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The Reel Thing

S2 : E11

TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.08.01

Egypt, 1516 BC: Amun II is buried with his crook and flail. London, 2001: Working as consultants for an archeology adventure film, Sydney and Nigel realize the Pharaoh's "props" are genuine, long thought lost relics. How can they be?

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Sydney Fox, a college professor, travels the world in her quest to rescue ancient artifacts and lost relics, antiques, and antiquities from the hands of nefarious treasure seekers.

CAST

Tia Carrere
Christien Anholt
Lindy Booth
Tanja Reichert

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

John Ryan

full-episodes (22)

Buddha's Bowl

S1 : E1 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.20.99

Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddha's fabled overflowing alms bowl for villagers who are building a shrine to the original Buddha.
Smoking Gun

S1 : E2 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.27.99

Chicago 1930 - Sydney and Nigel are in Chicago to find Al Capone's gun.
The Headless Nun

S1 : E3 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.27.99

When 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.
Flag Day

S1 : E4 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.11.99

Sydney and Nigel head to Larivee, California to find the Pioneer's Bear Flag.
Thank You Very Much

S1 : E5 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.18.99

Germany 1960 - Sydney and Nigel go to Germany to find a lost Elvis Presley guitar.
Diamond in the Rough

S1 : E6 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.25.99

Sydney, Nigel and rival relic hunter Kurt Reiner, attempt to find the lost baseball glove of Jimmy Jonesboro.
Transformation

S1 : E7 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.01.99

Sydney, Nigel and Derek Lloyd go to the Peruvian jungle to look for the Paracelsus scrolls, that contain the formula for turning lead into gold.
Etched in Stone

S1 : E8 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.13.99

Sydney, Nigel and Stewie Harper head to Stockholm, Sweden to find the Runestone of King Jann the first of Norway.
The Book of Love

S1 : E9 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.15.99

Sydney and Nigel are in Milan, Italy to search for Casanova's lost Book of Love.
Myth of the Maze

S1 : E10 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.22.99

Sydney, Nigel and Claudia visit Athens, Greece to search the minotaur's maze for the legendary golden twine.
Irish Crown Affair

S1 : E11 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.31.00

Sydney and Nigel head to Dublin, Ireland in search of the the missing crown of the last King of Ireland.
Emperor's Bride

S1 : E12 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.07.00

Sydney and Nigel are in Moose Bay, Alaska looking for the white jade sarcophagus of a Chinese Empress. Sydney runs into fellow relic hunters Dallas Carter and Kurt Reiner.
Afterlife and Death

S1 : E13 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.14.00

Sydney and Nigel are in Cairo, Egypt and then Amsterdam. They must beat rival relic hunter Avery Ko to the Pharaoh Thutmose's diamond before it is cut up and sold.
Nine Lives

S1 : E14 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.21.00

A museum curator hires Sydney to find the statue of Egyptian cat goddess Mafdet.
Affaire de Coeur

S1 : E15 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.28.00

Sydney and Nigel go to Scotland to find the 2nd ring of the pair of Twining Rings of Calum and Elena.
A Vanishing Art

S1 : E16 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 03.06.00

Accompanying Max the magician, Sydney and Nigel journey to Atlantic City, New Jersey, searching for Hungary's lost, allegedly cursed Royal Sceptre.
A Good Year

S1 : E17 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 04.17.00

Sydney and Nigel travel to France to find the lost stones from Marie Antoinette's Crown.
The Last Knight

S1 : E18 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 04.24.00

Sydney and Nigel go to Paris, France after the Sword of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar. Rival relic hunter Rita Rosellini is also after the sword.
Love Letter

S1 : E19 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.01.00

Sydney 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 the rightful owner of St. Agnes Sur-Loire.
Possessed

S1 : E20 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.08.00

Sydney and Nigel are in Brussels, Belgium in search of the sacred sundial of Zeus to stop the Vampires.
Nothing But the Truth

S1 : E21 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 07.23.00

Sydney and Nigel are reunited with Stewie Harper, in the search for the Chalice of Truth in France.
Memories of Montmartre

S1 : E22 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 07.30.00

Sydney and Nigel head to Paris, France to find a stolen locket, so they can clear Sydney's dead grandmother of the charges.
The Put Back

S2 : E1 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.18.00

Kuba, Africa 100 AD: Worshippers of Woote curse his idol to protect it. 2000: Ross Crawford comes to Sydney, because he took the idol and the curse has accelerated his aging. And, if the idol isn't returned, Woote's wrath will be unleashed.
Dagger of Death

