In 1976, the first 'Return Backwards To The Past Again' movie came out, produced by Harry Claymore Studios (their first non-Claymation film). Following the adventures of Marly MacWalk and his friend Prof. Tan as they traveled through time in a modified Yugo, it was a big hit. Since then, there have been 9 more 'Return Backwards To The Past Again' movies, with 'Return Backwards To The Past Again Three' being the biggest success. You can find a complete list of the movies below.
The 'Return Backwards To The Past Again' Movies:
- Return Backwards To The Past Again (1976)-The first movie, in which Marly MacWalk and Prof. Tan travel to the Future and must get back to their own time before the Future Robot Overlord confiscates their Yugo-Time Machine
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Two (1979)-Marly and Prof. accidentally travel even further in time and land on Mars, where the one of the Future Robot Overlord's now obsolete Robot Army tries to use parts from their Yugo to rebuild the Future Robot Overlord, which was destroyed in the Great Human Rebellion
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Three (1980)-Marly and Prof. travel back to the old west, where their Yugo is destroyed and they must rebuild it while pretending to be watch makers to fit in with the locals
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Four: In SPAAAAACE! (1983)-Marly and Prof. modify the Yugo to be able to travel into space, where they discover a planet that is the source of Time Crystals, which they use to magnify the Yugo's Time Travel abilities. Slightly Recycled In Space
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Five: With Added Dinosaurs (1986)-Marly and Prof., using the Yugo's new abilities, travel to the Jurassic, where they befriend a baby pterosaur, who they accidentally take home with them
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Six (1987)-Marly and Prof. attempt to return to the Jurassic to get another pterosaur so they can start up the pterosaur species again, but a storm on the night of their departure causes them to return to a time when dodos were still around. The pterosaur and a dodo end up having a child, which is dubbed the "Dodosaur"
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Seven: A Very Merry Time Travel Holiday! (1989)-Marly and Prof., along with the pterosaur, the dodo bird, and the dodosaur, travel back to the time of Charles Dickens, where they inspire him to write "A Christmas Carol". They then go back to their own time and celebrate the holidays. (The second best received movie in the saga after 'Three')
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Eight: Return Of The Future Robot Overlord! (1991)-Marly and Prof. are trapped by the F.R.O.when they decide to travel back to the time they originally traveled to,to get pictures for their scrapbook,and pterosaur, dodo, and dodosaur must save them
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Nine: Return Of The Future Robot Overlord Two: This Time It's Personal! (1992)-Marly and Prof. must destroy the Future Robot Overlord once and for all, with the help of their dinosaur, bird, and dinobird friends.
- Return Backwards To The Past Again Ten: The Big Giant 30 Year Anniversary Party Movie! (2009)- Marly and Prof. both get married (Marly to someone named Joan of Arc, and Prof. to someone named Mary Shelley) and have kids. They then travel to the future with their families and pterosaur, dodo bird, and dodosaur. The future people are very thankful for them defeating F.R.O and it's Robot Army, and throw them all a huge party. All of their friends come.
Along with these movies, there is also the remake of the first movie (2012), the prequel (2013), the off-broadway show 'Return Backwards To The Past Again: The Musical' the animated t.v. series (1994-2010), the book series, and the upcoming eleventh movie, to be titled 'Return Backwards To The Past Again Eleven: The Great Human Rebellion' (coming 2017), which will show Marly, Prof., and the rest dealing with the paradox caused by defeating the F.R.O. before the Great Human Rebellion could happen. It is highly anticipated. The official movie website: https://sites.google.com/site/returnbackwardstothepastagain/
. There are also the "Expanded Universe Books", including:
- Marly and Prof. and the Adventure in Ancient Rome
- Marly and Prof. and That Rascal Nobunaga
- Marly and Prof. and the Emperor That Wasn't
- Marly and Prof. and The Little Red Book
- Marly and Prof. and The Dustiest of Bowls
- Marly and Prof. and The Busman's Holiday
- Marly and Prof. and The Eighteen Hundred Layer Cake
- Marly and Prof. IN ATOMO-VISION 3-D!
- Marly and Prof. Crash the Stock Market (Again)
- Marly and Prof. are Guilty
- Marly and Prof. and the New York Times Best-Seller's List
- Marly and Prof. and the Ceramic Lawn Ornaments
Return Backwards To The Past Again Includes examples of the following tropes:
- Big Bad-F.R.O. (Future Robot Overlord)
- Mooks-The F.R.O.'s Robot Army
- The Hero-Marly MacWalk and Prof. Tan
And here's one more fact about the series: It's not real. It is a show-within-a-show in the Gravity Falls series by Alex Hirsch. Of course, only 'three' is actually mentioned. The rest are made up. Feel free to add new movies, but please add them in the expanded universe section. It would be appreciated if the movies that are already there are not changed
