Young orphan Jeffrey Jones is having one desultory night when time traveling
Phineas Bogg enters his bedroom and he's whisked quite by accident into time
and space as drafted Voyager.
Jon-Erik Hexum needs him as he lost his guidebook, but young Meeno Peluce is a "walking history book". He's one of a select group of time travelers who when history gets out of kilter and their time traveling pocket watch the Omni shows red something has gone wrong.
I can and will point out the faults in each of these episodes. But they are fun.
In this one the first thing that happens is they are in ancient Egypt and there's a babe in a basket who gets a little push toward the Pharaoh's daughter. The babe grows up to be Charlton Heston.
On to World War I where we find out the Germans are kicking Allied butt with their dirigibles because no one has invented the airplane. We know this because Eddie Rickenbacker(Peter Frechette) is wounded and in the care of touring musical performer Faye Grant.
So it's on first to Kitty Hawk and then to Dayton, Ohio where a pair of lovesick brothers named Wilbur and Orville Wright are both pursuing the same woman and tend neither to their bicycle shop or their flight experiments as they are both trying to score with Sondra Currie. Ed Begley, Jr., and Donald Petrie won't invent the airplane if they don't put a hold on the libidoes. This is where the hunky Hexum comes in.
It would take too long to go into the list of folks experimenting with flight and heavier than air machines, but I think if the lovesick Wright Brothers dropped flight for romance someone else would have got the credit.
On to World War I where Hexum and Peluce arrive back to save the day again.
A nice beginning for the short lived series.
Jon-Erik Hexum needs him as he lost his guidebook, but young Meeno Peluce is a "walking history book". He's one of a select group of time travelers who when history gets out of kilter and their time traveling pocket watch the Omni shows red something has gone wrong.
I can and will point out the faults in each of these episodes. But they are fun.
In this one the first thing that happens is they are in ancient Egypt and there's a babe in a basket who gets a little push toward the Pharaoh's daughter. The babe grows up to be Charlton Heston.
On to World War I where we find out the Germans are kicking Allied butt with their dirigibles because no one has invented the airplane. We know this because Eddie Rickenbacker(Peter Frechette) is wounded and in the care of touring musical performer Faye Grant.
So it's on first to Kitty Hawk and then to Dayton, Ohio where a pair of lovesick brothers named Wilbur and Orville Wright are both pursuing the same woman and tend neither to their bicycle shop or their flight experiments as they are both trying to score with Sondra Currie. Ed Begley, Jr., and Donald Petrie won't invent the airplane if they don't put a hold on the libidoes. This is where the hunky Hexum comes in.
It would take too long to go into the list of folks experimenting with flight and heavier than air machines, but I think if the lovesick Wright Brothers dropped flight for romance someone else would have got the credit.
On to World War I where Hexum and Peluce arrive back to save the day again.
A nice beginning for the short lived series.
