| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures | |
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| Genre | Fantasy Science fiction Comedy Adventure |
| Based on | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure byChris Matheson andEd Solomon |
| Developed by | Gordon Kent |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson (season 1) Don Lusk (season 1) Paul Sommer (season 1) Robert Alvarez (season 1) Carl Urbano (season 1) Stan Phillips (season 2) |
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| Opening theme | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures |
| Composers | Chuck Loeb (season 1) Murray McFadden & Timothy Mulholland (season 2) |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Executive producers | David Kirschner (season 1) Paul Sabella (season 1) Andy Heyward (season 2) |
| Running time | 20–23 minutes |
| Production companies | Hanna-Barbera Productions (season 1) DIC Enterprises (season 2) Orion Television Entertainment Nelson Entertainment |
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| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 15 (1990-09-15) – December 22, 1990 (1990-12-22) |
| Network | Fox(Fox Kids) |
| Release | September 14 (1991-09-14) – November 16, 1991 (1991-11-16) |
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| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1992 TV series) | |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is a 1990animated television seriesspin-off from the 1989 filmBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. It follows the titularprotagonists, dimwitted teenage musicians Bill and Ted, who are visited by Rufus, a man from the future, who needs them to graduate from high school to start a rock band that inspires the people of the future. They travel to various time periods, making sure that history happens as it should, more or less.[1]
The first season of the animated series was produced byHanna-Barbera and aired onCBS in 1990, withKeanu Reeves,Alex Winter,George Carlin, andBernie Casey reprising their film roles.[2]
For the second season in 1991, the animated series switched production companies and networks, now airing onFox Kids,[3] and produced byDIC Animation City. AsFox was also planning on airing a new live-action version series with the same name,[4] the cast was replaced, and the leads were now voiced by Evan Richards and Christopher Kennedy, the actors who would go on to portray Bill and Ted on theshort-lived 1992 live-action television series. The new episodes introduced a "Squint" phone booth that could take Bill and Ted into literature, television shows, and (after shrinking them) inside the human body. The new show had trouble catching on, and after one more season, the animatedBill & Ted series was cancelled.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "One Sweet & Sour Chinese Adventure – to Go" | John Loy and John Ludin | September 15, 1990 (1990-09-15) | |
Bill and Ted play loud rock n' roll music and accidentally break a Chinese vase. To avoid getting in trouble, the dudes use their trusty phone booth time machine to go to ancient China to find a replacement where they also meet the famous Italian explorerMarco Polo. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Birth of Rock & Roll or Too Hip for the Womb" | John Loy and John Ludin | September 22, 1990 (1990-09-22) | |
Bill and Ted are flunking music appreciation and are given an assignment about classical music, and end up meeting musical personalities such asWolfgang Amadeus Mozart andLittle Richard. They also get in trouble with history's greatest archer,William Tell. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "A Most Excellent Roman Holiday" | Wayne Kaatz and Gordon Kent | September 29, 1990 (1990-09-29) | |
The dudes are taking a Latin class and are given an assignment about a rare ancient Roman coin, and they end up going to Latin America in 1450 and Rome in 44 B.C. They also saveJulius Caesar from being assassinated. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Model 'T' for Ted" | Rowby Goren | October 6, 1990 (1990-10-06) | |
Ted is given driving lessons in his father's squad car. Later Bill and Ted borrow "Blue Betty" to drive 5 blocks to buy the newIron Maiden CD, and he accidentally wrecks it, which leads to him and Bill going back in time to require some help. They also improve the firstThanksgiving feast, meet pirates and sea explorers like SirFrancis Drake, car pioneerHenry Ford and the inventors of the airplane, TheWright brothers. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "The More Heinous They are, the Harder They Fall" | Mary Jo Ludin | October 20, 1990 (1990-10-20) | |
Bill and Ted use their phone booth to find a heinous bully to deal with a bully at Deacon's school. They try the English rulerHenry VIII of England, evil Russian czarIvan the Terrible, cowgirl personalityCalamity Jane, and American patriotPaul Revere. They even help start theAmerican Revolution, kick off theBoston Tea Party, helpBenjamin Franklin discover electricity, and sign theUnited States Declaration of Independence. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Birds of A Feather Stick to the Roof of Your Mouth" | Sharman DiVono | October 27, 1990 (1990-10-27) | |
The duo house-sit for an eccentric explorer named Mr. Stickler and a cat eats his most prized possession, a rare bird called "Prince Rupert III" which leads to finding a replacement. They also help polar explorerRichard E. Byrd fly across the South Pole, build a nose for theSphinx, and help Mr.Henry Morton Stanley find Dr.David Livingstone. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "A Black Night in San Dimas" | Rowby Goren | November 3, 1990 (1990-11-03) | |
