To start, I love this show and could never rate it lower than 10.
I was 14 and just started high school when this show premeired on NBC but not even for the sake of "being cool" or "acting my age" could I not watch this show.
The show (although never mentioned) is somewhat based on the 1981 British / American movie "Time Bandits". In that movie people traveling through time end up passing through a boy's bedroom also, so the connection was quite obvious.
Thankfully, this show was nowhere as "dark" as that movie.
Phineas Bogg (fin-ay-us) played by the now late John Erik Hexum, is hurtling through time one night and accidentally lands in Manhattan circa 1982, into Jeffrey Jones' (Meeno Peluce) bedroom.
Phineas uses a guide book to travel and tell him how historical events are meant to turn out, unfortunately Jeffry's dog ends up eating it.
Phineas and others like him must time travel to make sure all goes right in history or else it is changed for the worse! He also has a pocket-watch like Omni which when when the light is red, history is wrong and green when all is right again.
Jeffrey makes up for his dog's lack of manners by agreeing to go on missions with Bogg (as long as he's back home at the same time and never missed).
Together they meet and help the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Spartacus,Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison . (Edison an inventor hmself) takes the Omni apart to see how it works! He fixes it of course.
They even save Gen. MacArthur by making sure he's not at Pearl Harbor when it's attacked,otherwise America would lose World War 2. (Sorry, they're not allowed stop the entire attack .)
Overall, this show was not just for children but for the whole family. Yes, it's educational without having to be named such but it's also just great entertainment. Hexum and Meeno did a great job as an acting team as well.
I couldn't understand at the time why it was canceled after 11 season but that's the way things go in TV.
I do like to think had it been renewed for season 2, John Erik-Hexum November 5, 1957 - October 18, 1984) might still be around. Sadly, he was killed while handling a a prop gun on the set of "Cover Up: Golden Opportunity" (1984).
I was 14 and just started high school when this show premeired on NBC but not even for the sake of "being cool" or "acting my age" could I not watch this show.
The show (although never mentioned) is somewhat based on the 1981 British / American movie "Time Bandits". In that movie people traveling through time end up passing through a boy's bedroom also, so the connection was quite obvious.
Thankfully, this show was nowhere as "dark" as that movie.
Phineas Bogg (fin-ay-us) played by the now late John Erik Hexum, is hurtling through time one night and accidentally lands in Manhattan circa 1982, into Jeffrey Jones' (Meeno Peluce) bedroom.
Phineas uses a guide book to travel and tell him how historical events are meant to turn out, unfortunately Jeffry's dog ends up eating it.
Phineas and others like him must time travel to make sure all goes right in history or else it is changed for the worse! He also has a pocket-watch like Omni which when when the light is red, history is wrong and green when all is right again.
Jeffrey makes up for his dog's lack of manners by agreeing to go on missions with Bogg (as long as he's back home at the same time and never missed).
Together they meet and help the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Spartacus,Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison . (Edison an inventor hmself) takes the Omni apart to see how it works! He fixes it of course.
They even save Gen. MacArthur by making sure he's not at Pearl Harbor when it's attacked,otherwise America would lose World War 2. (Sorry, they're not allowed stop the entire attack .)
Overall, this show was not just for children but for the whole family. Yes, it's educational without having to be named such but it's also just great entertainment. Hexum and Meeno did a great job as an acting team as well.
I couldn't understand at the time why it was canceled after 11 season but that's the way things go in TV.
I do like to think had it been renewed for season 2, John Erik-Hexum November 5, 1957 - October 18, 1984) might still be around. Sadly, he was killed while handling a a prop gun on the set of "Cover Up: Golden Opportunity" (1984).