I loved the Show too, I don't recall the NEWS Reports about Mr. Hexum, but when looking up the IMDb Page on the Show, a few years Back I learned that he Died By an Accidental Self-Inflicted Gun Shot Wound, and I was Crushed, one of My Favorite Time Travelers was Dead, and they Vanish in a Bolt of Lightning, which helps My Theory, the Lightning Bolt Creates a Tachyon Pulse Propelling them Through Time.
Jon eric hexum saved me after a hard day in the 3rd grade i turned on the tv after getting a beating for no reason...an the show made me forget about my personal pain...Rip Jon Erik Hexum..maybe i can return the cosmic favor..
So sad to hear your story, glad to hear shows like Voyagers helped you through tough times. I had a rough time in school too, being bullied constantly because of a disability I became an avid reader and watcher of science fiction that’s how I escaped from my struggles if only for that short time.
I loved this show. I actually got to meet John Eric Hexum when I was about 14. He came to a car show in Greenville SC. I got his autograph and a kiss!! I was floating on air lol I was so heartbroken when he died. He was a great actor.
I watched it on NBC in 82. Then in syndication then on TV Links. I loved the PSA segment promoting literacy. "Take a voyage to your local library. It's all in books!" I still do. I still do.
They were promoting reading for everyone because anyone that loves to read. Is actually living life to the full because it's a privilege to know how to read and write. In those days the Internet didn't exist but one needs to develop the appreciation for reading. At the end of that show they were promoting something positive especially for children. I certainly wished that show would've continued for a couple of more seasons. Perhaps Jon-Erik Hexum might've had a different outcome.
Here's some head canon for you. What if the Dwarves from Time Bandits created the Voyager society after they stopped the great evil. Hence the look and feel of the show.
Phineas loses his guide book, although quite conveniently Jeffrey turns out to be a bonafide history buff. What was it with television stars in the 80's losing their required reading? I'm looking at you Greatest American Hero.
I was 11 years old when this show came out. As a result, I learned a lot about history. I loved the different storylines. Each episode consisted of 2 story lines. A few episodes did 3-4 storylines in a single episode. Several years ago, I ordered the series on DVD from Amazon. I feel like I'm 11 again as I watch up.
Voyager's rocked! I loved that show... And I really think it probably could have had a couple more seasons, given the writing improved and a time slot change happened and as far as Jon Erik Hexum goes.. I truly believe he could have done so much more in his career had he lived he was the Channing Tatum of the '80s but with a lot more savvy! This show really really was awesome when you were a kid, it gave everything you wanted to see on TV when you were young, glad you did this video!
Peluce, is Pronounced Pel U Chy, and his first Name is Actually Miro, But his Half-Sister Soleil Moon Frye, had Trouble Pronouncing Miro, and Called him Meeno when she was a Toddler, and the Name Stuck, IMDb is a Great Source to find something out about an Actor, or a Former one.
If NBC didn't cancel Voyagers maybe Jon-Erik Hexum wouldn't of had that accidental death on set on Cover Up. He's Hollywood star burn out way too early R.I.P.
He did not burn out, some moron on the props fucked up, Hexum did not know that the fuck up had happened, and he died needlessly, all because someone did not do their job properly. However, because of that incident, as well as the accident that claimed the life of H. B. Halicki, better standards were crafted to prevent needless deaths on movie and television stages and shoots.
Do you know? Jon-Erik Hexum self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head was from playing "Russian Roulette". that could have happened on any 'Show' with revolvers(guns).
I loved this show growing up. The death of Jon Eric Hexum is one that has been forgotten over time. I remember being completely heartbroken when it happened.
Gosh, I remember this show. I remember seeing in the news that Jon-Erik passed away through an accident. The fact that he donated his organs after his passing is very inspiring to me.
" Hey, I found your book!!" " Good, Jeffrey , let's see, NO, this is the instructions for a red Super suit with a black cape !!! , it's not my book!!".
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 It drifted too much into Phineas Bogg's Bogg's intiment relations. Less & less about Bogg's & the boy. Less about the omni. Less about other Voyagers. Whatever happened to the "dark" Voyager with the silver omni? Less about the missions. All about Bogg's & his romance of the week.
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 I remember him mostly because of his cool silver (colored at least) omni & black attire & raven hair. He wasn't all dark. He still answered to their council.
I remember this show + I was almost 10 year-old too! Myself and my 2 younger brothers watched it on the B&W 19" T.V. What a cool old show and thanx for talking about this as a lot of folks have forgotten about it.
I watched that show as a kid in 1982-1983 it was a great show. I loved that show one of my favorite shows. Maybe john would still be alive if nbc had not cancelled the show. I got to get the dvd i haven't seen the show in a long time. It was awesome.
Voyagers! Time travel before Back to the Future. I watch this show every day and Knight Rider, when I was a kid on NBC and also loved He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff and Transformers.
A history teacher! Now that's a fitting addition to a voyager's career! Bad writing or silly writing, the character interactions were so beautifully done! this show has inspired my love of history and exploration!
This show was indirectly responsible for my discovery of science fiction literature. I was watching it one day when my father commented that "Phineas Bogg" seemed to be a rip-off-of/homage-to the character "Phileas Fogg" who was the protagonist in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days". I was naturally curious, especially since I had never seen my father reading a novel. He showed me his dusty old box of sci fi paper backs, which included not only Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but Asimov, Clark, Bradbury, Niven, and others. I have not been the same since.
