Back to the Future: Back in Time

Back to the Future: Back in Time is a science-fiction adventure comedy miniseries that airs on NBC on March 3 to 31, 2020, on Back to the Future Part III 's 30th anniversary. The series is based on the 2010 video game, Back to the Future: The Game.

The series also features the reprised roles of Michael J. Fox, Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson as Marty, George and Lorraine McFly respectively. Glover provides new dialogue for Arthur "Artie" McFly and Tara Strong provides the voice of Sylvia "Trixie Trotter" Miskin in the miniseries. While Fox provides the dialogue for Marty in the series, A.J. Locasio remains as Leech.

Alan Silvestri's score from the film trilogy is reused for the miniseries, rather than composing new music.

It's About Time
Seven months after Doc left, the bank forecloses on his home. Marty arrives and is too late to stop the estate sale. There, he finds Doc's notebook in the model courthouse from the 1955 model, but was taken by Biff. In order to get the notebook, he turns on the once-broken speaker and tricks Biff to let him play his guitar. He successfully gets the notebook after Biff turns up the capacity of the speaker blowing him away.

When going through the pages, the DeLorean, that had been smashed by a train, appears. He finds Einstein in the car and tape recorder with a message of Doc's voice explaining his predicament in the unknown recalled timeline he is stuck in. Set off to save him, the readout of Doc's last departed destination is malfunctioned, so Marty's only solution is a shoe he found in the DeLorean before the tape recorder. He uses Einstein to track the sent where the shoe was last seen.

He leads him to an apartment, where he meets Edna Strickland, former reporter and brother of S.S. Strickland. He returns her shoe and reveals she lost it on the day a speakeasy burnt down, but doesn't remember the year. Marty gets clues about the speakeasy by discovering the video store replaced the spot it was at, and a newspaper that shows Doc on it, including finding out the date: June 14, 1931. Marty takes the newspaper, including accidentally causing the boxes to topple to the floor in the process.

Marty wears clothes he had gotten from Jennifer in order to look like a person from the '30s. He takes Einstein with him and they depart a day before Doc was murdered. Upon arrival, he meets a young Edna, who asks him about the speakeasy's destruction, which Marty concludes the conversation as to mark him as a supporter under the identity: Sonny Crockett. He then gets the police station to save Doc. Asking how the DeLorean arrived, Doc reveals that it was duplicated by the lightning after their situation with the almanac back in 1955. Marty then reveals Doc's death tomorrow, which shocks Doc and has them come up with plans to dissolve the date. Doc then remembers his rocket-powered drill which needs to be finished by the aid of his teenage self. Doc gives him a phone number to his previous home to call call at the soup kitchen.

There, He finds his grandfather Arthur, but doesn't interact with him, including Irving "Kid" Tannen. After he calls the Brown residence, he discovers that he is a law clerk. He heads to the courthouse, where he bumps into the young Doc, and he tries to convince him about finishing his rocket drill, but refuses to admit his scientific pursuits, so he records his muttering in order to get his help. With the help of Doc, his young self was muttering Ivanov's Conundrum, where he gives him the equation, which Emmett thanks Marty for helping him with it, and decides to help him with his Doc's situation. However has to deliver a subpoena to Marty's grandfather.

They then spot Kid and one of his goons, Matches, at the barber shop, where Marty notices Arthur's hat, which was taken by Kid on his way out of the soup kitchen. He pretends to be a shoe shiner in order to take the hat, in which does. Both he and Emmett hide in the Attorney office, and the two then lose them. With the help of Einstein, he tracks the scent down to the same apartment back in 1986, which they find Arthur, but refuses to come down until Kid says so. Marty and Emmett return to the Town Square, where Kid and Matches find Marty and chase him down the Gazebo, in which Marty climbs up the top and records Kid's ranting. With Edna then stalling Kid for an interview, Marty escapes, and Kid and Matches leave. Marty and Emmett return to the apartment and coax Arthur outside, then serve him the subpoena.

