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Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series

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Format: DVD June 8, 2010


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Broadcast on ABC in early 80s, the series became a massive hit following the success of Indiana Jones’s ‘Raiders of The Lost Ark’. This 22-hour long series is set in a backwater corner of the South Pacific 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. Set in 1938, this series captures the ambiance and character of a mysterious romantic era. Directors: Harvey S Laidman, Virgil W Vogel, James Frawley, Winrich Kolbe, Ray Austin, James Fargo. Stars: Stephen Collins (Private Practice, 7th Heaven, Blood Diamond), Caitlin O’Heaney, Roddy McDowall (Planet of The Apes), Jeff Mackay (JAG, Magnum PI, Black Sheep Squadron.) Show Created by: Donald P Bellisario (Magnum, Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, NCIS). Stephen Collins heroically tries to keep up with the (Indiana) Joneses as rakishly charming soldier of misfortune Jake Cutter, who works as a pilot for hire on the South Pacific island of Boragora in 1938. Comparisons with Raiders of the Lost Ark are inevitable, but according to the series retrospective included as a bonus feature on this six-disc set, producer Don Bellisario (Quantum Leap, Magnum P.I., and NCIS) pitched this to the networks before Indy ever cracked his whip. It was only after Raiders became such a colossal hit that ABC saw gold in Monkey. Alas, this series never really took off, but nearly 30 years later, it's a grandly entertaining bit of escapist fare that packs old Hollywood Saturday matinee thrills and adventure into every episode. The colorful characters include Corky (Jeff Mackay), Jake's trusty (when he's not drunk) mechanic and sidekick; Bon Chance Louie (the peerless Roddy McDowall), the ethically questionable French liaison and governor, and owner of the disreputable hangout the Monkey Bar; and Sarah Stickney White (Caitlin O'Hearney), chanteuse and spy. Stealing nearly every scene he's in is Jack, Jake's one-eyed dog, always good for a comical cutaway. You can't beat the Nazis for villainy (check out John Hillerman's outrageous accent in the feature-length pilot episode), but Monkey steps over the PC line with deadly dragon lady Koji (Marta Du Bois) and her samurai henchman. These Tales are told mostly tongue-in-cheek. Expensive for its day, the series nevertheless has a B-movie look, which enhances its hokey charms. In addition to the newly filmed interviews with cast and creators, the bonus features include five immersive audio commentaries, as well as detailed character bios and a series "fact file." Virtually unseen since its original broadcast, Tales of the Gold Monkey is of more than nostalgic interest. Stephen Collins fans will surely be in--wait for it--7th Heaven. --Donald Liebenson


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No


MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)


Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1 Pounds


Item model number ‏ : ‎ 7305456


Director ‏ : ‎ Virgil Vogel


Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC


Run time ‏ : ‎ 16 hours and 30 minutes


Release date ‏ : ‎ June 8, 2010


Actors ‏ : ‎ Stephen Collins, Jeff MacKay, Leo the Dog, Caitlin O'Heaney, Roddy McDowall


Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified


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    • Tales of the Monkey worth its price (in Gold)
When The Tales of The Gold Monkey first aired in 1982 I was in 9th grade. I remember the opening credits very well, especially the clip from the 82 minute pilot where Sarah Stickney White (the very appealing Caitlin O’Heaney) has her hands-tied in complete damsel-in-distress mode, on a tropical island (pretty good stage set, complete with waterfall) turning to scream, afraid of the man sized ape (makeup mask borrowed from a Planet of The Apes sequel extra?) approaching menacingly. At the time, there had been something about Tales of The Gold Monkey that made me want to watch, but for some reason I didn’t continue to watch; and when I heard the show had gone off the air after just the one season (21 episodes including pilot with Ron Moody from musical Oliver) I remember talking to my older brothers; and a friend from school that the show had seemed pretty good. So, 40 years later, with the help of a couple of heartfelt reviews on Amazon convincing me to buy, I can honestly say The Gold Monkey tales were better than I expected (despite the thought of ‘just being another show from the 1980’s…’) That said I will get my one complaint out of the way: despite not being burned discs I was forced to watch another DVD for about 10 minutes (actually, used Barney Miller DVD) so that my player could warmup to ‘read’ The Gold Monkey discs. That’s the only complaint. Once DVD plays I can watch as many of The Tales of The Gold Monkey episodes in a row without flaw. There were 4 episodes (including pilot) that I remembered watching when I was 15: one of the Episodes, The Black Pearl, contains a glowing device that has killed some island natives. No wonder the nazi Germans wish to experiment with ‘the glow’ in their underground chamber circa 1938. This is the episode that truly reminded me of Raiders of The Lost Arc when watching in 1982 (don’t open the canister!). Apparently, it was the famous Indiana Jones movie the tv network wished creator Donald Bellisario would always make Gold Monkey resemble. That and not enough Monkey Island story lines helped to cancel this promising show before its time (a handful of episode commentary and interview extras worth checking out, too, for backstory tidbits). So, I also believe the sometimes pretty involved, fast paced story lines may have lost me a bit back in 1982 (and with no rewind—gasp!) as well as the accent of German Reverend Boom (John Calvin) and the Frenchman played by Roddy McDowell (took over for Ron Moody) as Bon Chance Louie the Magistrate of Boragora also causing me some listening, understanding difficulties. But that is not a flaw of the show. The actors do a good job. It was just me … at 15. But, another episode I remembered was Sarah White’s fear of the Anubis in the Trunk From The Past (Episode 6). There are tombs, a pharaoh’s curse, and particularly the ghostly spectre of Sarah’s, pipe smoking father that I remembered the most from this episode. ‘The Trunk’ story reminded me of a good Hammer (Mummy) production with an ending that appeared to be headed towards an Indians Jones action climax but it instead concluded rather anti-climactically with an intended chuckle led by Jake Cutter’s one-eyed dog Jack. I must add Jack the dog gives a great performance through the 21 episode run. Seriously. It’s impressive just how humorous Jack is with the one bark or two, (no or yes) as well as the occasional barking to simulate dialogue: woof woof = ‘uh oh’, for one example. But, check out extras also. Stephen Collins (Jake Cutter) gives a very good recollection and Caitlin O’Heaney is very bubbly (if not quite as entertaining and informative as Collins). They are not the only two to talk about their experiences on Tales of The Gold Monkey almost 30 years (2010) after the show was cancelled, basically, because Donald Belissario did not wish to copy Raiders anymore than he already had. Plus, budget restrictions. Yes some of the matte work is obvious and cheap and the repetition of fake volcano eruptions super imposed, and yes cheap, but over all the show was well written and generally well done. Other highlights: The best fight scene is in the Boragora or Bust episode Directed by Ivan Dixon. Kim Cattrall pops up as a college friend of Sarah White. Just about anytime Marta Dubois (Euro-Asian princess Koji) appears, looking to get rich(er) or get Jake Cutter into her hot tub (or whatever they called them in 1938) with her relentless, innuendo laden flirtations. Also, that is Apollonia Kotero appearing as an island girl being ‘blessed’ by the German ‘Reverend’ Boom’s running joke. She’s credited as Patty Kotero. This is about 2 years before Prince movie Purple Rain; and Nia Peeples (Walker Texas Ranger) passes for an extremely cute, 18 year old native girl in an episode involving a barnstorming, ex New York Yankee who is Babe Ruth except by name, Gamble Rogers, who lives by the motto ‘BB&B’ (Baseball, Bourbon and Broads). He even hit 714 Home Runs in his career. Another episode mixes fact with fiction with an actor appearing as General Douglass McCarthur—complete with corn cob pipe. Jake gets a great piece of historical dialogue in an episode explaining how he not only flew for China against Japan (this explains why he is basically still stuck in South Pacific, still proudly wearing his Flying Tigers jacket) but also fought in Spain’s Civil war against Franco: ‘Republicans’ fought against the fascist Nationalists in 1930’s Spain. My how times change. 4.5 stars for an entertaining tv show ride with a mind of its own, even if the Mike Post/Pete Carpenter music is very similar to Tom Selleck’s Magnum P.I (music) which had completed one full season by the time Tales of The Gold Monkey started. 21 Episodes are on Six discs and I’m on disc 3, second time around, as I finish this review. Well worth the Gold Monkey experience … brass or no brass? 😀😉 ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2022 by a walther
    • What a great find!
Great adventure, romance, intrigue, action, suspense, espionage, this series has it all. At the center is perfectly cast Stephen Collins as pilot Jake Cutter. I have always like Collins and this role is one he clearly enjoyed. I also like the chemistry between him and Sarah, played by Caitlin O'Heaney, who seems to have stepped out of the 1930's films, and I mean that as a huge compliment. The rest of the cast is great, including Jeff McKay and the great Roddy McDowall. Usually, pets in a tv show are a mistake. Not with this one. They found the perfect Jack Russell terrier to play Jack. It only lasted one season but what a grand season it turned out to be. As for the dvd set, I love the way it is packaged with a very nice booklet. The quality of the dvd's isn't great for someone used to watching 4k, but still very good. Would I buy a blu ray of this series? Without hesitation. One of the few series I have watched where I want to go back and watch it all over again. I think I will. 10/10 ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2022 by BrinDana
