Jungle Run

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Jungle Run

Jungle Run logo
Format Children's Game Show
Created by Lesley Oakden
Starring Dominic Wood
(1999 - 2000)
Chris Jarvis
(2001 - 2002)
Michael Underwood
(2003 - 2006)
Country of origin Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
No. of series 8
Production
Producer(s) Yorkshire Television
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ITV
Picture format 4:3
(1999 - 2000)
16:9
(2001 - 2006)
Original run 10 September 1999 – 29 November 2006

Jungle Run was a children's television programme which first aired on CITV as part of the ITV Network. It is a kids' game show similar to Fun House and The Crystal Maze. Since it began, the show has had three presenters.

In the game, a team of young explorers make their way through five places in the jungle. In each destination, they have to collect silver monkey statues which gives them an extra ten seconds of time inside the final location, the Temple of the Jungle King.

ITV announced in July 2007 that Jungle Run has not been recommissioned for a new series.



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[edit] Locations

Jungle Run is located in Palmers Green, North London.

[edit] Marshes (Removed)

In the pilot, this is the only place they visit. In this zone, the team:

  • floats along a raft, collecting monkey statues. If Someone falls in the water, the person that falls in cannot get to The Temple Of The Jungle King, and all statues they collected are lost.

On this game there was no jungle guide, but there was a voice over.


[edit] Tiger Point (Removed)

The shows 'Start' during the Wood era, before moving to the first challenge. The location was based by Dominic Wood's old crashed Jungle Run jeep upon a hill overlonnbbking the jungle. To descend was a steep but soft leaf furnished slope.

According to some sources mini challenges include:

  • Trampoline challenge
  • Gold tunnel (One of the team have to go in the tunnel and turn all the gold lights and collect bananas or monkey statues on the way)
  • Climb down a rope and jump down.

[edit] Angel Falls

The location 'Angel Falls' is based around a series of waterfalls, a pool of water and the Jungle King's favorite place the team must explore. Angel Falls is the newer version after the closure of the location 'Rapids' with earlier editions of the show.

The sets for Angel Falls have changed a number of times throughout the history of the show, and the final version of Angel Falls was somewhat smaller than before.

Challenges in the location include:

  • Swinging on a rope to collect baskets
  • Dive for the treasure chests (Removed)
  • Abseil across the Angel falls wall (Removed)
  • Fill the shrines with water (Total 4 statues)

Angel Falls is appreciated by many people, and it is rumored that Sid and Elvis take a bath in it (Yuck!) since their old bath, The Dark Swamp, got too dirty.

[edit] Rapids (Removed)

The location 'Rapids' is a place the jungle king likes. The rapids was closed in 2002 and has changed to Angel Falls. Challenges in this location include:

  • Go through the tunnel and collect bananas on the way to the end
  • Climb across the wall to collect the bananas
  • Row a lily pad and collect the bananas from the wall
  • Fill the basket with water to open the cave,there are bananas inside
  • Walk over the bridge to collect the baskets

[edit] Dark Swamp

The location 'Dark Swamp' is based around the two monkey's favorite location, a swamp centered the heart of the jungle. The Dark Swamp is the newer version of the location 'Swamp' from earlier editions of the show. Challenges in the location include:

  • Ride in the boat and collect the baskets (Removed)
  • Jump across the Dark Swamp back wall
  • Memory test with the Stone Throne (Removed)
  • Make your way across the two ropes collecting baskets
  • Use the three part bridge to collect the baskets (Later changed to 5 parts)

[edit] Swamp (Removed)

The location 'Swamp' is Sid and Elvis' first favorite place, as they used to like this place in the earlier series. It was replaced by the Dark Swamp. Challenges in this location include:

  • Steal and collect the bananas and collect them on the lily pads (Removed)
  • Climb up the rope ladder to collect the baskets (Removed)
  • Make your way across the two ropes to go across the swamp and steal the bananas from Sid and Elvis (Removed)
  • Dive in the swamp to open the boxes. (Removed)
  • Collect baskets on some floating logs.

