Phineas loses his guide book, although quite conveniently Jeffrey turns out to be a bonafide history buff. What was it with television stars in the 80's losing their required reading? I'm looking at you Greatest American Hero.
The kid that was on the show that later became a high school history teacher was a rare sign of Hollywood actually influencing a person in a good way. Also, had Voyagers! aired on a Saturday morning, had its episodes split into two parts to make thirty minute episodes, rather than hour long episodes, and had Donald P. Bellasario come to work on Voyagers! instead of on Quantum Leap a few years later (and thus also potentially leading Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, as well as the rest of the cast members of that show instead being a part of the Voyagers! cast), then I think that it could have lasted all the way into the 1990s, and especially if you cycled old Voyagers and trainees out, and put new ones in every season.
Pax Humana Your reply to me is what you should have said in the first place. Your first comment is so damn wordy that my friends and I thought you meant something else. And yes, I had some people read your comment to be sure I wasn’t completely wrong. This is RUclips not Facebook. Try brevity.
I loved the Show too, I don't recall the NEWS Reports about Mr. Hexum, but when looking up the IMDb Page on the Show, a few years Back I learned that he Died By an Accidental Self-Inflicted Gun Shot Wound, and I was Crushed, one of My Favorite Time Travelers was Dead, and they Vanish in a Bolt of Lightning, which helps My Theory, the Lightning Bolt Creates a Tachyon Pulse Propelling them Through Time.
I was 12 when this was on. I looked forward to it each week. Not my favorite program, but I liked it. The only thing about it was how would they know time was wrong? Once the wrong time event happens it becomes the correct time event. They shouldn't know any other way. But that didn't really matter. You just accepted it and enjoyed the adventure.
@Hannah D yeah, but that's my point. Omni shouldn't know, unless it is like the TVA guarding a sacred timeline. Once the timeline is altered, anyone in the future won't know anything is changed, because the change would become actual history.
Great Scott! I'd forgotten all about this show! Just think of all the things that had to happen to bring me to this point in time to be reminded of it. Hey, I think somebody's messin with me! ⌛⌚⏳ 🚬👓...
Jon eric hexum saved me after a hard day in the 3rd grade i turned on the tv after getting a beating for no reason...an the show made me forget about my personal pain...Rip Jon Erik Hexum..maybe i can return the cosmic favor..
So sad to hear your story, glad to hear shows like Voyagers helped you through tough times. I had a rough time in school too, being bullied constantly because of a disability I became an avid reader and watcher of science fiction that’s how I escaped from my struggles if only for that short time.
I loved this show. I actually got to meet John Eric Hexum when I was about 14. He came to a car show in Greenville SC. I got his autograph and a kiss!! I was floating on air lol I was so heartbroken when he died. He was a great actor.
I watched it on NBC in 82. Then in syndication then on TV Links. I loved the PSA segment promoting literacy. "Take a voyage to your local library. It's all in books!" I still do. I still do.
They were promoting reading for everyone because anyone that loves to read. Is actually living life to the full because it's a privilege to know how to read and write. In those days the Internet didn't exist but one needs to develop the appreciation for reading. At the end of that show they were promoting something positive especially for children. I certainly wished that show would've continued for a couple of more seasons. Perhaps Jon-Erik Hexum might've had a different outcome.
Here's some head canon for you. What if the Dwarves from Time Bandits created the Voyager society after they stopped the great evil. Hence the look and feel of the show.
" Hey, I found your book!!" " Good, Jeffrey , let's see, NO, this is the instructions for a red Super suit with a black cape !!! , it's not my book!!".
This is from memory: The time traveler appeared outside the kid's window in a high rise apartment. He broke through the window to save himself from falling to his death. To protect the kid, his dog lunged at the time traveler and locked onto the time traveler's guide book. In the struggle to get the book free, the time traveler knocked the kid out the window. The time traveler jumped out the window after the kid, grabbed him and traveled into the past to save the kid from falling to his death. The kid's father (I think) was an expert in history and taught him everything he knew about it. The time traveler promised to return the kid to his own time, mostly in an effort to retrieve his guidebook.
That is correct. Phineas Fogg lost his book, which he didn't read, believing he could figure out the stuff on his own. But since he had no grasp of history, he couldn't figure out what the problems were. The kid was a genius who loved history, and travelled with Fogg to help him identify what needed to be corrected. Like the time Edison quit work on the light bulb after the 900th attempt.
Christopher Jahn, the Edison episode is the one that sticks in my memory, didn’t Edison disassemble the Omni? Or was that someone else in another episode?
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 It drifted too much into Phineas Bogg's Bogg's intiment relations. Less & less about Bogg's & the boy. Less about the omni. Less about other Voyagers. Whatever happened to the "dark" Voyager with the silver omni? Less about the missions. All about Bogg's & his romance of the week.
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 I remember him mostly because of his cool silver (colored at least) omni & black attire & raven hair. He wasn't all dark. He still answered to their council.
If NBC didn't cancel Voyagers maybe Jon-Erik Hexum wouldn't of had that accidental death on set on Cover Up. He's Hollywood star burn out way too early R.I.P.
He did not burn out, some moron on the props fucked up, Hexum did not know that the fuck up had happened, and he died needlessly, all because someone did not do their job properly. However, because of that incident, as well as the accident that claimed the life of H. B. Halicki, better standards were crafted to prevent needless deaths on movie and television stages and shoots.
Do you know? Jon-Erik Hexum self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head was from playing "Russian Roulette". that could have happened on any 'Show' with revolvers(guns).
