Mentors (1999)
A live-action children's television series following 15 year old Oliver Cates and his friend Dee who - using their homemade time machine- zap historical figures into their 21st century lives.
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Episode 1 - The Truth is in Here
Release Date: 2001-08-18Ghostly incidents are happening in the school. To help figure out who is responsible for them Oliver and Dee summon Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle. Oliver keeps questioning this punk looking girl who just seems to appear everywhere. Is she a ghost? Is she responsible for the ghostly incidents?
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Episode 2 - Her Grace Under Pressure
Release Date: 2001-08-25Dee is running for Student Council but bad rumours about her are going around the school, so she summons Queen Elizabeth I for political advice.
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Episode 3 - Dear Diary
Release Date: 2001-09-02Dee reads Anne Frank's diary entries and decides that Anne deserves 36 hours of free time from the attic hideaway. Anne Frank cannot believe how free it is where Dee and Oliver live from her attic hideaway. Anne starts to really like or should I say love Oliver. Dee and Oliver decide to take Anne to the movie theatre. During the movie Anne steps out of the theatre and meets this punk guy in the theatre's video arcade and finds that there's a lot of goodness in him. So that tought Dee and Oliver how to find goodness in people. At the end of the episode before Anne's 36 hours run out she says that it has been the best 36 hours she has ever had in her life.
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Episode 4 - The Glory Trail
Release Date: 2001-09-08Oliver and Dee summon natve American Sacagawea to help in an expedition to expose a refinery that is secretly causing river pollution.
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Episode 5 - Right Place, Right Time
Release Date: 2001-09-15Oliver accidentally causes himself and Dee to be transported back in time by 24 hours, giving them an opportunity to right a wrong.
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Episode 6 - Nothing But Net
Release Date: 2001-09-22Dee summons the inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, to coach her on winning an important game.
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Episode 7 - Father's Day
Release Date: 2001-09-29After Oliver has a row with his dad, Dee brings the man forward in time as a teenager, hoping that they will learn to better relate to each other.
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Episode 8 - The Book of Love
Release Date: 2001-10-06Oliver finds Dee being around this other guy a lot. Oliver decides to bring back Casanova because he thinks that he will be able to give him some tips on attracting girls. Unfortunately Casanova is giving Oliver really bad advice. When Oliver follows Casanova's advice, he makes a huge fool of himself.
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Episode 9 - Stranger in a Strange Land
Release Date: 2001-10-13When a financial crisis causes Dee's mom to question her faith, Dee brings Moses from the past to advise her, not realizing that she has summoned the young Moses, when he was but a humble shepherd rather than a great leader.
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Episode 10 - The Fire Ship
Release Date: 2001-10-20In danger of losing Visicron to a corporate software pirate, Oliver summons the famous 18th Century pirate Black Bart to help him fight fire with fire.
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Episode 11 - Klondike Daze
Release Date: 2001-10-27Oliver adds another module to Visicron to speed it up. When Oliver tries to bring back Jack London, the Visicron instead takes Oliver to the time and place Jack London is right now. Oliver has to try and find a way back, so Dee asks Simon to help find a way to bring Oliver back. Meanwhile Oliver keeps altering the future and weird things keep happening in the present.
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Episode 12 - Seer and Now
Release Date: 2001-11-03Plagued by a recurring dream, Dee summons famous prophet Nostradamus to advise her on what it means.
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Episode 13 - Future Tense
Release Date: 2001-11-10Oliver is just about to delete Visicron before going to college, but then he is transported into the future by an old man. Oliver gets accused by the old man of being careless with time travel. Oliver and the old man watch clips of past episodes on a screen so that Oliver can defend himself and show the man what good Visicron has done. The old man convinces Oliver he shouldn't delete Visicron and then Oliver gets sent back to the present. We later find out that the old man was really Oliver himself as an old man in the future. In the end right before Oliver leaves to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to go to college he gives Visicron to his 12 year old cousin Simon.