S2 : E2 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.25.00

India, 500 AD: A precious dagger is used in human sacrifices to goddess Kali. 2000: Dr. Terrace is in a maximum security prison for killing his assistant. The dagger compelled him and now Sydney must return it to its sheath in India.
Last of the Mochicas

S2 : E3 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.02.00

On a search for a South American Mochica Indian relic of protection, Nigel with his colleagues Tobar and Cate get captured by local guerrillas, and it's up to Sydeny and ally Jason Clark to save them. But things take surprising turns...
The Legend of the Lost

S2 : E4 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.09.00

Sydney and Nigel set out to find if the legend of the lost civilization in New Guinea is actually true. Unfortunately, they have to team up with Derek Lloyd.
Fertile Ground

S2 : E5 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.16.00

Sydney reunites with her high school sweetheart Tony to track down a Hawaiian fertility idol in Madagascar.
Gypsy Jigsaw

S2 : E6 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.23.00

Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king orders to hide the Crown. 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare Tarot cards via post from his just died friend. The infamous, previously unmentioned, Vulture was after him. Sydney enlists Claudia to help.
Three Rivers to Cross

S2 : E7 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.30.00

2000: According to local monks, the Famed Jade Empress is hidden in the valley that will be flooded when the Three Rivers Dam's flood gates have their grand opening. Sydney's dad asks her to come to Hong Kong to find the statue.
Roman Holiday

S2 : E8 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.06.00

Rome, 44 BC: An alchemist creates an impenetrable armor for Caesar. 2000: Sydney and Nigel are on a trip, so Claudia decides to help Sydney's friend Roger to find Caesar's Armor. But relic hunting is not her strongest talent.
Cross of Voodoo

S2 : E9 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.13.00

When 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 them.
Lost Contact

S2 : E10 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.20.00

Sydney, Nigel and billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle to rescue a relic-hunting team hired by Thorson to locate an ancient sacrificial bowl.
The Reel Thing

S2 : E11 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.08.01

Egypt, 1516 BC: Amun II is buried with his crook and flail. London, 2001: Working as consultants for an archeology adventure film, Sydney and Nigel realize the Pharaoh's "props" are genuine, long thought lost relics. How can they be?
M.I.A

S2 : E12 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.15.01

Sydney gets kidnapped, but by whom? Nigel, Claudia and Cate will have to go through the list of enemies Sydney has made in the past and deduce which of them is responsible. Cue flashbacks.
Out of the Past

S2 : E13 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.29.01

Sydney leaves weary Nigel to deal with the long-delayed accounting review by Foxy Maxine Schneider as she can't wait to check upon the Celopatra exhibition in the Alexandria museum, the jewel box on the folder arousing inexplicable memories and knowledge of hieroglyphs as if she were the reincarnated royal handmaiden. Her clues allow museum director Mohammed Kalifa to find a papyrus in a secret compartment, only to be stolen. His assistant Shareef is after the hidden necklace, the trail leads to a recent temple excavation.
Eyes of Toklamanee

S2 : E14 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.05.01

Mississippi Valley, 1605: Indians lock French explorers into a chamber in which they get disintegrated. 2001: Sydney and her student Adam are onto his ancestors' fabled Eyes of Toklamanee, but they are pursued by mysterious gunmen.
Run Sydney Run

S2 : E15 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.12.01

Sydney 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. However, Sydney understands soon something's wrong, and she's right: instead of hunting for relics, she's going to be hunted now.
French Connection

S2 : E16 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.19.00

While on a lecture tour with Nigel in Europe, Sydney is contacted by MI5 because she is the only one who can prevent an impending high-level assassination, according to a prophecy written by Nostradamus himself.
Don't Go Into the Woods

S2 : E17 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 04.16.01

Sydney's friend phones to inform her that he's discovered information on the Golden Hawk of Maribor, lost since 1711. Sydney and Nigel travel to Lubjanka to meet him, but he's already gone after the Hawk.
Midnight Flight

S2 : E18 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 04.23.01

Germania, ca. 400 AD: an artifact called Gunther's Scepter is sealed in a vault. Kleine Burgh, 2001: Sydney and Nigel are hired to find the Scepter using a crystal and a stone tablet that were recently discovered.
The Executioner's Mask