I *loved* this show as a kid and was disappointed when it was cancelled. I would really love to see it come back in a reebooted more sophisticated and a bit more adult form. That being said for a good amount of years now I've been able to clearly see the various similarities between 'Voyagers" and a certain other sci fi show....this one from the U.K. (*Doctor Who*). Phineas was *The Doctor*. Jeffrey was his *companion*. The Omni was Phinea's *TARDIS*,and like The TARDIS was unpredictable and malfunctioned. He came from a planet of Voyagers that had the secret of traveling through time (*Time-Lords*) The episode with the Titanic featured a female Voyager (*Romana*). There was an episode where Phineas is put on trial for interferring/screwing up (*The War Games/Trial of A Timelord*) His prosecutor during the trial was an evil Voyager (*The Master*). The evil Voyager had a more advanced state of the art Omni than Phineas' (just like The Master's TARDIS was more sophisticated than The Doctor's) The evil Voyager would later return in an episode about Jack The Ripper when he tried to get revenge against Phineas. Still love this show though ! Gets a thumbs up from me !
RE: "He came from a planet of Voyagers" that was a retcon for the TV movie. In the original broadcast Voyagers were actually humans plucked from history by the society of Voyagers in the future. It's more similar to DC's Legends of Tomorrow in that sense. Bogg had actually been a 17 century pirate(If you look as his "standard attire" that seems to fit) It also explains why in the Trial of Phineas episode they let Jeffrey continue on with Bogg as they realise Jeffrey is meant to be a Voyager based on historical evidence, albeit future "historical" evidence
@@jondnz Okay then the idea that Phineas came from a planet of Voyagers may have been a retcon but that makes it even worse in that it was retconned to be even *more* like Doctor Who than it already was. I would say the two major differences between Doctor Who and Voyagers was that unlike The Doctor Phineas was not exactly a genius.The other is that in Voyagers they only traveled backwards in time in *Earth* history whereas in Doctor Who they traveled to other planets,space stations in the far future, parallel universes came across aliens etc.
Voyager's rocked! I loved that show... And I really think it probably could have had a couple more seasons, given the writing improved and a time slot change happened and as far as Jon Erik Hexum goes.. I truly believe he could have done so much more in his career had he lived he was the Channing Tatum of the '80s but with a lot more savvy! This show really really was awesome when you were a kid, it gave everything you wanted to see on TV when you were young, glad you did this video!
@@camcordernonsense5264 some comic cons may have them . I was a kid when this came out I call the main guy han solo due to his out fit . The muppets would be on before. A cave would have bears . If they are cool with it bring honey popcorn and enjoy lol .MANAMEL fxs would freak my sister out .
@@davidz2016 maybe they were shooting for a Han look. All coincided with pirates at the time. All the shows I liked back then we're emotionally evoking to me. I had to know more about those characters and loved them all. Short lived and a season for me felt like several seasons took place. I was invested. That's not a bad idea to snoop at toy shows or comic cons. The facial changes on manimal were creepy to me.
@@camcordernonsense5264 yes . My grandmother would not let us watch it but we would sneak it in . Auto man was great it was my brother's favorite show . We loved the lights .
@@davidz2016 Yes! It seemed dark all the time I guess so the Troness would show better but I was excited when it came on. Streethawk too. I watched airwolf but I could never follow it well. V too. Then all started dying off I guess with rotj. We got more cop shows.
Gosh, I remember this show. I remember seeing in the news that Jon-Erik passed away through an accident. The fact that he donated his organs after his passing is very inspiring to me.
I loved this show growing up. The death of Jon Eric Hexum is one that has been forgotten over time. I remember being completely heartbroken when it happened.
I was 11 years old when this show came out. As a result, I learned a lot about history. I loved the different storylines. Each episode consisted of 2 story lines. A few episodes did 3-4 storylines in a single episode. Several years ago, I ordered the series on DVD from Amazon. I feel like I'm 11 again as I watch up.
This show was indirectly responsible for my discovery of science fiction literature. I was watching it one day when my father commented that "Phineas Bogg" seemed to be a rip-off-of/homage-to the character "Phileas Fogg" who was the protagonist in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days". I was naturally curious, especially since I had never seen my father reading a novel. He showed me his dusty old box of sci fi paper backs, which included not only Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but Asimov, Clark, Bradbury, Niven, and others. I have not been the same since.
Check out a book called The Ivanhoe Gambit, it was out of print for some years but from what I understand it's back in print again plus I've seen used one's for sale on Ebay, I read it back when it came out, it would make a fantastic movie.
There is another book been out of print for years. Still, it is interesting, called Moon Ahead, by Leslie Greener about a moon launch from Australia, but what made it unusual was that the book used the latest scientific information to make it as realistic as possible. openlibrary.org/books/OL6095929M/Moon_ahead
Peluce, is Pronounced Pel U Chy, and his first Name is Actually Miro, But his Half-Sister Soleil Moon Frye, had Trouble Pronouncing Miro, and Called him Meeno when she was a Toddler, and the Name Stuck, IMDb is a Great Source to find something out about an Actor, or a Former one.
i loved the series, damn shame it wasn't continued the one that replaced it probably sucked and lost to 60min, damn shame also the main actor died waaaaay too early🤔🤔😞😞😭😭🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
I recall looking up to Hexum's character as a kid, and was saddened when he died. IIRC he was just pretending to blow his brains out as a gag, sadly unaware that the wadding in the blank can cause serious harm when it's fired at close range. Maybe the stunt people told him and he forgot or maybe they never told him...either way, a tragedy. He may have portrayed a hero in front of the camera, but he was a real life hero in the end when he donated his organs to save the lives of others. If he had lived, I think he would've become one of the great stars of the 80s.
I might have seen every episode, but I am just finding out what John-Erik Hexum's fate was from you. Sad. He died in a very similar way Brandon Lee would die 8 1/2 years later, on set shot by a blank cartridge in a freak accident. And both died way too young. Hexum was 26 and Lee was 28. I remember both of them being great actors with a lot of potential.
