And Knock-off TV Shows

Posted by Arkansas Wahrmund from 129.252.90.3 on March 03, 1999 at 07:17:46:

In Reply to: Knock-off Indy Movies posted by woods01 on March 02, 1999 at 23:48:55:

: So do you guys have a favorite or hated Indiana Jones knock off?
: Those Richard Chamberlin movies King Solomons Mines and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold are probably the biggest knock offs. I remember seeing the trailer for King Solomons Mines and I thought it was a new Indy movie! Hey I was only 9 at the time. Personally I like KSM, not as good as any Indy movie but a good substitute. I kinda wish it hadn't been made because I think it would have been a good legend for a 4th Indy movie. The sequel Lost City of Gold is pretty crappy though. Big Trouble in Little China is a bit of a Indy knock off too with its mix of action and magic. While not a Indy knock off since it came out before Raiders, the Micheal Cain-Sean Connery movie the Man Who Would Be King seems like a "realistic" Indiana Jones movie to me and it is also quite an excellent film which I heavily reccomend to anyone looking for a good adventure film.

Don't forget the Indy knock-off TV shows like "Tales of the Gold Monkey" and "Bring 'Em Back Alive." I remember watching "Gold Monkey" when I was a kid and liking it very much. It was very Indy, especially in the first episode which actually featured the search for, you guessed it, the Gold Monkey. The main character (played by the dad on "7th Heaven" whose name escapes me at the moment... Stephen Crane?) was a pilot on some Pacific Island and was very much the Indy soldier-of-fortune type. "Bring 'Em" starred Bruce Boxleitner (from Babylon 5) and was about the real-life wild animal tamer (I think) Frank Buck. Not really very Indy-like, but the show traded on the same kind of adventure feel and came out in the wake of "Raiders." I never watched "Bring 'Em," though. Come to think of it, a lot of people must have never watched it, or "Gold Monkey," since I think they were both gone after a single season. It's hard to offer real Indy-quality adventure in an hour-long TV show. Any nominations for shows that have pulled it off successfully (excluding YIJC)?

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: : So do you guys have a favorite or hated Indiana Jones knock off?
: : Those Richard Chamberlin movies King Solomons Mines and Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold are probably the biggest knock offs. I remember seeing the trailer for King Solomons Mines and I thought it was a new Indy movie! Hey I was only 9 at the time. Personally I like KSM, not as good as any Indy movie but a good substitute. I kinda wish it hadn't been made because I think it would have been a good legend for a 4th Indy movie. The sequel Lost City of Gold is pretty crappy though. Big Trouble in Little China is a bit of a Indy knock off too with its mix of action and magic. While not a Indy knock off since it came out before Raiders, the Micheal Cain-Sean Connery movie the Man Who Would Be King seems like a "realistic" Indiana Jones movie to me and it is also quite an excellent film which I heavily reccomend to anyone looking for a good adventure film.

: Don't forget the Indy knock-off TV shows like "Tales of the Gold Monkey" and "Bring 'Em Back Alive." I remember watching "Gold Monkey" when I was a kid and liking it very much. It was very Indy, especially in the first episode which actually featured the search for, you guessed it, the Gold Monkey. The main character (played by the dad on "7th Heaven" whose name escapes me at the moment... Stephen Crane?) was a pilot on some Pacific Island and was very much the Indy soldier-of-fortune type. "Bring 'Em" starred Bruce Boxleitner (from Babylon 5) and was about the real-life wild animal tamer (I think) Frank Buck. Not really very Indy-like, but the show traded on the same kind of adventure feel and came out in the wake of "Raiders." I never watched "Bring 'Em," though. Come to think of it, a lot of people must have never watched it, or "Gold Monkey," since I think they were both gone after a single season. It's hard to offer real Indy-quality adventure in an hour-long TV show. Any nominations for shows that have pulled it off successfully (excluding YIJC)?

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