The WORST episodes of Tales of the Gold Monkey

#1 - Tales of the Gold Monkey (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1982

#2 - Cooked Goose

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1983

A Clipper pilot is beaten and his bride apparently kidnapped by Princess Kogi and held for ransom.

#3 - High Stakes Lady

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1983

Jake acts as a bodyguard to a lady gambler during a high stakes poker game.

#4 - God Save the Queen

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1983

Jake helps foil an attempt to hijack an ocean liner carrying the Duke of Windsor.

#5 - Black Pearl

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1982

Jake, posing as a defecting U.S. scientist, and Sarah search for an experimental German bomb and a famed black pearl.

#6 - Force of Habit

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1983

An old friend of Jake's turns up on Tagataya looking for help with a mission of mercy.

#7 - Tales of the Gold Monkey (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1982

#8 - Boragora or Bust

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/1983

Jake's prospector buddy stands to lose his platinum strike to an unscrupulous businessman from the States.

#9 - The Sultan of Swat

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1983

Jake tries to help a former baseball hero who is accused of murdering a local girl on Boragora.

#10 - Ape Boy

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1983

Jake and Sarah help an abandoned boy found living among the apes on an isolated island.

#11 - Legends Are Forever

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1982

A former Flying Tiger asks Jake's help in finding the fabled lost treasure of King Solomon.

#12 - Last Chance Louie

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/1983

Louie is sentenced to the guillotine for murder, and his only defense is an old story he doesn't want to get out.

#13 - Once a Tiger...

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1982

Jake leads the search for a downed plane flown by a former Flying Tiger transporting a prototype gunsight of interest to the Japanese.

#14 - Mourning Becomes Matuka

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/1/1983

Princess Kogi hires Jake as a bodyguard after an attempt on her life during a birthday celebration.

#15 - Naka Jima Kill

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1983

An ambitious newswoman tricks Jake into flying her to Princess Kogi's island for an interview with the Japanese defense minister, a recent target for assassination.

#16 - Honor Thy Brother

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1982

Jake is followed by the brother of a Japanese pilot he shot down while he was still a Flying Tiger in China, and Corky struggles to avoid a prearranged marriage.

#17 - Escape from Death Island

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1982

Jake and Corky are imprisoned on an island penal colony when they try to free the son of an Englishman.

#18 - Trunk from the Past

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1982

Sarah receives a mysterious trunk from her late father and it leads her to a lost civilization.

#19 - A Distant Shout of Thunder

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/8/1983

Sarah is used as a scapegoat by an island revolutionary who accuses her of removing a sacred statue from a cemetery on the island.

#20 - The Late Sarah White

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/22/1982

Jake and Corky fly to the Philippines to explore the reports of Sarah's death while on a mission involving MacArthur.

#21 - The Lady and the Tiger

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1982

Jake is shot down and rescued by an Amish widow and her son, who hide him from the Japanese occupying their island.

#22 - Shanghaied

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1982

Corky is kidnapped by Princess Kogi's half brother to repair the engines of his slave ship.