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Relic Hunter

TV·1999–2002·3 seasons, 66 episodes·Syndication·Action, Adventure, Fantasy·1h·7.3·Created by Gil Grant

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Tia Carrere stars as a university professor and black belt who globetrots after lost, stolen and rumored-of artifacts and antiquities.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Relic Hunter S01E22Memories of MontmartreS01E22 · 8.7Sydney and Nigel head to Paris to find a stolen locket so they can clear Sydney's dead grandmother of charges.
  2. 02Relic Hunter S01E02Smoking GunS01E02 · 8.3Sydney and Nigel are in Chicago to find Al Capone's gun.
  3. 03Relic Hunter S01E03The Headless NunS01E03 · 8.3When Sydney's plane crashes, she's asked by a groups of nuns to find the head of another nun, who was decapitated several centuries ago.

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Episodes by season

Season01Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes1999–00Aired 8.2Season avg
  1. S01E01Relic Hunter S01E01Buddha's BowlSeptember 25, 1999 7.0Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddha's fabled overflowing alms bowl for villagers who are building a shrine to the original Budd
  2. S01E02Relic Hunter S01E02Smoking GunOctober 2, 1999 8.3Sydney and Nigel are in Chicago to find Al Capone's gun.
  3. S01E03Relic Hunter S01E03The Headless NunOctober 9, 1999 8.3When Sydney's plane crashes, she's asked by a groups of nuns to find the head of another nun, who was decapitated several centuries ago.
  4. S01E04Relic Hunter S01E04Flag DayOctober 16, 1999 8.3Sydney and Nigel head to Larivee, California to find the Pioneer's Bear Flag.
  5. S01E05Relic Hunter S01E05Thank You Very MuchOctober 23, 1999 8.3Sydney and Nigel go to Germany to find a lost Elvis Presley guitar.
  6. S01E06Relic Hunter S01E06Diamond in the RoughOctober 30, 1999 8.3Sydney, Nigel and rival relic hunter Kurt Reiner attempt to find the lost baseball glove of Jimmy Jonesboro.
  7. S01E07Relic Hunter S01E07TransformationNovember 6, 1999 8.3Sydney, Nigel and Derek Lloyd go to the Peruvian jungle to look for the Paracelsus scrolls, which contain the formula for turning lead into
  8. S01E08Relic Hunter S01E08Etched in StoneNovember 13, 1999 8.3Sydney, Nigel and Stewie Harper head to Stockholm, Sweden to find the Runestone of King Jann the First of Norway
  9. S01E09Relic Hunter S01E09The Book of LoveNovember 20, 1999 8.3Sydney and Nigel are in Milan, Italy to search for Casanova's lost Book of Love
  10. S01E10Relic Hunter S01E10The Myth of the MazeNovember 27, 1999 8.3Sydney, Nigel and Claudia visit Athens, Greece to search the minotaur's maze for the legendary golden twine.
  11. S01E11Relic Hunter S01E11Irish Crown AffairFebruary 5, 2000 8.3Sydney and Nigel head to Dublin, Ireland in search of the the missing crown of the last King of Ireland.
  12. S01E12Relic Hunter S01E12The Emperor's BrideFebruary 12, 2000 8.3Sydney and Nigel are in Moose Bay, Alaska looking for the white jade sarcophagus of a Chinese Empress.
  13. S01E13Relic Hunter S01E13Afterlife and DeathFebruary 19, 2000 8.3Sydney and Nigel must beat rival relic hunter Avery Ko to the Pharaoh Thutmose's diamond before it is cut up and sold.
  14. S01E14Relic Hunter S01E14Nine LivesFebruary 26, 2000 8.3There are tales about a curse—everyone who steals a statue of the Egyptian cat-goddess Mafdet is killed by the goddess. Now, the statue has
  15. S01E15Relic Hunter S01E15Affaire de CoeurMarch 4, 2000 8.3Sydney and Nigel go to Scotland to find the second ring of the pair of Twining Rings of Calum and Elena
  16. S01E16Relic Hunter S01E16A Vanishing ArtMarch 11, 2000 8.3Sydney and Nigel journey to Atlantic City, New Jersey, searching for Hungary's lost, allegedly cursed Royal Sceptre,
  17. S01E17Relic Hunter S01E17A Good YearApril 22, 2000 8.0Sydney and Nigel travel to France to find the lost stones from Marie Antoinette's Crown.
  18. S01E18Relic Hunter S01E18The Last KnightApril 29, 2000 8.0Sydney and Nigel go to Paris, France after the Sword of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
  19. S01E19Relic Hunter S01E19Love LetterMay 6, 2000 8.0Sydney and Nigel go to France to look for the lost wedding vows of Josephine Pontoise and Guy de Bourdin, which would prove their heir is th
  20. S01E20Relic Hunter S01E20PossessedMay 13, 2000 8.0Sydney and Nigel are in Brussels in search of the sacred sundial of Zeus to stop the Vampires
  21. S01E21Relic Hunter S01E21Nothing But the TruthMay 20, 2000 8.0Sydney and Nigel are reunited with Stewie Harper in the search for the Chalice of Truth in France