Hexum was playing around with the gun though and should have known better. Lee's death was more tragic since it was 100% preventable if proper gun safety and handling had been exercised on the set. You had people who had no business inspecting the prop guns loading them improperly. It was a poorly run set and cost Lee his life.
@@alucard624 I Like the way He could Walk the same way as his father. His Martial Arts were also highly skilled, after all he was trained by Bruce Lee.
I liked Voyagers. It could have been America's version of Doctor Who, and it looked like it was heading that way when it got cancelled. Shame what happened to Jon-Erik Hexum. This show should should have made his star.
I live in Ireland and this was on RTE in the 80s. Me and my da loved it. I can still remember some of the episodes . I remember the kid got the watch broke and Edison helped him fix it lol🇮🇪✌️
I watched that show as a kid in 1982-1983 it was a great show. I loved that show one of my favorite shows. Maybe john would still be alive if nbc had not cancelled the show. I got to get the dvd i haven't seen the show in a long time. It was awesome.
I remember watching this show on NBC TV..I enjoyed..but..I became angry that the damn stupid network execs cancelled the show..before it had a chance to gain an audience.
Voyagers! Time travel before Back to the Future. I watch this show every day and Knight Rider, when I was a kid on NBC and also loved He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff and Transformers.
Meeno owes me $5 for buying him lunch at Long John Silvers in 1986. With 4% interest, he owes me $79.20. I wouldn't be keeping track, but he did tell me he'd pay me back. Still waiting, Meeno. Still waiting.
I remember this show + I was almost 10 year-old too! Myself and my 2 younger brothers watched it on the B&W 19" T.V. What a cool old show and thanx for talking about this as a lot of folks have forgotten about it.
I loved Voyagers and I was sad when it wasn't renewed. I always thought Sliders was a play on the same theme. It's great you are covering some of the short run shows from the 70s-80s-90s,
It was also canceled because while it was aimed at children, it was also one of the most violent TV shows at the time. The parents organizations (Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore among the lot) hated it.
@@Allhailbrak79 Absolutely the PMRC was a steaming pile of shit, what's so amazing is all the bands that jumped on Al Gore's global warming music fest just 20 to 25 years after his wife attempted to have music censored, what a bunch of idiots for doing it.
@@nygirl7195 Wow, a year ago... "Voyagers!" Got into trouble because it was aimed at young children. A-Team and Knight Rider was aimed at an older demographic. Kinda a shame, "Voyagers!" was actually trying to be educational, although there was people who disagreed with the botch job they did with history. In all actuality, between peeing off Tipper Gore, (she was probably left out of the promo or didn't have her ass kissed), the bad history and the honestly bad plots, the show was doomed from the start. The show's show time of 6:30 pm CST (Sunday family dinner) probably didn't help either. I would like the idea of a show based along these lines today, but without the bad history and bad plots.
@@pauljensen5699 when I look back on shows I watched as a kid in the 80s I am reminded of how much has changed on TV. I think the show had violence but nothing huge and unusual like car crashes and shootouts. It was part of their adventures. Bogg wouldn't even use a gun if I remember correctly.
I really liked this show. I looked up Meeno Peluce and discovered he's not a teacher anymore he's a photographer. Also he has a half-sister named Soleil Moon Frye.
It’s sad how terrible shows, like “The Masked Singer” can last several seasons and brilliant shows like “Voyagers” and many years later, “Journeyman” are overlooked and cancelled quickly…well, at least “Quantum Leap” lasted a few seasons.
Me too! I loved this show. I wanted a gold pocket watch that year, never got one though, lol. I was bummed when they cancelled the show. It was on Sunday nights at 7pm on NBC.
A history teacher! Now that's a fitting addition to a voyager's career! Bad writing or silly writing, the character interactions were so beautifully done! this show has inspired my love of history and exploration!
Hexum's death was an absolute show biz tragedy! He was poised to be the next BIG thing in Hollywood! I liked his acting. I would have appreciated his looks more had I been female, but I could see HOW he would draw in the female viewers with his looks, acting and winning smile! BIG shame!
Loved watching Voyagers! with my late Uncle. FYI Paul Reubens talks about E.G.Daily still being shaken up over Jon-Erik’s death during the filming of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in the commentary. British TV did a picture still & voiceover tribute to him after an episode of Cover up (think it was BBC)
In an interview Meeno Peluci said he didn't believe the story that was told about Jon Erik's shooting. He stated that they had worked with weapons and would never have mishandled a gun like that. Personally, when I heard the story I didn't believe it either.
Seems very sad and true. There was no investigation into why the prop gun with the blank in it was left on set unlocked. It was just labeled as an accident and swept under the rug. Maybe if someone had sued the studio or production company for negligence more would have been learned.
I would get the River Phoenix movie where they built their own space ship and this TV show mixed up all the time. All I could remember of this show was that they always landed on bales of straw.
Wow, very nice 👍🏼 retrospective. Good information. NBC made such a lousy mistake when they put in Monitor. Meeno Peluce didn’t stay a H.S teacher, he’s now a renowned photographer. You can find him at meenophoto.com and on Instagram.
Is that what that was? I was in high school at the time and liked the show. I think I got a box set many years ago, now gone, while looking for something good to watch. Wow, now I want to see this again. Thank you.
In college (1990), I impressed the hell out of my Economics Professor because of this show. He asked' "What position Babe Ruth would play if he wasn't such a good hitter?" I was the only one to respond, "Pitcher." I was hoping that the writers weren't lying to me.
