Starring: Thomas F. Wilson

Includes a time travelling van that leaves flaming treadmarks, flies and when its doors open - gullwing-style - they make the same noise as BTTF's De Lorean.

NOTE: Apparently this film contains more references than these. Anyone who knows more, please e-mail me at the address at the bottom of this page.

 Episode 235: "Xatu the Future"
First aired: Unknown

The title is the only reference, as far as I'm aware.

 Episode 43: "Future Boy"
First aired: 13 March, 1991

Sam leaps into Kenny Sharp, who is better known as "Future Boy," the sidekick on a 50s TV series called "Time Patrol." On the TV series, they pretend to travel to 1983. Future Boy is an obvious reference to Doc's nickname for Marty.

 Episode ??: "Back to the Happosai"
First aired: Unknown

Obviously the title evokes BTTF. Also, the back of the video that this episode is on, the description reads: "Coming across a yard-sale of martial arts master Happosai's junk one day, Shampoo and her great-grandmother, Cologne, discover a legendary family relic long thought lost: a magic mirror, which, when touched by tears, transports the bearer to the time most strongly in their thoughts. In this Back to the Future-style episode, come back to the days of the Happosai and Cologne's youth, and discover how bad habits practiced as a teen can affect an entire life..."

Also in the episode, they try to hook up past-Cologne and past-Happosai, like George and Lorraine. Ranma's comment: "What are you trying to do? Create a time paradox or something?"

 Episode 139: "Attack of the B-Movie Monsters"
First aired: 28 September, 1991

The Japanese version of the Ecto-1 Ghostbusters' car looks a lot like the flying Delorean from Back to the Future, Part II.

 Episode 302 - Hosted by Michael J. Fox
First aired: 16 March 1991

During Fox's opening monologue, Kevin Nealon plays Doc, Dana Carvey plays Michael from 90 minutes in the future, and David Spade plays Michael from one week in the past.

Doc and the future Michael (not Marty) come back to the present to warn MJF that the show will be a failure. MJF thinks about this and decides to go back in time with them to stop himself from joining the show. All three fly back to the past in the DeLorean, and try to warn the MJF from the past about the show. However, Lorne Michaels uses money to convince all three MJFs to do the show. The monologue ends with all three MJFs back in the present.

NOTE: This episode aired not long after the release of MJF's follow-up to the BTTF trilogy - The Hard Way (1991)

 Episode 147: "A Fish Called Selma"
First aired: 24 March 1996

Troy McClure drives a DeLorean. There is also a scene where he smacks Chief Wiggum in the face when Troy opens one of the gull-wing doors.

This story about Lisa falling for school bully Nelson Muntz is titled after George McFly calling Lorraine his "density" rather than his "destiny."

When Homer tries to pitch a film idea to Ron Howard, "The Terminiser - An Erotic Thriller" about 'a killer robot driving instructor who goes back in time for some reason,' his script mainly includes drawings of the time machine in it. One of the drawings is of a Flux Capacitor.

The title of the episode is obviously a reference. In the future, the Simpsons' car will be a hover vehicle where the wheels fold up under, like BTTF's De Lorean. Bart's nemesis Nelson appears in the future dressed remarkably like Biff from 1985.

Marge's high school boyfriend, Artie Ziff, recreates their high school prom - offering Homer 1,000,000 dollars to have Marge for the weekend. When Homer sees Marge and her old boyfriend kissing, he says "Oh no! If they get married, then I'll never be born!"

 Episode 42: "The Breeders"
First aired: 14 March, 1997

The Sliders land on an Earth in which young adults are used as guinea pigs in a mandatory organ-donor program. In the background of one scene, a cinema called "Palace" advertises that it is showing "Back to the Future 4"

NOTE: "Sliders" was a Universal TV series. The cinema shown in this episode is very similar to the facade used in Back to the Future - the Palace, which was showing Cattle Queen of Montana in 1955.

 Episode 59: "4th Grade"
First aired: 8 November, 2000

After a very bad first day in the fourth grade, the boys decide to go back in time to the thrid grade - when everything was easier. They use Timmy's wheelchair to provide inertia and when he disappears through time he leaves flaming trails behind him. The remote control for the time travel machine is similar to the one Doc used in BTTF.

 Episode 66: "Back to the Future IV: Judgement Day"
First aired: 21 February 1999

Guest Star: Christopher Lloyd

Lloyd guest stars in this episode as Mike's political mentor, Owen. When Mike sees Owen for the first time in years he says, "it's like a trip back in time." Owen responds: "What's past is prologue. Guys like us have to look to the future." Owen winks. This is the only specific reference to the BTTF trilogy in the ep, though arguably casting Lloyd as Mike's mentor is also part of the homage. (Remember, when the series cast the part of Michael Flaherty's mother they opted for Fox's "Family Ties" mom, actress Meredith Baxter.)

James asks Mike to invest his life savings in an Internet company, but when Mike holds off on investing, the stock goes up several points, and Mike must find a way to make the money back. Mike wishes he could buy them two days earlier... To which Carter replies, "That's your plan! Time travel?"

NOTE: There was a commercial aired for "Spin City" - when it was changing time slots - that referenced BTTF. Carter and Mike are in the De Lorean that includes two time displays: one with the time the show was on and one with the time the show was moving to. Carter: "Do you know how to use this thing?" Mike: "Yeah, I've done this quite a few times." They travel through time.

