Sheena: Queen of the Jungle Season 1, Episode 14: The Lash

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Crash in the Jungle

Sheena rescues bush pilot Andy Howard, when his plane crashes in the jungle. Andy was delivering film containing rare footage of a secretive native tribe that had been lensed by Clare Graham, a documentary film maker. Andy is convinced that his plane was sabotaged but Bob Rayburn, investigating on behest of Graham's insurance company, can't find any evidence to back up Howard's assertions. Bob explains the situation to Sheena who realizes that the alleged film never existed because the tribe would never have permitted their images to be captured on film. The jungle queen sets out to prove Clare's deception and capture the thugs she hired to wreck Andy's plane. Source: imdb.com - David Bassler

30 min

2

Cry Wolf

Roani, an imaginative child who idolizes Sheena discovers that Bob's client, Gonzales, plans to murder a priest at Roani's mission school. Unfortunately, the girl has told so many lies that, like the proverbial boy who cried 'wolf', no one will believe her. Source: imdb.com

30 min

3

Curse of the Voodoo

Bob regrets agreeing to guide a headstrong photographer in the Kenyan bush because the man refuses to accept his instructions. When Bob refuses to take man to a tribe of murderous voodoo worshipers, the photographer takes off on his own, putting himself as well as Bob and Sheena in deadly peril. Source: imdb.com

30 min

4

Devil's Mountain

A native tribe is forced to dig for rubies in a dangerous mine when thieves steal their sacred religious relic. The tribesman believe that calamity will befall them if they don't follow the possessor of the relic's every command. Source: imdb.com

30 min

5

The Elephant God

When an orphan learns that a married couple died in a jungle plane crash, she becomes convinced that these people were her parents. Bob Rayburn agrees to lead the woman and a man she believes to be her uncle on a search for the wrecked fuselage, but the Masai tribe believe that the safari's purpose is to kill a sacred elephant and attack the small group. Source: imdb.com

30 min

6

Eyes of the Idol

Sheena and Bob investigate wild reports of a mobile idol with huge eyes that are terrorizing the countryside. Source: imdb.com

30 min

7

Fair Stranger

The sister-in-law of Colonel Deveridge, Diane Russell, plots to take over his prosperous plantation by killing his son and heir, David. She abandons him in the jungle, but Sheena rescues him for a man-eating lion in a nick of time. Falling back to Plan B, Diane incites the local tribesmen to kill the Deveridges and only Sheena and Bob stand between the angry warriors and the Deveridge family. Source: imdb.com - David Bassler

30 min

8

Forbidden Cargo

Sheena and Bob race to stop a gang of gunrunners supplying rifles to a violent tribe and simultaneously locate the source of typhoid which threatens to engulf the entire Massai region of Kenya. Source: imdb.com

30 min

9

Forbidden Land

A couple go into the jungle with the women's father in law, with Sheena and Bob as guides, to make movies. The woman was married to the father-in-law's son who is now deceased. When trouble happens, it's up to Sheena and Bob to solve the mystery and see that only the guilty party is punished. Source: imdb.com

30 min

10

The Ganyika Kid

Bob is guiding a bombastic fight promoter, Rowdy Regan, to the village of the Ganyikas because he is looking for a new prize fighter to replace his previous champion, Tomanda, who was once a Ganyika chief. Source: imdb.com

30 min

11

Hot Treasure

Sheena is asked to help find the murderer of an inoffensive native villager whose death seems to make no sense. Meanwhile, Bob Rayburn is robbed and captured while guarding a shipment of radium. Sheena's investigation discloses a link to the two crimes and sets about to recover the radium and bring the criminals to justice. Source: imdb.com - David Bassler

30 min

12

Jungle Manhunt

Sheena tracks down a defiant teen-aged girl who flees into the jungle after her outlaw father is slain during a bungled robbery. Having taken the youth under her wing, Sheena must protect her when her thuggish uncle escapes from prison in order to find her niece and return her in the family business. Source: imdb.com - David Bassler

30 min

13

Land of the Rogues

Bob and Sheena try to help the chief of the Kikuyu tribe who has found his village burned and the women and children taken by Mau Mau warriors. Also missing are his own wife and son, and he insists on following the raiding party alone. He is captured by the Mau Mau and forced to become a spy for them or they will kill his family.

30 min

14

The Lash

Bull Kendall, a former circus strongman, is determined to possess a valuable cargo of musk oil. He's willing to whip or even kill to get his way. Source: imdb.com

30 min

15

The Leopard Men

A band of native miners become frightened when one of their number is murdered by what appears to be the work of a giant leopard... or a Leopard Man. When a Swiss miner spots Sheena near the murder victim, he believes that the leopard-skin clad heroine is a member of the cult and tries to kill her. Source: imdb.com - David Bassler

30 min

16

The Magic Bag

Sheena convinces Bob to take a native youth on his photography trip deep into the African bush. Along the way, Bob rescues a doctor who seeks the boy's native tribe to learn the secret of their native medicine. One night, the boy runs away and when the safari members are captured by the tribe, they are threatened with death for killing the youth. Source: imdb.com

30 min

17

The Mark of the Giant

Sheena tries to help a man and his sister who have hired a shady big-game hunter to lead them on a safari, despite the older man's head injury which is causing him to go slowly blind. Source: imdb.com

30 min

18

Perilous Journey

When a native chief returns to his village and finds it destroyed and his family abducted, against the advice of Bob and Sheena, he attempts to rescue his wife and son and avenge himself on the perpetrators. Captured by his enemies, he is forced to spy on their behalf or his family will be executed - unless Sheena can free the chief's loved ones. Source: imdb.com - David Bassler

30 min

19

The Renegades

Some men steal uncut stones from a diamond mine. Their escape involves working with the Kikari, a group of "renegades" and outcasts from several different tribes. Source: imdb.com

30 min

20

The Rival Queen

Roani, an imaginative little native girl with a reputation for concocting stories, skips school to be with Sheena, her idol. She pretend to be a lost orphan but Sheena learns the truth she asks Bob and his client, Gonzales, to take her back to the mission. There the girl learns that Gonzales plans to murder a kindly priest but no one believes her because she tells so many stories. She helps Sheena foil the plan and save the priest's life.