S2 : E19 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 04.30.01

Sydney and Nigel investigate how her childhood friend Naomi, now a diva fashion model, is disfigured in hellish pains during a photo-shoot when she puts on as prop a historical mask, worn by a French revolution executioner. As this fits a legendary curse, they travel to his native city Bourg, where the previous owner suffered the same fate until Naomi put on the mask, and consult a macabre French expert an executions, who helps them trail the mask to an orphanage turned boarding school. A villain learns a nightmare lesson before the curse is lifted.
The Royal Ring

S2 : E20 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.07.01

Nigel has personal reserves about Sidney's next mission, the search for Tudor king Henry VIII's missing engagement ring for Anne Boleyn, as the case is presented by his ever-rivaling elder brother Preston Bailey, as executive in the British Museum. There CEO Dr. Anthony Cureton bluntly rejects their help, actually being in dirty dealings with a dodgy relic hunter, whose henchman fails to arrest the Bailey quest, which deciphers Henry's artistic riddles one by one in London and Leeds castle, while the brothers' ex/girl Amanda Reardon two-times them viciously.
Set in Stone

S2 : E21 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.14.01

Hungary, 1595: In a monastery, Knight Gabriel impales a demon, which then turns to stone. 2001: Nigel and Sydney arrive bearing a letter from a monk, but the abbot claims it is a forgery and shuts them out. Sydney decides to dig deeper.
Deadline

S2 : E22 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.21.01

Jerusalem 1099: crusaders find the Tau "cross", but it evaporates the one touching it. Paris 2001: Allan comes to Sydney, telling he has 12 hours before a Necron virus kills him unless he delivers Tau to a blackmailer who has the antidote.
Wages of Sydney

S3 : E1 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.17.01

Quan 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 the Dragon's Egg. Claudia has moved onto a new job, so Sydney hires a new, busty assistant, Karen.
Mr. Right

S3 : E2 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 09.24.01

Bali, 1459: A princess gets to look into Parvati's Bowl. Singapore, 2001: Sydeney runs into her ex, (just) Gray, and goes on a holiday with him to Bali, but when Derek Lloyd shows up to enlist her to find Parvati's Bowl, she can't resist.
Sydney at Ten

S3 : E3 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.01.01

St. Beatrice's School for Girls, 1981: Sydney sees his teacher shot by a scar-faced man over an Egyptian pendant. 2001: Sydney's roommate from school is on track of the pendant and enlists Sydney to help find it and catch the killer.
The Light of Truth

S3 : E4 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.08.01

Arabia 843 AD: A sheik uses the Light of Truth to reveal his general as a traitor. 2001: Prince Shareem drops out from Sydney's class to go search for the Light of Truth. Sydney refuses to help, but then has to rescue Shareem from trouble.
Treasure Island

S3 : E5 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.15.01

Sydney's on the hunt for a Pirate's booty, ...but will a traitor force her to walk the plank?
The Star of Nadir

S3 : E6 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.22.01

2001: An anonymous Sultan's wife Danielle dies in mysterious circumstances in the desert. However, she had called for Sydney to help. Sydney believes Danielle was searching for the Star of Nadir, that would prevent a civil war.
Vampire's Kiss

S3 : E7 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 10.29.01

Czechoslovakia, 1720: A Satan-worshiper escapes from his hunters. Trinity College, 2001: Lucas Blackmer, a babe-magnet, professor and a novelist asks Sydney to help find Vlad Tepes' lost relic. And he isn't the only one after it.
Devil Doll

S3 : E8 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.05.01

(Generally) Central America, 1488 AD: the Aztecs hide a mysterious box. (Specifically) Central America 2001: A guide leads Sydney and Nigel to an unusual, underground Aztec burial chamber. Instead of a body, they find a relic.
Incognito

S3 : E9 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.12.01

New Guinea, 1522: A lancet bestows strength with its cut. 2001: Retrieving the lancet, Sydney and Nigel run into Nigel's look-alike just before his death. Nigel gets a cut from the lancet. Later, Cate persuades Nigel to impersonate the man.
All Choked Up

S3 : E10 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 11.19.01

Greece, 800 BC: King Minalysius gives a necklace to Princess Nabina, enslaving her to his will. 2001: Carson Inez, a collector, uses the necklace to get Sydney to help her in raising Athena who will then help her conquer the world.
Warlock of Nu Theta Phi

S3 : E11 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.14.02

New England Colonies, 1692: Witches consecrate an amulet before they are burned. 2002: Sydney's student Meg's roommate finds the amulet. It hospitalizes Meg. Meg's boyfriend's fraternity brother races to get the amulet. What is he up to?
Women Want to Know

