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{{Infobox television
| image                = Voyagers! (1983 television series) logo.svg
| caption              = 
| genre                = [[Science fiction]]
| creator              = [[James D. Parriott]]
| writer               = {{Plainlist|
* Jill Donner
* Robert Janes
* James D. Parriott
* Harry Longstreet
* Renee Longstreet
}}
| director             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Peter Crane (director)|Peter Crane]]
* [[Alan J. Levi]]
* [[Bernard McEveety]]
* Ron Satlof
* [[Paul Stanley (director)|Paul Stanley]]
* [[Virgil W. Vogel]]
}}
| starring             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Jon-Erik Hexum]]
* [[Meeno Peluce]]
}}
| theme_music_composer = [[Jerrold Immel]]
| opentheme            = [[Jerrold Immel]]
| composer             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Jerrold Immel]] (episode 1, 5)
* [[Elliot Kaplan]] (episode 2–4, 8–9, 11, 13, 15, 19)
* [[Peter Myers (composer)|Peter Myers]] (episode 6–7)
* [[Joel Rosenbaum (musician)|Joel Rosenbaum]] (episode 10, 12, 14, 16, 18)
* [[J. A. C. Redford]] (episode 20)
* No composer credited (episode 17)
}}
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 1
| num_episodes         = 20
| list_episodes        =
| executive_producer   = James D. Parriott
| producer             = {{Plainlist|
* Robert Bennett Steinhauer
* Jill Donner
* Harry Longstreet
* Renee Longstreet
}}
| editor               = George Ohanian
| cinematography       = Eddie Rio Rotunno
| camera               = [[Single-camera setup|Single-camera]]
| runtime              = 60 minutes
| company              = {{Plainlist|
* James D. Parriott Productions
* [[Scholastic Productions]]
* [[Universal Television]]
}}
| network              = [[NBC]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1982|10|3}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1983|7|10}} 
}}

'''''Voyagers!''''' is an American [[science-fiction]] television series about [[time travel]] that aired on [[NBC]] from October 3, 1982, to July 10, 1983, during the [[1982–83 United States network television schedule|1982–1983 season]]. The series starred [[Jon-Erik Hexum]] and [[Meeno Peluce]].

==Plot==
Phineas Bogg ([[Jon-Erik Hexum]]) is one of a society of time travelers called Voyagers, who with the help of a young boy named Jeffrey Jones (played by [[Meeno Peluce]]) from 1982, uses a hand-held device called an Omni (which looks like a large [[pocket watch]]) that flashes red when history is wrong and green when the timeline is corrected, to travel in time and ensure that history unfolds correctly.

Bogg and Jeffrey first met when Bogg's Omni malfunctioned and took him to 1982 (the device was not supposed to reach any later than 1970), landing him in the skyscraper apartment of Jeffrey's aunt and uncle, who were caring for him after his parents' deaths. Bogg's guidebook, which contained a detailed description of how history was supposed to unfold, was grabbed by Jeffrey's dog Ralph, and in the struggle to retrieve it, Jeffrey accidentally fell out his bedroom window and Bogg jumped out to rescue him by activating the Omni. With his guidebook stuck in 1982, Bogg (who, being more interested in girls than in history, apparently never paid much attention in his Voyager training/history classes) had to rely on Jeffrey, whose father had been a history professor, to help him. Jeffrey's knowledge proved invaluable; for example, in the first episode, Jeffrey ensured that baby [[Moses]]' basket traveled down the [[Nile]], where it was met by the [[Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus)|Pharaoh's daughter]].

Phineas is a great womanizer and manages to fall for a beautiful woman in almost every episode. Whenever Jeffrey's wisdom was paired up against Bogg's stubbornness, Jeffrey usually wins out, to which Bogg would always mutter, "Smart kids give me a pain!" Another [[catchphrase]] used by Bogg as an [[Profanity|expletive]] was "Bat's breath!"<ref name="tshalestwp">{{cite news|last=Shales|first=Tom|authorlink=Tom Shales|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/10/02/vivacious-voyagers/8389058f-2d9e-48ef-8285-0b0c5012a312/|title=Vivacious 'Voyagers!'|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=October 2, 1982|access-date= March 4, 2020}}</ref>  They develop a strong relationship and become a formidable team. In the course of their adventures together, they sometimes encounter other Voyagers whose missions happened to overlap with theirs.

As revealed later in the series, despite Jeffrey's age and the accidental circumstances of his first encounter with Phineas, he was always destined to become a Voyager.

