"Voyagers!" Worlds Apart (1982)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Ron Satlof

Writers:

Jill Donner (writer)
James D. Parriott (writer)

TV Series:

"Voyagers!" (1982)

Original Air Date:

7 November 1982 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi

Plot:

When separated Phineas is arrested with Lawrence of Arabia and Jeffery helps Thomas Edison invent the electric light. |

Plot Keywords:

Time Machine | Historical Fiction | 11 Year Old | Time Travel | One Word Title

Cast

Jon-Erik Hexum	...	Phineas Bogg
Meeno Peluce	...	Jeffrey Jones
Judson Earney Scott	...	Lawrence of Arabia (as Judson Scott)
Lawrence Dobkin	...	Commandant
Shanit Keter	...	Medina
Arthur Rosenberg	...	John Kruesi
Steven Keats	...	Thomas Edison
Mary Kate McGeehan	...	Mary Edison
Marius Mazmanian	...	Prisoner
Robert Ackerman	...	J.P. Morgan
Michael Horsley	...	Upton
Tony Brafa	...	Boehm
Nicholas Khan	...	Oman
Lynn Seibel	...	Grosvenor Lowrey

Runtime:

60 min

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

James D. Parriott Productions

Quotes:

Jeffrey Jones: If you'd like to learn more about Lawrence of Arabia or Thomas Edison, take a voyage to your local library. It's all in books!

Good Episode

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Having watched Voyagers of the Titanic out of sequence, this episode of the 20 episodes of Voyagers, the sixth one I have watched now, showed remarkable promise and appeal.

While Bogg is imprisoned with Lawrence of Arabia, Jeffrey is with Tom Edison.

Bogg's adventure was so-so, but the setup with Tom Edison (played very well by Steven Keats) was the scene-stealer. You're all but rooting for the group to discover the light bulb.

Voyagers doesn't get the characters connected to the situation very well, other than their using history to their advantage, which doesn't work out for them very well. Perhaps had they tried to alter history, only to then find themselves contributing to the story, that would have worked better.

This is what happens with Edison. Jeffrey (delivering one of the Meeno Peluce over-acting jobs) is telling Edison he mustn't give up on trying to invent the light bulb, and Jeffrey's shirt is torn.

As Edison is getting the needle and thread to repair Jeffrey's shirt . . . . Eureka! Little creative things like this is what makes the story, not 'but you're Tom Edison, you GOT to invent the light bulb!' Then the Lawrence of Arabia episode is almost upstaged by Shanit Keter as Medina, the imprisoned woman who is trying to free Lawrence. Watch as she performs the deed that we have just now recently observed taking place in the Iron Man movie (which ironically enough, also took place over 40 years ago in the first comic book, but with communist Chinese, but I digress).

Six episodes into this 20 episode show, I have finally gotten a good one, hopefully there will be another.