Tales of the Gold Monkey
Tales of the Gold Monkey was an American adventure drama television series[1][2][3] broadcast in prime time on Wednesday nights by ABC from September 22, 1982, until June 1, 1983.[4][5][6] Debuting the year following the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark,[3] the series featured early aviation, indigenous locals, and cliff-hanging action."Bon Chance" Louie (played by Ron Moody in the pilot, Roddy McDowall in the series) is the owner of the Monkey Bar and the French magistrate for Bora Gora.However, unknown to the characters (and revealed to viewers only just before the end credits), the island where the statue was found does contain a massive structure apparently made of solid gold that does resemble a monkey.The most notable is of the character Gandy Dancer (played by William Lucking), an ace pilot treasure hunter who appears in the episodes "Legends Are Forever" and – in flashback form – in "Honor Thy Brother".The third-season episode "Two Birds of a Feather" of Bellisario's hit Magnum, P.I., has Lucking playing the very similar character of Sam Houston Hunter, also an ace pilot.[13] A fictional recursion occurs in "The Sultan of Swat" in which – while waiting for the Boeing 314 Pan Am Clipper – Jake is reading a book with a dustcover titled Murder on the Footbridge, which is apparently a key plot reference from the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock movie Suspicion.