  22. S01E22Relic Hunter S01E22Season's bestMemories of MontmartreMay 27, 2000 8.7Sydney and Nigel head to Paris to find a stolen locket so they can clear Sydney's dead grandmother of charges.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes2000–01Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S02E01Relic Hunter S02E01Season's bestThe Put BackSeptember 23, 2000 8.0Kuba, Africa AD 100: Worshippers of Woote curse his idol to protect it. 2000: Ross Crawford comes to Sydney, because he took the idol and th
  2. S02E02Relic Hunter S02E02Dagger of DeathSeptember 30, 2000 8.0India, AD 500: A precious dagger is used in human sacrifices to goddess Kali. 2000: Dr. Terrace is in a maximum security prison for killing
  3. S02E03Relic Hunter S02E03Last of the MochicasOctober 7, 2000 8.0On a search for a South American Mochica Indian relic of protection, Nigel and his colleagues get captured by local guerrillas, and it's up
  4. S02E04Relic Hunter S02E04The Legend of the LostOctober 14, 2000 8.0Sydney and Nigel set out to find if the legend of the lost civilization in Africa is actually true.
  5. S02E05Relic Hunter S02E05Fertile GroundOctober 21, 2000 8.0Sydney reunites with her high school sweetheart to track down a Hawaiian fertility idol in Madagascar.
  6. S02E06Relic Hunter S02E06Gypsy JigsawOctober 28, 2000 8.0Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king orders the crown to be hidden. 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare Tarot cards a dead friend.
  7. S02E07Relic Hunter S02E07Three Rivers to CrossNovember 4, 2000 8.0The famed Jade Empress is hidden in a valley that will be flooded when the Three Rivers Dam's flood gates are opened. Sydney's dad asks her
  8. S02E08Relic Hunter S02E08Roman HolidayNovember 11, 2000 8.0Rome, 44 BC: An alchemist creates an impenetrable armor for Caesar. 2000: Sydney and Nigel are on a trip, so Claudia decides to help Sydney'
  9. S02E09Cross of VoodooNovember 18, 2000 8.0When two graduate students on the trail of the Haitian Cross of Utu disappear in New Orleans, Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou to find
  10. S02E10Lost ContactNovember 25, 2000 8.0Sydney, Nigel and billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle to rescue a relic-hunting team hired by Thorson to
  11. S02E11The Real ThingJanuary 13, 2001 8.0Egypt, 1516 BC: Amun II is buried with his crook and flail. London, 2001: Working as consultants for an archeology adventure film, Sydney an
  12. S02E12M.I.A.January 20, 2001 8.0Sydney gets kidnapped; Nigel, Claudia and Cate have to go through the list of enemies Sydney has made in the past and deduce which of them i
  13. S02E13Out of the PastFebruary 3, 2001 8.0Claudia realizes that she was Cleopatra's servant in a past life when she experiences a déjà vu while seeing a catalog about an Ancient Egyp
  14. S02E14Eyes of ToklamaneeFebruary 10, 2001 8.0Mississippi Valley, 1605: Indians lock French explorers into a chamber in which they get disintegrated. 2001: Sydney and her student Adam se
  15. S02E15Run Sydney RunFebruary 17, 2001 8.0Sydney and Nigel are ambushed in Russia. Two weeks later, Sydney wakes up in the house of a man called Tsarlov, who claims to have saved her
  16. S02E16French ConnectionFebruary 24, 2001 8.0While on a lecture tour with Nigel in Europe, Sydney is contacted by MI-5 because she is the only one who can prevent an impending high-leve
  17. S02E17Don't Go Into the WoodsApril 16, 2001 8.0A friend of Sydney phones to inform her that he's discovered information on the Golden Hawk of Maribor, lost since 1711.
  18. S02E18Midnight FlightApril 23, 2001 8.0Germania, ca. AD 400: an artifact called Gunther's Scepter is sealed in a vault. Kleine Burgh, 2001: Sydney and Nigel are hired to find the
  19. S02E19The Executioner's MaskApril 30, 2001 8.0A model's face is disfigured when she puts on the mask of a French executioner. The only ways to get her beautiful face back are if someone
  20. S02E20The Royal RingMay 7, 2001 8.0When the British Museum gets Sidney and Nigel to help search at Tudor sites for a ring of king Henry VIII, Nigel is confronted with his self
  21. S02E21Set in StoneMay 14, 2001 8.0Hungary, 1595: In a monastery, Knight Gabriel impales a demon, which then turns to stone. 2001: Nigel and Sydney arrive bearing a letter fro
  22. S02E22DeadlineMay 21, 2001 8.0Jerusalem 1099: crusaders find the Tau cross, but it evaporates the one touching it. Paris 2001: Allan comes to Sydney, sating he has 12 hou

