Back to the Future: The Animated Series is an animated series based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films. The series lasted two seasons, each lasting 13 episodes, and ran on CBS from September 7, 1991 to November 30, 1992, and later repeated on FOX from March to September 2003.
Following the conclusion of Back to the Future Part III, "Doc" Brown has settled down in 1991 Hill Valley along with his new wife Clara, their sons Jules and Verne, and the family dog Einstein. As with the films, time travel was achieved through the use of a modified De Lorean, which had apparently been replaced after the original's destruction at the end of the trilogy. In addition, the characters traveled through time using the steam engine time machine Doc invented at the end of Part III.
Although Marty McFly and his girlfriend Jennifer Parker made occasional appearances, the show focused primarily on the adventures of Doc's family. The films' villain Biff Tannen also pops up from time to time. In addition, relatives of both the McFly and Tannen families are plentiful in most of the past or future parallel time zones that the time-travellers visit. Unlike the films, which took place entirely in Hill Valley and the surrounding area, the series frequently took the characters to exotic locations
|