Check out a book called The Ivanhoe Gambit, it was out of print for some years but from what I understand it's back in print again plus I've seen used one's for sale on Ebay, I read it back when it came out, it would make a fantastic movie.
There is another book been out of print for years. Still, it is interesting, called Moon Ahead, by Leslie Greener about a moon launch from Australia, but what made it unusual was that the book used the latest scientific information to make it as realistic as possible. openlibrary.org/books/OL6095929M/Moon_ahead
I live in Ireland and this was on RTE in the 80s. Me and my da loved it. I can still remember some of the episodes . I remember the kid got the watch broke and Edison helped him fix it lol🇮🇪✌️
Dude, i have to thank you for including that Automan pic at the start. That's a show that ive always remembered brief scenes from my childhood, and i never would've found out what the show was. Bloody legend👍
This is from memory: The time traveler appeared outside the kid's window in a high rise apartment. He broke through the window to save himself from falling to his death. To protect the kid, his dog lunged at the time traveler and locked onto the time traveler's guide book. In the struggle to get the book free, the time traveler knocked the kid out the window. The time traveler jumped out the window after the kid, grabbed him and traveled into the past to save the kid from falling to his death. The kid's father (I think) was an expert in history and taught him everything he knew about it. The time traveler promised to return the kid to his own time, mostly in an effort to retrieve his guidebook.
That is correct. Phineas Fogg lost his book, which he didn't read, believing he could figure out the stuff on his own. But since he had no grasp of history, he couldn't figure out what the problems were. The kid was a genius who loved history, and travelled with Fogg to help him identify what needed to be corrected. Like the time Edison quit work on the light bulb after the 900th attempt.
Christopher Jahn, the Edison episode is the one that sticks in my memory, didn’t Edison disassemble the Omni? Or was that someone else in another episode?
Voyagers is one of my two by far favorite shows from my youth, i was about 11 and i have NEVER forgotten it. i sent decades wishing it would be released until it finally was. Jon Erik Hexum is the only other actor i ever thought had the same sort of universal charisma and looks that Harrison Ford has and both men and women would have liked him. for someone i never met i loved this guy as a kid, i was an only child in a bad neighborhood and dirt poor. i used to fantasize about him as the older brother and role model i never had. it is so heartbreaking what happened to him.
Is that what that was? I was in high school at the time and liked the show. I think I got a box set many years ago, now gone, while looking for something good to watch. Wow, now I want to see this again. Thank you.
Great Scott! I'd forgotten all about this show! Just think of all the things that had to happen to bring me to this point in time to be reminded of it. Hey, I think somebody's messin with me! ⌛⌚⏳ 🚬👓...
I might have seen every episode, but I am just finding out what John-Erik Hexum's fate was from you. Sad. He died in a very similar way Brandon Lee would die 8 1/2 years later, on set shot by a blank cartridge in a freak accident. And both died way too young. Hexum was 26 and Lee was 28. I remember both of them being great actors with a lot of potential.
Hexum was playing around with the gun though and should have known better. Lee's death was more tragic since it was 100% preventable if proper gun safety and handling had been exercised on the set. You had people who had no business inspecting the prop guns loading them improperly. It was a poorly run set and cost Lee his life.
@@alucard624 I Like the way He could Walk the same way as his father. His Martial Arts were also highly skilled, after all he was trained by Bruce Lee.
I loved Voyagers and I was sad when it wasn't renewed. I always thought Sliders was a play on the same theme. It's great you are covering some of the short run shows from the 70s-80s-90s,
In college (1990), I impressed the hell out of my Economics Professor because of this show. He asked' "What position Babe Ruth would play if he wasn't such a good hitter?" I was the only one to respond, "Pitcher." I was hoping that the writers weren't lying to me.
On the first day of my European History class in freshman year our arrogant instructor, a middle-aged Russian-American Ph.D in history, tried to demonstrate to the class just how little we knew about the subject. He said, "I will bet that none of you can tell me what event sparked the beginning of the Thirty Years' War." There were several seconds of silence until I said meekly, "Um, was it the Defenestration of Prague?" Well, IF LOOKS COULD KILL! To his credit, he covered with, "Well, yes, of course YOU knew it, but I wanted to make it clear that nobody ELSE did, you see, that's the point!"
I recall looking up to Hexum's character as a kid, and was saddened when he died. IIRC he was just pretending to blow his brains out as a gag, sadly unaware that the wadding in the blank can cause serious harm when it's fired at close range. Maybe the stunt people told him and he forgot or maybe they never told him...either way, a tragedy. He may have portrayed a hero in front of the camera, but he was a real life hero in the end when he donated his organs to save the lives of others. If he had lived, I think he would've become one of the great stars of the 80s.
Phileas Fogg...I'm certain he could go around the world in less than 80-days. A profound tragedy was his accident. Thank you, JonnyBaak, for posting this classic. I was hooked at the first episode, and, it seems, every show I view and like on network, the show was canceled. Thanks for mentioning a boxset. I'll be on the lookout. Another history anthology: The Great Adventure on TV the early 60s on CBS. There are four precious episodes on UA-cam at last count.
I really liked this show. I looked up Meeno Peluce and discovered he's not a teacher anymore he's a photographer. Also he has a half-sister named Soleil Moon Frye.
The kid that was on the show that later became a high school history teacher was a rare sign of Hollywood actually influencing a person in a good way. Also, had Voyagers! aired on a Saturday morning, had its episodes split into two parts to make thirty minute episodes, rather than hour long episodes, and had Donald P. Bellasario come to work on Voyagers! instead of on Quantum Leap a few years later (and thus also potentially leading Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, as well as the rest of the cast members of that show instead being a part of the Voyagers! cast), then I think that it could have lasted all the way into the 1990s, and especially if you cycled old Voyagers and trainees out, and put new ones in every season.
