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Season guide

Back to the Future: Season 1

14 episodes Premiered Sep 14, 1991
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Brothers

Sep 14, 1991

Running away from home, Verne uses the DeLorean to travel back in time. When Doc, Marty and Jules go after him, they arrive in the middle of the Civil War where Jules and Verne get

S1·E2 Core

A Family Vacation

Sep 21, 1991

Doc causes another power cut in his lab whilst trying to invent something. Jules and Verne are annoyed because their toy car racing has been interrupted (it runs on electricity) an

S1·E3 Core

Forward to the Past

Sep 28, 1991

Doc and the boys travel back to prehistoric times to test a new invention and Doc stops a meteor from colliding with Earth. They don't realize they changed history until they retur

S1·E4 Core

Witchcraft

Oct 12, 1991

Marty makes an emergency trip back to Salem, Massachusetts in the DeLorean to deliver a spare flux capacitor to Doc and the family. While Doc installs it to fix the train, Marty, C

S1·E5 Core

Roman Holiday

Oct 19, 1991

Marty and Doc head to Ancient Rome, unaware Jules and Verne are joining them. While the boys cause trouble, Marty gets mixed up in a chariot race with Bifficus and Doc gets thrown

S1·E6 Core

Go Fly a Kite

Oct 26, 1991

After Jules insults his intelligence and comments that he can't really be a part of the family, Verne starts to think his real father is Benjamin Franklin. Unfortunately, this lead

S1·E7 Core

Time Waits for No Frog

Nov 2, 1991

Looking to cure Marty's athlete's foot, Doc and Marty travel back in time to locate an extinct frog in South America, where they have to stop Biffando from stealing the Incas' gold

S1·E8 Core

Einstein's Adventure

Nov 2, 1991

Two bank robbers steal the DeLorean and end up outside an Australian prison in 1790. With him having been in the back seat, it's up to Einstein to get himself and these robbers hom

S1·E9 Core

Batter Up

Nov 2, 1991

Marty takes the place of his ancestor, pitcher Pee Wee McFly, to help his team win a 1897 Pennant game. But a nasty gangster named Diamond Jim Tannen wanted Pee Wee to lose.

S1·E10 Core

Solar Sailors

Nov 16, 1991

It's Doc and Clara's anniversary and the kids get them tickets for a cruise, which takes place in 2091 and takes them into space. Unfortunately, Ziff Tannen sabotages the cruise sh

S1·E11 Core

Dickens of a Christmas

Nov 23, 1991

It's Christmas time so the Brown family and Marty go to 1800s London to celebrate. Unfortunately, the boys lose the key to the DeLorean to a pickpocket and Clara, a toy shop manage

S1·E12 Core

Gone Fishin'

Nov 30, 1991

When Doc was four, he fell into a river during a fishing trip and has had a fear of it happening again ever since. After the boys learn about this, they and Marty try to change it.

S1·E13 Mytharc

Retired

Dec 7, 1991

Jules and Verne pull a string of April Fool's Day pranks on Doc, tampering with his inventions. Unfortunately one of them, the Brain Wave Analyzer, causes Doc to think his days in

S1·E14 Mytharc

Clara's Folks

Dec 14, 1991

Marty, Jules and Verne head back to the 1850s, where they meet Jules and Verne's maternal grandparents, Daniel and Martha. Unfortunately, Martha falls in love with Marty instead of

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