Re: Tales Of The Gold Monkey
Agree with most of the assessments so far. A good show, just don't take it too seriously (it didn't). Had that 80's Action-comedy, Stephen Cannel (sp?) feel to it. You know, Hardcastle and McCormack, Riptide, Simon & Simon, Magnum P.I.esque. For good or bad, it almost collapsed under the weight of its pulp-era stereotypes. The reluctant hero(who was supposed to be an ex-Flyning Tigers pilot), the almost-human pet, the fish-out-of-water love interest, the kind-hearted mechanic that played the hero's conscience, the local bar owner who was an unashamadely direct ripoff of Claude Raines Capt. Renault from Casablanca, the dragon lady antagonist. It would make a very good tongue-in-cheek pulp game source.