Pax Humana Your reply to me is what you should have said in the first place. Your first comment is so damn wordy that my friends and I thought you meant something else. And yes, I had some people read your comment to be sure I wasn’t completely wrong. This is UA-cam not Facebook. Try brevity.
Loved watching Voyagers! with my late Uncle. FYI Paul Reubens talks about E.G.Daily still being shaken up over Jon-Erik’s death during the filming of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in the commentary. British TV did a picture still & voiceover tribute to him after an episode of Cover up (think it was BBC)
@@camcordernonsense5264 some comic cons may have them . I was a kid when this came out I call the main guy han solo due to his out fit . The muppets would be on before. A cave would have bears . If they are cool with it bring honey popcorn and enjoy lol .MANAMEL fxs would freak my sister out .
@@davidz2016 maybe they were shooting for a Han look. All coincided with pirates at the time. All the shows I liked back then we're emotionally evoking to me. I had to know more about those characters and loved them all. Short lived and a season for me felt like several seasons took place. I was invested. That's not a bad idea to snoop at toy shows or comic cons. The facial changes on manimal were creepy to me.
@@camcordernonsense5264 yes . My grandmother would not let us watch it but we would sneak it in . Auto man was great it was my brother's favorite show . We loved the lights .
@@davidz2016 Yes! It seemed dark all the time I guess so the Troness would show better but I was excited when it came on. Streethawk too. I watched airwolf but I could never follow it well. V too. Then all started dying off I guess with rotj. We got more cop shows.
I remember when the shows originally WAS broadcast on NBC!!!!!! It WAS on right after i graduated from hi school so the history part WAS still in my memories!!!!!!! I would watch it on Sunday night's while eating dinner!!!!!!! I still remember watching every episode plus the summer reruns!!!!!! I even watched Cover up and thought it was a shame and a loss when Mr Hexium died!!!!!!! It was what gave me such an interest in time travel shows and books!!!!!!!! H.G. Wells became one of my favorite authors!!!!!!!! I discovered Dr. WHO soon after (my all time favorite 📺 show)!!!!!!! And Back to the Future series is still amongst my favorite movie series!!!!!! Timeless puts me in mind of Voyagers!!!!!! NBC has a way with time travelling shows!!!!!!!!
I *loved* this show as a kid and was disappointed when it was cancelled. I would really love to see it come back in a reebooted more sophisticated and a bit more adult form. That being said for a good amount of years now I've been able to clearly see the various similarities between 'Voyagers" and a certain other sci fi show....this one from the U.K. (*Doctor Who*). Phineas was *The Doctor*. Jeffrey was his *companion*. The Omni was Phinea's *TARDIS*,and like The TARDIS was unpredictable and malfunctioned. He came from a planet of Voyagers that had the secret of traveling through time (*Time-Lords*) The episode with the Titanic featured a female Voyager (*Romana*). There was an episode where Phineas is put on trial for interferring/screwing up (*The War Games/Trial of A Timelord*) His prosecutor during the trial was an evil Voyager (*The Master*). The evil Voyager had a more advanced state of the art Omni than Phineas' (just like The Master's TARDIS was more sophisticated than The Doctor's) The evil Voyager would later return in an episode about Jack The Ripper when he tried to get revenge against Phineas. Still love this show though ! Gets a thumbs up from me !
RE: "He came from a planet of Voyagers" that was a retcon for the TV movie. In the original broadcast Voyagers were actually humans plucked from history by the society of Voyagers in the future. It's more similar to DC's Legends of Tomorrow in that sense. Bogg had actually been a 17 century pirate(If you look as his "standard attire" that seems to fit) It also explains why in the Trial of Phineas episode they let Jeffrey continue on with Bogg as they realise Jeffrey is meant to be a Voyager based on historical evidence, albeit future "historical" evidence
@@jondnz Okay then the idea that Phineas came from a planet of Voyagers may have been a retcon but that makes it even worse in that it was retconned to be even *more* like Doctor Who than it already was. I would say the two major differences between Doctor Who and Voyagers was that unlike The Doctor Phineas was not exactly a genius.The other is that in Voyagers they only traveled backwards in time in *Earth* history whereas in Doctor Who they traveled to other planets,space stations in the far future, parallel universes came across aliens etc.
I enjoyed that show. I can't believe it was only 1 season of 20 episodes! It seems like there were so many more (even though I likely did not see them all - I grew up without VCRs and a poor memory/habit for tuning in regularly).
I really loved this show… I watched it when I was 13-14 years old…. I got mad when it was cancelled and later got devastated when I heard the death of Jon-Eric Hexum… 😢 , anyway, this show keeps a special place on my heart as I got really interested in History and incited me to read books and learn more… Thanks for making this video!! 😊
I would get the River Phoenix movie where they built their own space ship and this TV show mixed up all the time. All I could remember of this show was that they always landed on bales of straw.
I used to watch Voyagers and really loved the show. Didn't know Jon Eric Hexum had died until watching this video. What a great loss. Life is so injust some times... Thanks for posting. edit: p.s. I, although don't remember what I had for lunch today, still remember that episode where someone had dismantled the omni because he was intrigued by the LEDs!
