I have very vague recollections of this show..I can remember watching it, and that it was all a bit Indiana Jones, but I couldn't tell you anything that happened in it..
I do remember thinking Tailspin was very similar when it appeared though! :D
I do remember thinking Tailspin was very similar when it appeared though! :D
Although generally well received in both America and overseas (such as the United Kingdom, where it was broadcast on BBC One on Monday evenings), the show was not renewed for another season, mostly due to the ratings not justifying the high cost of production.
This show was an inspiration for the Disney animated series Talespin, according to that series' creator/supervising producer, Jymn Magon.[5]
This program must of had a bit of an impact on me back in 1982 as I can still remember using it for a charade when the first episode was aired. I must have been around 10.
A favourite of mine, and I was gutted that it didn't get more episodes. Great stuff, but it used to be so colourful. That Youtube vid has all the colour drained out :( Hope the DVD is better.
Haha, I remember George risking life and limb to find the chocolate orange, one of the better ads of the 80s it seemed to me.
Yeah I can't remember very much about it either, it only ran a couple of seasons, and I think that monkey at the beginning of the intro was only in one series.
And I knew there was another show very like that Gold Monkey one but couldn't bring it to mind either. I think that was the joke at school - we'd come in after Tales of... had been on the night before, and ask "Did you Bring 'em back alive?"
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Interesting factoid. He was named after the family dog
you forgot the bit about his mrs hiding the chocolate orange behind the book case :)
I do remember thinking Tailspin was very similar when it appeared though! :D
Yep. Used to watch it and talk to other kids at school about it. But for many years could only really remember the name.
Although generally well received in both America and overseas (such as the United Kingdom, where it was broadcast on BBC One on Monday evenings), the show was not renewed for another season, mostly due to the ratings not justifying the high cost of production.
This show was an inspiration for the Disney animated series Talespin, according to that series' creator/supervising producer, Jymn Magon.[5]
(lifted off wiki :) )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Gold_Monkey
Hehe...so it was an inspiration! Cool...
Yeah I can't remember very much about it either, it only ran a couple of seasons, and I think that monkey at the beginning of the intro was only in one series.
And I knew there was another show very like that Gold Monkey one but couldn't bring it to mind either. I think that was the joke at school - we'd come in after Tales of... had been on the night before, and ask "Did you Bring 'em back alive?"