| abstract | - Doc and his family have settled down in 1991 at a farmhouse outside Hill Valley after living in the 1890s, but their time travelling adventures are by no means over. The films' villain Biff Tannen also pops up from time to time. In addition, relatives of both the McFly and Tannen families are plentiful in most of the past or future parallel time zones that the time travellers visit. Mary Steenburgen (Clara) and Thomas F. Wilson (Biff) voiced their characters from the films, and Christopher Lloyd played Doc Brown in live action segments that opened and closed each episode. However, Dan Castellaneta voiced the animated Doc Brown, while David Kaufman voiced Marty McFly, Michael J. Fox's animated character. In addition, Bill Nye performed a scientific experiment that the viewers could try for themselves at home during the video encyclopedia which formed part of the closing live action segment of each episode. The series was executive produced by Bob Gale, co-writer of the Back to the Future trilogy. Many fans do not consider the events of the series to be canon with the timeline presented in the original trilogy, with the only exceptions being the birthdates of the main characters and some characters' middle names. Although this show is no longer being shown on television, nine VHS cassettes and three volumes of the show on laserdisc were released between 1993 and 1994, chronicling 18 of the 26 episodes. The show is available on DVD in France, and was released in the United States on October 20, 2015.
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