I was 12 when this was on. I looked forward to it each week. Not my favorite program, but I liked it. The only thing about it was how would they know time was wrong? Once the wrong time event happens it becomes the correct time event. They shouldn't know any other way. But that didn't really matter. You just accepted it and enjoyed the adventure.
@Hannah D yeah, but that's my point. Omni shouldn't know, unless it is like the TVA guarding a sacred timeline. Once the timeline is altered, anyone in the future won't know anything is changed, because the change would become actual history.
I loved this show. My brother and I couldn't wait for the next episode. I thought it was funny that the Voyagers where forbidden to travel beyond 1980, very convenient.
I think Phineas Bogg's Omni could take him only up to 1971. The old retired Voyager only up to 1929, etc. It was revealed, later, that Phineas Bogg's omni was deliberately manipulated by the Voyager council to breach 1971 & take Bogg to 1982. Specifically the young lad's room.
I love this show I remember watching this with my grandma when I was younger eating ice cream with it one of the few but best memories I have of mu grandma
I watched it when I was a kid, before I started going to school. Loved the show, but wasn't sad when it was canceled because I was still watching Mr. Rogers.
Never heard of this show although ERIC was a fairly high profile TV star and I had completely forgotten how his life ended so tragically. He literally had it all and then it was gone in an instant. Extremely sad and a life lesson to us all.
This was a very cute family series and you were not afraid to have your kids watch this! It was fun, sure it had some crazy ideas, but was a ton of fun to watch and the chemistry between Jon-Erik and Meeno was very nice! By the way Meeno has a famous sibling, his sister is none other than Punky Brewster herself, Soleil Moon Frye!
I haven't forgotten this show at all. I loved it as a kid. I remember being heartbroken when Jon Eric Hexum died😢
Issac Matthews Ditto. This was actually when my parents gave me the death talk.
Me too. I always explain to my theatre and film students his story as to WHY you should NEVER goof off with even a prop gun.
I loved the Show too, I don't recall the NEWS Reports about Mr. Hexum, but when looking up the IMDb Page on the Show, a few years Back I learned that he Died By an Accidental Self-Inflicted Gun Shot Wound, and I was Crushed, one of My Favorite Time Travelers was Dead, and they Vanish in a Bolt of Lightning, which helps My Theory, the Lightning Bolt Creates a Tachyon Pulse Propelling them Through Time.
Me too bro. This show was awesome.
Now I gotta find and watch every episode. Great show. One of my all time favorites even though it wasnt on long enough .
major slice of my childhood. I would never miss an episode!! The episodes actually helped me during elementary school in history class!!
I loved this show I'm old.
Jon eric hexum saved me after a hard day in the 3rd grade i turned on the tv after getting a beating for no reason...an the show made me forget about my personal pain...Rip Jon Erik Hexum..maybe i can return the cosmic favor..
So sad to hear your story, glad to hear shows like Voyagers helped you through tough times. I had a rough time in school too, being bullied constantly because of a disability I became an avid reader and watcher of science fiction that’s how I escaped from my struggles if only for that short time.
The show aired on Sundays. There would have been no school that day.
I loved this show. I actually got to meet John Eric Hexum when I was about 14. He came to a car show in Greenville SC. I got his autograph and a kiss!! I was floating on air lol I was so heartbroken when he died. He was a great actor.
They say hexum was a genuinely nice guy. you're lucky you had the chance to meet him.
i loved him as a kid, he and the Phineas character meant a lot to me.
I knew Jon-Erik very well. Thank you for being so respectful of his memory.
i was 11 when this show aired and i never knew or met Jon, but he meant SO much to me as a kid. i wish i could have ever told him.
I watched it on NBC in 82. Then in syndication then on TV Links. I loved the PSA segment promoting literacy. "Take a voyage to your local library. It's all in books!" I still do. I still do.
They were promoting reading for everyone because anyone that loves to read. Is actually living life to the full because it's a privilege to know how to read and write. In those days the Internet didn't exist but one needs to develop the appreciation for reading. At the end of that show they were promoting something positive especially for children. I certainly wished that show would've continued for a couple of more seasons. Perhaps Jon-Erik Hexum might've had a different outcome.
60 minutes VS Voyagers, the Battle of the Pocket Watches.
I loved this show, it felt like a natural extension of Time Bandits.
Yes that's rcavtly what I always felt they were going for from a cinematic look and style.
Here's some head canon for you. What if the Dwarves from Time Bandits created the Voyager society after they stopped the great evil. Hence the look and feel of the show.
And then, a few years later, NBC realized the mistake they made, and Quantum Leap was born.
Or as we liked to call it, ' Quantum Limp'!
NBC is notorious for cancelling great shows.
Too late bc I never gave a shit lol
They cancled it cause the guy acidently killed himself on set
@@jonpendragon2066 two years later on the set of coverup. Voyagers was cancelled after 1 season
Phineas loses his guide book, although quite conveniently Jeffrey turns out to be a bonafide history buff.
What was it with television stars in the 80's losing their required reading? I'm looking at you Greatest American Hero.
In Greatest American Hero, the aliens replace the book in season 3. And Bill and Ralph immediately lose it again.
@@nehukybis it's sitting on that boulder over there...
I’d have loved a team up with Ralph Hinckley, Mork, Phineas And Michael Knight.
@@nehukybis I remember. It was miniaturized. I was Soo annoyed.
Ralph lost the instruction book at least two or three times.
