80s SPOTLIGHT: VOYAGERS

Anyone remember the TV show

"VOYAGERS!"?

I know Terra & Maker do, cause we were trying to remember thedarn name last night

(It was "Voyagers!", btw).

It was basically Quantum Leap, but years before (1982-1983). There's a group of Voyagers who help History along, giving it a "push" where/whenever needed. The Voyagers in the series were 2 people: Phineas Bogg (the adult), who was a pirate hundreds of years ago, and 12 yr old Jeffrey Jones.

They used a gold pocket watch like deviced (called an "omni") to time travel - when the light flashes red, somethings wrong with histroy and they must fix it. I'll spare you the details, but basically the kid isn't supposed to be there with him and they are lost traveling through time with no way to get back (they don't have the time travelling book with them)... thankfully, the kid's dad was a history teacher and, of course, he just happened to pick up alot of that knowledge himself, so they do alright.

As a 7-8yr old kid in 1982, the show was pretty good.
I was disappointed when the show didn't come back for a 2nd season.
I was even more distraught when I found out why:
Jon-Erik Hexum (Phineas Bogg) apparently was goofing around with a gun loaded with blanks. He put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger - blanks in it, right? so its "safe".
Nope - the exiting wad of cardboard went through his skull.