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!"

==Cast==
[[File:Hexum Peluce.jpg|thumb|upright|Meeno Peluce as Jeffrey Jones (left) and Jon-Erik Hexum as Phineas Bogg (right)]]
* [[Jon-Erik Hexum]] as Phineas Bogg
* [[Meeno Peluce]] as Jeffrey Jones

==Reception==
[[Tom Shales]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' praised the series as "a live-action version of the [[Mister Peabody|Mr. Peabody and Sherman cartoons]] on the delightful old '[[The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends|Bullwinkle]]' show" and "largely a joy ride from start to finish."<ref name="tshalestwp"/>

''Voyagers!'' ran for one season of 20 episodes, broadcast opposite the top-rated ''[[60 Minutes]]''. The series averaged a 17 [[Nielsen ratings#Ratings/share and total viewers|share]]. ''Voyagers!'' seemed likely to be renewed for a second season, but [[60 Minutes#Controversies|controversies in ''60 Minutes'' reporting]] led executives to believe that ''60 Minutes'' might successfully be challenged by a competing news program, instead.<ref name = st83>Snauffer and Thurm, p. 83</ref> NBC cancelled ''Voyagers!''<ref name=people>{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/archive/on-and-off-camera-joan-collins-helps-in-the-making-of-male-model-jon-erik-hexum-vol-20-no-15/|title=On and Off Camera, Joan Collins Helps in the Making of Male Model Jon-Erik Hexum|last=Wallace|first=David|date=October 11, 1983|magazine=People|access-date=October 4, 2022}}</ref> and replaced it with the news magazine program ''[[Monitor (U.S. TV series)|Monitor]],'' which averaged only a 7 share.<ref name = st83 /> [[David Letterman]] poked fun at NBC's cancellation of the series by airing a sketch on his ''[[Late Night with David Letterman|Late Night]]'' program titled "They Took My Show Away", a parody of an [[after-school special]] in which the host comforts a boy who was a ''Voyagers!'' fan.<ref name=letterman>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/they-took-my-show-away-148964/|title=They Took My Show Away!|last=Crupi|first=Anthony|date=April 26, 2013|magazine=AdWeek|access-date=February 23, 2022}}</ref>

==U.S. television ratings==
<onlyinclude>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
! Season
! Episodes
! Start Date
! End Date
! Nielsen Rank
! Nielsen Rating
! Tied With
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 1982-83
| style="text-align:center" | 20
| style="text-align:center" | October 3, 1982
| style="text-align:center" | July 10, 1983
| style="text-align:center: | 95<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvratingsguide.com/2017/07/1982-83-top-30-soap-bubbles-rise.html|title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1982-83 Ratings History -- Soap Bubbles Rise, Several Veterans Part and NBC Renews Poorly Rated Masterpieces|access-date=April 9, 2018}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center" | N/A
| style="text-align:center" | N/A
|}

==Home media==

===Television film===
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In 1985, following the death of series lead Jon-Erik Hexum, Universal re-edited several episodes of the show into a [[television film]]. Entitled ''Voyager from the Unknown'', the story combined  the pilot episode and "Voyagers of the Titanic" into one feature-length film. This version incorporates new video special effects, some voice-over dubbing for Hexum and Peluce's characters that changed, and added dialogue and new footage to include a supercomputer directing Voyager missions.

The opening begins with a narration and painted illustrations of Bogg receiving his guidebook on "Planet Voyager" by artist Jerry Gebr.

"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."

===VHS release===
The re-edited telefilm was issued on VHS by MCA Home Video in 1985. It was the only official release of ''Voyagers!'' on home video in the US until the DVD release in 2007.

===DVD release===
On July 17, 2007, [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment|Universal Studios Home Entertainment]] released all 20 episodes of ''Voyagers!'' on DVD in Region 1.<ref>[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7193 Voyagers! - "Complete Series" Cover Art Changes the Look of the Omni] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518220927/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7193 |date=May 18, 2007 }}, ''TV Shows on DVD'', April 19, 2007</ref> It was released in Region 2 on October 29, 2007.

===Streaming===
All 20 episodes are also available in the United States by streaming through [[Amazon Prime Video]].

