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Bring 'Em Back Alive

TV·1982–1983·1 season, 17 episodes·CBS·Action & Adventure·1h·Created by George Schenck, Frank Cardea

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Bring 'Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O'Neal. The series was shown in the United States from September 1982 to May 1983. Set in Singapore, it was one of several shows like Tales of the Gold Monkey to try to capture the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. In reality, Frank Buck was a real big game trapper who was very famous in the 1930s. He wrote a book entitled Bring 'Em Back Alive. He appeared in several movies including a 1932 adaptation of the book and is remembered by serial fans as the star of Jungle Menace. It lasted only 17 episodes before being cancelled because of low ratings, due to being scheduled against ABC's Top 30 hits Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley.

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Episodes by season

Season0117Episodes1982–83AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E01Bring 'Em Back AliveSeptember 24, 1982The new American consul to Singapore asks trapper Frank Buck to search the interior for a missing American agent carrying the Japanese plans
  2. S01E02Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E02Seven Keys to SingaporeSeptember 28, 1982Frank tries to free the kidnapped H.H. without sacrificing the Japanese plans for the invasion of Singapore.
  3. S01E03Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E03There's One Born Every MinuteOctober 5, 1982Frank competes with an old friend and rival to see who can capture a black leopard for an important client, while Gloria tries to recover th
  4. S01E04Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E04The Reel World of Frank BuckOctober 12, 1982Frank answers a cry for help from a tribe living in a hidden inland valley, whose peace has been disturbed by Nazis mining uranium-bearing o
  5. S01E05Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E05The Pied PiperOctober 19, 1982Frank gets involved with a missionary and her young charges when a downed American pilot dies at her mission after passing on information ne
  6. S01E06Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E06The WarlordOctober 26, 1982Frank and Ali agree to guide Run Run Lee, an arms dealer, to the hidden headquarters of a warlord who claims to be a descendant of a Japanes
  7. S01E07Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E07Thirty HoursNovember 16, 1982Ali and H.H. must find Frank and Gloria when their plane crashes in the jungle, a plight made more urgent by Frank's desperate need for medi
  8. S01E08Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E08Wilmer Bass and the Serengeti KidNovember 23, 1982Frank's old friend Wilmer Bass asks him to take care of the Serengeti Kid, an old show lion who's sporting a golden collar sought by the lea
  9. S01E09Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E09Escape From KampoonNovember 30, 1982Frank agrees to help a Nisei intelligence agent on a trip to infiltrate Japanese intelligence and to free a friend trapped in a pseudo priso
  10. S01E10Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E10The Best of EnemiesDecember 7, 1982Frank is chained to Bhundi when the wily thief escapes from prison and is trapped into delivering a priceless necklace to two desperate croo
  11. S01E11Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E11To Kill a PrincessJanuary 8, 1983Frank has to protect an old flame from assassins when she returns from America to claim her father's throne.
  12. S01E12Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E12Bones of ContentionJanuary 15, 1983Frank, H.H., and a pretty archaeologist desired by them both go in search of a skeleton believed to an ancient species of man.
  13. S01E13Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E13A Switch in TimeJanuary 22, 1983Gloria asks Frank to guide an American agent into the interior, unaware at first that the man is General MacArthur and he's seeking the defe
  14. S01E14Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E14The Shadow Women of Chung TaiJanuary 29, 1983An old girlfriend of Frank's is kidnapped by a white slavery ring.
  15. S01E15Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E15The HostageFebruary 12, 1983Frank and H.H. stumble upon a Chinese triad that is planning to assassinate the Governor-General.
  16. S01E16Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E16Dead RunFebruary 19, 1983Frank and a lady photographer are captured by a fierce tribe ruled by an escaped convict, who gives them one chance to outrun the tribe's hu
  17. S01E17Bring 'Em Back Alive S01E17Storm WarningMay 31, 1983Frank travels with a shipload of suspects when a series of nearly fatal accidents begin to plague him.

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