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1999 - 2004 8.7 (3 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Drama Family Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Created By
Josh Miller

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Overview

A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.

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Seasons

Season 1 (1999)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Genius
1999-06-12

14-year-old Oliver Cates inadvertently transports Albert Einstein into the present with his computer. Before going back, Einstein helps Oliver work through his anger so he can reconcile with his mother, whom the boy blames for his parents' divorce.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Smart Aleck
1999-06-19

Oliver has no one with whom he can share his secret, so he summons Alexander Graham Bell. However, his secret is uncovered by a curious 14-year-old named Dee Sampson who, thanks to Bell’s advice, Oliver eventually befriends.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Raising the Siege
1999-06-26

Dee is upset by her parents’ investment in a toxic pulp mill, so she summons Joan of Arc to help organize a protest, despite Oliver’s reservations.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Lewis in Wonderland
1999-07-03

Dee’s reticence to leave her childhood behind motivates her to summon writer Lewis Carroll, whose real name is Charles Dodgson, who helps her deal with her grandmother’s death.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Little Emperor
1999-07-10

Oliver summons Napoleon Bonaparte to help inspire his pals to win a newspaper subscription contest.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Wilde Card
1999-07-17

Oliver thinks he lacks “the right stuff” where his father is concerned and, at the same time, his friend Bobby is being bullied by the football jocks. With the witty Oscar Wilde as their guide, they both learn that it’s okay to be themselves.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: A Ninth of Beethoven
2000-01-16

Oliver brings back Beethoven to help Dee deal with a pending operation that could result in her deafness. However, Beethoven is mistakenly brought back from a time when he isn’t deaf yet.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: A Transient, Shining Trouble
2000-01-23

When Oliver plans on revealing his VisiCron technology to the world in return for fame and glory, Dee brings back the co-discoverer of insulin, Dr. Frederick Banting, whose own widespread fame in his day became nothing but an irritant.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Presence of Saint Nick
2000-02-06

Mrs. Tatlow, an impoverished senior citizen, refuses to accept the groceries that Dee has volunteered to deliver over the Christmas holiday. Undaunted, Dee gets a scrooge-like Oliver to call back the real St. Nicholas to help her deliver the goods.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Raven
2000-03-05

Dee brings in Edgar Allan Poe to help make a Halloween fundraising event spooky, but Poe is charming and anything but scary.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Harriet's Path
2000-03-12

Oliver wants to impress his father by winning a team “orienteering” contest: a race through wilderness terrain with only a compass and a map. For the team supervisor, Dee convinces Oliver to bring back Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: The Crush
2000-03-19

Dee convinces Oliver to summon Cleopatra to help her audition for a school production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. However, what she secretly wants is Cleo’s advice in winning the affections of school hunk Gino, who is auditioning for the part of Antony.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Rescue
2000-03-26

When Oliver and Anne get lost hiking in the woods, Dee brings back Daniel Boone to help track them down.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (2001)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Truth is in Here
2001-08-18

Ghostly incidents are happening in the school. To help figure out who is responsible for them Oliver and Dee summon Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle. Oliver keeps questioning this punk looking girl who just seems to appear everywhere. Is she a ghost? Is she responsible for the ghostly incidents?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Her Grace Under Pressure
2001-08-25

Dee is running for Student Council but bad rumours about her are going around the school, so she summons Queen Elizabeth I for political advice.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Dear Diary
2001-09-02

Dee reads Anne Frank's diary entries and decides that Anne deserves 36 hours of free time from the attic hideaway. Anne Frank cannot believe how free it is where Dee and Oliver live from her attic hideaway. Anne starts to really like or should I say love Oliver. Dee and Oliver decide to take Anne to the movie theatre. During the movie Anne steps out of the theatre and meets this punk guy in the theatre's video arcade and finds that there's a lot of goodness in him. So that tought Dee and Oliver how to find goodness in people. At the end of the episode before Anne's 36 hours run out she says that it has been the best 36 hours she has ever had in her life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Glory Trail
2001-09-08

Oliver and Dee summon natve American Sacagawea to help in an expedition to expose a refinery that is secretly causing river pollution.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Right Place, Right Time
2001-09-15

Oliver accidentally causes himself and Dee to be transported back in time by 24 hours, giving them an opportunity to right a wrong.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Nothing But Net
2001-09-22

Dee summons the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, to coach her on winning an important game.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Father's Day
2001-09-29

After Oliver has a row with his dad, Dee brings the man forward in time as a teenager, hoping that they will learn to better relate to each other.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: The Book of Love
2001-10-06

Oliver finds Dee being around this other guy a lot. Oliver decides to bring back Casanova because he thinks that he will be able to give him some tips on attracting girls. Unfortunately Casanova is giving Oliver really bad advice. When Oliver follows Casanova's advice, he makes a huge fool of himself.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Stranger in a Strange Land
2001-10-13

When a financial crisis causes Dee's mom to question her faith, Dee brings Moses from the past to advise her, not realizing that she has summoned the young Moses, when he was but a humble shepherd rather than a great leader.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Fire Ship
2001-10-20

In danger of losing Visicron to a corporate software pirate, Oliver summons the famous 18th Century pirate Black Bart to help him fight fire with fire.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Klondike Daze
2001-10-27

Oliver adds another module to Visicron to speed it up. When Oliver tries to bring back Jack London, the Visicron instead takes Oliver to the time and place Jack London is right now. Oliver has to try and find a way back, so Dee asks Simon to help find a way to bring Oliver back. Meanwhile Oliver keeps altering the future and weird things keep happening in the present.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Seer and Now
2001-11-03

Plagued by a recurring dream, Dee summons famous prophet Nostradamus to advise her on what it means.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Future Tense
2001-11-10

Oliver is just about to delete Visicron before going to college, but then he is transported into the future by an old man. Oliver gets accused by the old man of being careless with time travel. Oliver and the old man watch clips of past episodes on a screen so that Oliver can defend himself and show the man what good Visicron has done. The old man convinces Oliver he shouldn't delete Visicron and then Oliver gets sent back to the present. We later find out that the old man was really Oliver himself as an old man in the future. In the end right before Oliver leaves to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to go to college he gives Visicron to his 12 year old cousin Simon.

Runtime: 30 min

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