Voyagers! (1982)

Voyagers! is a time travel-based television series broadcast in the 1982-1983 season starting on October 3, 1982.
Voyagers

Voyagers ran for one season for 20 episodes. The series, broadcast up against the top-rated 60 Minutes, failed to gain high ratings and was cancelled after one season.

Phineas Bogg (Jon-Erik Hexum) was one of a society of time travelers called Voyagers who, with the help of a young boy named Jeffrey Jones (played by Meeno Peluce) used a hand-held device called an Omni (which looked much like a large pocket watch) to travel in time and ensured that history unfolded as we know it. In the first episode Jeffrey ensured that baby Moses' basket traveled down the Nile where it was met by the Pharaoh's daughter.

Bogg and Jeffrey first met when Bogg's Omni malfunctioned and took him to 1982, landing him in the apartment of Jeffrey's aunt and uncle, who were caring for him after his parents' death. Jeffrey accidentally fell out of a window, and Bogg to jumped out to rescue him by activating the Omni. Bogg's Guidebook, which contained a detailed description of how history should unfold, had been grabbed by Jeffrey's dog Ralph so Bogg had to rely on Jeffrey (whose father was a history professor) to help him.

Phineas is a great womanizer and manages to fall for a beautiful woman in almost every episode. Phineas' memory of historical facts is highly selective. He couldn't tell the difference between the French Revolution and World War I, yet he did remember that "Marie Antoinette had terrible legs!" Whenever Jeffrey's wisdom is paired up against Bogg's stubbornness, Jeffrey usually wins out, to which Bogg always mutters, "Smart kids give me a pain!"

Over the closing credits of each episode, regular cast member Meeno Peluce said in voice over: "If you want to learn more about {historical element from the episode}, take a voyage down to your public library. It's all in books!"

Voyagers Opening Narrative:
Version #1: "We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it was needed. When the Omni is red it means history is wrong. Our job is to get everything back on track."

Version #2: "Far out in the cosmos there exists a planet known as Voyager, where the mystery of travel into space and through time has been solved. It is inhabited by a race who call themselves Voyagers. Their purpose is to keep constant surveillance on history. These people have a time machine device, the Omni, which will take them into the past, present or future. As each Voyager graduates he is given an Omni and a guidebook. One such graduate Phineas Bogg, who was assigned as a field worker to operate in certain time zones."

Series Description:

The Voyagers TV show was a 60 minute time travel fantasy series on NBC about a man from another planet whose job it was to travel throughout Earth's past, present, and future fixing "mistakes" in time.

Voyagers TV Show Cast:

Jon-Erik Hexum .............. Phineas Bogg / Narrator
Meeno Peluce ................ Jeffrey Jones

Voyagers Opening Narrative:

Version #1: "We travel through time to help history along, give it a push where it was needed. When the Omni is red it means history is wrong. Our job is to get everything back on track."

Version #2: "Far out in the cosmos there exists a planet known as Voyager, where the mystery of travel into space and through time has been solved. It is inhabited by a race who call themselves Voyagers. Their purpose is to keep constant surveillance on history. These people have a time machine device, the Omni, which will take them into the past, present or future. As each Voyager graduates he is given an Omni and a guidebook. One such graduate Phineas Bogg, who was assigned as a field worker to operate in certain time zones."

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

Voyagers TV Show - The First And Only Season

1... Pilot (10/3/1982)
2... Created Equal (10/10/1982)
3... Bully And Billy (10/24/1982)
4... Agents Of Satan (10/31/1982)
5... Worlds Apart (11/7/1982)
6... Cleo And The Babe (11/14/1982)
7... The Day The Rebs Took Lincoln (11/21/1982)
8... Old Hickory And The Pirate (11/28/1982)
9... The Travels Of Marco Polo ... And Friends (12/5/1982)
10. An Arrow Pointing East (12/12/1982)
11. Merry Christmas, Bogg (12/19/1982)
12. Buffalo Bill And Annie Play The Palace (1/9/1983)
13. The Trial Of Phineas Bogg (1/16/1983)
14. Sneak Attack (2/13/1983)
15. Voyagers On The Titanic (2/27/1983)
16. Pursuit (3/6/1983)
17. Destiny's Choice (3/13/1983)
18. All Fall Down (3/27/1983)
19. Barriers Of Sound (6/12/1983)
20. Jack's Back (7/10/1983)