As of September 2024, the series was available on [[The Roku Channel]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/58a2b1d094465fcf8725742b6deaec24/voyagers|title=Roku|website=Roku}}</ref>

==Episodes==
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{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Voyagers
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|10|3}}
 |EpisodeNumber=1
 |ShortSummary=Time traveler Phineas Bogg accidentally goes to New York City in 1982 using a hand-held [[time travel|time machine]] known as an Omni. There, he meets 11-year-old Jeffrey Jones, whose parents have died. When Jeffrey falls out a window, Bogg goes after him and they both disappear. Bogg cannot bring Jeff back to 1982, because Bogg's Omni only has circuits up to 1970. (Bogg was only able to go to 1982 because his Omni had malfunctioned.) In saving Jeffrey's life, Bogg was unable to retrieve his guidebook (a book that told how history should have happened) in 1982, so in 1450 BC, Jeff helps Bogg as a Voyager by putting baby Moses in the Nile River in [[Ancient Egypt]], but in France, an alternate ending to World War I is taking place in 1918, without airplanes. They meet an aspiring US actress played by [[Faye Grant]]. They both go back in time to 1903 in [[Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]], and there, Bogg angers Jeffrey when he says something about his father. Later, Jeffrey sadly tells Bogg about how his mom and dad died. He cries when he says he could not get anyone to stop. Bogg tells Jeffrey not to blame himself and covers Jeff up, whereupon Jeff falls asleep. The two then travel to [[Dayton, Ohio]], and inspire the [[Wright brothers]] to invent the first airplane, the ''[[Wright Flyer]]''. Next, they jump ahead in time, making sure the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] have airplanes in World War I—battling [[Manfred von Richthofen|the Red Baron]] in an aerial dogfight along the way. Then, they go to England, on October 14, 1066, in the middle of the [[Battle of Hastings]].
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Created Equal
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|10|10}}
 |EpisodeNumber=2
 |ShortSummary=The issue of [[slavery]] is focused on as the Voyagers end up in Italy in 73 BC during a [[gladiator]] training session overseen by [[Cicero]]. They meet [[Spartacus]] and are thought to be slaves, but they escape to [[Missouri]] in 1847. There, they meet 12-year-old [[Mark Twain|Samuel Langhorne Clemens]] and end up helping [[Harriet Tubman]] with the [[Underground Railroad]]. They then return to [[Ancient Rome]] and free Spartacus so he can rally his fellow slaves back in [[Capua]].
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Bully and Billy
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|10|24}}
 |EpisodeNumber=3
 |ShortSummary=The Voyagers end up in [[Santiago, Cuba]] on July 1, 1898, during the [[Spanish–American War]], but the Spanish are winning, because [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and the [[Rough Riders]] are not there to help because [[Billy the Kid]] had killed Roosevelt in 1880. After helping [[Benjamin Franklin]] with his kite in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], on June 10, 1752, they time travel to 1880 and team up with [[Billy the Kid]]'s outlaw gang to prevent the future U.S. president from being shot in the [[American Old West]].
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Agents of Satan
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|10|31}}
 |EpisodeNumber=4
 |ShortSummary=Jeffrey and Bogg land in [[Salem, Massachusetts]], on November 13, 1692, during the [[Salem witch trials]]—but the Salem witch trials were supposed to end on September 14, 1692. Bogg and Jeff must prevent the mother of [[Benjamin Franklin]], Abiah Folger, from being hanged. Bogg, however, is himself tried and sentenced as an Agent of Satan, to be burned at the stake, but Jeffrey uses the Omni to send them both to [[Boston]] in 1924. There they meet [[Harry Houdini]] during a [[séance]] and then go to [[Baltimore, Maryland]], to return the lyrics of the [[national anthem]] to [[Francis Scott Key]] in 1814, just before stopping a [[charlatan]] who tries to kill Houdini in 1924; they then go back to 1692 and stop the witch trials for good.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Worlds Apart
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|7}}
 |EpisodeNumber=5
 |ShortSummary=After a badly worn-out Omni nearly strands them in Siberia, Bogg and Jeff become separated in the Middle East in 1917 during the conflicts between Arab tribes and Ottoman Turks. Jeffrey barely escapes with the Omni. Bogg meets [[Lawrence of Arabia]], and they are imprisoned by Turks but escape with the help of an Arab woman named Medina. Meanwhile, in Menlo Park, New Jersey (October 19, 1879), Jeffrey helps [[Thomas Alva Edison]] with the invention of the (practical incandescent) electric light. Edison dismantles the Omni and, though unable to learn its secrets, he does manage to repair it. Jeffrey then reunites with Bogg in Aqaba, then travel back to 1879 on December 31 to witness Thomas Edison demonstrate incandescent lighting to the public for the first time.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Cleo and the Babe
