The Odyssey (TV series)
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The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-95 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha (credited as Ashley Rogers), Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler (Jay's mother), and Devon Sawa as Yudo.
In the series pilot, 11-year-old Jay tries to join a tree-fort club, and a telescope that belonged to his father (who has been missing several years and is presumed dead) is stolen. When Jay tries to retrieve the telescope, he falls from the tree-fort, injures his head, and lapses into a coma.
In the coma, Jay finds himself in a fantasy world where no one reaches the age of 16. Not having heard of adults, the children here have shaped society in their own ways, sometimes resembling a police state. Jay, not knowing how he has got here, embarks on a journey to return home—a place he can't remember. The journey becomes a quest to find his long-lost father, who fell overboard from a small boat into a lake whilst they were on a fishing trip together, and has not been seen since.
Meanwhile, Jay's mother and a coma therapist try to get Jay to regain consciousness, with the help of his friends.
A turning point is reached when Jay's father's appears to him as he is regaining consciousness, which Jay is forced to keep as a secret from his mother. As Jay struggles to reorient himself in the waking world and the many changes that have occurred, he finds that he is still dealing with issues through the world from his subconscious.
The series, created by Paul Vitols and Warren Easton, was produced in Vancouver by Water Street Pictures. Over the three years of production 39 episodes were made. The show was broadcast in the U.S. by the Sci-Fi Channel, in the UK by Channel 4 in 1995 (Season 1 repeated in 1998), in France by France 3, and also in a number of other countries. Awards won by the series include Top Ten World Program at the Cologne Conference, a Canadian Gemini for Best Youth Program, and the WorldFest Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival.
The pilot episode was originally aired in Canada on March 9, 1992, as "The Jellybean Odyssey".
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[edit] Episodes
[edit] Season 1 (1992-1993)
1 (1- 1) : The Fall
2 (1- 2) : No Fair
3 (1- 3) : Out of the Woods
4 (1- 4) : By the Book
5 (1- 5) : Checkpoint Eagle
6 (1- 6) : The Believers
7 (1- 7) : A Place Called Nowhere
8 (1- 8) : Wanted
9 (1- 9) : Galileo & the Gypsies
10 (1-10) : In the Dark
11 (1-11) : The Brad Exchange
12 (1-12) : Welcome to the Tower
13 (1-13) : The One Called Brad
[edit] Season 2 (1994)
14 (2- 1) : Lands End
15 (2- 2) : To the Lighthouse
16 (2- 3) : Some place like home
17 (2- 4) : Whispers Like Thunder
18 (2- 5) : The Hall of Darkness
19 (2- 6) : The Prophecy
20 (2- 7) : The Greatest Show on Earth
21 (2- 8) : But Where Is Here?
22 (2- 9) : The Big Picture
23 (2-10) : Tick Tock
24 (2-11) : Run for Your Life
25 (2-12) : Who Do You Believe?
26 (2-13) : You Decide
[edit] Season 3 (1994)
27 (3- 1) : No Way Out
28 (3- 2) : Dart to the Heart
29 (3- 3) : Learning Curve
30 (3- 4) : Night Life
31 (3- 5) : Cry Justice
32 (3- 6) : King for a Day
33 (3- 7) : The Cauldron
34 (3- 8) : Styx and Stones
35 (3- 9) : Tug of War
36 (3-10) : Tangled Web
37 (3-11) : No Holds Barred
38 (3-12) : The Plague
39 (3-13) : Time Bomb
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- The Odyssey at the Internet Movie Database
- Archive of the SciFi Channel's web site dedicated to the show during its run on the network.
