The Flying House (TV series)

Plot

The series begins during a game of hide and seek. A thunderstorm forces the three children to run for cover, and they discover a spacecraft-like house previously unseen by Justin. Inside, they find a clown-battery-type android named Solar Ion Robot (S.I.R.) and meet the house's owner, Professor Humphrey Bumble. The professor has created a half-rocket, half-house time machine called The Flying House.

His attempt to replicate Benjamin Franklin's lightning experiment using a bat-shaped kite causes S.I.R. to temporarily become mean and go berserk, sending the Flying House into the past. Justin, Angie, Corky, and S.I.R. realize the journey home will be long due to the professor's errors, but they witness and participate in numerous events from the Bible's New Testament, from the birth of John the Baptist to the rise of Paul the Apostle. They eventually return home in the same manner they left: S.I.R. receives a knock on the head, becomes mean again, and attacks the Flying House, but his frenzy fixes the machine and sends everyone back to their own time, with S.I.R. restored to a nice personality.

Cast and characters

Justin Casey, voiced by Billie Lou Watt, is the best friend of Corky and Angie. Professor Humphrey Bumble, voiced by Hal Studer, invented the Flying House and S.I.R. Solar Ion Robot, voiced by Ray Owens, is the professor's clown-battery-type robotic assistant.

Did You Know?

• The series was available on VHS by Tyndale, with all 52 episodes released over 26 VHS cassettes.
• A DVD volume featuring the first four episodes was released by Vision Video in 2006.
• The series aired on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and its children's subchannel Smile.