On the first day of my European History class in freshman year our arrogant instructor, a middle-aged Russian-American Ph.D in history, tried to demonstrate to the class just how little we knew about the subject. He said, "I will bet that none of you can tell me what event sparked the beginning of the Thirty Years' War." There were several seconds of silence until I said meekly, "Um, was it the Defenestration of Prague?" Well, IF LOOKS COULD KILL! To his credit, he covered with, "Well, yes, of course YOU knew it, but I wanted to make it clear that nobody ELSE did, you see, that's the point!"
This was my favorite show when it was shown in 1982. It's sad that it was cancelled suddenly Hexum looked like an Action type hero. It was something when the Omni had been dismantled, but if it wasn't for Thomas Edison then they'd be stuck in time. Edison put it back together and they were able to keep traveling. What if Hexum was from a later time period ? He looks like someone that could've been part of the cast of "The Fast And The Furious ". Another Paul Walker type imagine him driving a fast car, with the Rock and Vin Diesel. Jon Erik Hexum looked like he was destined for greatness, if wasn't for the freak accident that cost him his life. Jon Erik Hexum will always be a Voyager, perhaps he changed the image of Action hero's.
I watched this at the time, it was popular and kids my age were watching it. I distinctly remember that this show was 'targeted' by parents groups due to the violence...even though it promoted the study of history and going to the library those things were apparently not good enough. I always felt that they were trying to build up a metaplot centered around the discovery that the Voyagers were travelling and 'fixing' time because of renegade former Voyagers out there causing all kinds of havoc -- with maybe a cliffhanger reveal that there was a counter-academy with evil Voyagers trying to conquer time once and for all.
Too bad no scifi network back then. It would have been cool if it could have been picked up by another syndicated network to continue. I know cable was just in its infancy in 1982.
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Phineas loses his guide book, although quite conveniently Jeffrey turns out to be a bonafide history buff.
What was it with television stars in the 80's losing their required reading? I'm looking at you Greatest American Hero.
In Greatest American Hero, the aliens replace the book in season 3. And Bill and Ralph immediately lose it again.
@@nehukybis it's sitting on that boulder over there...
I’d have loved a team up with Ralph Hinckley, Mork, Phineas And Michael Knight.
@@nehukybis I remember. It was miniaturized. I was Soo annoyed.
Ralph lost the instruction book at least two or three times.
The kid that was on the show that later became a high school history teacher was a rare sign of Hollywood actually influencing a person in a good way. Also, had Voyagers! aired on a Saturday morning, had its episodes split into two parts to make thirty minute episodes, rather than hour long episodes, and had Donald P. Bellasario come to work on Voyagers! instead of on Quantum Leap a few years later (and thus also potentially leading Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, as well as the rest of the cast members of that show instead being a part of the Voyagers! cast), then I think that it could have lasted all the way into the 1990s, and especially if you cycled old Voyagers and trainees out, and put new ones in every season.
Pax Humana That must have been reruns because the show originally broadcast on Sunday nights on NBC opposite 60 Minutes.
@@rg8993 , no, what I said is that it should have been a Saturday morning show instead. Do you not read comments?
Pax Humana Your reply to me is what you should have said in the first place. Your first comment is so damn wordy that my friends and I thought you meant something else. And yes, I had some people read your comment to be sure I wasn’t completely wrong. This is RUclips not Facebook. Try brevity.
Great idea.
I haven't forgotten this show at all. I loved it as a kid. I remember being heartbroken when Jon Eric Hexum died😢
Issac Matthews Ditto. This was actually when my parents gave me the death talk.
Me too. I always explain to my theatre and film students his story as to WHY you should NEVER goof off with even a prop gun.
I loved the Show too, I don't recall the NEWS Reports about Mr. Hexum, but when looking up the IMDb Page on the Show, a few years Back I learned that he Died By an Accidental Self-Inflicted Gun Shot Wound, and I was Crushed, one of My Favorite Time Travelers was Dead, and they Vanish in a Bolt of Lightning, which helps My Theory, the Lightning Bolt Creates a Tachyon Pulse Propelling them Through Time.
Me too bro. This show was awesome.
Now I gotta find and watch every episode. Great show. One of my all time favorites even though it wasnt on long enough .
Voyagers! was definately one of my favorite shows.
This used to shown on TV in Jamaica in the early 80s. Loved it.
I was 12 when this was on. I looked forward to it each week. Not my favorite program, but I liked it.
The only thing about it was how would they know time was wrong? Once the wrong time event happens it becomes the correct time event. They shouldn't know any other way. But that didn't really matter. You just accepted it and enjoyed the adventure.
@Hannah D yeah, but that's my point. Omni shouldn't know, unless it is like the TVA guarding a sacred timeline. Once the timeline is altered, anyone in the future won't know anything is changed, because the change would become actual history.
Great Scott! I'd forgotten all about this show! Just think of all the things that had to happen to bring me to this point in time to be reminded of it. Hey, I think somebody's messin with me!
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"Batsbreath!" He must have visited 2020
I loved this show. It’s what got me into history.
Yes! Thanks buddy!
Jon eric hexum saved me after a hard day in the 3rd grade i turned on the tv after getting a beating for no reason...an the show made me forget about my personal pain...Rip Jon Erik Hexum..maybe i can return the cosmic favor..
So sad to hear your story, glad to hear shows like Voyagers helped you through tough times. I had a rough time in school too, being bullied constantly because of a disability I became an avid reader and watcher of science fiction that’s how I escaped from my struggles if only for that short time.
The show aired on Sundays. There would have been no school that day.
I loved this show. I actually got to meet John Eric Hexum when I was about 14. He came to a car show in Greenville SC. I got his autograph and a kiss!! I was floating on air lol I was so heartbroken when he died. He was a great actor.
They say hexum was a genuinely nice guy. you're lucky you had the chance to meet him.
i loved him as a kid, he and the Phineas character meant a lot to me.
And then, a few years later, NBC realized the mistake they made, and Quantum Leap was born.
