"Green Light, Kid. We Did It!"

My friend, Jeff, and I have been reminiscing today about a show we both enjoyed, even though we barely remember it: Voyagers! Yeah, you probably don't remember it either. It aired for only one season on NBC back in 1982. It was about a "voyager" named Phinneas Bogg who travelled through time and helped nudge the past in the proper direction. Except he lost the guide book, his only source of how history is supposed to turn out, and has to bring a 12 year-old boy with him after accidently knocking him out of his bedroom window. Okay, that didn't sound too good and should get this site plenty of visits from sick, twisted people. But once you get past the goofy premise, it came down to this kid helping a swash-buckling time traveller from the wrong sides winning certain wars to historically people being in the right place at the right time. Essentially, it's like Quantum Leap with a kid instead of a hologram. Oh, and they could go all over history up until 1970. Don't know why that was the cutoff. Maybe there was to be no fourth dimensional interference to prevent the Disco craze.

I found some good info about it at the The "Unofficial" Voyagers! Home Page which helps stir some memories and gives another fan's perspective. Here's another Voyagers! perspective. It was a kid-friendly show and could definitely be modified and updated for today's audience. Here's a look at what a Voyagers! animated show might look like courtesy of a strange animated characters page. It doesn't look official so I doubt we'll see a Voyagers! remake anytime soon.

I have such limited memories and the tidbits are odd. They'd essentially fall out of the sky everytime they time travelled and I think they almost always landed in a hay bail or something. I think Phinneas was emberrassed of his first name so he had everyone call him by his last name. They travelled by way of the Omni, a compass-like thing that would turn red when history was bad and turn green when everything was fixed. Anybody else remember this show? Here's the opening credits to Voyagers! to help jog your memory.

"Ziggy says you need to work the shaft, WORK THE SHAFT!"