Back To The Future: The Animated Series Podcast

On December 15, 1991, Jules and Verne wish their parents a happy anniversary and surprise them with gifts. Jules has discovered, through his own invention (the “JEB Cross-Time Headliner”) that December 15, 2091 will be the date of McFly Space Cruises’ first voyage to the planet, Mars. Using a flux capacitor, a fax machine and “Father’s credit card”, Jules has also purchased two tickets for Doc and Clara. Moments after their parents have departed, the boys get another headline from the future that says “McFly Solar Sailship Lost In Space!”, and set off in the time train to prevent the disaster. The ship MSC Marty is preparing to launch, captained by Marta McFly, Marty, and Jennifer’s great-granddaughter. However, MSC’s employee, Ziff Tannen, has deliberately sabotaged the ship, removing a sail support bolt a moment before the launch. Jules and Verne are brought to the space center by a taxicab, but a problem in paying the fare keeps them from reaching the ship in time. Minutes later, the solar sail collapses, and the MSC Marty is adrift in space. On Earth, Jules and Verne gain admission to the McFly Museum of Aeronautics by sneaking in with a group of fifth graders from Dan Quayle Elementary School. Inside the museum, they see the MSC Jennifer, the first solar-sail spaceship. Jules proves that the MSC Marty has been sabotaged and that Ziff Tannen had committed the crime, and he and Verne are able to borrow the Jennifer in order to rescue the stranded space cruise.   Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories, and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon

  Doc has invented special glasses and a body suit that simulate the ideal skills for a baseball player. After Jules shows Marty an old baseball card depicting a distant relative, Pee Wee McFly, Marty and the boys make a trip to Boston, Massachusetts, September 1, 1897. On September 2 of that year, Pee Wee had retired after losing the game that would have won the 1897 National League Pennant Race for the Boston Beaneaters. Upon arriving in Boston on the day before Pee Wee’s mistake, the guys discover that Pee Wee McFly pitching that game as well, with Boston leading the Baltimore Orioles, 6-4. Marty inadvertently interferes with history when he yells “Hey, cousin!” to the pitcher, who is distracted and knocked unconscious by a baseball. Using Doc’s inventions, as well as a fake mustache, Marty “steps in” for Pee Wee and wins the game. Check out Back To The Future stuff at Amazon.com Instead of being thankful, Pee Wee is terrified – he is being pressured to “throw” the games by Diamond Jim Tannen, a Boston gangster who has bet on Baltimore to win the pennant. Diamond Jim warns Pee Wee to lose the September 2 game, or face serious injury. When Marty casually says “Get out of town!” to his 1897 relative, Pee Wee takes the advice to heart and hops on a streetcar on its way out of Boston. Marty then makes plans to impersonate Pee Wee once more and to win the September 2 game that his distant cousin had lost. With Doc’s invention, Marty helps Boston take the lead. Realizing that Pitcher McFly isn’t throwing the game, Diamond Jim rushes the field and attacks Marty until the police take him away. Marty is uninjured, but his cheating aids have been damaged and the malfunctioning glasses cause him to become disoriented. Thanks to Marty’s bad pitching, Baltimore takes a 10-9 lead, and the McFly name is once more destined for ruin. Pee Wee, who had contemplated sailing back to his native Ireland, returns to the stadium, takes over from Marty, and wins the game and the 1897 National League pennant. After returning to the future (1991), Marty, Verne, and Jules play a game of baseball. Marty, in hitting the ball for a home run, also destroys a shop window in Hill Valley, breaking the glass. Doc Brown, in the shop at the time, leaves before anyone can blame his family for the destruction.   Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories, and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon

