Amazon (1999)
Amazon
1999Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in first-run syndication between 1999 and 2000. The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. The group soon comes into contact with a Native American tribe, and relations are anything but friendly. The group is taken in by a mysterious tribe, who descended from 16th century British colonists who were lost in Amazon. Relations with the Chosen are tenuous at best. Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets nest with a tribe of cannibals, led by an insane American woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. The first season ended in a cliff-hanger, and a second season was never produced. The series retained sufficient interest that it was released on DVD in 2011. A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper on 8 Aug 2000. The German title was Amazonas - Gefangene des Dschungels.
Seasons & Episode
Going back to salvage items from the wreck, the survivors encounter a wild jungle man and then find they must hide from natives who are apparently trying to kill them.
The English-speaking jungle man brings the exhausted survivors back to his home, the village of the Chosen.
The elders find Jimmy guilty in the death of a local fisherman, and throw him and his companions into a deadly pit.
When all the villagers mysteriously disappear overnight, Karen and Talbott find them awaiting a sign from their deity about the Promised One.
The Chosen go to war for Will where they fight with the savages. In the end both decide to fight one on one. The chief of the savages fights with Taylor using a scorpion bag and stones. Taylor wins and Will returns to the Chosen though he is reluctant at first.
As the Chosen Warriors return with Will, the Elders need to cope with a death in their ranks.
As disease attacks the Spider people, Falconer John reluctantly leads Dr. Kennedy to their aid.
As the villagers have a communal wedding ceremony, Hekka plans an escape with the survivors.
After the survivors' escape, Elder Cole has a fit and collapses into a coma.
As the wild child discovered by Pia brings chaos to the village, Dr. Kennedy finds the airplane that could take them out of the jungle.
Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in first-run syndication between 1999 and 2000. The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. The group soon comes into contact with a Native American tribe, and relations are anything but friendly. The group is taken in by a mysterious tribe, who descended from 16th century British colonists who were lost in Amazon. Relations with the Chosen are tenuous at best. Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets nest with a tribe of cannibals, led by an insane American woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. The first season ended in a cliff-hanger, and a second season was never produced. The series retained sufficient interest that it was released on DVD in 2011. A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper on 8 Aug 2000. The German title was Amazonas - Gefangene des Dschungels.