Although the film series would end after three box office hits, there was still a little time traveling left for Doc Brown and Marty McFly. The lovable duo from the Back to the Future films continued their history-hopping adventures in this Saturday morning animated series.

In the last film of the trilogy, taking place in the old west, Doc met the lady of his dreams, a schoolteacher named Clara and they had two children together, Jules and Verne. In the cartoon series, Doc’s family would travel back to historical events, along with Marty and dog, Einstein, and usually encounter an ancestor of their timeless nemesis, Biff Tannen who would make their life difficult. Biff would also make an appearance at the end of each episode to share one of his awful jokes with the audience and real-life actor, Christopher Lloyd, would reprise his character in a series of live-action segments where he demonstrated his scientific prowess and performed experiments for the kiddies.

With the appearance of Lloyd and the voices of Mary Steenburgen (Clara) and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff) – not to mention the familiar theme song “Back in Time” from the first film, there were plenty of connections to the film series to endear fans to this 1991 cartoon series. The emphasis on historical accuracy and scientific knowledge made it educational as well, even launching the career of an unknown contributor to the show who called himself, “Bill Nye, the Science Guy.”

And in a strange twist of fate, the highly-intelligent Doc Brown was voiced, not by Lloyd, but rather, Dan Castellaneta, who would go on to voice the dim-witted Homer Simpson for the foreseeable future.