But Henry faces his biggest challenge of all when he moves back to America to begin junior year at Smithson High School in Washington D.C., a place stranger than any he's ever lived before.

[10] Los Angeles Times writer Robert Lloyd found the show fun and lively, composed of "familiar, mashed-together" action-adventure themes.

[11] Variety reviewer Brian Lowry was more critical, calling it "unexciting" and lacking "the requisite thrills a young audience weaned on big-budget movies is apt to demand.

[15] Werb also revealed his plans if the show had been renewed for a second season: SEASON 2 THOUGHTS for those interested: I had planned a 2-part opener with extreme adventures involving Genghis Khan’s tomb, a Mongolian death worm, Henry’s disappearance in a sand storm, the rescue of a newborn camel as well as Henry’s parents and uncle Bryan.

The rest of season 2 (upon the leads return to DC) would have covered subjects ranging from the kids finding the 18½ minute gap of the Nixon/Watergate tapes, Hemingway's lost novel, vampire finches (they really exist), a Stradivarius violin, a Native American mystery, DB Cooper, the underground railroad, etc.