    • Yes, soild Gold Indeed!
I apologize right away for the cliché subject line, but as Madeline Kahn says in "Young Frankenstein" : "It's true! It's true!" Gold Monkey is pure gold! Like another reviewer said here, I too am a sucker for 1980's TV. Maybe not as fanatical for "short lived" series, but just for the shows of that time. I've noticed in looking at my collection, that most of the things I have bought and reviewed are of that era, and interestingly also, that a lot of the same names both in cast and production come back again and again. Sort of like six degrees of Kevin Bacon, it seems that the good actors, writers, producers, etc., all kind of worked in a great big family. And when I find something I love to watch, you see the same names appear in the credits. A lot has to do with the fact that Universal Studios at the time had a slate of something like twenty hour-long shows they were producing at once, and that allowed them to keep a huge stable of contract talent that they could funnel onto the shows. Both their talent, and all the experience shows. I mean, right now there are about a dozen shows from that era that are either being re-made as TV shows (even Hawaii Five-O, for God sakes!), but as movies (like "The A Team", "Magnum PI", etc.). That says something. Why is Hollywood going back to these shows of twenty to thirty years ago? Because they hold up. Better than most anything these days. I even looked at the few shows I liked in the 1990's and beyond, and sure enough, you will find some of the same people that were active in the 1980's are involved. I think a lot of it is due to the fact that they couldn't rely on computer EFX and new technology, and had to actually depend on story and strong characters. Some people have made note of the less that stellar production values in "Gold Monkey", but in a way, isn't that the point? A stock shot of a China Clipper (in black and white yet!) is almost an after-thought, since the story was more important than the shot itself. I must say that I didn't even notice some of the stock footage until it was pointed out by the commentaries on this DVD set, which are all first rate, and on the "Making of" bonus documentary, which is equally terrific. That says something. Something wonderful. And something wonderful is what "Gold Monkey" is all about. I too had not heard of it when it first came out, but I'm always searching for shows that have some of the same cast and crew as my favorites - since it seems everything now is coming out on DVD. So this came up on my Amazon search. I read the reviews, recognized a lot of familiar creative people, saw that it was 1980's TV, and bought it. I have been glued to my TV ever since. This could be one of the all time best of those 1980's shows. The culmination of what made them so great. An innocents, a desire to entertain, to tell a story, to create strong characters, to involve the audience. You can see that the people both in front and behind the camera love what they are doing, not only from watching the shows, but also from the bonus material on this box set. I can't remember seeing such joy and love and passion for something, especially something that happened so long ago. It has stayed with all these people after all these years. And it shows. Somehow I get the feeling that TV now is more of a meat-market. A chore. A job for job sake. You can feel the stress. A lot of it is phoned in. A lot of it is done only for the money. I know that sounds like a big dose of naïveté, and I know politics and stress were a huge factor back then as well, and in fact, both in the commentaries and in the "Making of", the cast and crew are all very open about that. But there's something different here. When you were working for a studio that had so much work. When there was a sense of family, of everyone helping everyone else out, then you had a different kind of feeling about what you were doing. And it was also a time when the people involved had come from a school of learning that was literate. They grew up on great books, classic movies, art, music, Shakespeare and the like. You know this by the references in the dialogue and in the kind of story-telling. Now, everything is derivative. Almost incestuous. Writers and producers of today grew up watching nothing but other TV, which in turn was derivative of the TV shows before then. The begat begats the begat! Like Royal Cousins in a Russian family tree inter-marrying. And we know what that does to the gene pool! But "Gold Monkey" came from one of the last group of talents who both cared and loved their work. In this case, it seems they cared so much that the Executive Producer of Gold Monkey may have pulled the show rather than let it become less than he wanted. Anyway, for those of you who knew the show and loved it, you won't be disappointed. In fact, I'm sure you will be overjoyed at the look of the show. It's so beautiful to look at, even with the few stock clips!. And for those just discovering Gold Monkey for the first time, you will love the "family" , and the world it creates. We have nothing like this now. How many CSI's are out there to clone? How many dead bodies on a freeway underpass can we look at? How we hunger to be time-machined back to the paradise of Gold Monkey, the island, the people, the sensibility. Some have had problems with sound or picture. As I said before, I find the picture stunning. And the sound, though not like "Avatar" is easy to listen to. Hey, this is a transfer for a TV show in a time when everyone had speakers the size of an Ipod! So I was actually quite pleased with what came out from these new transfers! Bravo to all involved in this show! And for the people who packaged it with such loving care. They had to know that this wasn't going to sell like "Friends" DVD's, and yet, they gave it the Rolls Royce treatment. Like the show itself, it's more about what you love and what you love to do, not what you make doing it! PS: I did some research before publishing this and discovered that actually this Box Set is selling very well and most reviews over the blogosphere are raves! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2010 by Julius Forte

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