Back to the Future: The Animated Series (1991–1992) – Extra Special: Drawn to the Future
Take a nostalgic trip back with Doc Brown, Marty McFly, Jules, Verne, and the time-traveling DeLorean in this rare Back to the Future cartoon extra. “Drawn to the Future” is a special revisit that dives deeper into the animated adventures inspired by the classic Universal Pictures movie trilogy.
The original Back to the Future: The Animated Series aired between 1991 and 1992 with 2 seasons and 26 episodes. Produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, it expanded the beloved film franchise into a fun, family-friendly animated world. This extra special feature celebrates the artistry, creativity, and timeless appeal of the series that captured the imagination of 90s kids everywhere.
If you loved Marty, Doc, and the adventures through time, this bonus revisit will spark retro cartoon nostalgia.
👉 Watch more retro and modern cartoons here:
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Take a nostalgic trip back with Doc Brown, Marty McFly, Jules, Verne, and the time-traveling DeLorean in this rare Back to the Future cartoon extra. “Drawn to the Future” is a special revisit that dives deeper into the animated adventures inspired by the classic Universal Pictures movie trilogy.
The original Back to the Future: The Animated Series aired between 1991 and 1992 with 2 seasons and 26 episodes. Produced by Universal Cartoon Studios, it expanded the beloved film franchise into a fun, family-friendly animated world. This extra special feature celebrates the artistry, creativity, and timeless appeal of the series that captured the imagination of 90s kids everywhere.
If you loved Marty, Doc, and the adventures through time, this bonus revisit will spark retro cartoon nostalgia.
👉 Watch more retro and modern cartoons here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/CartoonLTV
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00:00Where are you taking us, Emmett?
00:05The Brown House Hall is going on a little vacation.
00:23In 1990, I guess it was, Universal decided they wanted to get into the family
00:29entertainment business, so they set up a new department under a guy named Jeff Siegel.
00:36And they contacted me about whether there could be a Back to the Future animated series.
00:43And my response was, yes, but.
00:48And the but was I wanted there to be some educational content in it.
00:54I wanted, there was a TV show in the United States called Mr. Wizard when I was a little boy.
01:01And Mr. Wizard was a scientist and he did experiments on TV.
01:05And you could learn how to do these experiments.
01:08And I said, we need to have a Mr. Wizard segment in Back to the Future.
01:13And we should have a little historical content.
01:15And I said, if you guys are good with that.
01:18I had a daughter who was two years old at the time.
01:21I was worried about what she was going to watch on television.
01:27These TV shows are so unrealistic.
01:32Jeff Siegel said, yeah, yeah, that works for us.
01:35He said, I want to introduce you to the two guys that I think are the ones to run this show.
01:41And it was you.
01:44It was a lucky break, really.
01:45It was fun.
01:46I was so excited to be able to do that.
01:48And I think three had just come out, maybe.
01:52Correct.
01:53Yeah.
01:54And so that was very fresh.
01:55And it's a great project.
01:58You know, you get to work with Anne Boleyn and Back to the Future.
02:01And it was a little daunting, you know, because a movie is one thing.
02:04And it's designed to be, you know, a start and an end.
02:08And now a series is completely different thinking.
02:11How can you sustain something every week with a certain group of characters?
02:16And what's the arc of that?
02:18So that was the task.
02:20And I remember, I don't know if you remember this or not, but I was actually,
02:25I seen a photo of a Civil War drum that was signed by a relative of my wife.
02:35He was a drummer boy.
02:38And so then I started thinking about the Civil War.
02:40And then we started talking about, you know, the first episode and the brothers that get
02:44separated, you know, on each side of the war.
02:47And so we kind of put that together.
02:49And, but also, you know, that the Jules and Vern would be featured.
02:54And Marty was sort of ancillary, but he was there.
02:57Because everybody just assumed it would be about Marty.
02:59Baby.
03:00Baby.
03:01Oh, baby.
03:02Baby.
03:03And it didn't really resonate to be something that would have a full life, you know.
