• 1994
  • TV-14
  • 30m
The Odyssey

Summary Following an accident, young Jay Ziegler falls into a coma. While his family and friends must continue their lives in the Real World, Jay finds himself in the magical Downworld on a quest to return home. View more details

  • 1994
  • TV-14
  • 30m

The Odyssey

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Tony Sampson Illya Woloshyn Ashleigh Aston Moore Janet Hodgkinson

All cast & crew

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Details

Genres : Adventure Fantasy Drama Family

Release date : Aug 29, 1994

Countries of origin : Canada

Language : English

Filming locations : North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Production companies : Omnifilm Entertainment Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Water Street Pictures

Summary Following an accident, young Jay Ziegler falls into a coma. While his family and friends must continue their lives in the Real World, Jay finds himself in the magical Downworld on a quest to return home. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Fantasy Drama Family

Release date : Aug 29, 1994

Countries of origin : Canada

Language : English

Filming locations : North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Production companies : Omnifilm Entertainment Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Water Street Pictures

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Elisabeth Rosen in The Odyssey (1992) Andrea Nemeth in The Odyssey (1992) Ashleigh Aston Moore, Tony Sampson, and Illya Woloshyn in The Odyssey (1992) Ashleigh Aston Moore, Tony Sampson, and Illya Woloshyn in The Odyssey (1992) The Odyssey (1992)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 29, 1994
The Fall
When 11-year-old Jay Ziegler falls from a treefort after being pursued by bullies who wanted his father's precious telescope, he ends up in a coma - in the real world (known as the Upworld). In the Upworld, Jay's mother Val, his best friend Donna and the bully Keith all try to cope with their reality. In the Downworld (Jay's mind), Jay finds himself in a world entirely populated by children, where he meets up Alpha and Flash (the Downworld counterparts of Donna and Keith) and the trio embark on a mysterious mission involving a telescope, the land's mysterious leader Brad, and a connection to Jay's father.
Episode 2 • Nov 08, 1992
No Fair
In the Upworld, Jay's coma worsens and he's taken to intensive care, causing Val to be faced with the prospect that her son may never recover. Meanwhile in the Downworld, Jay believes that his connection to home lies in the Tower, so he sets out with his companions to find it.
Episode 3 • Nov 15, 1992
Out of the Woods
In the Upworld, Jay's condition becomes more stable and his classmates make him get-well-soon cards. Meanwhile, in the Downworld, as Jay and Alpha prepare for re-education at the mission, Flash recruits some tower-resistance fighters to help rescue the pair.
Episode 4 • Nov 22, 1992
By the Book
Val can't bare to leave Jay in a hospital environment but opting for an experimental coma therapy facility means a hard financial decision. In the Downworld, Alpha brings the boys to her club in hopes they will lend them a map to the tower.
Episode 5 • Nov 29, 1992
Checkpoint Eagle
In the Upworld, Jay's grandmother comes to help with his care. In the Downworld, it's a struggle between all work and all play. The team needs two parties with separate keys to reconcile their differences in order to cross the checkpoint.
Episode 6 • Dec 06, 1992
The Believers
The team runs into The Believers; A group of archaeologists desperate to prove the existence of Big People.
Episode 7 • Dec 13, 1992
A Place Called Nowhere
Donna decides to bring Jay's dog, Bentley, into the care home to visit him. Keith gives her a helping hand. In the Downworld, the next check point brings Jay to a place he may never want to leave.
Episode 8 • Dec 20, 1992
Wanted
Dr. Oswald takes Jay's unconscious body back to the ravine where he fell. In the Downworld, the trio join The Liberators; soldiers dedicated to erasing the problems of the tower. While Flash fits right in, Jay and Alpha are suspicious.
Episode 9 • Dec 27, 1992
Galileo & the Gypsies
The sun in the Downworld disappears when Keith accidentally breaks Jay's telescope in the Upworld. The trio find a gypsy camp in the Downworld and hope their inventor, Galileo, can fix the object.
Episode 10 • Jan 03, 1993
In the Dark
While Dr. Max is trying using a sensory deprivation pool on the comatose Jay in the outer world, Finger carries Jay bound in a hammock into Fractal's pit, where he hopes to make Jay into a harmless zombie using Fractal's inter-dimensional science. When Fractal resists and things do not go as planned, Finger seals up the cave with Jay and his friends inside, but, taking a hint from Fractal, they find a ventilation shaft and emerge at the tower.
Episode 11 • Jan 10, 1993
The Brad Exchange
While Max and Val try more sensory stimulation on Jay in the outer world, in the inner world Jay and his friends arrive at the trading post where Jay is seized by Prop as a counterfeiter of checkpoint passes and sentenced to have his head shaved, but is saved by Frances X, Checkpoint Keeper, and passes through Checkpoint Three. Meanwhile in the outer world, Val reads Jay a birthday card from Jay's dad, and Jay rouses very slightly.
Episode 12 • Jan 17, 1993
Welcome to the Tower
In the inner world, Jay et al. reach the Tower, but Brad has been grounded by Macro and is unavailable. The Board discusses the mystery which is Jay and how to use him to their own advantage. As Jay bursts in on the meeting, Macro tells Jay he will be the new Tower leader and goes to fetch Brad who turns out to have escaped - while Fractal uses a piece of his crystal and regression hypnosis to show how in the outer world, Jay came to travel to the inner world, but Macro smashes the crystal and tells Jay the only way he can get back to the outer world is to find the missing Brad. Suddenly Trashcan removes his disguise and reveals himself as Brad. Meanwhile in the outer world, Val and friends try to understand the significance of the objects that seem to rouse Jay.
Episode 13 • Jan 24, 1993
The One Called Brad
Jay recognizes Brad as a child-version of his own dad, and Brad reveals to Jay the Vest of Power which, if Jay wears it, will take him back home to the outer world, but when Jay arrives there, he does not find his adult dad and returns. Instead he sets out to travel to the lighthouse where the vest seems to have originated.
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