Bully and Billy

Episode aired Oct 24, 1982
49m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

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Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce in Voyagers! (1982)

Adventure Family Sci-Fi

Correcting history, Phineas and Jeffrey have to save a young Teddy Roosevelt from being killed by Billy the Kid and they assist Benjamin Franklin with his kite experiment.Correcting history, Phineas and Jeffrey have to save a young Teddy Roosevelt from being killed by Billy the Kid and they assist Benjamin Franklin with his kite experiment.Correcting history, Phineas and Jeffrey have to save a young Teddy Roosevelt from being killed by Billy the Kid and they assist Benjamin Franklin with his kite experiment.

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7.8/10

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Trivia
The scene with Billy the Kid was filmed at Vasquez Rocks State Park, outside of Los Angeles, California. This location has been used in many TV shows and movies, and is instantly recognizable for its unique rock outcroppings. It is most famous as the filming location for Arena (1967), in which Captain James T. Kirk fights the Gorn.

Goofs
Billy the Kid is shown holding up a stagecoach; the real Billy achieved infamy as a gunfighter, not a bandit, and never held up a stagecoach, bank, or train in his life.

Quotes
Jeffrey Jones: Bogg, how many kids get the chance to learn how to shoot from Billy the Kid?
Phineas Bogg: None, I hope.
Jeffrey Jones: We're just going to be shooting tin cans.
Phineas Bogg: No way.
Jeffrey Jones: Please Bogg, it'll be good experience.
Phineas Bogg: I said no. That's final.

Connections
Featured in Voyagers!: The Trial of Phineas Bogg (1983)

Soundtracks
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
(uncredited)
Traditional

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7/10

Teddy Roosevelt and Billy The Kid

With a stop to help Ben Franklin with his kite experiment, this Voyager story deals with a supposed showdown of Billy The Kid and a young Theodore Roosevelt.

Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce first land in Cuba where horror of horrors it's discovered there are no Rough Riders. But we learn that a young Harvard graduate Theodore Roosevelt had been shot and killed by Billy The Kid.

Frank Koppala as Billy and Gregg Henry as TR really dominate this story. Koppala plays Billy as a real punk, but young Meeno Peluce is caught up in the excitement of riding with him. Hexum who has seen more of the world has a job knocking some sense into him.

Gregg Henry does capture some of the sillier aspects of a young TR who was in fact was somewhat full of himself as you see here. He learned a bit of discretion later in life.

Need I point out that Billy The Kid did his thing in New Mexico territory while TR when he did go west did his cowboy thing in the Dakota territory? Never did the twain come close to meeting.

Never mind, this one is a fun story.

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