Time Warp Trio
For his tenth birthday, Joe receives a mysterious blue book from his magician uncle and namesake, "Joe the Magnificent," known only as "The Book". Using a number of often unpredictable and/or unintentional voice and print cues, The Book frequently transports Joe and his friends, Fred and Sam, to a variety of places in history, like Ancient Egypt, the Old West and to the year 2105, where they meet their own great-granddaughters, Jodie, Samantha and Freddi. The only way they are able to return present-day Brooklyn, New York is to find The Book again within whatever time period they are in. Later in the series, Joe's evil uncle, Mad Jack, makes several attempts to capture the children and The Book with his crafty tricks, whether stranding them in Antarctica (where The Book doesn't work) or trying to make their new home in China (during the Tang Dynasty).
- 2005-2006
- 1 season
- NBC
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family
- TV-Y7
For his tenth birthday, Joe receives a mysterious blue book from his magician uncle and namesake, "Joe the Magnificent," known only as "The Book". Using a number of often unpredictable and/or unintentional voice and print cues, The Book frequently transports Joe and his friends, Fred and Sam, to a variety of places in history, like Ancient Egypt, the Old West and to the year 2105, where they meet their own great-granddaughters, Jodie, Samantha and Freddi. The only way they are able to return present-day Brooklyn, New York is to find The Book again within whatever time period they are in. Later in the series, Joe's evil uncle, Mad Jack, makes several attempts to capture the children and The Book with his crafty tricks, whether stranding them in Antarctica (where The Book doesn't work) or trying to make their new home in China (during the Tang Dynasty).
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
The Not-So-Jolly Roger
Sat, Jul 9, 2005
Joe, Sam and Fred Are celebrating Joe's Birthday when he receives a present from his Uncle Joe. It is beautiful book with a cryptic warning of 'Be careful what you wish for'. Soon the boys are transported through time to the 18th century and find themselves prisoners of Blackbeard the pirate. Blackbeard is very clever and when they are all captured by the British Navy the boys must convince the court that they are not the Terrible Tripoli Trio as Blackbeard has dubbed them. They must get out of this predicament and search for the book which is their only hope of getting back to their time.
Episode 2
2105
Sat, Jul 16, 2005
The boys warp 100 years into the future and meet...their great-granddaughters.
Episode 3
You Can't, But Genghis Khan
Sat, Jul 23, 2005
When Same throws a Mongolian menu into The Book, the boys almost get turned into roadkill and meet the boy who grows up to become Genghis Khan.
Episode 4
Tut, Tut
Sat, Jul 30, 2005
Anna warps the boys back to Ancient Egypt, where they meet a Pharaoh and find themselves almost being mummified.
Episode 5
Sam Samurai
Sat, Aug 6, 2005
The boys warp back to Japan and get involved in a battle. The girls turn up just in time to save their lives, but then Same and Samantha get separated from the others when the The Book warps them away.
Episode 6
See You Later, Gladiator
Sat, Aug 13, 2005
The boys warp to ancient Rome and are almost forced to fight a gladiator.
Episode 7
Lewis and Clark... and Jodie, Freddi and Samantha
Sat, Aug 20, 2005
The girls accidentally warp into 1800 wilderness.
Episode 8
Viking It and Liking It
Sat, Aug 27, 2005
The boys help Leif Eriksson discover America.
Episode 9
Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?
Sat, Sep 3, 2005
Sam is feeling low because none of his inventions work.Joe decides it would be a good idea to travel to the future, get an invention, and bring it back so Sam can invent it. Instead of traveling to the future they travel back in time to the late 19th century where they run into Freddi who is trying to find out what happened to the electricity in her time. They have somehow interfered with Edison's invention process. They journey to Menlo Park and try to set things right.
Episode 10
Me Oh Maya
Sat, Oct 1, 2005
A basketball game gets interrupted and the boys find themselves in Chichen Itza, Mexico, in the middle of a Maya ring ball court 1,000 years ago. In this game, the stakes are higher - if they lose, they lose their heads.
Episode 11
The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy
Sat, Oct 8, 2005
The trio discover the hard way that life in the Old West is nothing like a cowboy movie.
