The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne — Season 1, Episode 16: The Rocket's Red Glare
Sci-Fi & Fantasy • 60 min • 1 season, 22 episodes • ★ 7.1/10
Episode synopsis
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 the others must find Steele. They discover that Steele's kidnapping was engineered by Count Gregory and the League of Darkness. The League steals the Aurora and drops Steele's corpse off at West Point to further set the two countries upon each other. With the aid of a local Indian, the team finds Gregory's waterfall hideout, from which he plans to launch a rocket and destroy West Point as President Lincoln gives a speech. Despite Phileas' reluctance to engage Gregory (since the Count killed his beloved in the episode "Southern Comfort"), Rebecca enters the hideout only to be captured. She is tied to the rocket and launched. She manages to escape and redirect the rocket, while Fogg and Verne break free of Gregory and knock him back into the waterfall where he plunges to his seeming death.
About The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
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.