The Second Voyage of the Mimi
A sequel educational series exploring Mayan ruins and science.
The Second Voyage of the Mimi is a 12-episode American educational television program that aired on PBS, created by the Bank Street College of Education in 1988. It follows a fictional crew aboard the sailboat Mimi as they explore Mayan ruins in Southern Mexico, learning about ancient civilization while attempting to stop looters. The series is a sequel to The Voyage of the Mimi, produced in 1984.
Quick Facts
- Number of episodes
- 12
- Network
- PBS
- Year of creation
- 1988
- Creator
- Bank Street College of Education
- Setting
- Southern Mexico
- near Tulum
- Quintana Roo
- Preceded by
- The Voyage of the Mimi (1984)
Facts from the source article.
Cast
Ben Affleck appears as Clement Tyler 'C.T.' Granville, with Peter G. Marston playing his grandfather Captain Clement Tyler Granville. Marston, a scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during production, owned the actual ship Mimi. Martha Hill portrays Pepper Thornton, an expert scuba diver. Roger Cudney plays Harvey Westerman, Pepper's former employer, and Hector Tellez plays Pedro, an employee of Westerman's. Inaki Carrion is archeologist Victor Cobos, Cheryl Lynn Bruce is archeologist Terry Gibbs, and Carla Douglin plays Terry's daughter Quiché Gibbs. Enrique Lucero plays Tomás Segovia, and Patricia Ancira plays his daughter Rosa Segovia.
Episodes
Each episode contains two 15-minute segments. The first segment continues a serialized story about scientists Victor Cobos, a Mexican man of Maya descent, and Terry Gibbs, an African-American woman, studying the ancient Maya and thwarting site looters. Terry's husband was killed by looters eight years prior, and her daughter Quiché can already read Maya writing. They hire the Granvilles in Quintana Roo, Mexico, near Tulum, to study ancient Maya ship routes. The Granvilles hire Pepper Thornton, an expert diver and daughter of a friend of Captain Granville, who previously worked for Harvey Westerman guiding tourist dives. The second segment is a standalone exploration of a scientific principle from the serialized tale, where child actors Ben Affleck or Carla Douglin interview real scientists such as archeologists Bill Fash, Peter Reynolds, and David Stuart, and rain forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni. Martha Hill also appears out of character in an interview with Ben Affleck at the start of the segment 'Expedition 1 If I can Do This'.
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