Jumanji
an Episode Guide
by George Fergus
Last updated:
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Jumanjian Episode Guide
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| aired from: Sep 1996 to: Dec 1998 | 40 eps | UPN / syndication | 30 min | stereo | closed captioned |
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"A game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind."
An animated series based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg and the 1995 feature film about a magical board game found by a brother and sister in the attic of their new home. It transports them to an alternate world filled with jungle perils, and leads them to make the fateful decision to try to find a way home for Alan, a man they meet who has been trapped there for over 20 years since he played the game as a boy.
The denizens of Jumanji include the big game hunter Van Pelt, who wants to mount everyone's heads on his wall; Trader Slick, who is always willing to get them thing they need at an exorbitant price; and the Manji, a native tribe who speak only in unintelligible grunts, clicks, buzzes and whistles. Back at home in Brantford, the kids' guardian is their Aunt Nora, a professional therapist.
At the start of each session, the game gives Judy and Peter a clue that they must solve in order to get back home. Also, each time Peter tells a fib (which is often) Jumanji transforms him into an animal of some kind for the duration of the game.
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clue: "Clear as ice but worth the price"
Judy and Peter discover the game and are transported to Jumanji for the first time, where Peter is transformed into a monkey for trying to cheat the game.
b: 8 Sep 96 pc: 101 w: Kevin D. Campbell d: Jeff Myers & Bob Hathcockclue: "A trick in rhyme, saves time."
When Judy trades Slick her broken wristwatch for an item that will allow Alan to escape from the game, the three of them get back home to Brantford only to discover that time has stopped, the annoying chimps from Jumanji have come back with them, and Peter is slowly being transformed into a turtle as punishment for Judy's attempt to cheat Slick.
b: 15 Sep 96 pc: 102 w: The Trio d: Cathy Malkasianclue: "Someone needs to be set free, but only you have the key."
After an encounter with the school bully and his gang, Peter decides to stay in Jumanji and is slowly transformed into a Manji mask-warrior, while Alan discovers the key to the secret back door of Jumanji.
b: 22 Sep 96 pc: 104 w: The Trio d: Bob Hathcockclue: "The more you learn, the less you know, and that's the only way to go."
When Aunt Nora is sucked into the game, the kids and Alan must rescue her from the clutches of Van Pelt.
b: 29 Sep 96 pc: 103 w: Nancy Neufeld d: Steve Resselclue: "I can make fish swim! I can make birds fly! I can make you run! But don't ask why!"
When Peter brings a computer with him into the game to help figure out how to rescue Alan, it falls into the hands of a mad inventor who uses it to gain control over the inner workings of Jumanji.
b: 13 Oct 96 pc: 105 w: Steve Roberts d: Bob Hathcockclue: "Without the dice your turn can end, just ride the sun around the bend."
When Alan steals the dice so that the kids will no longer be put in danger by visiting Jumanji, Peter figures out another way to get into the game and they discover the mechanical underworks of Jumanji where they are chased by The Stalker, and Jumanji transforms Peter into a toucan.
b: 27 Oct 96 pc: 106 w: Neil Alsip d: Steve Resselclue: "When what you want's behind the door, be careful what you're wishing for."
After Judy is ignored by a cute guy at school, who only pays attention to her when he wants her to do his homework, Jumanji conjures up a dashing adventurer who resembles him, to sweep her off her feet, but h e transforms Peter into a stone statue.
b: 3 Nov 96 pc: 107 w: Nancy Neufeld d: Cathy Malkasianclue: "A hunting you will go, but will that defeat the foe?"
Alan manages to turn Van Pelt's own tactics against him and defeat the hunter, but Jumanji simply replaces him by transforming Peter into a miniature replica of Van Pelt.
b: 17 Nov 96 pc: 108 w: The Trio d: Bob Hathcockclue: "Failure looms, but who's to blame; set it right or repeat the game."
Judy and Peter are trapped in a time loop which ends with Peter getting killed, and they keeping reliving it until they figure out how to save him.
b: 24 Nov 96 pc: 110 w: The Trio d: Bob Hathcockclue: "Lose the battle and win the war, it's what best enemies are for."
When Peter takes the game to school to impress a girl he likes, both she and the school bully are transported to Jumanji along with him, but the game makes it appear that the bully is daring and brave, whereas it transforms Peter into a wild boar.
b: 2 Feb 97 pc: 109 w: Tom Astle d: Jeff Myersclue: "Someone's freedom is foreseen, through a match up with the Queen."
