Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures is a live action spin-off following the misadventures of two time-traveling

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

 slacker

Slacker

The term "slacker" is used to refer to a person who habitually avoids work. Slackers may be regarded as belonging to an antimaterialistic counterculture, though in some cases their behavior may be due to other causes ....

s as they travel into the distant past and future. It was based on the 1989

1989 in film

-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 film, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction–comedy buddy film and the first film in the Bill & Ted franchise in which two metalhead slackers travel through time to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation.The film was written by...

and is part of the Bill & Ted franchise

Bill & Ted (franchise)

Bill & Ted is a series of two films featuring Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston Esq. as two metalhead slackers who travel through time. The first Bill & Ted film, Excellent Adventure, was released on February 17, 1989, followed two years later by Bogus Journey...

.

Overview

After the DIC Entertainment animated series was cancelled, it was supplanted by a live action version of the same name. The series was set to air during the 1991-1992 television season, but production was delayed until Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American science fiction comedy film, and the directing debut of Peter Hewitt. It is the second film in the Bill & Ted franchise, and a sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure . Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin reprise their respective roles...

made a profit at the box office. The series ended up airing in the summer of 1992.

The rights are now owned by Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television

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 (successor to Lorimar Television, the sole copyright holder of all episodes).

Cast

• Christopher Kennedy as Bill S. Preston
• Evan Richards as Ted "Theodore" Logan
• Rick Overton
  Rick Overton
  Richard "Rick" Overton is an American screenwriter, actor and comedian. His writing credits include Dennis Miller Live, and his acting credits include Willow and The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne.-Life and career:...
  
   as Rufus
• Danny Breen as Mr. Keilson
• Don Lake
  Don Lake
  Don Lake is a Canadian actor, film and television writer, and television producer. He is frequently cast by director Christopher Guest, and is also a close friend and the collaborative partner of Bonnie Hunt....
  
   as Mr. Preston
• Lisa Wilcox
  Lisa Wilcox
  Lisa E. Wilcox is an American actress who has starred in film and television.-Movie career:Wilcox's best known film role is in the 1988 hit horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master as Alice Johnson. In 1989, she reprised the role in the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The...
  
   as Missy Preston

Guest Stars

• Diedrich Bader
  Diedrich Bader
  Karl Diedrich Bader , better known as Diedrich Bader, is an American actor, voice artist and comedian. Many know him for his roles as Oswald Lee Harvey on The Drew Carey Show, Lawrence from the film Office Space, the Tae Kwon Do instructor Rex from Napoleon Dynamite, Tank "Shredder" Evans in Surf's...
  
   as Arthur
• Arte Johnson
  Arte Johnson
  Arthur Stanton Eric "Arte" Johnson is an American comic actor. Johnson was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. His best-remembered "character" was that of a German soldier with the catchphrase: "Verrrry interesting, but...['stupid', 'not very funny', and other variations]".-Early life:Johnson...
  
   as Albert Einstein
• Todd McDurmont as Elvis Presley
• Don Ackerman as Glen Nevis
• Tom McBeath as Sheriff

List of episodes

1.0 Unaired Pilot>

Ep#	Title	Airdate	Director
1.1	Nail the Conquering Hero	June 28, 1992	Christopher T. Welch
1.2	As the Dude Turns	July 5, 1992	Christopher T. Welch
1.3	It's a Totally Wonderful Life	July 12, 1992	David Nutter David Nutter David Nutter is an American television and film director and television producer. He is best known for directing pilot episodes for television series, being known as "the pilot whisperer."-Career:...
1.4	Hunka Hunka Bill and Ted	July 19, 1992	Kristoffer Tabori Kristoffer Tabori Kristoffer Tabori is an American actor and television director.-Early life:Tabori was born in Malibu, California, the son of director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors. He appeared in one of his mother's films, Weddings and Babies, as a young boy...
1.5	Destiny Babes	July 26, 1992	Kristoffer Tabori Kristoffer Tabori Kristoffer Tabori is an American actor and television director.-Early life:Tabori was born in Malibu, California, the son of director Don Siegel and Swedish-American actress Viveca Lindfors. He appeared in one of his mother's films, Weddings and Babies, as a young boy...
1.6	Deja Vu	August 2, 1992	David Nutter David Nutter David Nutter is an American television and film director and television producer. He is best known for directing pilot episodes for television series, being known as "the pilot whisperer."-Career:...
1.7	Stand Up Guy	August 8, 1992	Todd Holland Todd Holland Todd Holland is an American television and film director and producer.-Personal life:Holland was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania and raised in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was an honor student, graduating from Meadville Area Sr. High School. While there, he got his feet wet...

External links

• Bill and Ted's Excellent Online Adventure