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|14}}
 |EpisodeNumber=6
 |ShortSummary=In [[Rome, Italy]], on March 15, 44 BC, Bogg and Jeff meet [[Cleopatra]] on the [[Ides of March]] where [[Julius Caesar]] is assassinated in the [[Roman Republic]] on the Senate Floor. But when they help her escape to [[Egypt]], they end up with her being lost in New York City on May 21, 1927. Jeff notices that [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] is not there, because [[Babe Ruth]] never got traded to the [[New York Yankees|Yankees]]. They go and meet [[Isaac Newton]] in England, 1669 to help him solve the riddle of [[gravity|gravitation]] just before going to [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in 1919 to make sure Ruth becomes a hitter with the [[Boston Red Sox]]. On September 29, 1927, they find [[Cleopatra]], but they realize that they also have to protect [[Babe Ruth]] from crime boss [[Lucky Luciano]] so that Ruth can hit his 60th home run on September 30.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=The Day the Rebs Took Lincoln                                      
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|21}}                                      
 |EpisodeNumber=7
 |ShortSummary=Bogg and Jeff are captured by the [[Confederate States Army]] on November 19, 1863, in [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], because the South is winning the [[American Civil War]]. They learn that the Confederates kidnapped [[Abraham Lincoln]] on April 18, 1862, in Washington, D.C., but after escaping the camp, they go to [[London, England]] in 1832 where they meet [[Charles Dickens]]. Back in Washington, a presidential liaison betrays Lincoln, but the Voyagers bring Lincoln's [[carjacking|hijacked]] presidential carriage back under [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] control.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Old Hickory and the Pirate
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|11|28}}
 |EpisodeNumber=8
 |ShortSummary=In [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], of 1815, the [[War of 1812]] has not ended and the British control the city. Bogg & Jeff help [[Meriwether Lewis]] and [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] in the [[Northwest Passage]] in 1803 just before they go to [[the Bahamas]] in 1798 to keep [[Jean Lafitte]] from being convicted of [[piracy]] in his future. There they encounter a group of pirates led by Black Bill Scroggins and after a swashbuckling scuffle on the beach, Lafitte goes to New Orleans and the Voyagers jump ahead to the [[Battle of New Orleans]] and meet General [[Andrew Jackson]]. 
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=The Travels of Marco...and Friends
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|3}}
 |EpisodeNumber=9
 |ShortSummary=In New York, on December 11, 1930, the Voyagers save [[Albert Einstein]] and his wife from a falling desk. They then meet Isaac Wolfstein, an old retired Voyager, whom Bogg recognizes as the legendary "Wildman Wolfstein." But when Isaac asks to go to an island in the [[Oceania|South Pacific]], they end up helping [[Clara Barton]] in 1870 France during the [[Franco-Prussian War]], before going to July 1, 1946, on one of the [[Marshall Islands]]. After leaving Isaac on an island, Bogg and Jeff go to China on August 13, 1275. There, they meet [[Kublai Khan]] and there he tells them that [[Marco Polo]] and the Polo brothers have not come yet with the [[Chrism|Holy Oil]] from [[Jerusalem]]; they then go to [[Persia]] in 1272 to keep the Polo brothers from mysteriously disappearing. Bogg then goes back and retrieves Isaac from a nuclear testing site in [[Bikini Atoll]]; both then go to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] where, with Isaac's help, Bogg frees his young companion from the [[Karuna, Finland|Karuna]], a group of [[Mongol]] [[slave traders]].
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=An Arrow Pointing East
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|12}}
 |EpisodeNumber=10
 |ShortSummary=After arriving just from [[Hawaii]], Bogg and Jeff help a wounded [[Robin Hood]] in the [[Sherwood Forest]] in England in 1194 and learn from [[Little John]] and [[Friar Tuck]] that the [[Sheriff of Nottingham]] is holding [[Maid Marian]] captive. When the Sheriff's soldiers trap the Voyagers, they jump to [[New York City|New York]], on May 19, 1927. On [[Long Island]], they help [[Charles Lindbergh]] make his historic flight from New York to France in the ''[[Spirit of St. Louis]]''. They then go back to help [[Robin Hood]] rescue Maid Marian in 1194 before going back again to France on May 21, 1927, to see "[[Lucky Lindy]]" land in France...from a distance.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Merry Christmas, Bogg
