Japanese anime television series
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Genre
| Christian Animation
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Directed by
| Masakazu Higuchi and Mineo Fuji
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Studio
| Tatsunoko Productions
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Licensed by
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Original network
| TV Tokyo
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Original run
| April 5, 1982
(
1982-04-05
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March 28, 1983
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1983-03-28
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Episodes
| 52
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The Flying House
, known in Japan as
Tondera Hausu no Daib?ken
(
トンデラハウスの大冒?
, Adventures of the Flying House)
, is a
Christian
anime
television series
produced by
Tatsunoko Productions
broadcast between April 1982 and March 1983 on
TV Tokyo
,
[1]
and distributed by the
Christian Broadcasting Network
in the United States.
[2]
In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online.
[3]
At the same time, CBN and Tatsunoko also produced a related series,
Superbook
.
[2]
In the
Philippines
, reruns of the show were broadcast on
GMA Network
in 1992
ZOE TV
in 2000s 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. It also aired on TBN UK & Ireland in United Kingdom and Ireland.
Plot
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The series begins at 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 Corwyn "Corky" Roberts (Kanna and Tsukubo Natsuyama). As he searches for Angie and Corky in a wooded area, a thunderstorm occurs. 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
named The Flying House. Professor Bumble'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 leads to a temporary change in S.I.R.'s personality from being nice to mean and he goes berserk, before sending The Flying House in course to the past. Justin, Angie, Corky, and S.I.R. realize how long the journey back home will take due to Professor Bumble's misguidance and errors in time travel, but in the meantime they witness and participate (with little or no consequences) in numerous events of the Bible's
New Testament
, from the birth of
John the Baptist
to the rise of the
Paul the Apostle
. 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 being 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 being mean to nice by the end of the trip.
Cast and characters
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- Justin Casey (
Billie Lou Watt
): The best friend of Corky and Angie. His Japanese counterpart, Gen Adachi, is played by Satomi Majima.
- Angela "Angie" Roberts (Sonia Owens): Corky's older sister and Justin's best friend. Her Japanese counterpart, Kanna Natsuyama, is played by
Sanae Takagi
.
- Corwyn "Corky" Roberts (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 (Hal Studer): The inventor of the Flying House and S.I.R.. His Japanese counterpart, Dr.Tokio Taimu, is played by
Yoshito Yasuhara
.
- Solar Ion Robot / S.I.R. (Ray Owens): Justin's, Angie's, and Corky's best friend, and Professor Bumble's clown-battery-type robotic assistant. His Japanese counterpart, Kandenchin, is played by
Ky?ko Tong?
.
- The Flying House/Tondera Hausu No Daiboken (
TARDIS
): The Flying House Is a half rocketship half house spacecraft type time machine created by Professor Humphrey Bumble, it can travel towards time, space, and beyond, somehow apparently Flying House went to the New Testament of the Holy Bible, the Flying House's Japanese counterpart Tondera Hausu, is played by the iconic
TARDIS
from BBC's timeless and legendary kids and family sci-fi time travel series
Doctor Who
.
Episode list
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Season 1 (1982)
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Season 2 (1983)
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- Well, Well, Well?
? Jesus meets a
Samaritan woman at the well
and promises her the gift of living water.
- Left Holding the Bag
? Jesus
heals a paralytic man on the pool of Bethesda
during the Sabbath Day.
- Who Among You?
? A Pharisee asks Jesus a question with regards to the stoning of an adulteress. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery
- Oil and Water
? Jesus
sends his 12 disciples in pairs
to preach the word of God and to perform miracles.
- A Special Secret
?
The Transfiguration
and Jesus
heals an epileptic boy
.
- Midnight Callers
? Jesus teaches, "Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened to you." Jesus tells the parable of
The Ten Maidens
.
- What's it worth?
? Jesus tells the
Parable of the Sower
.
- Fruitless
? Jesus tells the parables of
The Weeds
and
The Wicked Tenants
.
- Fit For a King
? Jesus
enters the city of Jerusalem
.
- The Secret Agent
? Jesus
cleanses the temple
by driving the merchants out of the temple.
- The Preparation
?
Mary of Bethany washes Jesus' feet
with an alabaster box of expensive perfume and Jesus heals a blind man.
- Betrayed
? Jesus
washes the apostles' feet
. Jesus and his twelve disciples are in the
Last Supper
. Jesus
prays in the Garden of Gethsemane
and
Judas Iscariot
betrays Jesus
, sending him to Caiaphas.
- Who's in Charge
? Jesus is
presented to Caiaphas
,
to King Herod Antipas
, and
to Pontius Pilate
. Peter
betrays Jesus by denying him thrice
and the cock crows.
- The Crown of Thorns
? Jesus is scourged at the pillar and put with a
crown of thorns
. Pilate frees
Barabbas
and sentenced Jesus to death by crucifixion.
- Golgotha
? Jesus
carries his cross
towards
Golgotha
and
Simon of Cyrene
is compelled to carry the cross before Jesus. Jesus is crucified, died, and buried.
- The Empty Tomb
? Jesus'
tomb is empty
and
Jesus is risen
.
- With You Always
? Jesus appears as himself to two of his disciples in the road towards Emmaus.
Seven of the disciples catch 153 fish
and Jesus
restored Peter
. Jesus
ascends to heaven
.
- The Prison Break
? An angel helps Peter
escape from prison
.
- Good Riddance
?
The death of King Herod
.
- The Blinding Light
?
Saint Stephen
is stoned and died. Jesus
appears to Saul
and is converted from being a persecutor of the believers to becoming an apostle of Christ.
- Bound & Rebound
? Saul, who is now called Paul, preaches the word of God in Macedonia and delivers a woman from an evil spirit. Paul and Silas are flogged in public and placed in prison, yet a severe earthquake occurred while they are in prison.
- Tender Grapes
? Paul interferes in a mob and helps a man get justice.
- Shipwrecked
? Paul is shipwrecked in the island of
Malta
.
- Snake Bite
? Paul is bitten by a snake but does not die. He heals a young girl from a severe illness.
- Heartbreak
? The story of
Onesimus
, the slave of
Philemon
.
- Homeward Bound
? Paul
writes Philemon
to take back Onesimus, who is baptized and converted as a follower of Christ. The Flying House finally returns to the 20th century after its treks through the times of Ancient Israel.
Home video and syndication
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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.
[3]
The series also airs on the
Trinity Broadcasting Network
(TBN) and its children's subchannel
Smile
.
Other titles
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- Arabic: ?????? ??????
- Arabic (Islamic): ?????? ??????
- French: La maison volante
- Korean: 타임敎室 톤데라하우스의 大冒險
- German: Fliegendes Haus (
Flying House
; aired on Bibel TV)
- Spanish: La casa voladora
- Chinese: 飛行之家/飛行屋
- Russian: Летающий дом
- Ukrainian: Л?таючий будинок
- Romanian: Casa Zbur?toare
- Danish: Det Flyvende Hus
- Hungarian: A repul? haz
- Mongolian: Нисдэг байшин
- Hebrew: ???? ??????
- Brazilian Portuguese: A Casa Voadora
- Italian: Il Vangelo per i bambini ("The Gospel for children")
- Finnish: Lentava talo
- Turkish: Ucan ev
- Czech: Letajici d?m
- Poland: Lataj?cy dom
See also
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References
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