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Tales of the Gold Monkey
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Tales of the Gold Monkey

Wed, Sep 22, 1982
  • Action & Adventure
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

In a backwater corner of the South Pacific in 1938, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Stephen Collins
    Stephen Collins
    as Jake Cutter
  • Caitlin O'Heaney
    Caitlin O'Heaney
    as Sarah Stickney White
  • Jeff MacKay
    Jeff MacKay
    as Corky
  • Roddy McDowall
    Roddy McDowall
    as "Bon Chance" Louie
  • Marta DuBois
    Marta DuBois
    as Koji
  • John Fujioka
    John Fujioka
    as Todo
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Episodes

1 season · 21 episodes

Ended · 21 aired
Season 1
21 episodes · 21 aired
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  • E1
    Tales of the Gold Monkey
    Aired · Thu, Sep 23, 1982 · 120m

    Freelance pilot Jake Cutter and his mechanic Corky become involved with Nazis and American Sarah Stickney White while searching the south Pacific for a mythical gold monkey.

  • E2
    Shanghaied
    Aired · Thu, Sep 30, 1982 · 60m

    A mysterious sailor calling himself Captain Ahab comes to Bora Gora and kidnaps Corky, forcing him to fix a broken part on Ahab's ship. Despite suffering from malaria, Jake goes after them.

  • E4
    Black Pearl
    Aired · Thu, Oct 14, 1982 · 60m

    The Nazis are building a super bomb on an island near Bora Gora. Jake finds a part of the bomb on the body of an escaped native slave, so he decides to investigate.

  • E5
    Legends Are Forever
    Aired · Thu, Oct 21, 1982 · 60m

    An old friend of Jake's shows up and convinces him to help fly medicine to a malaria stricken Watusi tribe. But Jake's friend may have an ulterior motive.

  • E6
    Escape from Death Island
    Aired · Thu, Oct 28, 1982 · 60m

    Jake and Corky are imprisoned on an island penal colony when they try to free the son of an Englishman.

  • E7
    Trunk from the Past
    Aired · Thu, Nov 4, 1982 · 60m

    Sarah receives a mysterious trunk from her late father and it leads her to a lost civilization.

  • E8
    Once a Tiger...
    Aired · Thu, Nov 18, 1982 · 60m

    Jake leads the search for a downed plane flown by a former Flying Tiger transporting a prototype gunsight of interest to the Japanese.

  • E9
    Honor Thy Brother
    Aired · Thu, Nov 25, 1982 · 60m

    Jake is mystified by several harrowing brushes with death, Sarah is on the trail of a suspicious Japanese bomber, a brawling German sailor turns up with Jack's eye and Corky unexpectedly lands a bride.

  • E10
    The Lady and the Tiger
    Aired · Thu, Dec 9, 1982 · 60m

    While Jake is flying a routine job, the Goose's engines fail and he crash lands on an island inside the Japanese Mandate. He is rescued by an Amish woman and her son, who agree to harbor him until he can find a way to radio his friends for help.

  • E11
    The Late Sarah White
    Aired · Thu, Dec 23, 1982 · 60m

    A telegram from the Philippines informing everyone of Sarah's death is sent to Bora Gora. Jake doubts that she is really dead, and he and Corky go to Manila to find the truth.

  • E12
    The Sultan of Swat
    Aired · Thu, Jan 6, 1983 · 60m

    Gamble Rogers, a famous American baseball player who also happens to be Jake's boyhood hero, arrives in Bora Gora on his way to play a goodwill baseball game in China. During his stay on the island, a young native girl is raped and murdered in his bedroom. Jake believes he is innocent, and he sets out to find the real killer.

  • E13
    Ape Boy
    Aired · Thu, Jan 13, 1983 · 60m

    Jake and Sarah help an abandoned boy found living among the apes on an isolated island.

  • E14
    God Save the Queen
    Aired · Thu, Jan 20, 1983 · 60m

    Jake and Corky fly a British Nobleman to a cruise ship only to find out that this man has planted a bomb on board, and he will tell the captain where it is only when he is given the royal jewels that are on board the ship with the Duke of Windsor.

  • E15
    High Stakes Lady
    Aired · Thu, Jan 27, 1983 · 60m

    Jake agrees to accompany a woman to Tagataya to play in a high stakes poker game. While there, the Japanese capture Jake and the woman in order to reclaim a secret film that contains classified Japanese plans which were stolen by the woman, who is actually a spy.

  • E16
    Force of Habit
    Aired · Thu, Feb 3, 1983 · 60m

    Two nuns carrying vaccinations to a poor village in China land on Bora Gora. Jake recognizes one of them as his former girlfriend and is suspicious of her motives, but when the clipper that is carrying the vaccinations is stolen, the two of them must work together to retrieve it.

  • E17
    Cooked Goose
    Aired · Sat, Mar 5, 1983 · 60m

    A Clipper pilot is beaten and his bride apparently kidnapped by Princess Kogi and held for ransom.

  • E18
    Last Chance Louie
    Aired · Sat, Mar 12, 1983 · 60m

    Louie is sentenced to the guillotine for the murder of a French army deserter, and Jake's only hope of saving him is a story that Louie wants to remain a secret.

  • E19
    Naka Jima Kill
    Aired · Sat, Mar 19, 1983 · 60m

    An ambitious newswoman tricks Jake into flying her to Princess Kogi's island for an interview with the Japanese defense minister, a recent target for assassination.

  • E20
    Boragora or Bust
    Aired · Sat, Mar 26, 1983 · 60m

    Jake's prospector buddy stands to lose his platinum strike to an unscrupulous businessman from the States.

  • E21
    A Distant Shout of Thunder
    Aired · Sat, Apr 9, 1983 · 60m

    Sarah is used as a scapegoat by an island revolutionary who accuses her of removing a sacred statue from a cemetery on the island.

  • E22
    Mourning Becomes Matuka
    Aired · Thu, Jun 2, 1983 · 60m

    Someone is trying to assassinate Princess Koji. After Todo is wounded while saving her life, she persuades Jake to act as her bodyguard until she can discover who is trying to kill her.