Or as we liked to call it, ' Quantum Limp'!
NBC is notorious for cancelling great shows.
Too late bc I never gave a shit lol
They cancled it cause the guy acidently killed himself on set
@@jonpendragon2066 two years later on the set of coverup. Voyagers was cancelled after 1 season
major slice of my childhood. I would never miss an episode!! The episodes actually helped me during elementary school in history class!!
I loved this show I'm old.
I watched it on NBC in 82. Then in syndication then on TV Links. I loved the PSA segment promoting literacy. "Take a voyage to your local library. It's all in books!" I still do. I still do.
They were promoting reading for everyone because anyone that loves to read. Is actually living life to the full because it's a privilege to know how to read and write. In those days the Internet didn't exist but one needs to develop the appreciation for reading. At the end of that show they were promoting something positive especially for children. I certainly wished that show would've continued for a couple of more seasons. Perhaps Jon-Erik Hexum might've had a different outcome.
60 minutes VS Voyagers, the Battle of the Pocket Watches.
I loved this show, it felt like a natural extension of Time Bandits.
Yes that's rcavtly what I always felt they were going for from a cinematic look and style.
Here's some head canon for you. What if the Dwarves from Time Bandits created the Voyager society after they stopped the great evil. Hence the look and feel of the show.
Oh boy! Now I know where Quantum Leap leaped from
With Dr. Who elements.
And Voyagers took a familiar voyage from The Time Tunnel
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Look up the original plan for Battlestar 1980. THAT was where Quantum Leap came from.
@@MudballDon Truth and true.
Loved this show! Thank you!!! Peluce is the brother of Solei Moon Frye “Punky Brewster”.
I forgot that
It's "Pe-loo-CHEE", not "Pe-LOOS"
My Mom had a crush on Meeno Peluce
@@austindreher2791 so did I
" Hey, I found your book!!" " Good, Jeffrey , let's see, NO, this is the instructions for a red Super suit with a black cape !!! , it's not my book!!".
I thought the time traveler lost his book and the kid was a genius, who acted as the history book?
This is from memory: The time traveler appeared outside the kid's window in a high rise apartment. He broke through the window to save himself from falling to his death. To protect the kid, his dog lunged at the time traveler and locked onto the time traveler's guide book. In the struggle to get the book free, the time traveler knocked the kid out the window. The time traveler jumped out the window after the kid, grabbed him and traveled into the past to save the kid from falling to his death. The kid's father (I think) was an expert in history and taught him everything he knew about it. The time traveler promised to return the kid to his own time, mostly in an effort to retrieve his guidebook.
That is correct. Phineas Fogg lost his book, which he didn't read, believing he could figure out the stuff on his own. But since he had no grasp of history, he couldn't figure out what the problems were. The kid was a genius who loved history, and travelled with Fogg to help him identify what needed to be corrected. Like the time Edison quit work on the light bulb after the 900th attempt.
Christopher Jahn, the Edison episode is the one that sticks in my memory, didn’t Edison disassemble the Omni? Or was that someone else in another episode?
@@jarrett2209 he repaired it. It had been damaged in a previous episode, so they couldn't set destinations.
Jarrett Groue yes, edison.
I lived for this show as a "tween".
As an adult - and a kid, I'll never get why it was cancelled before it's time.
It was o.k. until it got too gushy.
@@kjk7611 ...how so? It was always gushy in a way...
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 It drifted too much into Phineas Bogg's Bogg's intiment relations. Less & less about Bogg's & the boy. Less about the omni. Less about other Voyagers. Whatever happened to the "dark" Voyager with the silver omni? Less about the missions. All about Bogg's & his romance of the week.
@@kjk7611 ...holy shit. I forgot about the Dark Voyager!!!!
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 I remember him mostly because of his cool silver (colored at least) omni & black attire & raven hair. He wasn't all dark. He still answered to their council.
I was able to find it on DVD and bought the series with childlike glee! LOL
If NBC didn't cancel Voyagers maybe Jon-Erik Hexum wouldn't of had that accidental death on set on Cover Up. He's Hollywood star burn out way too early R.I.P.
He did not burn out, some moron on the props fucked up, Hexum did not know that the fuck up had happened, and he died needlessly, all because someone did not do their job properly. However, because of that incident, as well as the accident that claimed the life of H. B. Halicki, better standards were crafted to prevent needless deaths on movie and television stages and shoots.
Do you know? Jon-Erik Hexum self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head was from playing "Russian Roulette". that could have happened on any 'Show' with revolvers(guns).
Cover up was a good show
Loved that show COVER UP too
He was an idiot for playing around with a prop gun and paid the ultimate price. What a waste.
I *loved* this show as a kid and was disappointed when it was cancelled. I would really love to see it come back in a reebooted more sophisticated and a bit more adult form. That being said for a good amount of years now I've been able to clearly see the various similarities between 'Voyagers" and a certain other sci fi show....this one from the U.K. (*Doctor Who*). Phineas was *The Doctor*. Jeffrey was his *companion*. The Omni was Phinea's *TARDIS*,and like The TARDIS was unpredictable and malfunctioned. He came from a planet of Voyagers that had the secret of traveling through time (*Time-Lords*) The episode with the Titanic featured a female Voyager (*Romana*). There was an episode where Phineas is put on trial for interferring/screwing up (*The War Games/Trial of A Timelord*) His prosecutor during the trial was an evil Voyager (*The Master*). The evil Voyager had a more advanced state of the art Omni than Phineas' (just like The Master's TARDIS was more sophisticated than The Doctor's) The evil Voyager would later return in an episode about Jack The Ripper when he tried to get revenge against Phineas. Still love this show though ! Gets a thumbs up from me !
