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story identification - Kids movie came out in 90s with wrist watch set alarm for wrestling show but by end is used in another time period


I have been trying to find the title of this kid's movie involving these 2 scenes and the best description from what I can remember. Each of the scenes are connected by the use of the watch but in two different time periods in 1980s/1990s and then in the past.


First it’s about two best friends (I think both are male) who both set their wrist watches at a certain time to remember to watch a TV show (I think wrestling?) each week and after confirming the exact times on their wrist watches they say yeah air alright and possibly high five.


The show somehow had to do with time travel to the past. Only one of the friends goes back but I'm not sure how. While being stuck in the past and trying to solve a problem to help the people in the past, his alarm for the TV show goes off and he remembers the title of the TV show by hearing the alarm uses the battery to solve the problem. The watch didn’t cause the time traveling only that the battery of the watch was used in the past after traveling there.


But other then those scenes I don’t know the whole main plot and around the time it came out in the early 90s or late 80s.


It's not A Kid In King Arthur’s Court.



Answer





I found this based on Tashus' comment that the show the kids set their alarms to watch was American Gladiators. IMDB has a "Connections" page for American Gladiators that lists references to that show in other media. For The Amazing Panda Adventure, it says this:



Ryan and his friend Johnny look on their watches and call "American Gladiators!" to watch this series on TV - later when Ryan and Ling are in the river Ryan's watch bleeps and he calls this series again



The protagonist Ryan's father works with pandas in China, and Ryan comes along with him on one of the trips. During the trip, a panda cub is taken by poachers, and Ryan and a local girl/translator named Ling go on an adventure to rescue the cub and return it to its mother. The plot summary on IMDB doesn't mention the scene you remember where Ryan uses the watch battery to solve a problem, but Wikipedia does:



Ryan realizes that he can use the batteries in his watch to power the radio collar and enable his father to locate them.



The movie was released in 1995. The only thing that doesn't fit your description is that there's no time travel, but most of the movie takes place in rural China, so there is at least an element of travel to a place with limited technology.



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