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I remember watching this show as a 10 year old. It was my favorite show. I was crushed when it got cancelled after only 1 season. I couldn't believe such a great show got cancelled while lousy Knight Rider ran on. How could a kid not like the adventure, the exotic locales, the Cutter's Goose? I looked for the show a few years ago online and couldn't find anything. I recently found a site doing a Google search. I purchase the DVD collection for old time sake, trying to relive the past. I figured it would never live up to my childhood memories.

So far I've gone through about 8 episodes and wow!!! I find myself enjoying it as much as ever. Who would have thought that after more than 20 years.

The casting as top notch, not like today where a pretty face is all that is required. Jake, Corky, Sara, Louie, Princess Koji, Jack and the Reverend were perfect. The chemistry between them is flawless. You can't help but like all the characters. The story lines are very 80's, simplistic but very enjoyable. The show has a subtle sense of humor I probably didn't appreciate as a youngster.

Give me a beaten old seaplane over Kitt any day of the week.

Drinks at the Monkey Bar are on me :)

"Tales of the Gold Monkey" was a fun romp of a show. Rather than being a rip-off of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," it was a show inspired by classic movies, such as "Only Angels Have Wings," with a great cast including Stephen Collins, Caitlin O'Heaney, Jeff MacKay, and the late Roddy McDowell. Running only one season, the show never made it into syndication, although the USA Network ran it in the late 80's.

I remember seeing this show as a kid, and loved it. My parents were into the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies, and this was just an extension of those 1930's serials.

And when, less than 10 years later, Talespin aired, it brought the memories flooding right back for this show.

Comparisons:

Jake had the Cutter's Goose, a sea plane.

Baloo flew the Sea Duck, also a twin-engine sea plane,

The bar where Jake used to frequent was called Louie's; so was the bar where Baloo frequented.

Wildcat was Baloo's absent-minded mechanic; Corky was Jake's absent-minded mechanic (albeit, Corky suffered from too much drinking, while Wildcat was just absent-minded and something of an idiot savant when it came to repairing things).

Tales of the Gold Monkey was just 10 years too early. It was a great show, a great premise - constantly going on treasure hunts, getting in and out of scrapes with the Japanese and Nazis that were starting to come to power, and of course, the American and German spies going back and forth.

Sure, some of the scenes were re-hashed over and over (scenes of the Goose taking off and landing, or of the Goose flying somewhere over land), but that's to be expected to cut costs. Flying an old air boat like that probably wasn't cheap, and they wanted to keep production costs down...I miss this show. Maybe it's time for a resurrection, as long as it doesn't leave a bad "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" taste in our mouths.

A great programme that I remember watching in the early 80's on British TV. It was shown in England in about 1982 (I was 12, my brother 16). We both loved it, but it was only on for one series and then vanished into thin air. I would love to see this again!

Reminiscent of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", but with a classier, darker feel to the stories. The characters were less one dimensional, but still appealed to the kid in me. I always loved the flying "boat plane"!

Yep I saw it when I was living abroad but never when I was in the United States strangely enough.

I was in my late teens I loved it, so did my family. I would love to see it again but for all the internet searches I have done over the years this is the first time I have ever got a reply to a search for it.

I would like to find out who has the tapes and see if they are going to release them on DVD. It is set in a very nostalgic era and I think it would go down well today even though it was a TV series.

If you find anywhere broadcasting it please let me know.