The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne

What if the novels of Jules Verne were actually based on his real-life adventures? Set in the late 19th-century, Jules Verne is a young man struggling to become a successful writer. His visions of the future are sought by the League of Darkness, a group led by the centuries-old steampunk-cybernetic Count Gregory. Jules meets up with British spy Rebecca Fogg, her arrogant cousin Phileas, and his man-servant Passepartout. Phileas has retired from the spy business after his supervisor and father ended up getting his brother killed. The British Government arranged for Phileas to "win" a lighter-then-air ship, the Aurora, and gain the services of Passepartout, an accomplished tinkerer. Phileas puts the Aurora at the service of his cousin on her missions. With Jules' help, they fight a variety of futuristic (for 1890) and supernatural menaces, ranging from giant underground digging machines to vampires wearing rocket pack to ghosts to aliens to time travel devices. They also occasionally run afoul of the League of Darkness, who have their own plans for ruling the world through technology.

Las aventuras secretas de Julio Verne es una coproducción anglocanadiense de veintidos episodios para la televisión, ambientada en el siglo XIX, que se centra en una hipotética juventud de un idealista y visionario Julio Verne (Chris Demetral). Los dibujos y diseños de tecnología avanzada que Verne crea a partir de sus visiones, terminarán poniéndole en el camino de una conspiración para matar a la reina Victoria de Inglaterra. A bordo del Aurora, un fabuloso dirigible gigante, ahí estarán para salvar a la reina, el mismísimo Verne junto a su famoso personaje, el caballero inglés Phileas Fogg (Michael Praed), agente secreto de su Majestad; Rebecca Fogg, prima de Phileas y primera agente secreta femenina de la historia; y Passpartout (Michel Courtemanche), mayordomo de Fogg, que es piloto e inventor a la vez. Todos se enfrentarán juntos a la Liga de la Oscuridad, una organización aristocrática que pretende mantener a Europa en el oscurantismo y prevenir a toda costa la llegada de la democracia, en un siglo XIX repleto de submarinos, viajes a las profundidades del planeta, vuelos en globo, saltos en el tiempo e invasiones extraterrestres.