Episode 12
Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba
Sat, Jan 7, 2006
Fred finds out first-hand what it means to have a Napoleon complex when he and Joe warp back to Paris during 1815 and meet Napoleon Bonaparte.
Episode 13
The Seven Blunders of the World
Sat, Jan 14, 2006
Joe, Fred and Sam warp to Babylon to figure out who stole the book and meet King Nebuchadnezzar II and Queen Amytis, the creators of the famous Hanging Gardens.
Episode 14
Jinga All the Way
Sat, Jul 23, 2005
Jodie, Sam and Fred land in 17th century Angola. They join the fierce Queen Jinga and battle warring tribes in a trek along the Kwanza River on their way to a historic meeting with the Portuguese governor.
Episode 15
Birdman or Birdbrain?
Sat, Feb 4, 2006
The Book is found to be written in an unknown language and to solve the mystery Fred, Freddi and Samantha find themselves back on Easter Island.
Episode 16
Dude, Where's My Karma?
Someone is tampering with Joe's family tree and he is starting to disappear. Sam and Fred trace the weak link back to the marriage of Prince Karna and Princess Lakshmi in 8th century India. A marriage contest is being held between Prince Karna and Prince Mahaloogie for the hand of Lakshmi. Sam and Fred find that Samantha and Freddi are also investigating as Jodi is disappearing as well. Sam and Fred must insure Karna's victory over Mahaloogie to keep history on track. But someone is helping Mahaloogie...a mysterious hooded figure.
Episode 17
My Big Fat Greek Olympics
Sat, Feb 18, 2006
A wild warp at the Olympia Diner sends Fred and Samantha to Ancient Greece during the Olympic games where they must team up with philosopher Plato to help avoid a historical disaster. Based on It's All Greek to Me.
Episode 18
Wushu Were Here
Sat, Feb 25, 2006
Sam gets trapped inside The Book, and Anna, Fred and Joe travel back to the Tang dynasty in China in 621 AD to figure out how to get him out.
Episode 19
What's So Great About Peter?
Sat, Mar 18, 2006
Fred, Sam and Samantha travel back to late 17th century Russia to search for the Star of Vladivostok. The star is a great ruby that used to belong to the family of Sam and Samantha's Grandpa Dima. Their search brings them in contact with Peter the Great who is trying to bring technological reforms to Russia. They become involved in his plans to build St. Petersburg but discover that the leader of the rebels who oppose Peter is their ancestor Alexander Kikin...who Peter has sentenced to death.
Episode 20
The Cavemen Catastrophe
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
When the kids warp back to the Stone Age, they manage to decipher some cave paintings and find The Book in the camp of the Neanderthals.
Episode 21
Nightmare on Joe's Street
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
Joe, Sam and Jodie must contend with Frankenstein's Monster.
Episode 22
Breaking the Codex
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
Jodie and Freddi unexpectedly grab Joe and transport him to 1503 in Italy at the height of the Renaissance.
Episode 23
Break an Egg
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
While stuck in a traffic jam Fred starts to mess around with the book and before anyone can stop him the boys have warped back to 1911 Antarctica and become part of Captain Robert F. Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Joe has been having dreams and believes that by traveling to an isolated Arctic Cape home to many penguins they can find the book and use it to go home. When the book is finally discovered it doesn't work...and what does Mad Jack have to do with all of this?
Episode 24
The High and the Flighty
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
The girls hear a mysterious radio transmission, which Freddi recognizes as the voice of her heroine, pilot Amelia Earhart, who is broadcasting a distress message on her last flight.
Episode 25
Harem Scare 'Em
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
Jodie, Sam and Fred search for the Time Map in the Topkapi Treasury Room of Suleiman's palace in the 16th Century Ottoman Empire. Trouble ensues when they discover that Mad Jack is also searching for it.
Episode 26
Plaid to the Bone
Sat, Jul 15, 2006
A pinball machine is actually one of Mad Jack's time bombs and Jodie, Joe, and Anna find themselves warped back to medieval Scotland to Castle Dunbar of Lady Agnes Randolph. While the kids search for the book with the help of Uncle Joe the castle is under siege by the English.
