"The Voyage of the Mimi" (1984) TV series

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Genre:

Adventure | Family | History

Plot Keywords:

Deafness | Tolerance | Science | Friendship | Geography

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Ben Affleck	...	C.T. Granville
Mary Tanner Bailey	...	Rachel Fairbanks (as Mary Tanner)
Edwin De Asis	...	Ramon Rojas
Victoria Gadsden	...	Anne Abrams
Mark Graham	...	Arthur Spencer
Peter Marston	...	Captain Granville
Judy Pratt	...	Sally Ruth Cochran

Runtime:

30 min (13 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English | American Sign Language

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-G

Filming Locations:

Natick, Massachusetts, USA

Company:

PBS Wonderworks

Trivia:

Peter Marston, who played Captain Granville, is a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and actually owned the Mimi at the time the series was made. The Mimi was sold in 1999.

Movie Connections:

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ah, what memories of this little kids' show...

Unlike many of the commentators who've put their two cents in on this show, I didn't become acquainted with "The Voyage of the Mimi" because of it being shown in any of my classes. Instead, I got to watch it because I was a PBS fanatic when I was a little kid and this was one of the shows that aired during the "children's block" of the decade I was a little kid, i.e. the '80s.

My recollections of the show were as follows: little boy gets invited to take part in a sea voyage led by the boy's captain grandfather. Said voyage, including in it several people who looked to be of high school or college age, takes a long while. Voyage takes detours along the way to explore various places relating to sea life and sailing/yachting. The little boy, who was played by a very young Ben Affleck, sticks out in my mind the most because of the fact that I (quite embarrassingly) had wanted to be *friends* with his little boy character when I was a little girl. Ah, what simple and innocent memories.

In terms of the quality of the show -- well, it certainly wasn't going to have great acting or brilliant scripts, but then again its target audience (little children) wasn't going to demand that either. I found myself quite enraptured of that program when I was young because it taught me things while involving me in a story and because I was a PBS nut anyway. "The Voyage of the Mimi" certainly shouldn't be considered prime material for showing to eighth graders -- younger children such as second or third graders would probably be the better viewing audience. It's simple, it's fun, and heck, if your little girl only dreams of being *friends* with a young Ben Affleck, that should be better, right?