After serving Arthur the subpoena, the boys resume the rocket drill situation. Its fuel system only runs on 190-proof alcohol, which is hidden in the soup kitchen. Marty notices the barrels holding it on a dumbwaiter. In order to get one of the barrels, Marty gets Emmett to create something to hold the door that is blocked by tables to prop up. Marty stalls Cueball by giving the soup flavor. Noticing the pipes that lead to the basement, Marty taps them, which tips the tray, rolling the barrels to the tables. Edna then comes in and orders one of the barrels that hold the hooch. Marty then convinces Edna to bring the barrel to the Brown house for her Stay Sober Society, in order to get the fuel for the drill.

At the residence, Emmett goes through the many important components to go through the reaction to make the fuel, but is called out of the lab my his father noticing the society at their doorstep. Marty tends to the reaction with Emmet's help by emphasizing the words to the device when said. After the argument and finishing the fuel, Marty tells the truth after Emmett asked to get his response back from him. He takes the drill with him and heads to the jail. Upon arrival, Edna tells him that Doc is being sent to another jail. Marty checks the newspaper and shows Doc to be killed in a car accident. Marty uses Edna's bike to chase down the patty wagon holding Doc, with the rocket part from the rocket drill that was destroyed in the process.

Marty catches up to the wagon that is going out of town and starts to rescue Doc. He discovers that Kid is at the wheel and finds the keys to open the lock of the back doors on the dashboard. In order to get them, he takes an antenna from the top and gets Doc to distract Kid to get them. After getting the keys, he unlocks the door and rescues Doc. As the duo escape on the bike, Marty tells Doc to pull the throttle on the rockets, rocketing them to the DeLorean. Before their departure, Marty discovers his hand fading.

Get Tannen
Discovering Arthur's murder on the newspaper, Marty goes back without Doc, as he is caught be Officer Parker. Arriving to before his death, he gets to him in time, after dealing with Einstein and Emmett. Unfortunately, Kid's gang finds Arthur, leading Marty to make him flee, with him being knocked out by Cueball. Regaining his consciousness, he spots them going in the alley by the soup kitchen. He hides in one of the boxes outside, in order to get inside.

Upon entrance, he hides underneath the counter, finding Arthur tied to a chair and was chloroformed before being brought inside. He finds the bottle on the counter, but is almost empty, and puts it in the ink bottle, knocking out one with a cold, painting a poster. Marty then coax Cueball out by turning on their sign for their second speakeasy, blowing its fuse. Noticing a panic button switch underneath, he flicks it, and drops the curtains down and turns the roulette table into a regular table with a gold bust. Noticing, As Matches goes to the counter to flick the switch, Marty hits him with the chloroform bottle, knocking him out. He frees Arthur, and hauls him to the DeLorean.

He drives to the scene where Doc was found by Parker and where the Marty from before he goes back in time. As his other self departs, he brings Doc along, much to Parker's dismay. As Arthur regains his consciousness, the duo tells him that he needs to keep out of town until Kid is sent to prison.

Arriving back to 1986, Marty discovers that Biff is back to being abusive to the McFlys, and his family (including his brothers in the altered timeline) is now the most feared crime family throughout Hill Valley. After knocking out the Tannen brothers (by dodging Biff's bat, hitting the bug zapper, electrocuting Biff, with his brothers getting him out of the shock), Kid appears in his limousine, who is about to shoot Marty, until Doc drives up bumping the limo, giving Marty time to enter the DeLorean. The duo travel to August 25, 1931 to prevent Kid's escape from the law.

Citizen Brown
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Outatime
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Cast

 * Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, William McFly
 * Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, Jacques Douteux
 * James Arnold Taylor as Young Emmett Brown
 * Shannon Nicholson as Edna Strickland
 * Rebecca Schweitzer as Old Edna Strickland, Phone Booth of the Future Operator
 * Owen Thomas as Kid Tannen, Beauregard Tannen
 * Crispin Glover as George McFly, Arthur McFly
 * Lea Thompson as Lorraine McFly
 * Tara Strong as Sylvia Misken/Trixie Trotter
 * Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker
 * Mike Barbolak as Officer Danny Parker, Danny Parker Jr.
 * Adam Harrington as Matches
 * Doug Boyd as Zane
 * Roger L. Jackson as "Cueball" Donnelly, Judge Erhardt Brown, Ernest Philpott and Hampton
 * A.J. Locasio as Leech