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Tales of the Gold Monkey

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:17 pm
by testao1
Some body know if exist quicksand scene in TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey?
Thanks and advance!

Re: Tales of the Gold Monkey

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:01 pm
by edmudiro
There is no scene that involve humans sinking. However there is an episode that involves the hero and a woman he is helping cross a jungle. In the scene they show a menacing bog and to get around it have to climb over it through the trees. A branch that the woman is climbing on snaps and falls into the quicksand and is sucked from site. She is grabed by the hero and never falles. Sadly this series never used the quicksand scene to its greatest potential.

Re: Tales of the Gold Monkey

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:47 am
by PM2K
However, in Bring them Back Alive, which ran the same year, there is a quicksand scene involving our hero and his sidekick ending up in quicksand. No ladies ever end up in it, alas...

Re: Tales of the Gold Monkey

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:09 pm
by water_bug_62208
Yeah, it would've been really nice if Sarah Stickney White (Caitlin O'Heaney) had gotten stuck in quicksand at least once in, Tales of the Gold Monkey. She certainly was quite sinkable.

PM2K wrote:However, in Bring them Back Alive, which ran the same year, there is a quicksand scene involving our hero and his sidekick ending up in quicksand. No ladies ever end up in it, alas...

Well... seems I recall in the pilot episode of Bring 'Em Back Alive where Gloria Marlowe (Cindy Morgan) had driven her car off the road and into some shallow water (a lake, swamp, river, etc.), and her car began to slowly sink as if into quicksand or deep mud. She had to go to the top of the car's roof because there were alligators and/or crocodiles in the water surrounding the sinking car waiting to get her once she got down to their level. Frank Buck (Bruce Boxleitner) rescued her by swinging from a rope or vine and sweeping her off the car roof. So, based on the way the car was slowly and deliberately sinking into the water, seemed she had driven it into quicksand.

Also, if I recall correctly, there was one scene where Gloria and Frank were out on the river, he came down with malaria, and she tried to save his life. Seemed there was one scene where she was trying to get him ashore and had to wade through some deep, thick looking mud. If I recall this scene correctly, it was a missed opportunity to get her stuck and sinking in the mud. She, too, was quite sinkable.

Anyway, both were outstanding shows. They don't make them like that any more.