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1982|12|19}}
 |EpisodeNumber=11
 |ShortSummary=In [[Trenton, New Jersey]], on December 24, 1776, [[George Washington]] is on the wrong side during the [[American Revolution]] one day before he is supposed to win the [[Battle of Trenton]], so the Voyagers go to [[Mount Vernon, Virginia]], in 1746 to keep him from joining the [[Royal Navy]] as a teenager. Then in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], on December 24, 1892, they meet Jeffrey's own great-grandfather, Stephen Jones, who is friends with [[Samuel Gompers]]. Bogg & Jeff then go back to 1776 again just before the [[Battle of Trenton]] and witness [[Washington's crossing of the Delaware]]. Back in 1892, Stephen Jones convinces Bogg to leave the orphaned Jeff with him and his wife. Jeff, however, begs Bogg not to leave him and they stay together.  
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Buffalo Bill and Annie Play the Palace
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|1|9}}
 |EpisodeNumber=12
 |ShortSummary=In England, 1887, the Voyagers must prevent a wedding between England's [[Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom|Princess Victoria]] and Duke Michael of Russia. [[Queen Victoria]] has invited [[Buffalo Bill]] and [[Annie Oakley]] to perform a [[Wild West]] show. A shooting competition had been arranged between the Duke and Annie, but the Duke's men kidnap Oakley to avoid the possibility of the Duke losing. Outnumbered, Bogg and Jeff time jump into Africa, in 1913. There, they help Dr. [[Albert Schweitzer]] treat a dying chief, but a [[witch doctor]] believes that the Voyagers are [[slave traders]]. Schweitzer's aid arrives with the medicine in time to save the chief's life, and back in England, they free Oakley from the Russians in time for her to beat the Duke at the shooting match. They then expose the kidnapping to the Queen, who breaks off the marriage alliance with the Russians.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=The Trial of Phineas Bogg
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|1|16}}
 |EpisodeNumber=13
 |ShortSummary=The Voyagers appear in an empty courtroom with a non-functioning Omni. A defense attorney named Susan claims Bogg has violated the Voyager Code and will be put on trial by Voyager Drake, a tough prosecutor. Three judges take the bench, and Bogg is charged with endangering Jeff's life. However, evidence of [[perjury]] during the trial is discovered, showing that Drake had tampered with the Omni Memory Recorder. When Drake attempts to escape with his Omni, the Voyagers grab him and end up in the [[Texas Revolution]] in [[Mexico]] in 1836. Drake escapes somewhere in time while Bogg & Jeff help [[Sam Houston]] and the Texan rebels. Susan then brings them back and a judge tells them that Jeff's destiny was to be a Voyager. He gives Bogg his Omni, but they go back to work and disappear before he can give them a new Guidebook.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Sneak Attack
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|2|13}}
 |EpisodeNumber=14
 |ShortSummary=In [[Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]], on December 6, 1941, Jackie Knox, an Army Intelligence Officer, follows the Voyagers and steals the Omni, bringing them to [[Utah]], on April 10, 1860. They find an injured teenage [[Buffalo Bill|Bill Cody]], who was riding for [[The Pony Express]] but was attacked by outlaws. Bogg convinces Jackie that Voyagers help people in history. But when Jeff decides to make the Pony ride and gets ambushed, the trio jump back to Hawaii on the morning of December 7. During the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]], Jackie saves the life of General [[Douglas MacArthur]]. They then use a 1941 motorcycle for the Pony ride in 1860 in order to outrun the bandits.  
}}
{{Episode list
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 |Title=Voyagers of the Titanic
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|2|27}}
 |EpisodeNumber=15
 |ShortSummary=Bogg & Jeff land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on the deck of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] on April 14, 1912. While Jeff tries to warn the captain with [[Molly Brown]], Bogg meets a man named Haggerty, who is not a Voyager, but has an Omni. It belongs to Voyager Olivia Dunn, who is trying to get the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' off the ship. The three Voyagers then jump to 1884, France, where a dog bites Jeff and gives him [[rabies]]. [[Louis Pasteur]] then works on a vaccine and Jeff fully recovers. They all go back to the ''Titanic,'' and Bogg finds Haggerty in the boiler room, where they get the ''Mona Lisa'' just as the ship goes underwater. In Paris, April 15, 1912, Jeff (who had left separately) believes that they died until they show up and explain that they had to bring the stolen painting back to the home of [[Vincenzo Peruggia]].
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Pursuit
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|6}}
 |EpisodeNumber=16
