'Tis the season, after all.
Enjoy!
(thank you Crypto for the reviews!)
New Adventures of Robin Hood, The "Orphans"
1996 TV - John Bradley, Martyn Ellis, Richard Ashton
One member of a band of orphans that Robin is leading to a temporary home is not who he seems. A young queen masquerades as a male orphan to ruin her murderous uncle's plans for her demise. A teen boy, running some from jewel thieves, lands in a pit of quicksand and quickly sinks to his shoulders and neck. Friar Tuck tries to pull him out with a stick, but it breaks. He then gives the boy a reed to breath through as he goes under. Eventually, other help arrives. Robin jumps in and grabs the youngster, and Little John pulls them both out.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/newrobinhoodorphansdv.wmv
Operation Condor (aka Feiying gaiwak; Armour of God II; Operation Eagle; Project Eagle)
1990/1997 Hong Kong - Jackie Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Eva Cobo
A professional adventurer is hired to find WWII Nazi gold hidden in the Sahara desert and teams up with three women. However another group of mercenaries have ideas on the ownership of the gold and are willing to kill to get their hands on it. A battle/chase ensues as to who gets there first. The hero and two women are being chased by some desert natives into some ruins. One of the women gets a leg stuck up to her thigh in some dry sand. When the others come to help, they are all fall through the sand into an underground room when the ground collapses under their feet.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/operationcondordv.wmv
Kung Fu "The Stone"
1972 TV - David Carradine
In a rough mining town, Caine becomes involved with a huge uncut diamond, a former Brazilian slave (Moses Gunn), and three boys (Ike Eisenmann) seeking revenge on a man who spurned their mother. The scene starts with the youngest boy and the fighter, who stepped in to save him, already up to their chest in pretty good looking quicksand. While a Russian immigrant (Gregory Sierra) runs to get help, Caine pulls them out with a tree branch.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/kungfudv.wmv
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch "The End of an Era"
1996 TV - Melissa Joan Hart, David Lascher, Nate Richert
Sabrina tries to resolve the feud between Josh and Harvey by feeding them magic friendship bread to quell their macho rivalry for her affections, but she soon tires of their mutual lovefest. So, it's off to the Outer Realm, where the guys compete in an obstacle course to rescue Sabrina from a pit of quicksand and win her heart. She is magically transported into a pit of dry quicksand by the game's referee, without her magic, where you see her calf deep, knee deep, waist deep, then only at shoulder deep do you actually see her sinking. She is not shown being pulled out, but you see her standing next to the pit, lightly covered in residue, then back in her home where she is completely covered in muddy sediment.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/sabrinadv.wmv
Sheena "Sheena" (pilot episode)
2000 TV - Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson, Margo Moorer
Sheena protects a jungle paradise from encroaching civilization. This episode: Sheena and Cutter meet for the first time after he unknowingly transports some ruthless men into Sheena's realm where they must be prevented from blowing up the mountainside as they search for diamonds and gold. After seeing too much and asking too many questions, the baddies plan to eliminate Cutter who escapes into the jungle. As the henchmen give chase, Cutter stumbles into a sandy pit of undulating quicksand surrounded by tall jungle foliage. He sinks rapidly to his shoulders as he gropes around for an edge. The baddies arrive and plan to shoot him when a gorilla attacks and runs them off. Having gone under, Cutter is pulled out by the big ape and is covered in wet, sandy residue.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/sheena1mdv.wmv
Sheena "Stranded in the Jungle"
2000 TV - Gena Lee Nolin, John Allen Nelson, Margo Moorer
Sheena meets someone who might have clues to her past, as a coup threatens the participants in a multi-million dollar survival game. The female contestant stumbling through the brush senses she is being chased by someone unseen and takes off running through the jungle in fear. After running into a large snake dangling from a tree, she leaps into a deep bog of mud with her right leg plunging in first, then sinking her left leg in. She struggles up to her armpits to get out as one of the male contestants shows up and taunts her, seemingly threatening to push her under to eliminate the competition. But as he picks up a large branch, Sheena dives on him from out of nowhere and knocks him down as Cutter shows up and pulls the woman from the muddy dark bog. As the guy explains himself, the woman tries to brush the wet muddy residue off herself.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/sheena1fdv.wmv
As The World Turns
2001 TV soap opera - Maura West, Annie Parisse, Michael Park
Carly is finally convinced by Craig to testify for him again at his trial after she's already been arraigned as an accessory (and he's posted her bail). At their apartment, she runs into Julia... holding a gun. After threatening to kill both Parker and Jack, Carly leaves with Julia. Carly realizes that Julia (with a little help from Owen, of course) was behind the bombing of Barbara. They wind up at a swamp formerly known as Carly's Prize. Julia announces her intentions to bury Carly there in some quicksand, but Carly won't give in without a fight. She charges at Julia, getting grazed with a bullet in the process, and knocks her into the quicksand instead. Julia pleads for her life, and Carly pulls her out and saves her life. Julia appears to be reasonably repentant until Carly brings up the dreaded subject of Jack again, and Julia hurls Carly into the quicksand. Carly begins to sink as Jack and his back-up officers arrive. And as the violins swell, Jack pulls Carly out of the quicksand as the officers restrain Julia.
http://www.mpvstuff.com/clips/atwtdv.wmv