There was also a variation on this ad where the whole cast was crammed into the DeLorean, except Paul was left behind. They decide not to go back in time to get him!

Mike arranges a meeting for 2:15, but Paul overhears him. Not wanting Paul to attend (a running gag), Mike says 2:15 is his favourite verse from the Book of John. He recites: "Be Good, Johnny. Johnny Be Good. Go, Johnny, Go, Go. Amen."

 Episode 68: "Hollow Pursuits"
First aired: 30 April, 1990

While trying to repair an anti-grav cart, Lt. Barclay surmises there might be a problem with the "flux capacitor."

When Riker uses technobabble to confuse one of the Ferengi invaders, he uses tech terms from the BTTF trilogy, such as jigowatt.

In the graveyard of Beverly Crusher (nee Howard)'s ancestoral home is a grave with the name McFly on it, amongst other names from Sci-Fi films, including Vader

 Episode 175: "What You Leave Behind, Part I"
First aired: 29 May 1999

When Chief O'Brien talks to Bashir about taking a postion as Engineering Professor at Starfleet Academy he says, "Someone has to teach you officers the difference between a warp matrix flux capacitor and a self-sealing stem bolt."

 Episode 40: "Not in this Life"
First aired: 16 March 1998

Susan is being hypnotized so she can go back in time and review her past lives. Susan's friend Vicky makes fun of the hypnotist. As a come back, Susan offers to stop by the 1950's on the way back from her past life and make it so Vicky's parents don't meet

 Episode 107: "Once Upon a Time Machine"
First aired: 1991

In this ep, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady use a subway train to travel 45 years into the future and try to take it over New York in 2036. When Shredder orders his goons to go back and bring their old punk gang to the future, the turtles follow and seek out the help of their older selves, only to discover that they've become enfeebled and out of shape

The episode tends to mirror BTTF Part 2 quite alot, ala the punks, as well as the part where the turtles discover a rather unpleasant future for themselves. There's even a part where Donatello warns everyone that if they don't return to their own time, the temporal overlap will cause the past and the future to be destroyed (similar to Doc's explanation on why it's impossible to meet another version of yourself). However, the train obviously parodies the one in BTTF 3

In this episode, the turtles are taken into the future by Landor and Merrik where they discover a rather unsettling timeline in which an allie of theirs helped Dregg conquer Earth. However, they later discovered that their former allie was really an android clone and the real Carter was kidnapped back in the present.

This storyline actually had alot of paralells to BTTF 2. For instance, Landor and Merrik were from the year 2015, the same year Doc took Marty and Jennifer to. Plus, the two explained to the turtles how once they manage to defeat Dregg, the future will be changed.

These episodes are actually the last two of a three parter in which Dregg tried to consume the strength and intelligence of the green teens. However, by the time Carter discovered what had happened, the turtles' life force had already been sucked out, meaning they needed a blood tranfusion of sorts from four other mutant turtles. Carter's only choice was to have Landor and Merrik transport the TMNT from 1994 to the present in order to help save the weakened TMNT.

The story made some good references to BTTF. For one, Landor warned Carter that having a second set of turtles from the past brought here would cause a paradox that could erase them from existance (the same paradox that Doc warned Marty about in 2015 and 1955) However, the TMNT were able to actually converse with themselves - of coarse this may mean that the laws of time travel are different for mutant lifeforms. Finally, one of the biggest references was in the end when Landor and Merrik invited Carter to join them in the future so they could help cure him of his own mutation. As the three of them left the 20th Century, Carter himself quoted the famous "See you in the future!" line.

 Episode ??: "Title Unknown"
First aired: 3 December 2000

Harry is seen reading the exact same "Tales From Space" comic that Sherman Peabody showed his father in 1955.

 Episode ??: "The Episode with the Fiery Blaze"
First aired: 5 December 2001

Tick and Arthur meet another superhero, The Fiery Blaze, and his sidekick, Friendly Fire. They go to dinner. Friendly Fire suggests they go see a movie. He mentions that "all three Back to the Future movies are playing." Tick says: "Oh, let's go see 'Back to the back back'."

 Episode 8: "School's Out"
First aired: 27 October 1999

A strict teacher is sent back in time to give a student a second chance. The date she is sent back to is October 26 - an obvious reference to the date Marty leaves 1985 - but in the year 1977. Note the airdate of the episode, too!

 Episode 36: "Thornberry Island"
First aired: Unknown

In reference to BTTF, the Thornberrys have to harness lightning to override the security system on their comvee. When a tree knocks the muffler they are using to direct the lightning into the car, Eliza climbs on top of the comvee and then get electrocuted just like Doc did in the film.

 Episode ??: "Mopminator"
First aired: Unknown

This series contains many parodies of popular culture. The episode which parodies BTTF includes a scene of Doc and Marty time travelling in prehistoric times, where they find The Terminator's hand. They travel to present day and present it to Walter Melon. The rest of the episode goes on to parody Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Star Wars.

 Episode 14: "Lisa's Virus"
First aired: 6 August 1994

The two main characters, Gary and Wyatt, fall into their favourite TV Show which is set in Hill Valley

 Episode 21: "Back to the Future! - A Shining Pentagram in the Former Capital of Kyoto"
First aired: Unknown

The only reference, as far as can be determined, is in the episode title.