RE: "He came from a planet of Voyagers" that was a retcon for the TV movie. In the original broadcast Voyagers were actually humans plucked from history by the society of Voyagers in the future. It's more similar to DC's Legends of Tomorrow in that sense. Bogg had actually been a 17 century pirate(If you look as his "standard attire" that seems to fit) It also explains why in the Trial of Phineas episode they let Jeffrey continue on with Bogg as they realise Jeffrey is meant to be a Voyager based on historical evidence, albeit future "historical" evidence
@@jondnz Okay then the idea that Phineas came from a planet of Voyagers may have been a retcon but that makes it even worse in that it was retconned to be even *more* like Doctor Who than it already was. I would say the two major differences between Doctor Who and Voyagers was that unlike The Doctor Phineas was not exactly a genius.The other is that in Voyagers they only traveled backwards in time in *Earth* history whereas in Doctor Who they traveled to other planets,space stations in the far future, parallel universes came across aliens etc.
Voyager's rocked! I loved that show... And I really think it probably could have had a couple more seasons, given the writing improved and a time slot change happened and as far as Jon Erik Hexum goes.. I truly believe he could have done so much more in his career had he lived he was the Channing Tatum of the '80s but with a lot more savvy! This show really really was awesome when you were a kid, it gave everything you wanted to see on TV when you were young, glad you did this video!
I knew Jon-Erik very well. Thank you for being so respectful of his memory.
i was 11 when this show aired and i never knew or met Jon, but he meant SO much to me as a kid. i wish i could have ever told him.
This wasn't a bad show at the time too bad what happened to the star .
Playing with pistol on the set , but it had a real bullet in the chamber.
MANAMEL, AUTOMAN and the wizard.
I need to find all of those to rewatch. I hoped to find a cave so I could find something to turn me into an animal
@@camcordernonsense5264 some comic cons may have them . I was a kid when this came out I call the main guy han solo due to his out fit . The muppets would be on before. A cave would have bears . If they are cool with it bring honey popcorn and enjoy lol .MANAMEL fxs would freak my sister out .
@@davidz2016 maybe they were shooting for a Han look. All coincided with pirates at the time. All the shows I liked back then we're emotionally evoking to me. I had to know more about those characters and loved them all.
Short lived and a season for me felt like several seasons took place. I was invested. That's not a bad idea to snoop at toy shows or comic cons. The facial changes on manimal were creepy to me.
@@camcordernonsense5264 yes . My grandmother would not let us watch it but we would sneak it in . Auto man was great it was my brother's favorite show . We loved the lights .
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Yes! It seemed dark all the time I guess so the Troness would show better but I was excited when it came on. Streethawk too. I watched airwolf but I could never follow it well. V too. Then all started dying off I guess with rotj. We got more cop shows.
Gosh, I remember this show. I remember seeing in the news that Jon-Erik passed away through an accident. The fact that he donated his organs after his passing is very inspiring to me.
I loved this show growing up. The death of Jon Eric Hexum is one that has been forgotten over time. I remember being completely heartbroken when it happened.
I was 11 years old when this show came out. As a result, I learned a lot about history. I loved the different storylines. Each episode consisted of 2 story lines. A few episodes did 3-4 storylines in a single episode. Several years ago, I ordered the series on DVD from Amazon. I feel like I'm 11 again as I watch up.
i was 11 too and it is one of my two favorite shows from when i was a kid. i LOVED it.
A planet of time travelers? Sounds like the Time Lords. Even has a "companion".
This show was indirectly responsible for my discovery of science fiction literature. I was watching it one day when my father commented that "Phineas Bogg" seemed to be a rip-off-of/homage-to the character "Phileas Fogg" who was the protagonist in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days". I was naturally curious, especially since I had never seen my father reading a novel. He showed me his dusty old box of sci fi paper backs, which included not only Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but Asimov, Clark, Bradbury, Niven, and others. I have not been the same since.
Check out a book called The Ivanhoe Gambit, it was out of print for some years but from what I understand it's back in print again plus I've seen used one's for sale on Ebay, I read it back when it came out, it would make a fantastic movie.
There is another book been out of print for years. Still, it is interesting, called Moon Ahead, by Leslie Greener about a moon launch from Australia, but what made it unusual was that the book used the latest scientific information to make it as realistic as possible.
openlibrary.org/books/OL6095929M/Moon_ahead
In one episode Phineas mentions that he knew Jules Verne and that they had some fun together. They had gotten into a bit of trouble.
Wouldn't it have been cool if there was an episode where they met Jules Verne and Bogg's name gave him the inspiration for Phileas Fogg?
That’s a great story.
Peluce, is Pronounced Pel U Chy, and his first Name is Actually Miro, But his Half-Sister Soleil Moon Frye, had Trouble Pronouncing Miro, and Called him Meeno when she was a Toddler, and the Name Stuck, IMDb is a Great Source to find something out about an Actor, or a Former one.
i loved the series, damn shame it wasn't continued the one that replaced it probably sucked and lost to 60min, damn shame also the main actor died waaaaay too early🤔🤔😞😞😭😭🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
I recall looking up to Hexum's character as a kid, and was saddened when he died. IIRC he was just pretending to blow his brains out as a gag, sadly unaware that the wadding in the blank can cause serious harm when it's fired at close range. Maybe the stunt people told him and he forgot or maybe they never told him...either way, a tragedy. He may have portrayed a hero in front of the camera, but he was a real life hero in the end when he donated his organs to save the lives of others. If he had lived, I think he would've become one of the great stars of the 80s.
"We give history a push where it's needed."
I might have seen every episode, but I am just finding out what John-Erik Hexum's fate was from you. Sad. He died in a very similar way Brandon Lee would die 8 1/2 years later, on set shot by a blank cartridge in a freak accident. And both died way too young. Hexum was 26 and Lee was 28. I remember both of them being great actors with a lot of potential.