03:08We thought focusing a little bit more on the kids and their relationship with their dad,
03:12especially if we were tying in the science stuff, was more interesting.
03:16Absolutely.
03:17It was a question of saying, okay, kids would be interested in other kids.
03:23Right.
03:24And I remember Judy Price telling us that boys will watch boys.
03:30Right.
03:31But they won't watch girls.
03:32Right.
03:33But girls will watch boys and they'll watch girls.
03:35You're right.
03:36So that's why she was, she loved the idea that it would focus on Jules and Vern.
03:41Jules Verney.
03:42I'm Vern.
03:43He was the father of science fiction.
03:46And then we had these characters that basically were not developed in the movies at all.
03:51So we had to figure out who they would be.
03:54Identity acknowledged.
03:56Enter Einstein.
03:57I think we all brainstormed about that.
03:59We did.
04:00We, I know, I remember John Lewis and I having like maybe five or six, you know,
04:05things that we really worked out to great length.
04:07It could go like this.
04:08It could go like this.
04:09It could go like this.
04:10And then we settled on, and we kept eliminating, well, this is why this isn't as strong as this.
04:15And we cut it down to one.
04:17And we wrote a script.
04:18And I remember we gave it to you.
04:20And we didn't really know you at all, really, other than just like our first meeting.
04:24And I think this was sort of a challenge on your part because you went like this.
04:29You threw it right in a trash can.
04:31You said, you guys can do a lot better than this.
04:33And then ultimately, we spent another month, I think, exploring those other options.
04:40And we came back to that first one.
04:42And you said, yeah, no, you're right.
04:44I just wanted to make sure you guys did your homework and got it.
04:47You know, we found out exactly the way we wanted to do this.
04:50Because we went back to presenting that same thing to you, a little tweet.
04:53And you said, yeah, this is right.
04:55Oh, well, yeah, okay.
04:57It was a really good, a great process, I thought.
04:59It really made us work very hard to try to get exactly what would work for a series.
05:03We eventually decided that Jules would be like Doc Brown, very, very intellectual, very scientific-minded, always wanting to use big words.
05:16Congress ratifies Bill of Rights.
05:19Simply brilliant, Jules.
05:21I'm very impressed.
05:23So what?
05:24And Verne was going to be basically Dennis the Menace.
05:28The goofball.
05:29The wild card in the deck.
05:32And always, he would be the motor for a lot of shows.
05:36Exactly.
05:37This is a task for the mighty Brave Lord.
05:40No way, Vanster.
05:41Before I battle the demon monstros, I must wear my magic belt.
05:45It's a lot of fun to be able to have those two characters, you know, play off of each other.
05:50Well, to be asked to work on an Amblin show was, you know, very honored.
05:56The motor is great, and especially a project of Back to the Future, a property so, you know, A-plus material.
06:03And I remember the first meeting with Mr. Spielberg, which I called him then.
06:09I certainly didn't know him.
06:11There was a big, long table, and there was probably 15 people at this meeting.
06:16And you walk in, and there's, like, bagels and strawberries, and there's everything you could possibly want.
06:22So I'm walking.
06:23Oh, this is really nice.
06:24And I look over, and everybody has sat down except for this one chair right next to the head of the table.
06:29And so I guess, well, I guess I'm sitting in that chair, and I know who's going to come in instead of that chair.
06:34And so he comes in, and he sits down and says, what do you got?
06:37And we start telling him, okay, here's how we want to do it.
06:40We want to have animation and live action.
06:42And I remember him saying, oh, you know, this just never looks good, you know, unless you've got a really expensive cereal commercial.
06:49And I said, well, I think we're, you know, because he wasn't sure how we were going to, he didn't know who I am, especially.
06:55I said, well, we'll make that work, and I said, we're going to have Christopher Lloyd.
06:58And I remember him saying, you're going to get Christopher Lloyd.
07:00I said, we're going to get Christopher Lloyd.
07:01He says, well, good luck with that.
07:02That's a good challenge, because he didn't think we could do it.
