The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
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The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne

6.7 / 10
2000
1 season
22 episodes
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne is a 22-episode science fiction television series in the steampunk genre that first aired in June 2000 on CBC Television in Canada and in syndication in the United States. The plot concept is predicated on a vast fictional conspiracy beginning with the revelation that Jules Verne did not merely write the stories behind his famous science fiction classic books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth or Around the World in Eighty Days — but actually experienced these adventures personally. A television technological historic footnote, this work was the first hour-long series filmed entirely in HDTV format.

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  • Ep 1

    1.In the Beginning

    18-06-200060m

    The adventure begins. In Paris, Jules Verne, a student with the ambition of becoming a great novelist and playwright, unwittingly attracts the attentions of the League of Darkness...

  • Ep 2

    2.Queen Victoria and the Giant Mole

    25-06-200060m

    Using an idea stolen from Jules Verne (from In the Beginning), the League of Darkness construct a giant underground tunneling machine, the "Mole." The League first kills a diplomat...

  • Ep 3

    3.Rockets of the Dead

    02-07-200060m

    When Rebecca investigates the murder of a British envoy in London, she must go undercover as an actress to attract Angelo Rimini, Duke of Carpathia and the prime suspect. He become...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Cardinal's Design

    09-07-200060m

    Rebecca has a friend of hers trying to decipher a secret code, behind the back of her superior. She is threatened with a scorpion in her bed, which she manages to kill. Phileas off...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Cardinal's Revenge

    16-07-200060m

    Stilled trapped in the time of the Three Musketeers, Rebecca is mistaken for Madame D'Urfe, an assassin hired to kill King Louis XIII. Jules and Phileas must persuade the Three Mus...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Eyes of Lazarus

    23-07-200060m

    The evil spirit of a dead mad anarchist, Lazarus, takes possession of Passepartout at a seance for Passepartout's recently-deceased Aunt Louisa. Lazarus, who died at the hands of P...

  • Ep 7

    7.Lord of Air and Darkness

    05-08-200060m

    While investiging a country priest's murder, Jules is lured to a secret base of the League of Darkness, where they are creating a flying ship called the Prometheus. Jules accepts a...

  • Ep 8

    8.Southern Comfort

    12-08-200060m

    Hoping to shift the balance of power in the United States' Civil War, the League of Darkness heads across the Atlantic in the Prometheus while being pursued by the crew of the Auro...

  • Ep 9

    9.Let There Be Light

    19-08-200060m

    Following the death of Saratoga Browne, Jules, Rebecca, and Passepartout have their hands full with a suicidal Phileas. Packing up the Aurora, they decide to go on a tour of the Un...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Ballad of Steeley Joe

    26-08-200060m

    While waiting for Passepartout to arrive from Baltimore with the Aurora, Jules, Rebecca, and Phileas pass the time aboard the gambling boat, the Memphis Belle; Phileas by gambling...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Black Glove of Melchizedek

    02-09-200060m

    Phileas Fogg comes into possession of a single black glove covered with Cabalistic symbols. The glove, it turns out, is being hunted by two men: a mysterious Cabalistic sorcerer na...

  • Ep 12

    12.Dust to Dust

    01-10-200060m

    A sarcophagus containing the remains of Nepka, an Egyptian high priest, is being transported to New York by Phileas Fogg for his old schoolmate, Professor Alexander Douglas, and an...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Golem

    08-10-200060m

    Traveling to Paris to celebrate Jules' birthday, Phileas, a disabled Rebecca, and Passepartout, along with Sir Hugo Bezel (chief architect of Paris), arrive just as a golem is on a...

  • Ep 14

    14.Crusader in the Crypt

    15-10-200060m

    On assignment to find invasion plans, Rebecca escapes empty-handed from the castle of Prussian General von Kessler, with the aid of the Aurora and her cousin Phileas. They are then...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Strange Death of Professor Marechal

    22-10-200060m

    On the death of Professor Maréchal, his daughter persuades Jules and Phileas to take his remains to the coast, where they find the machine Maréchal created that can supposedly brin...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Rocket's Red Glare

    29-10-200060m

    The group is summoned to British Columbia after an American General, Steele, is kidnapped by Indians from the British territory. To avoid a war between the two countries, Fogg and...

  • Ep 17

    17.Rocket to the Moon

    05-11-200060m

    While Jules tries to help Count Kugarin launch a rocket to the moon, Phileas gambles everything he owns against the Russian in a series of contests.

  • Ep 18

    18.The Inquisitor

    18-11-200060m

    When a college friend of Rebecca's, Amateratsu, and her grandfather Kajimori travel to Paris, the grandfather is kidnapped by the Inquisitor, a member of the League of Darkness. Ka...

  • Ep 19

    19.Royalty

    25-11-200060m

    While traveling over Montravia, the Aurora crashes and the local constabulary mistakes Passepartout for King Carl V, for whom he is a dead ringer. Carl is a lackabout, and they nee...

  • Ep 20

    20.Secret of the Realm

    02-12-200060m

    A ship carrying the Spanish Ambassador Senior Sel Fuego and his mysterious cargo runs aground in the Sargasso Sea, and Fuego seems to disappear into a mirror. While Verne is plague...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Victorian Candidate

    09-12-200060m

    The League of Darkness executes an elaborate plan to kidnap Phileas and brainwash him into assassinating Queen Victoria.

  • Ep 22

    22.The Book of Knowledge

    16-12-200060m

    When Jules contracts yellow fever in Tangiers, a famous doctor takes him for treatment to a Corsican hospital that is secretly controlled by the League of Darkness.

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