[edit] Lost Cave

The location 'Lost Cave' is based around a cave hidden amongst the borders of the jungle. The Lost Cave was introduced into the show after the closure of the location, Ancient Tomb. Challenges in the location include:

  • Tokat's Tomb (If any noise is made He wakes up and Closes The door) (the timer is set to 0:10 if he wakes up And sometimes makes some rocks fall and sometimes the cave shakes)
  • Rat's nest (Inside are 8 pods,4 of them are red and the rest are black.The red pods have monkey statues inside,If a black pod drop the door will close a bit.If the third time the door will close completely (Removed)
  • Cabinet of chance (Removed)
  • Gas vent statue collection (Removed)
  • Swinging pendulums of doom (after this one, the Abandoned Camp was unaccessible) (Removed)
  • Collect baskets from the moving mythical creatures back (Removed)

[edit] Temple Wall

The location 'Temple Wall' is based around the Temple of the Jungle King's side wall. The Temple Wall was used more towards the later series of Jungle Run. Challenges in the location include:

  • The Monkey Traps (Previously from the Abandoned Camp)(Total 4 statues)

[edit] Old Fort

The location 'Old Fort' was introduced into the show after the closure of the location, Old Pyramid. Challenges in the location include:

  • Zip wire challenge
  • Fort Maze (If this game occurred after the Zip wire challenge, instead of the location title reading 'Old Fort', it would read 'Fort Maze'. However, if the Fort Maze was the only time the Old Fort was visited, it would read 'Old Fort'.)(Total 4 statues)(May have Ruby statue)

[edit] Wrecked Boat

The location 'Wrecked Boat' was introduced into the show after the closure of the location, Abandoned Camp. The location was based around a run down boat in the center of the jungle. Challenges in the location include:

  • Shoot the canisters
  • Collect the tins from around the ring of fire {they're both Identical except 1 on the boat and 2 on the bridge (same in the abandon camp)

[edit] Mine Shaft

The location 'Mine Shaft' was introduced into the show for only the last series of Jungle Run. The location was based around a dark and spooky mine shaft based in the west of the jungle. Challenges in the location include:

  • The Mine Shaft Monkey Idol collection game (similar to that from the Ancient Tomb And The Ruby monkey statue is always here)

[edit] Abandoned Camp (Removed)

The location 'Abandoned Camp' was the longest running area throughout the series of Jungle Run. The location was based around a crashed airplane. Challenges in the location include:

  • Move the electric ring from one side to another side of the circuit (Removed)
  • Three way hook above the circle of fire [2 of them will have to do that challenge on the bridge.1 of them will be doing that on the plane. (Removed)
  • Pungey and bungee challenge (Removed)
  • Oil rig challenge (Blocked off By the jungle king) (Removed)
  • Find the key to open cages,collect bananas on the way (Removed)
  • Opening boxes in alphabetical order in order to find monkey statues. In one of the episodes, a few complaints were received when a girl as trying to complete this challenge when Sid came close to her and started taunting her.

[edit] Old Pyramid (Removed)

The location 'Old Pyramid' was based around the pyramid, the highest point in the jungle. The Old Pyramid was replaced by the Old Fort for newer editions of the show. Challenges in the location include:

  • Pyramid Maze: One of the team members has to go into the pyramid to find monkey statues. There are lots of doors inside the pyramid, which have a picture that matches another on the top base of the pyramid where the other team players have to press, to open the door inside. (The person in the pyramid has a walkie-talkie to communicate with the rest of the team, and tells them the picture, they stand on it, and the door opens.) The person in the pyramid can also get locked in.
  • Shoot down the Air pods with a peashooter (Removed)
  • Pyramid Steps challenge (Removed)
  • Pyramid Wall challenge (Removed)

[edit] Ancient Tomb (Removed)

  • One person enters the tomb, and the rest of the team are outside trying to help in any way possible. Usually helping with planks, ropes and nets, the one brave contestant inside the Ancient Tomb must reach the exit while finding bananas or later on, Monkey Statues.The person can also get locked in.
  • Play snooker to win bananas (Removed)
  • Lock Sid and Elvis in the cages (Removed)

[edit] Deep Chasm (Removed)

  • Collect the bananas

[edit] Monkey Trees (Removed)

  • Swing to the baskets(Total 4'5 Or'6 Statues)
  • Open Letter Boxes
  • Getting The statues with a 3 Hooked Rope without waking Sid and Elvis (Later changed to getting the statues without making some petrol explode, before being removed altogether)

[edit] Sid and Elvis

Sid and Elvis are a pair of monkeys, the Jungle King's most loyal servants, who would do anything it takes to stop the kids reaching the temple. They even make some challenges harder, especially the Dark Swamp challenges, since they seem to like hanging around nearby the swamp.

On rare occasions, Sid and Elvis would kidnap one member of the team and place them in a cage where they would be discovered by the rest of the team and must be rescued. If they failed to rescue the team member, they would sacrifice a monkey statue. Rare kidnappings include the entire team being locked in a bamboo cage high up in the trees and must escape - again if the team failed in their attempt they would each sacrifice a monkey.

At the end of each show, the monkeys lounge around outside the temple of the Jungle King, and without fail Underwood tells them to "clear off". They obey him in a most obedient fashion. They follow the orders of the Jungle King, and they do lots of stuff to stop the jungle explorers, for example, they yank the ropes which control the baskets movement upwards while people jump (or swing) for them. They always disobey the Jungle Guide's commands.