I was 11 years old when this show came out. As a result, I learned a lot about history. I loved the different storylines. Each episode consisted of 2 story lines. A few episodes did 3-4 storylines in a single episode. Several years ago, I ordered the series on DVD from Amazon. I feel like I'm 11 again as I watch up.
i was 11 too and it is one of my two favorite shows from when i was a kid. i LOVED it.
Voyager's rocked! I loved that show... And I really think it probably could have had a couple more seasons, given the writing improved and a time slot change happened and as far as Jon Erik Hexum goes.. I truly believe he could have done so much more in his career had he lived he was the Channing Tatum of the '80s but with a lot more savvy! This show really really was awesome when you were a kid, it gave everything you wanted to see on TV when you were young, glad you did this video!
Peluce, is Pronounced Pel U Chy, and his first Name is Actually Miro, But his Half-Sister Soleil Moon Frye, had Trouble Pronouncing Miro, and Called him Meeno when she was a Toddler, and the Name Stuck, IMDb is a Great Source to find something out about an Actor, or a Former one.
If NBC didn't cancel Voyagers maybe Jon-Erik Hexum wouldn't of had that accidental death on set on Cover Up. He's Hollywood star burn out way too early R.I.P.
He did not burn out, some moron on the props fucked up, Hexum did not know that the fuck up had happened, and he died needlessly, all because someone did not do their job properly. However, because of that incident, as well as the accident that claimed the life of H. B. Halicki, better standards were crafted to prevent needless deaths on movie and television stages and shoots.
Do you know? Jon-Erik Hexum self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head was from playing "Russian Roulette". that could have happened on any 'Show' with revolvers(guns).
Cover up was a good show
Loved that show COVER UP too
He was an idiot for playing around with a prop gun and paid the ultimate price. What a waste.
I loved this show growing up. The death of Jon Eric Hexum is one that has been forgotten over time. I remember being completely heartbroken when it happened.
Gosh, I remember this show. I remember seeing in the news that Jon-Erik passed away through an accident. The fact that he donated his organs after his passing is very inspiring to me.
Loved this show! Thank you!!! Peluce is the brother of Solei Moon Frye “Punky Brewster”.
I forgot that
It's "Pe-loo-CHEE", not "Pe-LOOS"
My Mom had a crush on Meeno Peluce
@@austindreher2791 so did I
" Hey, I found your book!!" " Good, Jeffrey , let's see, NO, this is the instructions for a red Super suit with a black cape !!! , it's not my book!!".
I lived for this show as a "tween".
As an adult - and a kid, I'll never get why it was cancelled before it's time.
It was o.k. until it got too gushy.
@@kjk7611 ...how so? It was always gushy in a way...
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 It drifted too much into Phineas Bogg's Bogg's intiment relations. Less & less about Bogg's & the boy. Less about the omni. Less about other Voyagers. Whatever happened to the "dark" Voyager with the silver omni? Less about the missions. All about Bogg's & his romance of the week.
@@kjk7611 ...holy shit. I forgot about the Dark Voyager!!!!
@@thedoncrazephaze5375 I remember him mostly because of his cool silver (colored at least) omni & black attire & raven hair. He wasn't all dark. He still answered to their council.
I was able to find it on DVD and bought the series with childlike glee! LOL
I loved this show as a kid. I used to love Automan too - seeing it in your intro took me back!
Ha ! I remember Automan too ,as well as 'Manimal' and ' The Powers of Matthew Star'.
I remember this show + I was almost 10 year-old too!
Myself and my 2 younger brothers watched it on the B&W 19" T.V.
What a cool old show and thanx for talking about this as a lot of folks have forgotten about it.
I watched that show as a kid in 1982-1983 it was a great show. I loved that show one of my favorite shows. Maybe john would still be alive if nbc had not cancelled the show. I got to get the dvd i haven't seen the show in a long time. It was awesome.
Voyagers! Time travel before Back to the Future. I watch this show every day and Knight Rider, when I was a kid on NBC and also loved He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff and Transformers.
We would have been friends,
Ive never forgotten this show,it was awesome!!!!!!!
A history teacher! Now that's a fitting addition to a voyager's career! Bad writing or silly writing, the character interactions were so beautifully done! this show has inspired my love of history and exploration!
This show was indirectly responsible for my discovery of science fiction literature. I was watching it one day when my father commented that "Phineas Bogg" seemed to be a rip-off-of/homage-to the character "Phileas Fogg" who was the protagonist in Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days". I was naturally curious, especially since I had never seen my father reading a novel. He showed me his dusty old box of sci fi paper backs, which included not only Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but Asimov, Clark, Bradbury, Niven, and others. I have not been the same since.
Check out a book called The Ivanhoe Gambit, it was out of print for some years but from what I understand it's back in print again plus I've seen used one's for sale on Ebay, I read it back when it came out, it would make a fantastic movie.
There is another book been out of print for years. Still, it is interesting, called Moon Ahead, by Leslie Greener about a moon launch from Australia, but what made it unusual was that the book used the latest scientific information to make it as realistic as possible.
openlibrary.org/books/OL6095929M/Moon_ahead
In one episode Phineas mentions that he knew Jules Verne and that they had some fun together. They had gotten into a bit of trouble.
Wouldn't it have been cool if there was an episode where they met Jules Verne and Bogg's name gave him the inspiration for Phileas Fogg?
That’s a great story.
I live in Ireland and this was on RTE in the 80s. Me and my da loved it. I can still remember some of the episodes . I remember the kid got the watch broke and Edison helped him fix it lol🇮🇪✌️
"We travel through time to help history along. Give it a little push where it's needed"
Oh boy! Now I know where Quantum Leap leaped from
With Dr. Who elements.