Time Waits for No Frog Doc and Marty go to Ancient Peru in the year 1532 to find a cure for Marty’s athletes’ foot. The cure comes in the form of an extinct frog — the Bufo Marinus — which emits an acid from its skin. Doc and Marty meet up with the vile conquistador Biffando de la Tanén and his goons. Biffando releases them and follows them at a distance, to the lost City of Gold. Marty and Doc end up being captured by Incan natives and are put in a large pit with hundreds of Bufo Marinus frogs. With that many frogs, Doc says that he and Marty will “melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.” Using a tuning fork, Doc makes the frogs go crazy and it looks like Marty can “control” the frogs. The Incans release Doc and Marty and stop Biffando from stealing any gold. Doc and Marty take a couple of frogs home to reestablish the population in the 20th century. One of the frogs cured Marty’s athlete foot. Einstein’s Adventure While Doc is in the hardware store, Einstein is asleep in the back of the DeLorean when it is stolen by a couple of bank robbers (Sidney and Frankie) who have just left the Hill Valley Savings & Loan. The robbers activate the DeLorean’s time clock (Frankie has been asked how many “clams” they got in the theft, and, counting $1,790 he replies, “Seventeen-ninety, Sidney!”) and head to Sydney, Australia, 1790. Einstein is bounced out of the car on impact and the robbers end up “breaking in” to an Australian prison. Einstein ends up saving the crooks and when they get back to the future, the crooks return the money and turn themselves in. Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com   Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon   

Jules taunts his brother Verne by saying that Verne must not be a biological member of the Brown family because he isn’t as smart as Doc and Jules, doesn’t resemble either parent, and does not have a baby picture. Verne uses his father’s photo invention to find a picture of himself, and erroneously concludes that Benjamin Franklin is his biological father. Taking the DeLorean back in time toSeptember 2, 1752, Verne interferes with Franklin’s experiment and the discovery of the nature of electricity. When all of the electricity goes out in present day Hill Valley, Doc concludes that all electrical devices will be erased from existence if the timeline cannot be repaired. In Philadelphia, Doc saves Verne from falling off a clock tower. Verne realizes that Doc is his biological father. Doc adds that, although Verne isn’t adopted, Doc would love Verne just as much if he were adopted. Before departing Philadelphia, Doc and Marty use smoke, water and static electricity to create a simulated thunderstorm so that Franklin will repeat the kite-flying experiment. All the electric power restored in the 20th century. Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com   Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon 

With Marty as company, Doc heads to Rome in 36 A.D. to return architectural plans that he had borrowed for study. Jules and Verne overhear their father talk about the arcades and stow away in the DeLorean time machine to play the Roman “video games” (the boys have been punished and is not allowed to leave the house because they misuse their father’s latest invention – a holographic device). Once there, Marty insults Bifficus Antanneny, a very popular athlete, who challenges him to a chariot race. Doc is mistaken for a rebellious slave and is going to be thrown to the lions. The boys run amok in Ancient Rome and end up meeting Judah, a slave, who helps them get out of trouble. In the end, Marty purposefully loses the race, because the popularity of Bifficus is critical to the rise of Caligula as Emperor of Rome, which Doc points out to be a key event toward the eventual downfall of the Empire. Doc uses his holographic device to avoid becoming lion chow and the boys help Judah escape to become a free man. Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon 

