Episode
Voyagers!: Worlds Apart
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Voyagers!
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1982-11-07
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Worlds Apart is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Voyagers!. It aired on 1982-11-07. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 4: Agents of Satan
Bogg and Jeff land in colonial Massachusetts. Their arrival is witnessed by a local who has them arrested as witches. Benjamin Franklin's mother is also under accusation, and if she dies, history changes. Jeff uses the Omni to prevent him and Bogg from being burned at the stake, but that puts them a couple of centuries forward and right in the middle of a seance being attended by skeptic Harry Houdini. Witnessing the ""supernatural"" with his own eyes, Houdini starts believing in ghosts, further altering history. The Voyagers Omni out, but return when Jeff determines they must convince Houdini they aren't ghosts. He and Bogg end up saving Houdini from being rescued alive, and put that part of history back on track. They then return to Massachusetts with one of Houdini's mirror illusions. Using it, they show that there are no such thing as ghosts and witches: only mechanical trickery. That ends the witch trials, and history is restored.
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 3: Bully and Billy
Jeff and Bogg arrive in the Cuban revolution, to find history changed because Teddy Roosevelt never led the charge up San Juan history. He was killed by Billy the Kid in 1889. The Voyagers head back to that time, stopping briefly to help Ben Franklin get his kite in the air. Once back in the Old West, the two infiltrate Billy's gang and then save Roosevelt's life. Billy turns out to be a coward without his gun, much to Jeff's dismay. Travelling back to Cuba to make sure history is on track, they meet up with Roosevelt and help the Cuban rebels, setting history right.
Episode 7: The Day the Rebs Took Lincoln
On their way to rescue President Lincoln, who has been kidnapped by Confederate soldiers, the Voyagers are briefly diverted to 1832 London where they encounter young author Charles Dickens.
Episode 2: Created Equal
Phineas duels Spartacus in a gladiator match in Italy in 73 B.C. then escapes to 19th century Hannibal, Missouri, where Harriet Tubman is fleeing for her life.
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 1: Pilot
Phineas and Jeffrey help the Wright Brothers invent the airplane and Corporal Eddie Rickenbacker defeat the Red Baron.
Episode 9: The Travels of Marco ...and Friends
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.
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Episode 11: Merry Christmas, Bogg
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.
Episode 12: Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley Play the Palace
First, the Voyagers help Albert Schweitzer in his efforts to bring medical aid to a dying African tribal chief. Then they arrive in 1887 to help Annie Oakley, who is with Buffalo Bill's circus that is in England to perform for Queen Victoria.
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.