A new teacher named Ms. Spleen is fed up with Bill and Ted and threatens them with expelling them unless they can catch up with their homework. In order to get a great audience at their concert, they go back to get their old friends Joanna and Elizabeth from 15th century England, but end up in the Crusades with Muslim leaderSaladin. | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Pocket Watch Full of Miracles" | Doug Molitor | November 10, 1990 (1990-11-10) | |
It's Mr. Preston's birthday and the dudes use their phone booth to get him a present: an antique pocket watch, but end up getting watches from Mr. Preston when he was 10 years old, folk heroJohn Henry, Swiss general Hannibal and the Empress of India,Queen Victoria. | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "This Babe Ruth "BABE" is A DUDE, Dude" | Sean Roche | November 24, 1990 (1990-11-24) | |
The dudes are faced with lunchtime detention and accidentally wash off a signature off Coach Sweatsock's baseball which leads to meetingBabe Ruth,Harriet Tubman, and the famousvampireCount Dracula. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "When the Going Gets Tough Bill & Ted are History" | Paul Dini | December 1, 1990 (1990-12-01) | |
Bill and Ted are fed up with not getting any applause after their fourth gig. They give up on the band, which disrupts time, causes Rufus to get younger and younger, and leads to Bill and Ted meeting famous inventorThomas Edison, professional artist, thinker, scientist, and inventorLeonardo da Vinci, English chemistJoseph Priestley, and history's greatest sailor,Christopher Columbus. | |||||
| 11 | 11 | "Never the Twain Shall Meet" | Jim Thut | December 8, 1990 (1990-12-08) | |
The dudes must find a person for Career Day, or "else". First they meet the greatest playwright ever,William Shakespeare, gold pioneerJohn Sutter, and American novelist and humoristMark Twain. | |||||
| 12 | 12 | "A Job, a Job – My Kingdom for a Job" | Sean Roche | December 15, 1990 (1990-12-15) | |
Bill and Ted must find a job, so they find jobs baking a cake forMarie Antoinette's birthday, help the Spanish explorerJuan de Oñate find the Lost City of Gold, helpLucrezia Borgia, and help write haikus withMatsuo Bashō. | |||||
| 13 | 13 | "A Grimm Story of an Overdue Book" | Rowby Goren | December 22, 1990 (1990-12-22) | |
Ted is on the library's "Most Wanted" list for not returning a story written by theBrothers Grimm, so he and Bill scour the past to find a copy of the book, and they meet the actual Grimm Brothers,George Washington,Davy Crockett, andLady Godiva. | |||||
This season featured historical characters likeGiacomo Casanova,Elvis Presley,Theodoric andMartin Luther.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 14 | 1 | "Now Museum, Now You Don't" | Doug Molitor | September 14, 1991 (1991-09-14) | |
The boys break the arms off theVenus de Milo and punch a hole in theMona Lisa. | |||||
| 15 | 2 | "The Totally Gross Anatomy of a Gym Teacher" | Rowby Goren | September 21, 1991 (1991-09-21) | |
The boys get a new phone directory, but they forget to dial 1 and end up shrinking themselves while trying to help their gym teacher keep the weight off in the past. An Innerspace style adventure ensues. | |||||
| 16 | 3 | "The Star Strangled Banner" | Jim Aitken | September 28, 1991 (1991-09-28) | |
Missy's rendition of the national anthem will set back the Wyld Stallyns by 14 years so they head to the past to stop her. | |||||
| 17 | 4 | "Leave it to Bill and Ted" | Ellis Weiner | October 5, 1991 (1991-10-05) | |
The boys use the new features of the phone booth to visit and meddle with the fictional world of "Leave it to Badger". | |||||
| 18 | 5 | "Goodbye, Columbus... and America" | Perry Martin | October 12, 1991 (1991-10-12) | |
Bill and Ted get sick of doing chores and decide that they need to go on a cruise and end up sailing to the "New World". They alter history and return to an undiscovered America. | |||||
| 19 | 6 | "It's a Bogus Day in the Neighborhood" | Alicia Marie Schudt | October 26, 1991 (1991-10-26) | |
Deacon, Ted's brother, is sick and watching Thunder Slugs. The boys object to the content and introduce him to Mr. Radish's Condominium. They find out that Mr. Radish is planning to hang up his sweater so they set out to convince him to stay. | |||||
| 20 | 7 | "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in Babysitting" | Story by :Phil Harnage,Judy Rothman andBarbara Slade Teleplay by : Barbara Slade | November 2, 1991 (1991-11-02) | |
Ted's guitar melts putting the future at risk. If Bill and Ted need to find a new one before the Battle of the Bands. | |||||
| 21 | 8 | "The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Phone Booth" | Kati Rocky | November 16, 1991 (1991-11-16) | |
Ted's dad decides to send him to military school. The boys visit the past to learn some discipline from Ted's father so they can change his mind. | |||||
The first episode of the first season was released as a special feature on theBill & Ted's Most Excellent Collection DVD box set, and on theBlu-ray ofBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
In 2013, TGG Direct, LLC (under license fromMGM Home Entertainment) released a 2 disc "Best of" DVD. Disc 1 includes eight episodes from Season 1, while Disc 2 has the complete second season. It was a Wal-Mart exclusive at first, but now it's available nationwide.[6]
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