30 min

21

Sacred River

When the plane of Andy Howard, the local bush pilot, crashes in the jungle Sheena rescues him and takes him to her hut. Bob, who has been waiting for Andy in Mombassa, makes friends with Clare Graham, a flirtatious film maker who is also waiting for Andy because he was delivering her film containing rare and valuable footage of the Naivashi tribe. Woods, the local insurance broker, asks Bob to investigate the crash site for him and to write a report. Andy is certain the plane was sabotaged and when Bob conveys this to Clare she laughs it off (right). The film has been completely destroyed but Bob is unable to find any bomb fragments at the crash site. Duval and Frenchie, Clare's associates, find and remove the incriminating evidence because Duval is the main beneficiary of the $100,000 insurance money. When Bob and Andy explain this situation to Sheena she sets out to prove Clare could not have filmed the Naivashi's because they are so secretive. On returning to Mombassa Sheena tricks Clare into performing a Naivashi dance and then reveals that dancing is taboo to the tribe. Clare, who has become fond of Bob, confesses and Duval and Frenchie try to escape in a gun fight, but Sheena captures them and brings the schemers to justice (below).

30 min

22

Secret of the Temple

The chief of the local village asks for Sheena's help because one of the members of the tribe has been murdered, a very rare occurence in their society. Bob is also robbed and captured while bringing a radium shipment through the jungle. Sheena discovers there is a link to the murder of the local tribesman and cleverly traps the crooks and and recovers the radium.

30 min

23

The Test

Bob's agrees to take Nugu, a distressed teenage boy, with him on a photography assignment into the dangerous Nagambo country because the boy's home is near his destination. On route Bob's safari meet a lone unarmed Swiss doctor, Dr Becker, who is searching for the secret of the miraculous boka drug (right). Becker becomes highly excited when he learns that Nugu knows all about boka. Nugu is injured by a charging rhino but Dr Becker revives him quickly with an injection of adreneline. When Becker's bag goes missing Sheena goes after Nugu and and learns he only wanted to learn the white man's magic that cured him (below). Nugu, Chim and the bearers mysteriously disappear overnight and Sheena, Bob and Becker are captured by Nagambo warriors. The Nagambo emperor wants to know where his son is but they are unable to answer. The emperor is about to execute them all when Nugu arrives and tells his father that Becker saved his life. The emperor and Becker exchange information about boka and western medicine and they are accepted by the Nagambos.

30 min

24

Touch of Death

A group of unscrupulous renegades steal a sacred relic which they use to enslave the entire village. The tribe believe that the relic possesses great power and they they must follow the orders of whoever is in possession of the relic or a horrible fate will come from their disobedience. The thieves exploit this superstition to force the natives to mine rubies located in a live volcano.

30 min

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Jungle Pursuit

Sheena and Bob must rush to help save the life of Dr Mitchell Heller (below left) whose life is in danger from Eddie Lewis, a treacherous safari guide (below centre). Sylvia, Heller's daughter (right), tells them that her father is attempting to reach the Temple of the Elders because he has become obsessed with finding a drug to prolong life. She also says Lewis stands to collect a large amount of money, even if Heller dies during the expedition. Sheena protects Heller from Lewis but Lewis forces her to lead them to the temple by threatening to shoot Chim. Sheena leaves a trail for Bob to follow but when they reach the temple Sheena, Lewis and Heller are all taken captive. The 300-year-old Ancient One condemns them to imbibe the youth potion which is a deadly poison to anyone who has not taken it daily since childhood. Bob arrives and points out Heller is a good man with an unhealthy obsession and that Lewis forced Sheena to guide them to the temple. Lewis grabs Bob's rifle, steals the Ancient One's potion but he is killed by a guard's spear. Heller realises that the value of life lies in it's quality and is reunited with Sylvia.

30 min

26

Touch Of Death

Goma, the Winuza witchdoctor, overhears Bob blame himself for having "the touch of death" after two ivory poachers that he and Sheena were tracking are killed by a lion. Goma conveys Bob's statement to Krenshaw, a shady character who is orchestrating the ivory poaching (right), and when Sheena and Bob arrive at the village Goma accuses Bob of being responsible for the sleeping sickness that has stricken the son of Tago the chief, Zabim. The entire village believe that Bob has the Touch of Death and Sheena and Bob must evacuate quickly. Bob is captured in a trap set for him by Goma and Krenshaw and Sheena discovers that Chim has fallen asleep after eating some of the pills from Krenshaw's bag. Sheena returns to the village as Bob is about to be sacrificed and convinces Tago that Krenshaw has been drugging Zabim (below). A struggle ensues and Goma is accidently shot by Krenshaw and as he dies he blames Krenshaw for Zabim's condition. Krenshaw is captured as he escapes, Sheena manages to revive Zabim with jungle medicine, and Tago promises to halt the ivory poaching.

30 min