Cleo and the Babe

Episode aired Nov 14, 1982
49m

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8.0/10

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Adventure Family Sci-Fi

Cleopatra inadvertently travels to New York City in 1927 and helps out Lucky Luciano kidnap Babe Ruth. In 1919, Jeff and Phineas convince Babe Ruth to give up pitching and become the home ru... Read allCleopatra inadvertently travels to New York City in 1927 and helps out Lucky Luciano kidnap Babe Ruth. In 1919, Jeff and Phineas convince Babe Ruth to give up pitching and become the home run hitting champion he is more famous for.Cleopatra inadvertently travels to New York City in 1927 and helps out Lucky Luciano kidnap Babe Ruth. In 1919, Jeff and Phineas convince Babe Ruth to give up pitching and become the home run hitting champion he is more famous for.

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This episode takes place in five different settings: Rome, Italy on March 15, 44 BC, New York City, New York on May 21, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts in 1919, Cambridge, England in 1669 and New York City, New York from September 29 to September 30, 1927.

Goofs
The Empire State Building can briefly be seen in the New York City skyline in 1927. However, its construction did not begin until 1929 and was not completed until 1931.

Quotes
[Jeffrey's teaching Phineas 1982 style pitching in 1919]
Phineas Bogg: You're tougher to please than Abner Doubleday.
Jeffrey Jones: You were there when Abner Doubleday invented baseball?
Phineas Bogg: Yeah, well I knew him as Captain Doubleday at Fort Sumter. We tossed the ball around a little bit between battles. He thought my pitch was pretty good.
Jeffrey Jones: Give me a break.

Connections
Featured in Voyagers!: The Trial of Phineas Bogg (1983)

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7/10

Cleopatra and the Sultan of Swat

This episode is yet another favorite of mine as Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce almost mess up history instead of correcting it.

It all starts when the Voyagers arrive in Rome 44 BC on those Ides of March and Julius Caesar has been assassinated. They arrive at Cleopatra's residence and whisk Andrea Marcovicci away. But they also whisk her into the 20th century and deposit here in New York City 1927.

But Cleo in New York isn't all that's wrong. Baseball fan and Little Leaguer Meeno Peluce notes there is no Yankee Stadium. The Yanks are playing at the Polo Grounds and a perennial second division team. All because Babe Ruth was never sold to them and he finished his career with the Red Sox in 1922.

Now that is a number one priority and the guys go back to 1919 Red Sox spring training where Bogg learns to pitch and Jeffrey Jones teaches the Babe how to hit the long ball.

Now to get Cleo back to her time and while in New York she's become a flapper and caught the eye of the up and coming Lucky Luciano played here by Michael Gregory. Now there is a Yankee Stadium, the House that Ruth Built and he's closing in on 60 home runs. But Lucky Luciano has some heavy action that he won't make it and he's got the biggest vamp in history working on the Babe to make it not so. William Lucking plays the gullible Ruth who wouldn't have turned down Cleopatra here or in real life.

As any baseball fans knows Babe Ruth was already hitting home runs and playing part time in the outfield to keep his bat in the lineup. But a lie or two makes this a fun episode.