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode22Episodes2001–02Aired 7.9Season avg
  1. S03E01Season's bestWages of SydneySeptember 17, 2001 8.0Quan Shu, Manchuria 1359 BC: The Chinese invent an explosive gift egg. New York, 2001: A rival beats Sydney and Nigel to a map leading to th
  2. S03E02Mr. RightSeptember 24, 2001 8.0Bali, 1459: A princess gets to look into Parvati's Bowl. Singapore, 2001: Sydeney runs into her ex and goes on a holiday with him; but when
  3. S03E03Sydney at TenOctober 1, 2001 8.0St. Beatrice's School for Girls, 1981: Sydney sees her teacher shot by a scar-faced man over an Egyptian pendant. 2001: Her roommate from sc
  4. S03E04The Light of TruthOctober 8, 2001 8.0Arabia AD 843: A sheikh uses the Light of Truth to reveal his general as a traitor. 2001: Prince Shareem drops out of Sydney's class to sear
  5. S03E05Treasure IslandOctober 15, 2001 8.0Sydney's on the hunt for a pirate's booty…but will a traitor force her to walk the plank?
  6. S03E06Star of NadirOctober 22, 2001 8.0An sultan's wife dies under mysterious circumstances. Sydney believes she was searching for the Star of Nadir.
  7. S03E07Vampire's KissOctober 29, 2001 7.5Czechoslovakia, 1720: A Satan-worshiper escapes from his hunters. Trinity College, 2001: Lucas Blackmer, a professor and novelist, asks Sydn
  8. S03E08Devil DollNovember 5, 2001 8.0Central America, AD 1488: the Aztecs hide a mysterious box. 2001: A guide leads Sydney and Nigel to an unusual, underground Aztec burial cha
  9. S03E09IncognitoNovember 12, 2001 8.0New Guinea, 1522: A lancet bestows strength with its cut. 2001: Retrieving the lancet, Sydney and Nigel run into Nigel's look-alike just bef
  10. S03E10All Choked UpNovember 19, 2001 8.0Greece, 800 BC: King Minalysius gives a necklace to Princess Nabina, enslaving her to his will. 2001: Carson Inez, a collector, uses the nec
  11. S03E11Warlock of Nu Theta PhiJanuary 14, 2002 8.0New England Colonies, 1692: Witches consecrate an amulet before they are burned. 2002: Sydney's student's roommate finds the amulet.
  12. S03E12Women Want to KnowJanuary 21, 2002 8.0Southeast Asia 1075: An idol of Ganesha is prayed to. 2002: Sydney finds the temple with the idol, but is trapped inside by local rebels.
  13. S03E13Fire in the SkyJanuary 28, 2002 8.0Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney lectures about the natives, who faced a mysteri
  14. S03E14Hunting with the EnemyFebruary 4, 2002 8.0An urn commissioned in a Cambodian monastery by the Chinese emperor for the remains of Confucius is about to be destroyed by systematic bomb
  15. S03E15AntianeiralFebruary 11, 2002 8.0Sydney and Nigel travel to Istanbul to investigate the death of one Sydney's friends, a professor who was trying to prove Hercules did exist
  16. S03E16Under the IceFebruary 18, 2002 8.0Sidney drags Nigel along to an Arctic base where an ancient mummy has been found.
  17. S03E17Arthur's CrossApril 15, 2002 8.0Scotland Yard calls Sidney and Nigel to identify a Fifth Century murder weapon, which turns out to be the burial cross of King Arthur.
  18. S03E18Faux FoxApril 22, 2002 8.0Professor Lamenza invites Sydney and Nigel to follow the trail of the Spanish crown hidden from Napoleon's army by Carlos IV.
  19. S03E19Pandora's BoxApril 29, 2002 8.0Sidney inherits a key from the best relic hunter of the previous generation and hunts for the one treasure he never found—Pandora's box.
  20. S03E20The WarlordMay 6, 2002 8.0Bekkastan, 1401 AD: warrior princess Kahina proves her right to rule. 2002: Sydney and Nigel unearth a cave painting that might lead them to
  21. S03E21Fountain of YouthMay 13, 2002 8.0While Nigel is in Spain, Sydney and Nigel's brother Preston go to England to search for a bottle of water from the Fountain of Youth.
  22. S03E22So Shall It BeMay 20, 2002 6.5An author on the Celts approaches Sydney and Nigel to follow up on a tip about a map to the astronomicons—the Druids' keys to Stonehenge, lo

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