MythQuest
Encyclopedia
MythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS
in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson
and Christopher Jacot
as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as they discover, allows them to travel into myths
by touching an artifact on the screen.
They become characters in the myths, and (unlike in most programs and movies) strive to keep the myth to its normal progression; a difficult task when confronted by Gorgos, a trickster
God who appears in each myth to try to change it. Alex's initial journey into the Cyber Museum is an accident, but soon they both begin searching for their father within the myths. Later, Cleo develops a tracking program to make it easier for them to decide which artifacts to touch.
It was shot in Drumheller, Calgary
, East Coulee, Alberta
, and Regina, Saskatchewan
.
The series is not currently available on DVD or video. However, there have been novels adapted from the first three episodes as well as "Minokichi," written by Dan Danko, Tom Mason, and John Whitman
.
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson
Meredith Henderson
Meredith Henderson is a Canadian actress best known for playing the title role in The Adventures of Shirley Holmes....
and Christopher Jacot
Christopher Jacot
Christopher Jacot is a Canadian actor.Jacot was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended Earl Haig Secondary School in the Claude Watson programme for drama with fellow actors Sarah Polley and Lani Billard...
as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as they discover, allows them to travel into myths
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
by touching an artifact on the screen.
They become characters in the myths, and (unlike in most programs and movies) strive to keep the myth to its normal progression; a difficult task when confronted by Gorgos, a trickster
Trickster
In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior. It is suggested by Hansen that the term "Trickster" was probably first used in this...
God who appears in each myth to try to change it. Alex's initial journey into the Cyber Museum is an accident, but soon they both begin searching for their father within the myths. Later, Cleo develops a tracking program to make it easier for them to decide which artifacts to touch.
It was shot in Drumheller, Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
, East Coulee, Alberta
East Coulee, Alberta
East Coulee is a former hamlet, now unincorporated community, in Drumheller, Alberta. Its hamlet status ceased when the Municipal District of Badlands No...
, and Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
.
The series is not currently available on DVD or video. However, there have been novels adapted from the first three episodes as well as "Minokichi," written by Dan Danko, Tom Mason, and John Whitman
John Whitman
John Whitman is an American novelist and martial arts instructor. He has written many books, and written for other projects such as Zorro and the Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear series. His most recent books include four novels based on the television series 24, published by HarperCollins...
.
Characters/Cast
- Alex Bellows: Christopher JacotChristopher JacotChristopher Jacot is a Canadian actor.Jacot was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended Earl Haig Secondary School in the Claude Watson programme for drama with fellow actors Sarah Polley and Lani Billard...
- Cleo Bellows: Meredith HendersonMeredith HendersonMeredith Henderson is a Canadian actress best known for playing the title role in The Adventures of Shirley Holmes....
- Lily Bellows: Wendy Anderson
- Max Asher: Mathew WalkerMatthew Walker (Canadian actor)Matthew Walker is a film and television actor. He appeared in many Canadian television productions in the 1990s and 2000s. He played Father Mac in 22 episodes of the television series Hope Island, and Max Asher in 11 episodes of MythQuest...
- Matt Bellows: Joseph Kell
Episodes
- "The MinotaurMinotaurIn Greek mythology, the Minotaur , as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull"...
" - "Hammer of the Gods"
- "Red Wolf's Daughter"
- "OrpheusOrpheusOrpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music; his attempt to retrieve his wife from the underworld; and his death at the hands of those who...
" - "Minokichi"
- "Sir Caradoc at the Round TableCaradocCaradoc Vreichvras Arm) was a semi-legendary ancestor to the kings of Gwent. He lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is remembered in Arthurian legend as a Knight of the Round Table as Carados Briefbras ....
" - "The DoppelgängerDoppelgängerIn fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger is a paranormal double of a living person, typically representing evil or misfortune...
" - "The Oracle"
- "Isis and Osiris (1)OsirisOsiris is an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He is classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and...
" - "Isis and Osiris (2)IsisIsis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
" - "BlodeuweddBlodeuweddBlodeuwedd or Blodeuedd, , is the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology, made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet and the oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion, and is a central figure in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi.-Role in Welsh tradition:The...
" - "The Blessing"
- "QuetzalcoatlQuetzalcoatlQuetzalcoatl is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and has the meaning of "feathered serpent". The worship of a feathered serpent deity is first documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE or first century CE...
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