Marty wants to confront Jennifer and catches her talking with the school jock and assumes she’s dating behind his back. Jennifer, who has been tutoring the jock, tries to explain the situation but Marty doesn’t listen to her. Marty goes to the Browns’ house and receives a message that Doc and his family are trapped in Salem, Massachusetts during the Puritan period. Taking the DeLorean, Marty brings a spare flux capacitor for the train to Doc, but the DeLorean that Marty and Einstein are in is in the water and comes out. As Doc fixes the train, Marty, Clara and the boys go to a town function. Marty spurns the advances of a young lady named Mercy and she accuses him of being a witch out of spite. Marty is condemned for being a witch without being able to defend himself. Marty is sentenced to the “water” test and Doc saves him with a makeshift scuba suit. When Marty returns home, he apologizes to Jennifer for making accusations without first hearing her side of the story. Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com Plot Marty McFly and Liz leave from music appreciation class at Hill Valley College when he sees Jennifer Parker with big lug Kelp, believing that she is going out with him. The Brown family was exploring the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt circa 1000 BCE (Doc says it was “about 3,000 years earlier”) when they were chased down after Verne pulled a prank on the Egyptians. The flux capacitor on the Jules Verne Train is damaged by a spear and the train sends the Browns to 1692 Salem, Massachusetts. Doc sends Marty a scratch and listen postcard via a miniature time machine delivery car asking him to take the DeLorean and bring back a spare flux capacitor. Upon arrival, Doc calculates that it will take several days to repair the train with the replacement and they attempt to lie low in the town of Salem. Verne in Puritan times Verne, looking out his window while wearing his Puritan outfit. Marty arrives at September 23, 1692 and crashes into a lake. The DeLorean sinks to the bottom, but an inflatable device brings it back to the surface, after which Doc guides the DeLorean to a hideout with a remote control. For the past few weeks, Doc has been working with Goodman Tannen as a trash man. Tannen’s daughter Mercy shows up at a town event that night. Marty’s wild antics and strange tongues create gossip in the town and after he plays his harmonica, he is labeled a witch and put on trial. Marty is ordered to suffer the water test, which will determine whether or not he is lying, with either consequence being death. As Marty is thrown into the water, Goodman, Mercy, and the others watch as they believe he is drowning. Meanwhile, Marty is rescued underwater by the DeLorean which is equipped with a large pincer. Marty and the Browns return to the train and leave 1692. Back home, Jennifer tells Marty that she and Kelp were only study partners and that Marty was still her boyfriend. Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon 

“Forward to the Past” is the third episode of the first season of Back to the Future: The Animated Series. It first aired on September 21, 1991. The title is a play on the title Back to the Future.   Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com   Brief synopsis Traveling back in time to the Cretaceous Period with Jules and Verne, Doc Brown tests his latest invention – a device which effectively disintegrates objects – on a meteor headed for the Earth. Returning to the future, they find themselves in an alternate 1991, where humans don’t exist and dinosaurs have developed a human-like civilization. Before they can be erased from existence, the Browns return to the prehistoric era and Doc reintegrates the meteor, restoring the correct timeline. Plot To test a new invention called the Proprietary Ultrasonic Subatomic Molecular Redistributor, Doc and the boys head back to prehistoric times so that they won’t endanger anyone. Before they can run their test, a Tyrannosaurus gives chase and with the help of a friendly Pteranodon (whom Verne nicknames “Donnie”), they escape. At nighttime, they finally set up to run the test. Jules spots a shooting star, which is actually a large meteor, heading toward earth. Doc zaps it with his redistributor and destroys the meteor, thus saving Earth, but the car battery has been drained — not by Doc’s rewiring but by Verne watching a videotape. For a moment, it looks like they are stranded, but Jules spots a grove of lemon trees, and Doc and Verne use copper, aluminum, and the lemons to generate 12 volts for the battery. After returning to 1991, they realize that the landscape has not changed, and that highly evolved dinosaurs have developed their own civilization. Having altered the timeline, Doc and the boys must leave before their own existence is erased. Doc realizes that they must restore the meteor and allow it to impact with the Earth, even though it means that the pteranodon that saved them will be headed toward extinction with the rest of the dinosaurs. When the group returns to present-day Hill Valley, Verne is heart-broken about the death of Donnie, but takes some consolation in finding a little bird that resembles the pteranodon. Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon 