And Voyagers took a familiar voyage from The Time Tunnel
Ziggy says this comment has gone....kaka
lolz
Look up the original plan for Battlestar 1980. THAT was where Quantum Leap came from.
@@MudballDon Truth and true.
I love this back when it came out in the 1980s and I love it now that is why I have the entire season on dvd.
Dude, i have to thank you for including that Automan pic at the start.
That's a show that ive always remembered brief scenes from my childhood, and i never would've found out what the show was.
Bloody legend👍
Stay tuned for an Automan video in the near future :-)
@@JonnyBaak sure will!
That show cemented my love for history
Loved this show. I so wanted to go on journeys with them.
One of my favorites as a kid. So much imagination fuel for many a young adventure.
This wasn't a bad show at the time too bad what happened to the star .
Playing with pistol on the set , but it had a real bullet in the chamber.
"We give history a push where it's needed."
I really love this show and own the series as well. It would have been great seeing a second season. Thanks for sharing this video.
I thought the time traveler lost his book and the kid was a genius, who acted as the history book?
This is from memory: The time traveler appeared outside the kid's window in a high rise apartment. He broke through the window to save himself from falling to his death. To protect the kid, his dog lunged at the time traveler and locked onto the time traveler's guide book. In the struggle to get the book free, the time traveler knocked the kid out the window. The time traveler jumped out the window after the kid, grabbed him and traveled into the past to save the kid from falling to his death. The kid's father (I think) was an expert in history and taught him everything he knew about it. The time traveler promised to return the kid to his own time, mostly in an effort to retrieve his guidebook.
That is correct. Phineas Fogg lost his book, which he didn't read, believing he could figure out the stuff on his own. But since he had no grasp of history, he couldn't figure out what the problems were. The kid was a genius who loved history, and travelled with Fogg to help him identify what needed to be corrected. Like the time Edison quit work on the light bulb after the 900th attempt.
Christopher Jahn, the Edison episode is the one that sticks in my memory, didn’t Edison disassemble the Omni? Or was that someone else in another episode?
@@jarrett2209 he repaired it. It had been damaged in a previous episode, so they couldn't set destinations.
Jarrett Groue yes, edison.
Voyagers is one of my two by far favorite shows from my youth, i was about 11 and i have NEVER forgotten it. i sent decades wishing it would be released until it finally was.
Jon Erik Hexum is the only other actor i ever thought had the same sort of universal charisma and looks that Harrison Ford has and both men and women would have liked him. for someone i never met i loved this guy as a kid, i was an only child in a bad neighborhood and dirt poor. i used to fantasize about him as the older brother and role model i never had. it is so heartbreaking what happened to him.
One episode never air on n b c. A new box set is coming out in fall of 2019
That was the name of this series. Every once in a while I try to remember it. I liked it.
If I ever got a time travel device,I would set it for 1982..Best year of my life..
Is that what that was? I was in high school at the time and liked the show. I think I got a box set many years ago, now gone, while looking for something good to watch. Wow, now I want to see this again. Thank you.
Helped forge my love of history as a kid that still is with me. Got me into the library as well.😊
I use to watch that show I loved it
Great Scott! I'd forgotten all about this show! Just think of all the things that had to happen to bring me to this point in time to be reminded of it. Hey, I think somebody's messin with me!
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At 3:40 The news anchor announcing Mr. Hexum's death is Nick Clooney. The father of actor George Clooney and brother of Rose Mary Clooney.
I was a time travel buff and remembered always looking for a new episode every week!
That was great, John. I loved Voyagers! 😃
I might have seen every episode, but I am just finding out what John-Erik Hexum's fate was from you. Sad. He died in a very similar way Brandon Lee would die 8 1/2 years later, on set shot by a blank cartridge in a freak accident. And both died way too young. Hexum was 26 and Lee was 28. I remember both of them being great actors with a lot of potential.
3:40 Nick Clooney is the father of George Clooney.
Hexum was playing around with the gun though and should have known better. Lee's death was more tragic since it was 100% preventable if proper gun safety and handling had been exercised on the set. You had people who had no business inspecting the prop guns loading them improperly. It was a poorly run set and cost Lee his life.
@@alucard624 I Like the way He could Walk the same way as his father.
His Martial Arts were also highly skilled, after all he was trained by Bruce Lee.
I watched this show in 1984. I was 10 yoa and I loved it. I always wondered why it got cancelled. Thanks for the info.
The kid in the series halfsister played on the show Punky Brewster. Im glad to see he turned out ok!
he also played in the series Bad News Bears
I loved Voyagers and I was sad when it wasn't renewed. I always thought Sliders was a play on the same theme. It's great you are covering some of the short run shows from the 70s-80s-90s,
"Sliders" was parallel dimensions, NOT errors in history.
I thought I dreamt this show - thank you for sharing this now I will go back and search for episodes!
I was 12 when this show came out. I loved it. I was so bummed when it got canceled.
I loved Voyagers, I even have an Omni prop made of brass
In college (1990), I impressed the hell out of my Economics Professor because of this show.
He asked' "What position Babe Ruth would play if he wasn't such a good hitter?"
I was the only one to respond, "Pitcher."
I was hoping that the writers weren't lying to me.
