A Sequel To Back To The Future 3 Exists And Made Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown The Main Character

Back to the Future 4 might never get made, but there is an official sequel to the original Back to the Future trilogy that made Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown the star of the franchise. Robert Zemeckis has made it perfectly clear that he’s not interested in continuing the Back to the Future series with a fourth movie, and he won’t let any other filmmaker or money-grubbing studio do it for him. This is probably for the best — those legacy sequels rarely work out — but it is a shame that this story is over.

It would’ve been a joy to see Doc and Marty McFly share the screen one last time for one last time-traveling adventure. The franchise has continued in the form of video games and a stage musical, but it’s not the same as a fourth movie would’ve been. There’s only been one Back to the Future project that officially kept the story going beyond the end of Back to the Future Part III — and it made Doc the main character.

Back To The Future’s Animated Series Was Set After Part III And Focused On Doc Brown’s Family

Doc And His Family Moved To A Farm In Hill Valley In The Early 1990s

At the end of Back to the Future Part III, the DeLorean is destroyed, Marty is returned to his original timeline, and the future isn’t written, so his story is over. But then, Doc appears in a time-traveling steam locomotive with his wife Clara and their two sons, Jules and Verne. After staying in the Old West, he turned a train into a time machine and plans to embark on time-traveling adventures with his family. This didn’t lead into a sequel, but it did lead into an animated series.

Mary Steenburgen and Thomas F. Wilson reprised their roles from the movie trilogy in the TV show.

From 1991 to 1992, Back to the Future: The Animated Series ran for two seasons of 13 episodes each on CBS. Marty and Jennifer occasionally appeared on the show, but it primarily focused on the Brown family. The show revealed that, after the events of Part III, the Browns settled down on a farm in Hill Valley in the early ‘90s. Doc rebuilt the DeLorean, now with fewer faults, and the show sent him to such historical eras as the Middle Ages, the American Civil War, Ancient Egypt, and prehistoric times.

Christopher Lloyd Reprised His Role As Doc Brown For The Animated Show (But In Live-Action)

Lloyd Appeared In The Live-Action Segments That Opened And Closed Each Episode

In the animated segments of the Back to the Future TV series, Doc was voiced by Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice of Homer Simpson. But in the live-action segments that opened and closed each episode, Lloyd reprised his role as Doc. Bill Nye appeared as Doc’s lab assistant in these live-action sequences, which eventually led to Nye getting his own show. This series is probably the closest thing that Back to the Future fans will get to a fourth movie.