A Short-Lived Canadian Educational show that fallows an eleven year old (David Craig Collard) inheriting his missing uncle's house and soon finds himself investigating mysteries in town.
The show also features Lydia Zajc, Stacey Arnold, Michael Dwyer, Angela Fusco, Sean Hewitt, Kay Hawtrey, Barbara Wheeldon, Arch McDonnell, Susan Mitchell, and Edwina Follows.
It aired on TVOntario for two seasons.
Tropes for the series:
- Alliterative Name: Crystal Couplet.
- Exact Time to Failure: Subverted in one episode: a Cliffhanger shows the kids trapped on a doomed planet as the countdown to its destruction reaches zero. In the next episode, the planet remains intact for several more minutes as the countdown was "only an estimate".
- Mayor Pain: Duneedon, the evil tyrant of the galaxy Trialvaron, has a human identity-Don Eden, the mayor of Herbertsville, Canada.
- President Evil: Dunedon, the evil ruler of Trialveron, is also secretly Don Eden, mayor of Herbertsville on Earth.
- Super Cell Reception: The first Story Arc of the second season, the kids have a portable communicator created by the eccentric inventor Dr. Crystal Couplet that's bulky and transmits only text, but has an astounding range that can transmit not only over vast distances, but also into different time periods. It's a handy function to have when you've been whisked to 1812 and you are desperate to contact the coach house in 1983.
- Villains Blend in Better: On Trialveron, the three human characters stick out like a sore thumb, due to having, well, more than one personality trait apiece. Conversely, however, Trialveron's tyrannical ruler, Duneedon, has no trouble getting himself elected mayor back on Earth (under the pseudonym "Don Eden").