The queen of a Jumanji tribe of amazons is after Alan, but complications ensue when Aunt Nora is sucked into the game again and challenges the queen for his favors.
b: 9 Feb 97 pc: 112 w: The Trio d: Steve Resselclue: "Release the thing you most adore, it comes back closer than before."
When Alan is poisoned by the bite of a Jumanji centipede, the kids must find an antidote while evading the combined onslaught of Van Pelt, Trader Slick, and Professor Ibsen. And Peter lies again and is transformed into a frog.
b: 16 Feb 97 pc: 113 w: Neil Alsip d: Cathy Malkasianclue: "As this becomes more of a pest, the right path is in truth the best."
When the kids and Alan finally escape from Jumanji, Peter brings a harmless-looking animal back with him which proceeds to grow bigger (and hungrier) every time he tells a lie and soon threatens all of Brantford.
b: 23 Feb 97 pc: 111 w: Christopher Bird d: Bob Hathcock & Jeff Myers & Steve Ressel| Back to TOP of Page |
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clue: "The river is long, the river is wide. You'll keep looking till you've found the right side!"
Alan and the kids get trapped between the warring red ants and blue ants.
b: 21 Sep 97 pc: 202 w: Peter Gaffney d: Bob Hathcockclue: "X marks the spot, the map holds the key. The shaft finds its mark, the I of the C."
An old sea dog sails in search of the sea beast that bit off his nose. Peter is turned into a skunk.
b: 28 Sep 97 pc: 201 w: The Trio, Kevin Campbell and Steve Roberts d: Scott Wood
clue #1: "Solving problems is a game. The highest point should be your aim."
clue #2: "Knowledge is key to this illusion. Ignorance is no solution."
The kids and Alan find a board game in Jumanji called "Brantford", which takes them into a surreal version of their home town.
b: 5 Oct 97 pc: 203 w: Lara Runnels and Patti Carr d: Scott Woodclue: "Without wings you soar so high. Now you must help the birds to fly."
An attempt to escape Jumanji by plane leads to a cloud city of bird-people that is under attack by Ibsen's dirigible.
b: 12 Oct 97 pc: 204 w: Neil Alsip d: Tom McLaughlinclue: "When you fix what has been broken, then you'll know the eyes have spoken."
In debt to Trader Slick, Alan decides to join an explorer who claims to know where riches can be found.
b: 19 Oct 97 pc: 206 w: Peter Elwell d: Andy Thom, Scott Woodclue: "Who is the fool and who is wise? Beyond shifting sands, the answer lies."
Alan and the kids use Ibsen's mechanical rhino to cross a great desert in hopes of finding a way out of Jumanji.
b: 26 Oct 97 pc: 205 w: Peter Gaffney d: Dave Schwartzclue: "The grass looks greener across the river wide. A simple stick leads to the other side."
Ibsen makes a robot duplicate of Peter in order to trap Alan.
b: 2 Nov 97 pc: 207 w: Steve Roberts d: Bob Fosterclue: "Fools draw ruin from the earth, the only hope a magic birth"
Peter makes a playmate out of mud.
b: 9 Nov 97 pc: 209 w: Neil Alsip d: Dave Schwartzclue: "A crumbling kingdom brings a trap to light. Fathom greed's curse to make things right."
Peter brings the Sand King's magic box of gold coins back from Jumanji only to discover that everyone who touches one of the coins turns into an animal.
b: 16 Nov 97 pc: 208 w: Lara Runnels & Patti Carr d: Tom McLaughlinclue: "Let the judgment fit the crime. An act of kindness may come in time."
Alan is accused of stealing the Singing Orb.
b: 23 Nov 97 pc: 210 w: Jonathan Greenberg d: Bob Fosterclue: "Find the truth, so long concealed, when the hidden face has been revealed."
When Alan loses his memory, the kids take him on a river journey to find the truth about his past.
b: 8 Feb 98 pc: 211 w: Peter Gaffney d: Tom McLaughlinclue: "Double crossing makes no friends; the Wings of Eagles make amends."
