''The Flying House'', known in Japan as , is a

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produced by

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broadcast between April 1982 and March 1983 on

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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, ''

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''. In the

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, reruns of the show were broadcast on

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in the early 1990s, ZOE TV in 2000s, and on

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JdTVin 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

The series begins in the middle of a game of

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, 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

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named The Flying House. Professor Bumble's attempt at recreating

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'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

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, from the birth of

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to the rise of the

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. 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

* 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

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. * Professor Humphrey Bumble (Hal Studer): The inventor of the Flying House and S.I.R.. His Japanese counterpart, Dr.Tokio Taimu, is played by

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. * 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

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. * The Flying House/Tondera Hausu No Daiboken (

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from BBC's kids and family sci-fi time travel series ''

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Episode list

Season 1 (1982)

Season 2 (1982-1983)

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 aired on the

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(TBN) and its children's subchannel

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Multilanguage List

* Arabic: المنزل الطائر * Arabic (Islamic): المنزل الطائر * French: La maison volante *Canadian French- La maison volante * Korean: 타임교실 톤데라하우스의 대모험 * German: Fliegendes Haus * Spanish: La casa voladora * Chinese: 飛行之家/飛行屋/親子劇場：大冒險/時光飛屋 * Russian: Летающий дом * Ukrainian: Літаючий будинок * Romanian: Casa Zburătoare * Danish: Det Flyvende Hus * Hungarian: A repülő ház * Mongolian: Нисдэг байшин * Hebrew: הבית המעופף * Brazilian Portuguese: A Casa Voadora * Italian: Il Vangelo per i bambini * Finnish: Lentävä talo * Turkish: Uçan ev * Czech: Létající dům * Poland: Latający dom

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