07:06And we were able to book Christopher Lloyd.
07:08But I tell you, he, as they say, it starts at the top.
07:14He kind of laid down a lot.
07:17It better be good, you know, make it as good as the movies if you can.
07:21And if you can get Christopher Lloyd, great.
07:23So we booked Christopher Lloyd.
07:25Doc Brown here.
07:26As you can see, I'm visible once again.
07:28The first day of shooting, I had just purchased a house in Montana.
07:34And I knew Christopher lived in Montana.
07:36And so I thought that would be my intro to, you know, say hi.
07:41I said, Mr. Lloyd, it's a pleasure to meet you.
07:43I'm really excited that you're working on this project.
07:45And in fact, I just bought a house in Montana.
07:48And, you know, he kind of had a little smile on his face,
07:51and then he kind of became a little more serious.
07:53And then he just kind of exploded.
07:55My ex-wife got that house in Montana.
07:59So we didn't talk about Montana after that.
08:02Get out of my house, you big-eye-browed slave to science.
08:08I just adored Mary Steenburgen.
08:11Mary Steenburgen is doing this show?
08:13Wow, great.
08:14And I remember meeting her in a similar experience saying,
08:18oh, Mary, thank you for doing the show.
08:21I saw you in time after time, and I just like fell in love with you.
08:24And he said, yes, I made the same mistake with the leading man of that movie.
08:30And I knew not to bring up that experience as well.
08:34But they couldn't have been more professional.
08:37They came prepared, delivered the goods.
08:40Like I said, it was great to have such talented people in the recording sessions.
08:45It was.
08:47One of the things that we did with Back to the Future that was rarely,
08:52if ever done with animated series, is we had the entire cast together to do their voice acting.
09:02Usually in animation, in the cheap Saturday morning world,
09:06you get one actor in, he reads all of his lines, you get the next actor in.
09:11But we decided that the performances would be a lot better if everybody could play off of each other.
09:17So that worked out just wonderfully.
09:20And I think that there's a lot of energy in the shows,
09:22because all the actors were together in the recording sessions.
09:27And it rarely happens.
09:29Exactly.
09:30And you're talking about Mary Steenburge,
09:32and you're not talking about some voice actors that are always available.
09:37It's people that are really gifted and brought a lot to it.
09:41It was great sessions.
09:43It was so much fun to do those.
09:45It's important to finish what you start.
09:48Did we do those one at a time, or did we do more than one at a time?
09:51Yes, no, it was always one at a time, because they took longer than usual.
09:54I mean, I've worked on half-hour shows that they'll do in 40 minutes.
09:58And, you know, everybody's just in and out.
10:02This was a couple of hours per show.
10:04So it was good.
10:06We had a fantastic cast.
10:07Great cast.
10:08We were so blessed.
10:09Oh, my gosh.
10:10We were able to get Tom Wilson, who played Biff in the movie.
10:14He wanted to come on board.
10:16He had kids, too.
10:17He was concerned the same way that I was.
10:19Hey, I'm not buying any defected merchandise.
10:23I want my money back.
10:25Mary Steenburgen, she had kids.
10:27And then, somehow, we were able to get Dan Castellaneta, who played Homer Simpson.
10:34I don't even remember how that worked out.
10:37I don't know.
10:38It was brilliant.
10:39Yeah, what a talent.
10:40What a talent.
10:41So he did Doc Brown flawlessly.
10:44There are too many things left to invent.
10:46The temptation to think is too strong.
10:49There must be somewhere in the universe where no thinking is required.
10:54And then we found this guy, David Kaufman, to do Marty McFly.
10:58He was great, too.
10:59And I guess we just had a casting session and had a lot of voice actors come in.
11:05He was perfect.
11:06And he just nailed it.
11:07He was so good.
11:08He was so spot on, in fact, that later on, he voiced Michael J. Fox, Stuart Little in the animated series of Stuart Little.
11:19Michael J. Fox had voiced the real character in the movie version.
11:24And then David came on board the TV show to continue that.