On the first day of my European History class in freshman year our arrogant instructor, a middle-aged Russian-American Ph.D in history, tried to demonstrate to the class just how little we knew about the subject. He said, "I will bet that none of you can tell me what event sparked the beginning of the Thirty Years' War." There were several seconds of silence until I said meekly, "Um, was it the Defenestration of Prague?" Well, IF LOOKS COULD KILL! To his credit, he covered with, "Well, yes, of course YOU knew it, but I wanted to make it clear that nobody ELSE did, you see, that's the point!"
I recall looking up to Hexum's character as a kid, and was saddened when he died. IIRC he was just pretending to blow his brains out as a gag, sadly unaware that the wadding in the blank can cause serious harm when it's fired at close range. Maybe the stunt people told him and he forgot or maybe they never told him...either way, a tragedy. He may have portrayed a hero in front of the camera, but he was a real life hero in the end when he donated his organs to save the lives of others. If he had lived, I think he would've become one of the great stars of the 80s.
I was a kid then and it was one of my favorite shows.
Phileas Fogg...I'm certain he could go around the world in less than 80-days. A profound tragedy was his accident. Thank you, JonnyBaak, for posting this classic. I was hooked at the first episode, and, it seems, every show I view and like on network, the show was canceled. Thanks for mentioning a boxset. I'll be on the lookout. Another history anthology: The Great Adventure on TV the early 60s on CBS. There are four precious episodes on UA-cam at last count.
One of my favorite shows as a kid.
i was 8 years, i haven't miss this show, love and good memories which always in my mind
I really liked this show.
I looked up Meeno Peluce and discovered he's not a teacher anymore he's a photographer.
Also he has a half-sister named Soleil Moon Frye.
I can’t believe he passed away so young he was good handsome man
I loved this show as a 10 yr old child.Never missed an episode. Wished it went on for another year.
The kid that was on the show that later became a high school history teacher was a rare sign of Hollywood actually influencing a person in a good way. Also, had Voyagers! aired on a Saturday morning, had its episodes split into two parts to make thirty minute episodes, rather than hour long episodes, and had Donald P. Bellasario come to work on Voyagers! instead of on Quantum Leap a few years later (and thus also potentially leading Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, as well as the rest of the cast members of that show instead being a part of the Voyagers! cast), then I think that it could have lasted all the way into the 1990s, and especially if you cycled old Voyagers and trainees out, and put new ones in every season.
Pax Humana That must have been reruns because the show originally broadcast on Sunday nights on NBC opposite 60 Minutes.
@@rg8993 , no, what I said is that it should have been a Saturday morning show instead. Do you not read comments?
Pax Humana Your reply to me is what you should have said in the first place. Your first comment is so damn wordy that my friends and I thought you meant something else. And yes, I had some people read your comment to be sure I wasn’t completely wrong. This is UA-cam not Facebook. Try brevity.
Great idea.
Loved this show and when it ended, I was heart broken.
I used to watch Voyagers! reruns early every Saturday morning on Channel 57 Philadelphia before cartoons came on and I Loved this show!
Wow.. this was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
Sidenote: people uneducated about firearms don't get that a "blank" firearm cartridge can still be dangerous at short range. Very sad.
Loved watching Voyagers! with my late Uncle. FYI Paul Reubens talks about E.G.Daily still being shaken up over Jon-Erik’s death during the filming of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in the commentary. British TV did a picture still & voiceover tribute to him after an episode of Cover up (think it was BBC)
MANAMEL, AUTOMAN and the wizard.
I need to find all of those to rewatch. I hoped to find a cave so I could find something to turn me into an animal
@@camcordernonsense5264 some comic cons may have them . I was a kid when this came out I call the main guy han solo due to his out fit . The muppets would be on before. A cave would have bears . If they are cool with it bring honey popcorn and enjoy lol .MANAMEL fxs would freak my sister out .
@@davidz2016 maybe they were shooting for a Han look. All coincided with pirates at the time. All the shows I liked back then we're emotionally evoking to me. I had to know more about those characters and loved them all.
Short lived and a season for me felt like several seasons took place. I was invested. That's not a bad idea to snoop at toy shows or comic cons. The facial changes on manimal were creepy to me.
@@camcordernonsense5264 yes . My grandmother would not let us watch it but we would sneak it in . Auto man was great it was my brother's favorite show . We loved the lights .
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Yes! It seemed dark all the time I guess so the Troness would show better but I was excited when it came on. Streethawk too. I watched airwolf but I could never follow it well. V too. Then all started dying off I guess with rotj. We got more cop shows.
You got to love a show that has an exclamation point in the title!
I remember when the shows originally WAS broadcast on NBC!!!!!! It WAS on right after i graduated from hi school so the history part WAS still in my memories!!!!!!! I would watch it on Sunday night's while eating dinner!!!!!!! I still remember watching every episode plus the summer reruns!!!!!! I even watched Cover up and thought it was a shame and a loss when Mr Hexium died!!!!!!! It was what gave me such an interest in time travel shows and books!!!!!!!! H.G. Wells became one of my favorite authors!!!!!!!! I discovered Dr. WHO soon after (my all time favorite 📺 show)!!!!!!! And Back to the Future series is still amongst my favorite movie series!!!!!! Timeless puts me in mind of Voyagers!!!!!! NBC has a way with time travelling shows!!!!!!!!
