Tales of the Gold Monkey to DVD

• Nov 15, 2009

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Brian Sheridan

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Fans of the US TV "Raiders" rip-off starring Stephen Collins is apparently making its way to DVD with a whole bunch of extras.

Read more here:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Tales-Gold-Monkey-DVDs-Planned/12971

 

• Nov 15, 2009

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Leesensei

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Well that is good news. I have many fond memories of that series.

Lee

 

• Nov 15, 2009

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Brian Sheridan

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http://www.goldmonkey.com/

Here is an entire site devoted to the show.

 

• Nov 15, 2009

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The Wolf

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I will probably get it!
I liked the show.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

• Nov 17, 2009

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astrang1

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Thank you . That news has just made my day I loved tha
t show. Al

 

• Nov 18, 2009

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crismans

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About time! I have a bootleg version but I'd love to get an official version that might have some interesting features to it.

I loved this show as a kid and am actually in the process of getting a "lookalike" jacket put together. On a side note, even though most see it as a Raiders rip-off (and rightfully so, considering the timing), Donald Bellisario, the producer, had been trying to shop the series around since the late 70s. Most TV execs didn't think a period adventure show would work. Raiders proved all of them wrong, of course, and the show was greenlit. Bellasario said much of the inspiration for the show actually came from the movie Only Angels Have Wings.

 

• Nov 20, 2009

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kiltie

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Indeed...
How much longer 'til "Bring 'Em Back Alive"?

Looking forward to this enough that I was inspired to get "Only Angels Have Wings" to kinda psych myself up.

 

• Nov 20, 2009

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Lindabelle

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yaay! I've been looking forward to this coming out on dvd. Just hope its as good as I remember.

 

• Nov 20, 2009

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kiltie said:

Indeed...
How much longer 'til "Bring 'Em Back Alive"?

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Oh, I remember both Tales and this! must have been about 1982 or so? They were a big deal - that was back in the days when there only were three channels in the UK, so you really didhave true event TV that everyone (close on) saw.... I'd love to check them out again, especially now I am more a fan of the period. I actually saw these long before Raiders (I think that was Christmas Day's big TV film in 1984....), and even before Temple, which I saw in the cinema in July '84....

 

• Nov 20, 2009

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I enjoyed this show in its time, but it was actually quite silly and low-rent - rather typical of early 80s TV, apart from its Raiders-ripoff 1930s setting. I suspect it will look pretty lame now.

(I was already in my mid-twenties at the time, so I don't quite see it through the haze of kiddie nostalgia that many of you younger folks do.)

And I vastly preferred Tales of the Gold Monkey to Bring 'Em Back Alive, a much more half-baked, weaker show. I expect that one will be close to unwatchable now...