Model 'T' for Ted

"Model 'T' for Ted" is the fourth episode of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures season one. It aired on October 6, 1990 on CBS. It was written by Rowby Goren.

Ted gets into an accident with his dad's precious car named Blue Betty, sending Ted and Bill on an adventure backwards through time to get Henry Ford to fix Ted's father's car.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Detective Logan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peter Renaday
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ted "Theodore" Logan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peter Renaday
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Deacon Logan
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Danny Cooksey
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Bill S. Preston, Esquire
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Alex Winter
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Rufus
 * style="background-color:#clear"| George Carlin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Miles Standish
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Priscilla Alden
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Captain Francis Drake
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Grace O'Malley
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Blackbeard
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wilbur Wright
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Orville Wright
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Henry Ford
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Edsel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Blackbeard
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wilbur Wright
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Orville Wright
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Henry Ford
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Edsel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Edsel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable

Organizations

 * Wyld Stallyns
 * Iron Maiden (mentioned)
 * San Dimas Police Department

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * California
 * San Dimas
 * Logan residence
 * Abdul's Record Store (mentioned)
 * Kozy Korner
 * Precinct
 * Car impound
 * Alaska (mentioned)
 * Green Military Academy (mentioned)
 * Massuchessetts
 * Plymouth
 * Plymouth Rock
 * Chicago (mentioned)
 * Ohio
 * Dayton
 * Wright Bros.' Bicycle Shop
 * England (mentioned)
 * Holland (mentioned)
 * Atlantic Ocean
 * English Channel
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Time machine phone booth
 * Circuits of Time Directory
 * Iron Maiden CDs

Vehicles

 * Blue Betty

Music
The theme song was performed by Randy Peterson and Kevin Quinn. The music was composed by Chuck Leob for Score Productions. Bodie Chandler was the director of music production.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: October 6, 1990 on CBS

Behind the scenes

 * Ted views the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, as only educational television.
 * Rufus reveals that his name is actually his middle name since, in the future, people only use middle names.
 * The name of Henry Ford's horse, Edsel, is an in-joke to the name of his son.

Errors

 * When Standish proclaims the site they're on to be Plymouth Rock, his hat flashes between light gray to gray.
 * Bill says to Ted, "Ted, we better bail before she changes her mind," but it comes out of Ted's own mouth.
 * If the Wright brothers didn't think flight was possible, then why did they stick wings on their bicycles?
 * The last line of the episode is supposed to be Bill talking to Ted, unfortunately, his voice comes out from Ted's own mouth again. Bummer.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * August 13, 2013: TGG Direct releases Best of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures on DVD (Walmart exclusive).
 * October 1, 2013: TGG Direct releases Best of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures on DVD.