The Flying House (TV series)

The Flying House
Cover art from volume 1 of the DVD release of the series
トンデラハウスの大冒険 (Tondera Hausu no Daibōken)
Genre	Christian Animation
Anime television series
Directed by	Masakazu Higuchi and Mineo Fuji
Studio	Tatsunoko Productions
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	5 April 1982 – 28 March 1983
Episodes	52

The Flying House, known in Japan as Tondera Hausu no Daibōken (トンデラハウスの大冒険^?, Adventures of the Flying House), is a 52 episode anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions broadcast between April 1982 and March 1983 on TV Tokyo, and distributed by the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States. In 2010, the Christian Broadcasting Network made the 52 episodes available for viewing online.

In the Philippines, reruns of the show were broadcast on GMA Network in 1992, and on ABS-CBN in 2015.

The series begins in the middle of a game of hide and seek, as a young boy named Justin Casey (Gen Adachi) finishes counting and begins searching for his friends Angela "Angie" Roberts and her little brother Corbin "Corky" Roberts (Kanna and Tsukubo Natsuyama). As he searches for Angie and Corky in a wooded area, a storm occurs all of a sudden. Justin manages to sneak up on the two before the rain starts pouring, forcing them to run for cover. They eventually find a mysterious but strange-looking house in the wooded area, previously unseen according to Justin. At first glance it appears that nobody is home, until they discover a battery type android named Solar Ion Robot (Kadenchin), or S.I.R. for short. They soon meet the owner of the house, Professor Humphrey Bumble (Dr. Tokio Taimu), who introduces the children to his greatest creation, a half rocket, half house one of a kind time machine namely The Flying House. Humphrey's attempt at recreating Benjamin Franklin's famous lightning experiment with the use of a kite flying outside the house to get the machine working only leads to a temporary change in S.I.R.'s personality from nice to mean and goes berserk before sending The Flying House on course for the past. Little did they know that Justin, Angie, Corky, and S.I.R. truly realize how long the journey back home will take due to Humphrey's misguidance and errors in time travel, but in the meantime they witness and participate (with little or no consequences) in numerous events in the Bible's New Testament, from John the Baptist's birth to the rise of the Apostle Paul.