“A Family Vacation” is the second episode of the first season of Back to the Future: The Animated Series. It first aired on September 14, 1991. Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com     Brief synopsis Without consulting the family while leaving Marty and Jennifer alone, Doc takes Clara and the boys back to medieval times (1367 A.D.) to escape the technology that he feels his family has become so reliant upon. Leaving the DeLorean that goes back to their home turf, Doc angers Clara, and Jules and Verne leave them. Once there, Clara is kidnapped by the evil Lord Biffingham of Tannenshire, and Doc is thrown into a dungeon. Jules and Verne meet up with Harold McFly, whose lady love, Jennivere, has also been kidnapped by Lord Biffingham. The boys and Harold arrive at the castle in time to witness a “jousting” match between the Lord and Doc. Clara escapes from the tower and makes a hot air balloon out of silk and a tapestry loom. When she becomes a true heroine, she rescues Doc and foils Biffingham’s evil scheme. Doc realizes that he should consult her before making anymore decisions for the family. When Harold and Jennivere make up again, Doc, Clara, Jules, Verne, and Einstein head back in their home turf to visit Marty and Jennifer. Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon   

“Brothers” is the first episode of the first season of Back to the Future: The Animated Series, as well as the pilot episode of the series. It first aired on September 7, 1991. Shop Back To The Future on Amazon.com Brief synopsis Marty McFly studies for a Civil War test at Hill Valley College with the assistance of an holographic tutor. Marty went on with playing his guitar with headphones on, ignoring what the tutor was saying. She yells the date of “February 11, 1864;Chattanooga, Tennessee” within range of the new DeLorean time machine’s audio-activated time circuits, enabling the car to change the date and location. Upset that he was second to his older brother Jules, Verne Brown decides to hop into the DeLorean and take it for a test drive, unaware that the time circuits were activated. Verne drives the DeLorean off the launch pad and breaks the time barrier in the sky. He emerges outside Chattanooga (after the DeLorean was rebuilt with spatial displacement) and is confused by the Confederate Army for some kind of Union Army “devil” wagon. The DeLorean clips a series of Confederate tents before Verne activated the time machine’s night vision. The DeLorean runs into another tent, catching it, and comes to a stop. While under the cover of the tent, the car compacts into a briefcase, with Verne to its side. Doc, Marty, and Jules go back in time to find him during the American Civil War. Verne then encounters Confederate General Beauregard Tannen and his men at the campsite. Tannen asks if Verne was a spy for the Union Army, which he has no answer. Doc Brown, Jules, Marty, and Einstein are forced to take theJules Verne Train to rescue Verne from the past after finding him in a picture taken of Confederate soldiers a day before the battle, as the text had indicated that the Confederates were wiped out in a massacre. While the Confederate army troops kidnap Marty and capture Einstein, the Union army troops capture Doc and Jules. Verne begins to see the Confederate army troops hold both Einstein and Marty hostage and locking them in the jail under the wrong orders from General Tannen.   On the day of the battle, Doc and Jules build an electromagnet from an electric magnetic machine marketed to General Ulysses S. Clayton, and use it to attract all the weapons from both armies. Jules and Verne end up on opposite sides of the war; Verne is recruited by the Confederates and Jules in the Union army. When this fails, Jules is thrown into the middle of the battlefield and Verne comes to protect him. When both armies see this, they stop and admire the brothers’ bonding. Brothers, cousins, and uncles from both sides begin to embrace one another and huddle together in the center of the battlefield. The soldiers realize that they are fighting their own brothers, cousins, uncles and nephews. Both parties walk away from the battle without fighting. Tannen and Clayton agree to work together… “just long enough to drive you troublemakers out of here!” Einstein finally takes Doc, Marty, Jules, and Verne with him back to 1991. During the live-action segment, Doc reveals that Marty studied the American Civil War in vain, and failed. Had he been paying attention in class, he would have known that the exam was about the Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 until 1939. Let us know what you think… Leave us a voicemail by calling (707)847-6682, also send in your thoughts, theories and feedback, MP3s & email to backtothefuturetas@gmail.com. Also join us on facebook.com/bttfanimated and twitter.com/bttfanimated. You can help out the show by shopping at Amazon using our affiliate link… barrenspace.com/BTTF/amazon  *Information from backtothefuture.wikia.com