Van Pelt competes with another hunter to catch Alan, with the kids as bait.
b: 15 Feb 98 pc: 212 w: John Ziaucus d: Andy Thom
clue #1: "All that glitters is not gold, but leads
you to the bead she must hold."
clue #2: "Undercover is the catch. Turn around and down the hatch."
Judy finds a giant pearl, but a sick Peter passes his illness on to everyone in Jumanji.
b: 22 Feb 98 pc: 213 w: Marsha Freeman d: Scott Wood| Back to TOP of Page |
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clue: "Woeful pieces of a broken soul await the strike that makes them whole."
When Peter gets mad and smashes the game, it splits him into three individuals, each with different parts of his personality.
b: 8 Sep 98 pc: 303 w: Marsha F. Griffin d: Gloria Jenkinsclue: "No past, no future, we know it's true. And yet the present makes you blue."
Ibsen sends the kids back 20 years into the past, when Alan first arrived in Jumanji.
b: 15 Sep 98 pc: 302 w: Peter Gaffney d: Dave Schwartzclue: "Your view is askew, your morals are stunted; til you see the robber robbed and the hunter hunted."
When the kids find a prowler in the attic, he ends up going into Jumanji with them.
b: 25 Sep 98 pc: 301 w: Peter Gaffney d: Andy Thomclue: "One small trade makes fortunes rise, but what remains is just your size."
Frustrated by his small stature, Peter trades Slick for a potion that makes him grow.
b: 29 Sep 98 pc: 310 w: Marsha F. Griffin d: Gloria Jenkinsclue: "A machine will take you to the deep. But cannot tell you what to keep."
Alan and the kids steal Ibsen's submarine, and Peter turns into a salamander.
b: 7 Oct 98 pc: 307 w: Peter Gaffney d: Andy Thomclue: "There's one way out, the price you know. Save yourselves and let it go."
Something is very wrong in Jumanji -- all the denizens are being nice.
b: 16 Oct 98 pc: 308 w: Peter Gaffney d: Gloria Jenkins
clue #1: "A rescue formed for one in need, will soon in kind repay the deed."
clue #2: "Desire and love falsely derived, can only be saved by what's inside."
When her boyfriend invites another girl to the school dance, Judy buys a love potion from Slick.
b: 22 Oct 98 pc: 311 w: Siobhan Byrne d: Andy Thom
clue #1: "Evil spoken will not amend until one becomes two again."
clue #2: "Power and evil are ancient lore. Your only escape lies with the one before."
An unpleasant neighbor enters Jumanji after buying the game at Aunt Nora's rummage sale.
b: 27 Oct 98 pc: 312 w: Greg Klein & Thomas Pugsley d: Dave Schwartzclue: "Though worlds apart, friendship's your guide. When all seems h op eless, toss it inside."
Slick auctions a dangerous weapon, the legendary Trans-Vector, to the most evil characters in Jumanji.
b: 2 Nov 98 pc: 305 w: Barry Hawkins d: Gloria Jenkinsclue: "Mirrors reflect, but not what's inside. Problems are solved from the other's side."
A strange lightning ball causes minds to be switched into different bodies throughout Jumanji.
b: 11 Nov 98 pc: 304 w: Thomas Pugsley & Greg Klein d: Bob Hathcockclue: "What lies before your eyes is sure. Reflection makes your vision pure."
Judy, Peter, and Alan's worst fears seem to be coming to life.
b: 17 Nov 98 pc: _________ w: Marsha F. Griffin d: Andy Thom
clue #1: "Take what you will, though it will be wrong. Your only hope will come in a song."
clue #2: "A chilling lesson will leave its trace until the red glows in its place."
Peter steals the Manji witch doctor's doll and uses it to make people in Brantford do what he wants.
b: 27 Nov 98 pc: 306 w: Steve Roberts d: Dave Schwartz
clue #1: "When silk is torn and bondage ends, you must give up what you can't defend."
clue #2: "Youth must follow and age must lead. Two legs fail but three succeed."
After swimming in Jumanji's Pool of Ages, Judy and Peter start aging rapidly.
b: 30 Nov 98 pc: _________ w: Tony Schillaci d: Andy Thom
clue #1: "When you reflect on actions past, the quest you're on will end at last."
clue #2: "An act of kindness where there is no light will help to save you from your plight."
While trapped in a cave, the kids and Alan see clips from their previous adventures via the Crystal of Reflection. Will it show them Alan's original clue, so that he can finally escape from Jumanji?
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