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"You mean, they collect heads? Human heads?" - Mike Mercury

Amazonian Adventure is the 2nd produced, and the 5th broadcast, episode of the British television series Supercar. (See also Trivia section, below.)

Plot[]

Mitch the Monkey has pretty much the de facto run of the Black Rock, Nevada laboratory that serves as Supercar's secret base - a mixed blessing, at best! One day, however, he's discovered moping about listlessly on the floor of Supercar's launch bay (a decidedly-dangerous place) - and it becomes clear that something is very wrong...

As his worried young owner, Jimmy Gibson, hovers over his pet's sickbed, the other members of Team Black Rock gather round their stricken simian friend. Dr. Beaker diagnoses sleeping sickness, and identifies the rare t'logi plant, found in South America, as the source for an antidote; and he and Mike are soon off and away in Supercar, to find it...

Once arrived in the Amazon jungle, they encounter the Tuagi people, who take them both captive - and in order to escape, and to save Mitch, they'll have to keep their heads...quite literally. The Tuagi, it turns out, are headhunters!


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Trivia[]

  • From a continuity perspective, this must be an early adventure in the series since Dr. Beaker states that this is his first flight in Supercar. (This would seem to be borne out by the fact that this is the series' second episode in production order, even though it was actually broadcast later on; see above.)
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