Sid and Elvis have changed color throughout the series of Jungle Run. Sid and Elvis used to be Red and Blue in the earlier series, but then Elvis changed color to orange. In the later editions of the show, Sid changed color to black, and Elvis continued to be orange. Sid then went back to Red.

There have been a notable number of complaints directed to ITV due to the alleged racism by Sid and Elvis to one of the contestants. The contestant in question was of Afro-Caribbean origin and when trapped in the 'monkey cage' shots, Sid and Elvis were feeding and taunting the trapped contestant with bananas. This edition of the show originally aired in 2004 and was re-aired on 25th January 2007.

[edit] Monkey Statues

They are silver monkey statues inside all the locations in the jungle. When a team gets a silver monkey statue, they get 10 seconds in the Temple Of The Jungle King. The monkey statue with is red is the Ruby monkey that gives the team 20 seconds. It used to give them 30 seconds, but they removed that after 2 episodes. The more monkey statues they get the more time they have for the Temple Of The Jungle King, with a maximum of 3 minutes and 20 seconds. In 2007 the name monkey was swapped for sacred statue.

In the early series the team got yellow bananas. In one of the early locations is the golden banana. The team must find it and they will get 50 more bananas. Sid and Elvis like bananas apart they hide bananas in the very hot deep chasm. They hid them in a load of fruits.

[edit] The Temple of the Jungle King

At the end of the show, the contestants go to the Temple of the Jungle King, a series of rooms each containing a large monkey statue. The more rooms the contestants get through, the better the Idols. During the Wood era, the first monkey idol was 'Wood', then 'Stone', 'Metal', 'Silver' and the Jungle King's most precious possession, the 'Golden Monkey'. In the pilot that was never shown on CITV, it went Wood, Stone, Metal, Sapphire, And Ruby. After the Wood era, the 'Wood' monkey was phased out and the 'Metal' monkey became 'Bronze'. The 'Golden Monkey' was also changed into a different, bigger idol. Once the challenge in each chamber is completed, the door to the next room opens.In he pilot the temple was smaller, the puzzles were a lot different, an it looked like the Gardens Of Babylon

Once the team only has twenty seconds of time left in the temple, a monkey sound (Or a jungle drum low pitched beat) sounds, and the team races out before the entrance to the temple closes. If the team do not get out in time, they are locked in the temple until Sid and Elvis get them out (After the show) and receive no prizes - even if they have managed to complete some chambers.

[edit] Stone Monkey Idol Chamber

Challenges in this chamber have included:

  • 4 piece puzzle I(picture is a lion)
  • 4 piece puzzle II (picture is a parrot)
  • 4 piece puzzle III (picture is a gorilla)
  • Get the ball into the hole I
  • Get the ball into the hole II

[edit] Bronze Monkey Idol Chamber

Challenges in this chamber have included:

  • A variety of jigsaws
  • Hands & Feet (It's one color per person, and they must all match their hands and feet to the symbols)
  • Complete circular maze which spins (Pilot)

[edit] Silver Monkey Idol Chamber

Challenges in this chamber have included:

  • Make the abacus add up to 14 on both sides
  • Turn the cogs to open the door
  • Black line puzzle (a jigsaw puzzle with no picture, and the black line must be on the edge)
  • A mathematical sum appears, but where the numbers should be (excluding the answer) there are horizontal discs with a handle. they have to spin the discs a certain amount of times to make question correct(pilot)

[edit] Golden Monkey Idol Chamber

Challenges in this chamber have included:

  • Get across the pit using wooden planks[the person who treads on the sand the golden monkey will get covered up
  • Spell a word from the clue {Some of the teams couldn't get it when that monkey FX (or Jungle drum) sounds. 5 letters are needed to complete this challenge.
  • Complete a 24 piece puzzle of a monkey(pilot)

[edit] The Jungle King

The Jungle's King is shrouded in mystery, and not many people know him. All that we know is that he gives orders to Sid and Elvis, He controls the challenges, and that you enter The Temple Of The Jungle King Through the belly of a stone statue of him. the statue also gives you an example of what he looks like.

[edit] Trivia

  • Dominic Wood made an appearance on CITV in 1999 round the time the show first started.
  • Michael Underwood announced on a special program for CITV called 'CITV Xtra Bits' in late August 2003 to say he would be presenting the show from then on. Michael himself had some weeks and days off in the summer from presenting CITV to due to filming of the show.
  • In some 2003, 2004 and 2005 editions the show featured some celebrity teams including some of the cast of Emmerdale, Coronation Street, My Parents Are Aliens, Girls In Love and boy band Tripple Eight made an appearance on a Christmas Special in 2003.

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