11:29So that was a perfect marriage.
11:31Well, I guess that covers everybody.
11:33We had stuff where, uh, Doc, uh, Christopher's in the lab talking.
11:39And then we cut to animation, especially when we were doing the video experiment stuff.
11:44And then back to Doc at the lab.
11:46And there were lines of dialogue that, uh, Dan Castellana does half the line and Christopher Lloyd does the other half.
11:54It's brilliant.
12:03It's amazing how good Dan was to be able to seamlessly pull off the perfect Christopher Lloyd imitation.
12:09And, uh, it was a joy to work with him, too.
12:12He was just so funny.
12:13And those were great sessions.
12:15Like I said, that's one of my favorite parts about being an animation writer.
12:18That was a close one.
12:29If it weren't for Lightning, my pal Marty would have been trapped in 1955 forever.
12:34Taking a movie and turning it into a TV show.
12:38Uh, that's a trick.
12:39We had done it with, um, uh, Bill and Ted.
12:42Uh, it's Excellent Adventures.
12:44And, uh, interestingly, a time travel film.
12:47Um, and so, uh, I had some experience, you know, like I said, of movies, an arc, you know, A to Z.
12:54But you need a series that has a different, it's a whole different animal.
12:57Um, so, yeah, that was the process of trying to figure out what, what will be sustaining, uh, with this show.
13:04Um, and that was what we were talking about with Bob, about how, uh, well, the kids helped, for sure.
13:10The thing that I liked about using the kids is that they weren't familiar to anybody.
13:14It was something completely different, you know.
13:16Right.
13:17We were able to create characterizations for these kids, uh, and nobody could say,
13:21Well, that's not how Jules and Vern would be.
13:23Right, right, right.
13:24Uh, and then, of course, we decided that, uh, we had to have Biff through time, the ancestors of Biff.
13:31Is there a tannin in every century?
13:33And that was another rule of the series, which is, we never wanted to have our characters interact with real historical characters.
13:42So everything that you see in the shows, they are all fictional historical characters.
13:49Usually somehow related to the McFly's, the Browns, or the Tannins.
13:54Although, wait, didn't we have Ben Franklin in that one episode?
13:57I was gonna say, cause Jules is teasing Vern that he's adopted, and he finds a photograph of Ben Franklin and thinks it's his father.
14:04So he goes back to find out if it's true or not.
14:06That's right, go fly a kite.
14:07Daddy!
14:08Daddy!
14:09Unhand me, lad!
14:11I must complete my experiment before the storm abates!
14:18Oh, oh!
14:19Greetings again!
14:20The lab that we used in the series was sort of modeled on the one that was on the ride at Universal, and the man who directed those live action bits for the first season was Peyton Reed, who has gone on to be a very accomplished film director.
14:41Very successful, yeah.
14:42Yeah, yeah.
14:43Ant-Man is the summer 2015 comic book movie by Peyton Reed.
14:51So Peyton was great.
14:53Peyton had been with the behind the scenes crew covering the production of the sequels.
15:00So I knew Peyton very well, and he was involved with the ride, doing the live action stuff for the ride.
15:08So he was a perfect guy to come in and direct Chris for that.
15:11I think he sort of assisted with the back-to-the-scenes shoot and everything, but this was like his first director gig, really, wasn't it?
15:17I think it was, I think, yeah.
15:18I think that directing Christopher Lloyd in these live action wraparounds was the first thing Peyton himself directed.
15:25Since he was directing them, we had asked him to write, I think, three or four of the, you know, 13 to do, you know, these lab sequences.
15:34So, and he was a writer too, but he was kind of just breaking into that.
15:39He didn't have a lot of experience, but he really wanted to write on it.
15:42So I said, okay, Peyton, I'm going to give you a couple, three anyway, and get you started, and here's what they are.
15:47And we gave him a deadline, and I remember the deadline came and it didn't deliver.
15:53Oh, gee, and my watch only goes up to 12. We are late.