3:40 Nick Clooney is the father of George Clooney.
Hexum was playing around with the gun though and should have known better. Lee's death was more tragic since it was 100% preventable if proper gun safety and handling had been exercised on the set. You had people who had no business inspecting the prop guns loading them improperly. It was a poorly run set and cost Lee his life.
@@alucard624 I Like the way He could Walk the same way as his father.
His Martial Arts were also highly skilled, after all he was trained by Bruce Lee.
I liked Voyagers. It could have been America's version of Doctor Who, and it looked like it was heading that way when it got cancelled. Shame what happened to Jon-Erik Hexum. This show should should have made his star.
One episode never air on n b c. A new box set is coming out in fall of 2019
I live in Ireland and this was on RTE in the 80s. Me and my da loved it. I can still remember some of the episodes . I remember the kid got the watch broke and Edison helped him fix it lol🇮🇪✌️
Meeno is Punky Brewster's Brother (Soleil Moon Frye).
I watched that show as a kid in 1982-1983 it was a great show. I loved that show one of my favorite shows. Maybe john would still be alive if nbc had not cancelled the show. I got to get the dvd i haven't seen the show in a long time. It was awesome.
I loved this show as a kid. I used to love Automan too - seeing it in your intro took me back!
Ha ! I remember Automan too ,as well as 'Manimal' and ' The Powers of Matthew Star'.
The kid in the series halfsister played on the show Punky Brewster. Im glad to see he turned out ok!
he also played in the series Bad News Bears
I remember watching this show on NBC TV..I enjoyed..but..I became angry that the damn stupid network execs cancelled the show..before it had a chance to gain an audience.
Yes its the same old story all the best shows get cancelled
I loved Voyagers, I even have an Omni prop made of brass
"We travel through time to help history along. Give it a little push where it's needed"
Voyagers! Time travel before Back to the Future. I watch this show every day and Knight Rider, when I was a kid on NBC and also loved He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff and Transformers.
We would have been friends,
Not forgotten over here! I have this on DVD.
I remember the episode when Thomas Edison disassembled the Omni! LoL!
Just watch that one Tonight With My Kids. They Laughed when Bogg Said it was "Better Than New!"
Haha I always remembered that episode.
Meeno owes me $5 for buying him lunch at Long John Silvers in 1986. With 4% interest, he owes me $79.20. I wouldn't be keeping track, but he did tell me he'd pay me back. Still waiting, Meeno. Still waiting.
I remember this show + I was almost 10 year-old too!
Myself and my 2 younger brothers watched it on the B&W 19" T.V.
What a cool old show and thanx for talking about this as a lot of folks have forgotten about it.
Loved this show. I so wanted to go on journeys with them.
I loved Voyagers and I was sad when it wasn't renewed. I always thought Sliders was a play on the same theme. It's great you are covering some of the short run shows from the 70s-80s-90s,
"Sliders" was parallel dimensions, NOT errors in history.
I watched this show in 1984. I was 10 yoa and I loved it. I always wondered why it got cancelled. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for remembering:"Voyagers" and Mr.Hexium..Jonny.
It was also canceled because while it was aimed at children, it was also one of the most violent TV shows at the time. The parents organizations (Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore among the lot) hated it.
aw yes the PMRC what a steaming pile of sh*t that was
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Absolutely the PMRC was a steaming pile of shit, what's so amazing is all the bands that jumped on Al Gore's global warming music fest just 20 to 25 years after his wife attempted to have music censored, what a bunch of idiots for doing it.
Hard to believe that cause I remember the A-Team and Knight Rider were much more heavy into violence.
@@nygirl7195 Wow, a year ago...
"Voyagers!" Got into trouble because it was aimed at young children.
A-Team and Knight Rider was aimed at an older demographic.
Kinda a shame, "Voyagers!" was actually trying to be educational, although there was people who disagreed with the botch job they did with history.
In all actuality, between peeing off Tipper Gore, (she was probably left out of the promo or didn't have her ass kissed), the bad history and the honestly bad plots, the show was doomed from the start. The show's show time of 6:30 pm CST (Sunday family dinner) probably didn't help either.
I would like the idea of a show based along these lines today, but without the bad history and bad plots.
@@pauljensen5699 when I look back on shows I watched as a kid in the 80s I am reminded of how much has changed on TV. I think the show had violence but nothing huge and unusual like car crashes and shootouts. It was part of their adventures. Bogg wouldn't even use a gun if I remember correctly.
I always liked this one...shame it ended so quick...bad writing or not i thought it was great....great video man keep it up...
John Eric Hexum died a decade before Brandon Lee which they both died from a similar death. Freak gunshots on the sets of movies.
I really liked this show.
I looked up Meeno Peluce and discovered he's not a teacher anymore he's a photographer.
Also he has a half-sister named Soleil Moon Frye.
If I ever got a time travel device,I would set it for 1982..Best year of my life..
You got to love a show that has an exclamation point in the title!
It’s sad how terrible shows, like “The Masked Singer” can last several seasons and brilliant shows like “Voyagers” and many years later, “Journeyman” are overlooked and cancelled quickly…well, at least “Quantum Leap” lasted a few seasons.
At 3:40 The news anchor announcing Mr. Hexum's death is Nick Clooney. The father of actor George Clooney and brother of Rose Mary Clooney.
I love this back when it came out in the 1980s and I love it now that is why I have the entire season on dvd.
Remember, NBC had another show called, Quantum Leap, years later with Scott Bakula about time traveling🤳🏻😎
I was 10 when this came out, same age as Jeffrey. Huge fan. Bummed when it was cancelled.
Me too! I loved this show. I wanted a gold pocket watch that year, never got one though, lol. I was bummed when they cancelled the show. It was on Sunday nights at 7pm on NBC.
