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Journal nizo's Journal: Shocking Voyagers! death (even props can kill) 35

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Yes, it is flashback city this morning: Voyagers! was a series in the early 80s, featuring time-travelling Phineas Bogg and his sidekick Jeffrey Jones, a 12-year old orphan who is a history wiz. Certainly everyone remembers the nifty little omni time machine they carried (a gold pocketwatch dealy with blinking red/green lights to indicate if the timeline had been screwed up or not). Out of the blue the other day I started wondering what happened to the two main characters and came up with this shocking news (from from imdb for Jon-Erik Hexum (Phineas Bogg):

...on October 12th, 1984 after a long and draining day's shooting on the set of Cover Up (1984) (TV), Hexum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull, whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery. Despite five hours of work, the chief surgeon Dr David Ditsworth, described the damage to Hexum's brain as life ending, and one week later on October 18th, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead. However, Hexum's commitment to organ donation, meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him. The youthful & charming Hexum was dead at only 26 years of age.

Well I guess that would explain why I haven't seen him in anything since then (yeah I know the death happened over 20 years ago, but hey I don't remember it since I was pretty young at the time). I am glad he was a donor, and I am amazed that a prop gun can kill you (scary).

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  • Brandon Lee was killed by a prop gun as well. In his case it wasn't self-inflicted, but as part of normal filming of The Crow.
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  • I was wondering about Meeno Peluce from Voyagers! He didn't shoot himself. He just hasn't had much work since 1985.

    /barely remember the show
    //remember seeing it once and then having to go somewhere with my dad
    ///Not sure if that means anything at all
    • Yeah it is weird to think about all the old shows I used to watch as a kid. I vaguely remember some show about this family that went to some kind of weird parallel universe and was trapped there, and then there was some show about this guy who had a jetpack(?) he used to fly around (doing what I don't recall) and he also had some kind of funky rover looking vehicle he drove around in. I am still trying to figure out the names of those two funky shows....
      • about this family that went to some kind of weird parallel universe and was trapped there

        Need more detail, man. What you are describing could EASILY be "Land of the Lost", 'cept you made no mention of Dinosaurs, Sleestaks, nor of that monkey-boy.

        I agree on not wanting to see old shows now: like "Misfits of Science", and "Automan" (total Tron rip off, but hey, Tron is still k00l) and some marrionette sci-fi show (that sucked even then).

        Yeah, there's this one show; not a tv series, but like a tv movie th
        • No it wasn't land of the lost (I remember that one too; monkey boy was Shaka(sp) :-) ) I barely remember it; the intro had some kind of weird blood-colored background. I don't think it was on long; basically the family was being chased in some kind of weird parallel-type universe (kinda like Sliders, but I think they only went to one weird world, not several). They were trying to get back home but not having much luck? I wish I could remember more but alas I can't. I may post a journal entry asking for help
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      • guy who had a jetpack(?) he used to fly around (doing what I don't recall) and he also had some kind of funky rover looking vehicle he drove around in. I am still trying to figure out the names of those two funky shows....

        Sounds like either Space 1999 or Ark somethingorother. If it was a Saturday morning show, it's the latter. Ark 2000? I dunno.

  • when I found out. Not that it was particularly hard on me, but my mom used it as a means to give me an extremely long talk on why guns are bad and not to be played with. At the time it was one of my favorite shows, so I was dissappointed when the series dissappeared (I still can hear the "fhwop" sound that was made when you hit the time travel button;-).

    A couple of times I've wondered if they were ever going to come out with a DVD version of the series, but I don't know that I want to see it again. I l

  • ...prop guns (or stage guns) are dangerous. They're basically simple rechambered replicas of real guns with two pins in the barrel. The pins are supposed to stop people from turning them into a "real firearm" (by sticking self-made or muzzleloader bullets into barrel), and also from blowing themselves up.

    These prop guns use special ammunition which produces lots of smoke and noise. Powerwise, they are usually up there with the 4mm M20 centerfire (an obscure caliber used in by spys during the Cold War). A
  • I *loved* Jon-Erik Hexum. When he died, I cried for a week...

    Voyagers was my favorite show as a kid. I still have almost every episode on VHS, carefully taped off of tv 20+ years ago.

    Thanks for reminding me, I'll have to have a nostalgia night and dig that tape out...

    Pixie

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