 |ShortSummary=Bogg brings Jeff to [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]], to see the first [[Moon landing]]—but the space program of the United States does not exist; German rocket technology was given to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, but not to the United States. This means Bogg and Jeff have to go to Austria on May 1, 1945, in order to ensure rocket scientist [[Wernher von Braun]] surrenders to American forces. Bogg tries to warn von Braun that one of his scientists is a spy for the [[Nazis]] before they finally meet Americans and he gives them his rocket plans. Then they go to July 20, 1969, and see the [[Apollo 11]] Moon landing on television as [[Neil Armstrong]] utters his famous quote, "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Destiny's Choice
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|13}}
 |EpisodeNumber=17
 |ShortSummary=In [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], 1928, the Voyagers end up on a closed set of the first [[sound film]]. When Jeff points out that the director is [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], they know all is wrong in Tinseltown. They go to Roosevelt's home in [[Hyde Park, New York]], in 1924 to keep him from mailing out a script and get known in Hollywood, but his wife, [[Eleanor Roosevelt|Eleanor]], is at odds with Roosevelt's mother who is ashamed of his [[polio]]. Posing as a handyman, Bogg helps Roosevelt use crutches and convinces him not to depend so much on others. This allows Roosevelt to make an important public speech, move up in politics and, eventually, become President.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=All Fall Down
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|3|27}}
 |EpisodeNumber=18
 |ShortSummary=On June 21, 1938, in [[Pompton Lakes, New Jersey]], the Voyagers see [[Joe Louis]] training for a [[boxing]] match. When Bogg knocks down Louis in a practice bout, he decides to quit boxing. Fearing the coaches will hurt Bogg, Jeff time jumps them to an airplane over [[Nevada]] in February 1970. There, an [[Aircraft hijacking|aircraft hijacker]] releases gas which knocks everyone out except for Jeff. An [[air traffic controller]] then helps him land the [[Boeing 747]] with future president [[Jimmy Carter]] on board. Back in 1938, they convince Louis not to listen to claims of racial superiority about his opponent, [[Max Schmeling]]. Bogg & Jeff help train Louis and on June 22, Louis wins against Schmeling and retains his title of "[[List of heavyweight boxing champions|Heavyweight Champion Of The World]]."
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Barriers of Sound
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|6|12}}
 |EpisodeNumber=19
 |ShortSummary= In [[Denison, Texas]], on October 14, 1890, Bogg and Jeffrey discover that the telephone has not been invented. If the telephone is not invented, then [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] will not be born, as there will then be no medical assistance. Thus, they travel to [[Boston]], in 1875, where Bogg saves the life of a deaf woman, named [[Mabel Gardiner Hubbard|Mabel Hubbard]]. They find [[Alexander Graham Bell]], but his invention, the [[telephone]], does not work. Jeff realizes that Mabel will be Bell's wife and arranges a meeting, but Mabel and Bogg fall in love with each other instead. To avoid compromising his mission, Bogg reluctantly breaks Mabel's heart; he and Jeff then go to March 7, 1876, where Bell and [[Thomas A. Watson]] are working on the phone. When Bell injures himself and screams, "Mr, Watson! Come here, I want you!" Watson, hearing Bell's voice on the telephone, jumps for joy, knowing they succeeded. Back in [[Texas]], in 1890, Bogg and Jeff help guarantee the birth of [[Dwight Eisenhower]] by getting assistance from a doctor on the phone.
}}
{{Episode list
 |LineColor=8888FF
 |Title=Jack's Back
 |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1983|7|10}}
 |EpisodeNumber=20
 |ShortSummary=In London, November 19, 1889, an American journalist named [[Nellie Bly]] is attacked by a man, but the attacker vanishes when Bogg and Jeff appear. When her friend Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] begins to question Bly about her attacker, she suspects Bogg is the infamous [[Jack the Ripper]] and gets the police. [[Inspector Lestrade]] of [[Scotland Yard]] arrests Bogg, and the Voyagers realize renegade Voyager Drake was Bly's attacker. After they escape from Lestrade, they find Drake about to kill Bly and Doyle in order to "ruin history," but Bogg and Jeff stop him before he vanishes in time.
}}
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |author1=Snauffer, Douglas |author2=Thurm, Joel |year=2008 |title=The Show Must Go On: How the Deaths of Lead Actors Have Affected Television Series |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3295-0}}

==External links==
* [https://voyagersguidebook.wixsite.com/voyagersguidebook ''Voyagers'' Guidebook]
* {{IMDb title|id=0083500}}
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