickory and the Pirate
episode 09: Travels of Marco and Friends
episode 10: Arrow Pointing East
Plot: After arriving just from Hawaii, Bogg and Jeff help a wounded Robin Hood in the Sherwood Forest in England, 1194 and learn from Little John and Friar Tuck that the Sheriff of Nottingham is holding Maid Marian captive. When the Sheriff's soldiers trap the Voyagers, they jump to New York, on May 19, 1927. On Long Island, they help Charles Lindbergh [a pre Star Trek: TNG Jonathan Frakes] make his historic flight from New York to France in the Spirit of St. Louis. They then go back to help Robin Hood rescue Maid Marian in 1194 before going back again to France on May 21, 1927 to see "Lucky Lindy" land in France...from a distance.
episode 11: Merry Christmas Bogg
episode 12: Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley
link 1: episode 13: The Trial Of Phineas Bogg
link 2: episode 13: The Trial Of Phineas Bogg
episode 14: Sneak Attack
episode 15: Currently not available
episode 16: Pursuit
episode 17 in full: Destiny's Choice
episode 18: All Fall Down, pt 1
episode 18: All Fall Down, pt 2
episode 18: All Fall Down, pt 3
episode 18: All Fall Down, pt 4
or
episode 18 in full: All Fall Down
episode 19: Barriers of Sound-Part 1
episode 19: Barriers of Sound-Part 2
episode 19: Barriers of Sound-Part 3
episode 19: Barriers of Sound-Part 4
or
episode 19 in full: Barriers of Sound
episode 20: Jack's Back-Part 1
episode 20: Jack's Back-Part 2
episode 20: Jack's Back-Part 3
episode 20: Jack's Back-Part 4>
or
episode 20 in full: Jack's Back
