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Bring 'Em Back Alive Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

17 Episodes 1982 - 1983

Episode 1

Bring 'Em Back Alive

Fri, Sep 24, 198260 mins

Gloria Marlowe, the US Consul in Singapore, hires adventurer and trapper Frank Buck to take her to Koala Highlands, a remote jungle area where a plane carrying a US secret agent in possession of stolen Japanese plans for invading Malaya and Singapore, has crash-landed when it got caught in a storm. The Japanese hire the kingpin of Singapore's underworld, G. B. Vonturgo, to stop them. He sends Buck's enemy, a big game hunter who takes pleasure in killing the animals he hunts, while Buck always brings his big game back alive.

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Episode 2

Seven Keys to Singapore

Tue, Sep 28, 198260 mins

The Japanese kidnap Buck's friend, the Sultan of Johore, who saw their fake archaeological excavation site. Gloria and Buck must figure out what the codename for the Japanese invasion - Seven Keys to Singapore - means and sabotage it.

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Episode 3

There's One Born Every Minute

Tue, Oct 5, 198260 mins

Count Markoff offers 5 thousand dollars for an ebony cat (black panther) delivered by Friday. Frank Buck competes against his old mentor Dingo Larson, with whom he had a falling out. Meanwhile, Gloria is coping with a jewel thief at the Raffles Hotel.

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Episode 4

The Reel World of Frank Buck

Tue, Oct 12, 198260 mins

Filmmaker Flynn wants to make movies starring Frank Buck, who reluctantly agrees to have Flynn accompany him on a trip to the Valley of the Mists. The peaceful tribe that lives there is coping with some unwelcome European visitors.

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Episode 5

The Pied Piper

Tue, Oct 19, 198260 mins

Buck helps a young missionary and her charges escape from Japanese soldiers while trying to reach Gloria to warn her about a spy who has infiltrated an important conference at Raffles.

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Episode 6

The Warlord

Tue, Oct 26, 198260 mins

Ali is tricked by an old acquaintance, and they both end up captured by a warlord who claims to be a descendant of a Japanese samurai.

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Episode 7

Thirty Hours

Tue, Nov 16, 198260 mins

Frank and Gloria's plane goes down in cannibal territory. While they try to get home, they remain unaware that Buck has been infected with cerebral malaria and needs to get treated as soon as possible.

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Episode 8

Wilmer Bass and the Serengeti Kid

Tue, Nov 23, 198260 mins

Down on his luck WIlmer Bass sells his trained lion to Frank Buck. Neither of them realize that the animal's collar is the fabled collar of Katumba that a dangerous cult is searching for.

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Episode 9

Escape from Kampoon

Tue, Nov 30, 198260 mins

A woman approaches Frank and H.H. and tells them that a man they know is in trouble. They agree to help.

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Episode 10

The Best of Enemies

Tue, Dec 7, 198260 mins

After escaping from jail, Bundhi is forced to deliver a priceless necklace for Vonturgo and ends up chained to Frank Buck along the way. Meanwhile Gloria is equally desperate to get the necklace back.

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Episode 11

To Kill a Princess

Sat, Jan 8, 198360 mins

Princess Kati, an old friend of both Buck and H.H., is about to become Sultana. However, some of her staff are plotting against her and various attempts are made on all three of their lives.

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Episode 12

Bones of Contention

Sat, Jan 15, 198360 mins

Frank Buck finds an old journal that may lead to finding the bones "Singapore Man", possibly the missing link. Anthropologist Laura Davies arrives as soon as she can, but there are several other parties after the bones as well.

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Episode 13

A Switch in Time

Sat, Jan 22, 198360 mins

Gloria counts on Frank Buck to guide an important visitor from Washington going by the name of Marsh. Two sets of German spies are after March, one of which has switched his suitcase for one carrying a bomb.

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Episode 14

The Shadow Women of Chung-Tai

Sat, Jan 29, 198360 mins

While on a romantic dinner date, Frank Buck and Stacey Martin are drugged and she is kidnapped to be sold off to a Raja. Frank and H.H. go in pursuit to get her back.

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Episode 15

The Hostage

Sat, Feb 12, 198360 mins

H.H. is captured by the Chinese Triad and held for ransom for one of their own. Buck reluctantly teams up with reporter Dana Miller to safe the life of his friend.

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Episode 16

Dead Run

Sat, Feb 19, 198360 mins

Frank and a female photographer from National Geographic are captured by Banjee tribesmen. To their surprise, an ex-convict called Harry Larkin leads the tribe.

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Episode 17

Storm Warning

Tue, May 31, 198360 mins

Frank Buck is expecting H.H. to throw him a birthday party. But beforehand, he is subjected to several attempts on his life. Things get even more complicated when a storm hits Singapore and Buck's birthday present escapes.

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