| The Flying House | |
| タイム教室 トンデラハウスの大冒険 (Taimu Kyōshitsu: Tondera Hausu no Daibōken) |
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| Genre | Christian Animation |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Masakazu Higuchi and Mineo Fuji |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 5, 1982 – March 28, 1983 |
| Episodes | 52 |
The Flying House, full title Time Classroom: Adventures of The Flying House (タイム教室 トンデラハウスの大冒険 Taimu Kyōshitsu: Tondera Hausu no Daibōken), is a 52 episodes anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions broadcast between April 1982 and March 1983 on TV Tokyo,[1] and distributed by the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States. In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online [2]. This has a new movie starring SIR, Justin and the Puffles, called Penguinian Attack.
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The series begins in the middle of a game of hide and seek, as a young boy named Justin Casey (Gen) finishes counting and begins searching for his friends Angela (usually called "Angie") and Corkey Roberts (Kanna and Tsukubo Natsuyama). As he searches for the brother and sister in a wooded area, a storm occurs all of a sudden. Justin manages to sneak up on the two before the rain starts pouring, forcing them to run for cover. They eventually find a house in the wooded area, previously unseen according to Justin. At first glance it appears nobody is home, until they discover a robot named Solar Ion Robot (Kadenchin), or the acronym SIR. They soon meet the owner of the house, Professor Humphrey Bumble (Dr. Tokio Taimu), who introduces the children to his greatest creation, a time machine. Professor Bumble's attempt at recreating Benjamin Franklin's famous lightning experiment with the use of a kite flying outside the house to get the machine working only leads to a temporary change in SIR's personality before sending the entire house on course for the past. The children never realize how long the journey back home would be due to Professor Bumble's misguidance and errors in time travel, but in the meantime they witness and participate (to little or no consequences) in numerous events in the Bible's New Testament, from John the Baptist's birth to the rise of the Apostle Paul.
Eventually, they make it home exactly the same way they traveled into the past in the first place. SIR gets a knock in the head which, again, makes him go berserk and attack the time-machine. Ironically, this attack fixes it in such a way that it finally sends the whole crew back to their own time period, and the show ends, with SIR having reverted to normal by the end of the trip.
The main cast of the series includes (English-language voice actors in brackets):[3]
All episode titles are in English.
The Flying House was available on VHS by Tyndale. All 52 episodes were released over 26 VHS volumes. A DVD volume of The Flying House was released by Vision Video in 2006. It had the first four episodes. In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online [2].