Tales of the Gold Monkey was a television series in the early 80’s that starred Stephen Collins. It only ran for one season even though it won a Primetime Emmy. Norbert made an appearance in the pilot episode as Hanus. Tales of the Gold Monkey is now available on DVD as a rental from Netflix or for sale through various retail outlets such as Amazon and others. Tales of the Gold Monkey is part Indiana Jones adventure mixed with part covert spy story lines and even a little hint of Casablanca. It is set in the South Pacific in 1938, even though it kind of resembles the windward side of Oahu in some places and Kauai in others...  There are German soldiers as well as a wide mix of local and colorful characters -- including Japanese Samurai. Norbert appears as Hanus in the pilot episode very briefly. He is one of two German officers posing as Dutch artists who are on the trail of a Gold Monkey -- rumored to be a gold icon 100 feet tall that was made of such strong gold and other metal that it withstood the heat of an erupting volcano. The Germans want to learn how to make this metal so they can build strong rockets.   In shades of the film Congo, the cave where this gold icon is supposed to be located, is guarded by large cannibalistic and killer monkeys. The man traveling with Hanus shoots at one of the monkeys when it acts aggressively towards them. It takes several shots to kill it, but its body eventually drops into a stream and floats away. At that point, several more of the large-toothed, killer monkeys appear and attack the two men, tossing their mutilated bodies into the same stream. As gory as it sounds, there really isn’t anything gruesome about these scenes -- there is no blood to speak of and the violence is more implied than visual. It’s interesting that there are more German officers in these southern Pacific islands that any other people. This is the German officer who has come to the islands on the trail of the gold monkey. He is the one who explains who Hanus and his partner are, and why they are after the Gold Monkey. He only knows that his men have gone missing, not that they have been killed by the ferocious monkeys. He has partnered with the Japanese in the area in hopes of beating the Americans to the gold idol. The killer monkeys attack viciously ripping one of the men apart and killing Hanus as they throw him into the stream, claw at him and drown him. Hanus and his partner realize they are in serious trouble when several monkeys show up to avenge the death of the first monkey. When his partner asks him what they should do, Hanus replies, “I think we die.” The two men react to the first monkey swinging across the stream to attack them. The other soldier shoots the monkey several times. Official Fansite © www.norbert-weisser.com, 2010                                                  This is the Official Fansite for Mr. Norbert Weisser                                       Site Design By:  JT eDesigns