Jeff MacKay took the role of Corky and the producers of Magnum P.I. killed off his character, Mac. When this series was canceled after one season, the producers of Magnum P.I. brought him back as a different character.
Faye Grant married actor Stephen Collins in April 1985 in New York City. They have a daughter, Kate (born in 1989). Grant met Collins during production of Episode 17: "Last Chance Louie" on Tales of the Gold Monkey.
This series (and the preceding TV movie of the same name) was inspired by the "Brass Monkey" drink mix from Heublein that was introduced in the 1970s. The marketing campaign had an exotic WWII Asian film noir theme, referring to a fictional bar in Singapore that was the denizen of spies, smugglers and riffraff. By taking a coaster bearing the bar's name and circling the letters to spell the name H.E. Rasske (the fictional local contact for allied spies) this would provide the means of making contact. The campaign reeled out a series of teaser tales about the fictional spy over a period of years.
While the product ended production in the 1990's, the name lived on, as a number of bars across the U.S. adopted the Brass Monkey name and mysterious décor.
While the product ended production in the 1990's, the name lived on, as a number of bars across the U.S. adopted the Brass Monkey name and mysterious décor.
The Grumman Goose featured through the series, registration N327 C/N 1051, was leased from Robert L Hall, owner of Kodiak Western Alaska Airlines Inc, in Kodiak, Alaska, who kept the plane after his airline went out of business. Hall was the on-set pilot for some scenes. The show had initially intended to lease a different Grumman Goose, N2845D C/N B-112, also owned by Hall, but while delivering the first plane for filming it developed fuel problems and was ditched in the ocean and lost. After appearing in Tales of the Gold Monkey, the aircraft passed through several private owners before it was destroyed during a crash landing on February 15, 2005, in Penn Yan, New York.
Roddy McDowall took over the part of saloonkeeper Bon Chance Louis from Ron Moody, who played the role in the TV movie, Tales of the Gold Monkey: Part 1 (1982).