在目睹一位美国外交官被谋杀后，一位美丽的吉普赛女郎卡特丽娜成为刺客的下一个目标。高级安全官员Harry Noble希望亲自进行调查，得知受害者也是他的朋友，感到非常震惊。

It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic Bevalaqua, theatre star Celimene, young lead actors and other theatre residents

After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. He settles into a trailer park and finds both a job and a girlfriend. But things get difficult for Harry when his estranged son, Jimmy, shows up. He witnessed his mother's murder as a child and, after years spent in foster homes, has come looking for revenge.

本片是《宇宙的巨人希曼》的“兄妹篇”，也是该片大获成功后的趁热打铁之作，由美国飞美逊公司（Filmation Associates）于1985年推出。希瑞的造型源自1941年问世的漫画《神奇女侠》（Wonder Woman）。每集中，少不了的开场白如下：“我叫阿多拉，霍曼的亲妹妹。我是水晶城堡的保护者。这，是顺马风，我的坐骑。有一天，我获得了奇迹般的秘密，当我抽出剑说：‘赐于我力量吧……She-Ra，She-Ra，She-Ra，She-Ra，我是希瑞……’我便和起义军的朋友们一起，为解救以希利亚，与罪恶的霍达克进行着战斗……”（关于阿多拉的身世之谜，霍达克正是她的养父！当年霍德人进攻艾特尼亚时，霍达克曾经从王宫里偷走一个女婴，该女婴就是阿多拉——她的孪生哥哥便是亚当王子，多年后，鹦鹉仙子令亚当救回了自己的妹妹，阿多拉这才知道了事实的真相。）

对两名可怕的大屠杀凶手的调查导致精神病伪嬉皮士查尔斯·曼森及其“家人”被捕并受审。

Ensemble cast of off-the-wall Warner Brothers characters, appearing in a wide variety of roles. Wakko, Yakko, and Dot Warner, are WB Studio creations who were just too "zany" to be of any use to the studio. Pinky and the Brain are two mice bent on world domination. Rita and Runt are a cat and dog team, who get into perilous situations every episode, put always seem to find time to sing a song. Bobby, Pesto, and Squit are the Goodfeathers, part of a New York mob of pigeons, who worship Martin Scorsese. Slappy the Squirrel is a late middle-age squirrel; she starred in a series of popular cartoons in the Golden Age. Buttons is a watch-dog, charged with watching the mischievous toddler, Mindy. Chicken Boo is a giant chicken trying to integrate into human society. Flavio and Marita are two urbane hippopotami.

布朗博士（克里斯托弗•洛伊德 Christopher Lloyd 饰）总是有些稀奇古怪的发明。在一次试验他发明的时光机器时，他找来了忘年交高中生马丁（迈克尔•J•福克斯 Michael J. Fox 饰）。岂料实验过程中博士被歹徒杀害了，马丁慌乱中架着时光机逃跑，回到了30年前。
马丁遇到了30年前的父亲乔治（克利斯丁•格拉夫 Crispin Glover 饰）和母亲洛莲（莉•汤普森 Lea Thompson 饰）。马丁一边找寻30年前的布朗博士，好让自己回到未来；一边尽力撮合乔治和洛莲，以免自己在以后消失了。但乔治为人懦弱，马丁在撮合过程中弄巧成拙让洛莲爱上了自己。还有令人讨厌的贝夫从中作梗，令马丁恼怒不已。
马丁周旋在他的双亲之间，还要尽快找到博士，想办法回到未来……