S3 : E12 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.21.02

Southeast Asia 1075: An idol of Ganesha is prayed to. 2002: Sydney has found the temple with the idol and it is being filmed for TV, but they get trapped inside when the local rebels stumble onto them. Can Nigel and Karen help from USA?
Fire in the Sky

S3 : E13 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 01.28.02

Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney is lecturing about said natives who faced a mysterious cataclysm 600 years earlier. A native brings her a relic from that era. What is its secret?
Hunting with the Enemy

S3 : E14 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.04.02

An urn commissioned in a Cambodian monastery by the Chinese emperor for the remains of Confucius is about to be destroyed by systematic bombing of a whole province - so DeViega, Sidney's mentor's Gural Nataz murderer, tricks and kidnaps her and Nigel (and their secretary on the home front, as additional blackmail leverage) to get to it through a heavy mined area and decipher the I-ching on the way in before bombs hit it.
Antianeirai

S3 : E15 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.11.02

Sydney drags Nigel along to Istanbul, having heard her former mentor professor Alan Evans is missing. He's actually murdered, they can barely convince Turkish police detective Kemal Ochmar not to arrest them for breaking into his room but join forces to investigate who was after what clues. It's the work of a modern feminist extremist 'Amazons sisterhood', whose ruthless leader Natasha Tripova breaks out of jail by sheer force. While working out they're after the legendary magical gold belt of Amazon queen Hippolyte, whom only Hercules could wrestle down and win as ...
Under the Ice

S3 : E16 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.18.02

Despite terrible weather, Sidney drags Nigel along to an Arctic base where an ancient Indian mummy has been found. It turns out to be an Anasazi, from warmer hunting ground, but also connected with the numerous deaths on the small base - will they ever get back alive?
Arthur's Cross

S3 : E17 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.15.02

Scotland Yard calls Sidney and Nigel to identify a 5th century murder weapon. It turns out to be the burial cross of King Arthur, but besides the victim several others are looking for it, and more killing follows while they search for it in its historical hiding place and unravel the murderous plot.
Faux Fox

S3 : E18 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 02.22.02

When Nigel is charmed by brilliant student Lorraine to show her their offices (and kiss), a burglar knocks out Sidney, but what was robbed? They find out in Madrid, where Professor Lamenza invited them to follow the trail of the Spanish crown hidden from Napoleons army by Carlos IV, the necessary filters to read lemon ink have been switched, and Lorraine is actually Reena, who has teamed up with her lover Raoul to get the crown which everyone goes in search of in Andalusia, while trying to get rid of the others.
Pandora's Box

S3 : E19 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 03.01.02

Sidney inherits from the best relic hunter of the previous generation a key, and rushes with Nigel on the hunt for the one treasure he never found: Pandora's box, which was guarded by the clan of the Persian sultanate of An-Najaf. The (equally fictitious) successor state is however in revolution, and though a resourceful local father proves a welcome guide in the capital, the military dictator has taken residence in the ancient palace, plundering all archaeological remains...
The Warlord

S3 : E20 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.06.02

Bekkastan, 1401 AD: warrior princess Kahina proves her right to rule. 2002: Sydney and Nigel unearth a cave painting that might lead them to Kahina's Saddle. But her descendants cause complications.
Fountain of Youth

S3 : E21 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.13.02

While Nigel rehearses his keynote speech in a Seville hotel room, a girl nearly breaks his nose demanding something - it turns out she was after the water from the Fountain of Youth which the dying explorer Ponce de Leon send the Spanish king who send one bottle via the English ambassador to Elisabeth I, which Nigel's brother Preston is desperate to find in order to save his British Museam job. As duke Andrew, the ambassador's heir, only agreed to see him within 48h, he and Sidney are off to England together while Nigel stays for his speech and equally disastrous ...
So Shall It Be

S3 : E22 | TV-14 | 45 min | Aired: 05.20.02

When Sidney and Nigel are about to enter the site of a Bristol lecture, a surprisingly young author on the Celts approaches them to follow up immediately on a tip about a map to the "astronomicons", the lost keys to the druid cult in Stonehenge, hidden since the Romans conquered Britain. The soon learn it is an occasion to steal the map from the Gurul Nataz, it comes with an armed bomb and the youngster is no author but Andreas, the honest son of Sid's arch-enemy Fabrice De Viega -who survived, as they suspected. Junior assures them he hates his dad even more, being ...

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