Peyton Reed directed the live-action sequences for the Back to the Future television series. Those sequences appeared in Back to the Future: The Animated Series, which combined animated adventures with live-action segments.
The animated series ran from 1991 to 1993 and typically opened with Christopher Lloyd reprising his film role as Doc Brown in a live-action scene. The segment then led into an animated story involving Marty McFly, Doc’s family and their time-traveling adventures.
Reed directed the live-action sequences for the first season, which consisted of 13 episodes. Bob Gale, one of the original film trilogy’s writers, directed the live-action material for the second season. Peyton Reed’s credit therefore relates to the live-action wraparounds, not to directing every animated portion of the series.
This distinction is easy to miss because the program is commonly referred to simply as Back to the Future. It was an animated television spin-off rather than a fourth live-action feature film.