A history teacher! Now that's a fitting addition to a voyager's career! Bad writing or silly writing, the character interactions were so beautifully done! this show has inspired my love of history and exploration!
Ive never forgotten this show,it was awesome!!!!!!!
The accidental shooting by Alec Baldwin this week brought this right back to my memory. What a shame this still happens, albeit rarely.
I use to watch that show I loved it
I remember one episode, Thomas Edison dismantled that time machine pocket watch.
The premiss of this show remind me Captain Jack, from Doctor Who, a bit.
The Voyagers are Neolithic Gallifreyans. Give them a billion years and the Doctor will appear! :-)
One of my favorite shows as a kid.
Hexum's death was an absolute show biz tragedy! He was poised to be the next BIG thing in Hollywood! I liked his acting. I would have appreciated his looks more had I been female, but I could see HOW he would draw in the female viewers with his looks, acting and winning smile! BIG shame!
Sidenote: people uneducated about firearms don't get that a "blank" firearm cartridge can still be dangerous at short range. Very sad.
I was a kid then and it was one of my favorite shows.
Loved watching Voyagers! with my late Uncle. FYI Paul Reubens talks about E.G.Daily still being shaken up over Jon-Erik’s death during the filming of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in the commentary. British TV did a picture still & voiceover tribute to him after an episode of Cover up (think it was BBC)
As a kid I loved this show, it was terrible when Hexen died.
Gun Safety 101 - never point a gun at something unless you intend to kill it. Guessing nobody told that to Hexum.
In an interview Meeno Peluci said he didn't believe the story that was told about Jon Erik's shooting. He stated that they had worked with weapons and would never have mishandled a gun like that. Personally, when I heard the story I didn't believe it either.
Seems very sad and true. There was no investigation into why the prop gun with the blank in it was left on set unlocked. It was just labeled as an accident and swept under the rug. Maybe if someone had sued the studio or production company for negligence more would have been learned.
I remember the show. its episodes were rather silly but enjoyable. The premises didnt make sense but at the end it made for a neat look at history
The full name of the device was "Omni-chronometer " .. "Omni " for short
I would get the River Phoenix movie where they built their own space ship and this TV show mixed up all the time. All I could remember of this show was that they always landed on bales of straw.
Wow, very nice 👍🏼 retrospective. Good information. NBC made such a lousy mistake when they put in Monitor. Meeno Peluce didn’t stay a H.S teacher, he’s now a renowned photographer. You can find him at meenophoto.com and on Instagram.
Deliberate or not the delivery is a little better well done. Much more natural if still sounding a little like it is read :)
The movies when I was 4 years old and I'm looking for this movies I find here
One of my favorites as a kid. So much imagination fuel for many a young adventure.
Kids nowadays be like "what's a library?"
Way off topic but does any1 remember Benji, zac & the alien Prince?
YES! I used to love that show! It had a robot in it that reminded me of the Roddy McDowell robot from the Black Hole! (**Wow-I'm old!)
I'd forgotten all about that show. Benji, Zac and the Alien Prince.
Holy crap! Is this the origin of Rick and Morty ?!?
With all due respect to Quantum Leap it was no Voyagers.
Is that what that was? I was in high school at the time and liked the show. I think I got a box set many years ago, now gone, while looking for something good to watch. Wow, now I want to see this again. Thank you.
In college (1990), I impressed the hell out of my Economics Professor because of this show.
He asked' "What position Babe Ruth would play if he wasn't such a good hitter?"
I was the only one to respond, "Pitcher."
I was hoping that the writers weren't lying to me.
On the first day of my European History class in freshman year our arrogant instructor, a middle-aged Russian-American Ph.D in history, tried to demonstrate to the class just how little we knew about the subject. He said, "I will bet that none of you can tell me what event sparked the beginning of the Thirty Years' War." There were several seconds of silence until I said meekly, "Um, was it the Defenestration of Prague?" Well, IF LOOKS COULD KILL! To his credit, he covered with, "Well, yes, of course YOU knew it, but I wanted to make it clear that nobody ELSE did, you see, that's the point!"
I'm still bothered by it's cancellation.
Phineas my second crush next to Buck Rogers. Something about a nice hairy chest.
I can’t believe he passed away so young he was good handsome man
They keep changing outfits in the episodes, but somehow never lose track of their own clothes.
Loved it when I was a kid.
Had COMPLETELY forgotten about this show and how it had greatly influenced my imagination!
This was my favorite show when it was shown in 1982. It's sad that it was cancelled suddenly Hexum looked like an Action type hero. It was something when the Omni had been dismantled, but if it wasn't for Thomas Edison then they'd be stuck in time. Edison put it back together and they were able to keep traveling. What if Hexum was from a later time period ? He looks like someone that could've been part of the cast of "The Fast And The Furious ". Another Paul Walker type imagine him driving a fast car, with the Rock and Vin Diesel. Jon Erik Hexum looked like he was destined for greatness, if wasn't for the freak accident that cost him his life. Jon Erik Hexum will always be a Voyager, perhaps he changed the image of Action hero's.
Ah.. Rest in peace. Paul walker.
I watched this at the time, it was popular and kids my age were watching it.
I distinctly remember that this show was 'targeted' by parents groups due to the violence...even though it promoted the study of history and going to the library those things were apparently not good enough.
I always felt that they were trying to build up a metaplot centered around the discovery that the Voyagers were travelling and 'fixing' time because of renegade former Voyagers out there causing all kinds of havoc -- with maybe a cliffhanger reveal that there was a counter-academy with evil Voyagers trying to conquer time once and for all.
Too bad no scifi network back then. It would have been cool if it could have been picked up by another syndicated network to continue. I know cable was just in its infancy in 1982.