15:57I called him, hey, Peyton, you know, and he said, okay, I'll have them tomorrow, I'll have them tomorrow.
16:01And then they didn't come, and he finally delivered it.
16:04And I said, oh, Peyton, you know, I really needed these, you know, because we got, we're on a schedule.
16:08And I heard him say, there was a Planet of the Apes marathon on TV.
16:12I couldn't miss it.
16:14I thought, wow.
16:16I've never used that excuse, but, you know.
16:18But he studied, he was studying his filmmaking.
16:20He was.
16:21But only the real film historians among you recall Daredevil Brown.
16:26Talk about a Hollywood success story.
16:29All the animation was done in the Far East.
16:32And then we would get, did we get pencil tests back or did they just shoot those things?
16:37No, yeah, they would just shoot them.
16:38I think we got pencil tests back at the very beginning just to sort of get a sense of how the characters were going to move.
16:44And they did put a lot of time into creating the opening title sequence because that was the thing that was going to run every episode.
16:54And we did a bunch of different sets of storyboards for those until we got something that we really liked.
17:01And it was great.
17:03We used the song Back in Time from the end of the first movie as the theme song for the show at great expense to Universal, I'm sure, because Huey Lewis was a big act.
17:20But it was absolutely worth it.
17:21Yeah, it turned out.
17:22Well, and we were really lucky, too, that John Loy's early life was as an editor, a film editor.
17:28And so we would get the film back.
17:31And generally, if you're 25 feet over or 75 feet over, typically what's done is somebody will say, well, here's 25 feet we don't need and just take it out.
17:43And John was a master at taking every scene and shimming, you know, three inches here, six inches there, two feet there.
17:53We'd go through the whole thing and he'd clean up everything with the editor there.
17:57We'd say, here's what we want to do.
17:59Here's what we want to do.
18:00And he was heavily involved in that process.
18:03And I'd learned a lot about editing from him.
18:05And that made flow so well and get the timing to go so well.
18:11The animation was pretty good given the standards of Saturday morning.
18:16But there were one or two instances, I think it was, where the animation company bid off more than they could chew with other deals.
18:24And so they farmed one or two of these episodes out to a company in Thailand.
18:30I don't remember those.
18:31You remember those?
18:32No, I don't.
18:33I'd have to look and see which episodes they were.
18:36But we'd get these shows back and we didn't know that they'd subcontracted them out.
18:42And the animation was terrible.
18:44The characters didn't look right.
18:46They didn't move right.
18:47And I remember just screaming my head off.
18:59Slight problemo.
19:00First at Colossal and then they, of course, in turn screamed at James Wong.
19:06Does that name sound familiar?
19:07Yes.
19:08Yeah.
19:09It was his studio.
19:10And so we made them redo it.
19:12And they didn't want to redo it, of course, because it was expensive.
19:15But we made them do it because...
19:17Why do you remember?
19:18It looked horrible.
19:19The kids didn't even look like them.
19:22Jumping gigawatts!
19:24Then there was the matter of the baseball show.
19:26I don't know if you remember this one.
19:28They were blue.
19:29They made blue baseballs.
19:33You almost touched it last!
19:35We went berserk.
19:38We said, come on!
19:39They play baseball in China.
19:40You guys should know that baseballs are white and not blue.
19:44And...
19:45We thought it'd be more interesting.
19:46We got all these excuses about why they were blue.
19:49And I remember John Hayes gave me a gift of a blue baseball.
19:54I have that somewhere.
19:55I don't know where.
19:56Oh, yeah.
19:57I totally forgot.
19:58That was crazy.
19:59Yeah.
20:00Well, see you in the future!
20:08We'll see you next time!
20:09We're not done, We're not done!
20:10Again, nothing is really good.
20:11We're not done, we're not done!
20:12We're coming!
20:13We're not done!
20:14We're not done, we're done.
20:15We're not done, we're done!
20:17We're done!
20:18And we're done!
20:19So, what do you remember?
20:20We're done!
20:21We're done!
20:22We did!
20:23We got him!
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