The Odyssey

Opening Credits "The Odyssey"
The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-95 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha (credited as Ashley Rogers), Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler (Jay's mother), and Devon Sawa as Yudo.

In the series pilot, 11-year-old Jay tries to join a tree-fort club, and a telescope that belonged to his father (who has been missing several years and is presumed dead) is stolen. When Jay tries to retrieve the telescope, he falls from the tree-fort, injures his head, and lapses into a coma.

In the coma, Jay finds himself in a fantasy world where no one reaches the age of 16. Not having heard of adults, the children here have shaped society in their own ways, sometimes resembling a police state. Jay, not knowing how he has got here, embarks on a journey to return home—a place he can't remember. The journey becomes a quest to find his long-lost father, who fell overboard from a small boat into a lake whilst they were on a fishing trip together, and has not been seen since.

Meanwhile, Jay's mother and a coma therapist try to get Jay to regain consciousness, with the help of his friends.

A turning point is reached when Jay's father's appears to him as he is regaining consciousness, which Jay is forced to keep as a secret from his mother. As Jay struggles to reorient himself in the waking world and the many changes that have occurred, he finds that he is still dealing with issues through the world from his subconscious.

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[zarbar2]

I KNEW I WASN'T CRAZY!!! I KNEW THIS SHOW EXISTED! 

[OpticalFunkllusions]

holy shit. anybody else just get a blast of nostalgia?

[Complex1989]

For years I was wondering about a TV series which was about a boy in a coma. The image of the boy looking up in a elevator was just about anything that I very vaguely could remember.

[nhlalwenhlezondo]

Kept giving myself comas just to live like this, lawls!

[DiamondKun]

Wow, never thought I'd see this again. It's been like 15 years since I saw it. I also had no idea Ryan Reynolds was in it :D

Gotta watch it again some time.

[xlaleclx]

@zarbar2 I know, I felt the same way. I had all these memories of watching this show and I could never figure out what it was...

[stinger2001]

RIP Ashley Rogers 1981-2007

[yalreetdeeyas]

I used to try and explain this to my friends, it was on Channel 4 on a Sunday morning about 7:30am. I knew it was real! I would have never said Ryan Reynolds was in it though.

[kciro]

Look un my channel i have this serie.

[togethergutlesss]

i found epasodes 1 to 4 of seson one on youtube there is only one guy who posted them he may have all the eps so if you all ask him he may post the rest i remember this show back when i was 6 i never forgot about this show.

[Rigomortice]

@zarbar2 same here i looked all over and could never find anything about it and one day it poped up again. kick ass show lol were both not crazy hahaha

[TheItalianStallion33]

I'm not just saying this b/c I grew up in the 90's, but the late 80's/90's kids shows were UNREAL, today's kids shows are HORRIBLE (some exceptions though), but all the big kids shows today are just live-action Disney shows with awful child actors/horrible writers/bad comedy. Once Lizzie McGuier and Raven came on that was the decline of our generations kids shows. Now we have Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and other awful Disney stars I cant even name.