Episode
Voyagers!: Merry Christmas, Bogg
Overview
The Voyagers must go back in time to before the American Revolution to make sure that George Washington joins the American rebels rather than the British. Then in 1892 they help early union leader Samuel Gompers, and Jeffrey gets to meet his great grandfather, a lawyer helping the labor cause.
Details
- Series
- Voyagers!
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 1982-12-19
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Merry Christmas, Bogg is Episode 11 in Season 1 of Voyagers!. It aired on 1982-12-19. The runtime is 60 min.
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Jeff and Bogg arrive in 1930's New York and meet a retired adventurer/voyager, Isaac Wolfstein. They drop him off on an island to live out the rest of his life, save Albert Einstein, then pop back to Marco Polo's time...but Polo isn't where he's supposed to be. The two try to restore history but Jeffrey is caught by soldiers who plan to sell him as a slave. Bogg goes to Wolfstein to get advice, and just manages to save him from a nuclear test on the island. The two men return to save Jeffrey, then head off to lunch with Einstein.
Episode 13: The Trial of Phineas Bogg
Jeff and Bogg are intercepted en route and land in a dark limbo. The Omni is dead, and they soon find out that they have been brought to a Voyager courtroom, where Bogg is put on trial for breaking the Voyager code of ethics. The prosecutor, Drake, uses Bogg's Omni memory banks to prove that he is guilty, but they discover that Drake tampered with the records and is trying to frame Bogg. Drake escapes, taking Bogg and Jeff with him. They end up in Texas in the 19th century, and the duo have to let Drake escape so that they can save Sam Houston from a firing squad. The two are brought back to the the courtroom, and Jeff is made an official Voyager. However, they depart on Drake's trail, forgetting to pick up a guidebook.
Episode 8: Old Hickory and the Pirate
Jeffrey and Bogg talk the pirate, Jean Lafitte, into leaving the beautiful Bahamas for New Orleans where General Jackson is going to need his help against the Red Coats.
Episode 14: Sneak Attack
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Episode 7: The Day the Rebs Took Lincoln
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Episode 15: Voyagers of the Titanic
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Episode 6: Cleo and the Babe
The Voyagers inadvertently bring Cleopatra forward in time to prohibition-era New York City, where she encounters gangster Lucky Luciano. In the main plot, Phineas has to convince young baseball player Babe Ruth to abandon his pitching career so that he will eventually become the home run hitter idolized by Jeffrey.
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Episode 5: Worlds Apart
The Voyagers are separated: Bogg is with Lawrence of Arabia, while Jeff is stranded in the 1800's with Thomas Alva Edison. When Jeffrey awakes after a rough landing, he learns that Edison has dismantled the Omni and not invented the light bulb. A piece of thread is the answer to the incandescent light but Edison can't figure out the Omni. He rebuilds the strange device and Jeff returns to Arabia, unknowingly saving Bogg and Lawrence as they are being led to their deaths. A chase through the catacombs leads Lawrence, Medina, and the Voyagers to safety and Lawrence is reunited with his people. The Voyagers return to Menlo Park to see the electric light used outdoors for the first time.
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