The Blue Yonder

• Peter Coyote: . Max Knickerbocker
• Huckleberry Fox: Jonathan Knicks
• Art Carney: Henry Coogan ( old)
• Dennis Lipscomb: Finch
• Joe Flood: Leary
• Mittie Smith: Helen the Knickerbocker
• Frank Simons: Henry Coogan ( young)
• Stu Klitsner: Mr. Knicks
• Morgan Upton: Police Captain
• Bennett Cale: Dooley

Blue Yonder - Air in the past is an American television adventure film from the year 1985.

Action

After losing a baseball game, a model of the Blue Yonder is the young Jonathan Knicks by Henry Coogan given, the plane his grandfather Max Knickerbocker. Although it's not like his father that he admires the dreams of Max, he paints it in blue and admired him continue. Max's dream it once was, the first man to fly across the Atlantic. But not only that Charles Lindbergh came to him a few days earlier, he still took a wrong route, so he got lost on the way and is missing since then. Henry, it's getting worse, says Jonathan that Max once had an idea for a time machine, which he had now built. Jonathan they used to travel to May 14, 1927, when he rises immediately to seek his grandfather's farm. His approach is a little awkward, because both the policeman Leary and Finch remarkable journey through time and find him now. However, Max keeps him hidden from Leary, so he was still to come, to take him to his workshop, where he told Jonathan of his dreams and his Blue Yonder shows. He then takes him along on a recent test flight and told him that he was ready to begin his Atlantic crossing to Paris.

But Jonathan wants to stop him. Max learns that Jonathan is his grandson from the future who has traveled back via time machine to prevent his death. He does not want it to start on May 18 and the southern route takes, because Charles Lindbergh landed already on May 20 in Paris, because he took the northern route. To prove this, he wants to show him his time machine. But the time machine is no longer where he presumed. Max believes Jonathan only when a prophesied of him tragic accident on the Langley Fields happens. But Jonathan can not then it will continue to serve, as he is arrested by Leary and later interrogated together with Finch to the time machine.

At night freed Jonathan Max from prison and finds out where the time machine is. After seeing it, he realizes that Lindbergh will win the race across the Atlantic and fail his dream to be the first. So he promised Jonathan that he will not fly. But the next morning have to say this is that Max is already on the airfield in order to begin his journey. Jonathan hurries so fast it goes there and he does not arrive in time to prevent Max from it. He receives only Max's white luck scarf and see how it flies. However, Max gives him enough time to escape from Finch and Leary, who pursue him for a while to get there early in his time machine. Back in his time, he is sad that he could not stop Max's death. But in the park, close to its baseball stadium, he finds a statue, on which the service was Max's immortalized. He almost made ​​it to France before Lindbergh. However, the Blue Yonder was found on May 18, 1927 near the French coast.

Criticism

" Elaborately staged and narrated liquid entertainment film that does not explores his subject and his characters too deep. "

Background

The world premiere of the film was on 17 November 1985 at the U.S. television channel Disney Channel. Already on February 9, 1986, the film was shown under the title Time Flyer on ABC. In Germany the film is available on VHS since September 1987.

Hiro Narita won a CableACE Award for Direction of Photography and / or Lighting Direction for a Dramatic or Theatrical Special / Movie or Miniseries.