I *loved* this show as a kid and was disappointed when it was cancelled. I would really love to see it come back in a reebooted more sophisticated and a bit more adult form. That being said for a good amount of years now I've been able to clearly see the various similarities between 'Voyagers" and a certain other sci fi show....this one from the U.K. (*Doctor Who*). Phineas was *The Doctor*. Jeffrey was his *companion*. The Omni was Phinea's *TARDIS*,and like The TARDIS was unpredictable and malfunctioned. He came from a planet of Voyagers that had the secret of traveling through time (*Time-Lords*) The episode with the Titanic featured a female Voyager (*Romana*). There was an episode where Phineas is put on trial for interferring/screwing up (*The War Games/Trial of A Timelord*) His prosecutor during the trial was an evil Voyager (*The Master*). The evil Voyager had a more advanced state of the art Omni than Phineas' (just like The Master's TARDIS was more sophisticated than The Doctor's) The evil Voyager would later return in an episode about Jack The Ripper when he tried to get revenge against Phineas. Still love this show though ! Gets a thumbs up from me !
RE: "He came from a planet of Voyagers" that was a retcon for the TV movie. In the original broadcast Voyagers were actually humans plucked from history by the society of Voyagers in the future. It's more similar to DC's Legends of Tomorrow in that sense. Bogg had actually been a 17 century pirate(If you look as his "standard attire" that seems to fit) It also explains why in the Trial of Phineas episode they let Jeffrey continue on with Bogg as they realise Jeffrey is meant to be a Voyager based on historical evidence, albeit future "historical" evidence
@@jondnz Okay then the idea that Phineas came from a planet of Voyagers may have been a retcon but that makes it even worse in that it was retconned to be even *more* like Doctor Who than it already was. I would say the two major differences between Doctor Who and Voyagers was that unlike The Doctor Phineas was not exactly a genius.The other is that in Voyagers they only traveled backwards in time in *Earth* history whereas in Doctor Who they traveled to other planets,space stations in the far future, parallel universes came across aliens etc.
I remember this show. Thank you for the memories
Thanks for the video..this used to be one my favourite tv shows.
I enjoyed that show. I can't believe it was only 1 season of 20 episodes! It seems like there were so many more (even though I likely did not see them all - I grew up without VCRs and a poor memory/habit for tuning in regularly).
Had COMPLETELY forgotten about this show and how it had greatly influenced my imagination!
Loved it when I was a kid.
I really loved this show… I watched it when I was 13-14 years old…. I got mad when it was cancelled and later got devastated when I heard the death of Jon-Eric Hexum… 😢 , anyway, this show keeps a special place on my heart as I got really interested in History and incited me to read books and learn more… Thanks for making this video!! 😊
Not forgotten over here! I have this on DVD.
I remember the episode when Thomas Edison disassembled the Omni! LoL!
Just watch that one Tonight With My Kids. They Laughed when Bogg Said it was "Better Than New!"
Haha I always remembered that episode.
I Remember my 8 year older self never missed new episode of Voyager back in Good Old 80s. 7 years laters Quantum Leap aired. Rest in Peace Hexum🙏.
I would get the River Phoenix movie where they built their own space ship and this TV show mixed up all the time. All I could remember of this show was that they always landed on bales of straw.
I used to watch Voyagers and really loved the show. Didn't know Jon Eric Hexum had died until watching this video. What a great loss. Life is so injust some times... Thanks for posting.
edit: p.s. I, although don't remember what I had for lunch today, still remember that episode where someone had dismantled the omni because he was intrigued by the LEDs!
Thanks for remembering:"Voyagers" and Mr.Hexium..Jonny.
I remember this show. it was good. The one that sticks out to me is the one where they met the Red Baron
I was 12 when this was on. I looked forward to it each week. Not my favorite program, but I liked it.
The only thing about it was how would they know time was wrong? Once the wrong time event happens it becomes the correct time event. They shouldn't know any other way. But that didn't really matter. You just accepted it and enjoyed the adventure.
@Hannah D yeah, but that's my point. Omni shouldn't know, unless it is like the TVA guarding a sacred timeline. Once the timeline is altered, anyone in the future won't know anything is changed, because the change would become actual history.
Voyagers! was definately one of my favorite shows.
Holy crap i remember that show. It was pretty good as I remember
I loved this show as a kid, and coincidentally just got the DVD set last week!
The full name of the device was "Omni-chronometer " .. "Omni " for short
I loved this show. Never forgot about it, but I haven’t seen it since the original airing.
Remember, NBC had another show called, Quantum Leap, years later with Scott Bakula about time traveling🤳🏻😎
I loved this show. My brother and I couldn't wait for the next episode. I thought it was funny that the Voyagers where forbidden to travel beyond 1980, very convenient.
I think Phineas Bogg's Omni could take him only up to 1971. The old retired Voyager only up to 1929, etc. It was revealed, later, that Phineas Bogg's omni was deliberately manipulated by the Voyager council to breach 1971 & take Bogg to 1982. Specifically the young lad's room.
I love this show
I remember watching this with my grandma when I was younger eating ice cream with it one of the few but best memories I have of mu grandma
I used to love this show.
I watched it when I was a kid, before I started going to school. Loved the show, but wasn't sad when it was canceled because I was still watching Mr. Rogers.
Meeno is Punky Brewster's Brother (Soleil Moon Frye).
Never heard of this show although ERIC was a fairly high profile TV star and I had completely forgotten how his life ended so tragically.
He literally had it all and then it was gone in an instant.
Extremely sad and a life lesson to us all.
This was a very cute family series and you were not afraid to have your kids watch this! It was fun, sure it had some crazy ideas, but was a ton of fun to watch and the chemistry between Jon-Erik and Meeno was very nice! By the way Meeno has a famous sibling, his sister is none other than Punky Brewster herself, Soleil Moon Frye!