The Flying House (TV series) facts for kids
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Cover art from volume 1 of the DVD release of the series
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Quick facts for kids トンデラハウスの大冒険(Tondera Hausu no Daibōken) |
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| Genre | Christian Animation |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masakazu Higuchi and Mineo Fuji |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
| Licensed by | |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | 5 April 1982 – 28 March 1983 |
| Episodes | 52 |
The Flying House, known in Japan as Tondera Hausu no Daibōken (トンデラハウスの大冒険, Adventures of the Flying House), is an anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Productions broadcast between April 1982 and March 1983 on TV Tokyo, and distributed by the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States. In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online.
At the same time, CBN and Tatsunoko also produced a related series, Superbook.
In the Philippines, reruns of the show were broadcast on GMA Network in 1992 and on ABS-CBN in 2015. The episodes are currently broadcast on Pop Life TV via digital free-to-air television BEAM TV.
It was Also Broadcast on the Australian Christian Channel in Australia.
Contents
Plot
The series begins in the middle of a game of hide and seek, as a young boy named Justin Casey (Gen Adachi) finishes counting and begins searching for his friends Angela "Angie" Roberts and her little brother Corbin "Corky" Roberts (Kanna and Tsukubo Natsuyama). As he searches for Angie and Corky in a wooded area, a thunderstorm suddenly appears. Justin manages to sneak up on the two before the rain starts pouring, forcing them to run for cover. They eventually find a spacecraft type house in the wooded area, previously unseen according to Justin. At first glance it appears that nobody is home, until they discover a clown battery type android named Solar Ion Robot (Kadenchin), or S.I.R. for short. They soon meet the owner of the house, Professor Humphrey Bumble (Dr. Tokio Taimu), who introduces the children to his greatest creation, a half rocket, half house one of a kind time machine namely The Flying House. Humphrey's attempt at recreating Benjamin Franklin's famous lightning experiment with the use of a bat looking kite flying outside the house to get the machine working only leads to a temporary change in S.I.R.'s personality from nice to mean and goes berserk before sending The Flying House on course for the past. Little did they know that Justin, Angie, Corky, and S.I.R. truly realize how long the journey back home will take due to Humphrey's misguidance and errors in time travel, but in the meantime they witness and participate (with little or no consequences) in numerous events in the Bible's New Testament, from John the Baptist's birth to the rise of the Apostle Paul.
Eventually, they make it home exactly the same way they traveled into the past in the first place. S.I.R. gets a knock in the head which, again, makes him go from nice to mean and go berserk and he attacks The Flying House. Ironically, S.I.R.'s berserkiness fixes it in such a way that it finally sends the whole crew back to their own time period, and the show ends, with S.I.R. changed back from mean to nice by the end of the trip.
Cast
The main cast of the series includes (English-language voice actors in parentheses):
- Justin Casey is played by (Billie Lou Watt) Corky and Angie's best friend. His Japanese counterpart Gen Adachi, is played by Satomi Majima.
- Angela "Angie" Roberts is played by (Sonia Owens) – Corky's older sister and Justin's best friend. Her Japanese counterpart, Kanna Natsuyama, is played by Sanae Takagi.
- Corbin "Corky" Roberts is played by (Helena Van Koert) – Angie's little brother and Justin's best friend. His Japanese counterpart, Tsukubo Natsuyama, is played by Runa Akiyama.
- Professor Humphrey Bumble is played (Hal Studer) – The inventor of the Flying House. His Japanese counterpart, Dr.Tokio Taimu, is played by Yoshito Yasuhara.
- S.I.R. (Solar Ion Robot) is played by (Ray Owens) - Justin, Angie, and Corky's best friend and Professor Bumble's clown type robotic assistant. His Japanese counterpart, Kandenchin, is played by Kyōko Tongū.
- Jesus Christ is also played by (Ray Owens) - played by Jun Hazumi in Japanese.
- Paul the Apostle is also played by (Hal Studer).
- The Flying House is himself - his Japanese counterpart Tondera Hausu, is himself.
Episode List
Season 1 (1982)
- Blast Off For the Past
- Star-Spangled Night
- Lost and Found in Time
- Voice in the Wilderness
- Speak of the Devil
- All That Glitters
- Military Secrets
- The Prize That Was Won and Lost
- Another Life
- The Runaway
- Neighbors
- Poor Little Rich Men
- The Greatest
- Back From the Grave
- Real Treasure
- What If
- The Lost Sheep
- Sour Grapes
- Dog Gone
- Little Orphan Anna
- A Word to the Wise
- Judgement Day
- Possessed
- Over the Hill
- True Friends
- Devil's Gate
Season 2 (1983)
- Well, Well, Well?
- Left Holding the Bag
- Who Among You?
- Oil and Water
- A Special Secret
- Midnight Callers
- What's it worth?
- Fruitless
- Fit For a King
- The Secret Agent
- The Preparation
- Betrayed
- Who's in Charge
- The Crown of Thorns
- Golgotha
- The Empty Tomb
- With You Always
- The Prison Break
- Good Riddance
- The Blinding Light
- Bound & Rebound
- Tender Grapes
- Shipwrecked
- Snake Bite
- Heartbreak
- Homeward Bound
Home video and syndication
The Flying House was available on VHS by Tyndale; all 52 episodes were released over 26 VHS cassettes. A DVD volume of The Flying House was released by Vision Video in 2006, featuring the first four episodes. In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online. The series also airs on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) and its children's subchannel Smile.
Other titles
- French: La maison volante
- German: Fliegendes Haus (Flying House; aired on Bibel TV)
- Spanish: La casa voladora
- Russian: Летающий дом
- Ukrainian: Літаючий будинок
- Romanian: Casa Zburătoare
- Danish: Det Flyvende Hus
- Hungarian: A repülő ház
- Mongolian: Нисдэг байшин
- Hebrew: הבית המעופף
- Portuguese: A Casa Voadora
See also
In Spanish: La casa voladora para niños
