Episodes Guide - Season 1
It is also interesting to note the transition from the original tunic-style Sheena costume to the ragged two-piece outfit. The original costume is used in all of the episodes from No. 101 to No. 105, in which it is soon discarded (see below). In Episode 106 Sheena again wears the Sheena costume only briefly and appears in a blouse and shorts for most of the episode, and in Episode 107 the new costume appears for the first time (see also The Costume section of Page 2: The Star
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Guest Stars: Peter J Lucas; Cullen Douglas; Jeff Moldovan; Jason Grey; Jay Amor; Dean Murray; Don McLoud (gorilla) |
| Matt Cutter, an expatriate American, is hired by a foreigner named Norlis to fly some shady characters from a mineral company into an uncharted region of the LaMistas to look for a missing scientist. They are carrying a large amount of dynamite, which they use to map the seismic responses to the charges in an attempt to locate the diamonds said to be inside one of the mountains. Cutter challenges their methods and when things get ugly he escapes into the jungle, where he encounters a beautiful blonde, white woman named Sheena. He learns she has the power to change herself into animals and that she is responsible for the legend of the Darak'na, which Cutter had always thought was only a myth. Sheena, as the Darak'na, destroys Norlis' camp and when Cutter is captured Sheena singlehandedly rescues him (right) and takes him to her cave in the mountains. Norlis and his engineer follow their seismic maps to Sheena's mountain, where Norlis kills his partner to get his share of the diamonds. Cutter and Sheena, now a leopard, do battle with Norlis in the caverns, but he escapes, only to be killed by a rogue silverback. Cutter rounds up the remainder of Norlis' men to hand over to the authorities. |
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Stars: Peter Onorati; Jim Coleman; Rus Blackwell; Steven Watts |
| A US defence satelite has crashed in the LaMistas and a group of Russian agents arrive in Maltaka to try to obtain the top level classified data it contained, but President N'Gama insists their leader, Yascov, take only his own men on the search. Sheena leads Cutter to a US agent she has captured, and it turns out to be Tyler, Cutter's previous CIA commander. He has been sent in to prevent the data from falling into the wrong hands, but if the data signals have not been erased by a certain time a squadron of US bombers will destroy the mountainside where it crashed. Sheena, concerned about the villagers in the region, agrees to lead Tyler to the crash site but they are fired upon by Yascov and N'Gama's men. The Dark'na easily scares of N'Gama's superstitious men and Yascov calls in Russian paratroopers from Dafari. Cutter and Tyler get to work on disabling the satellite as the bombers approach. Tensions rise as the Russian gunmen close in on the satellite but Sheena manages to eliminate most of them. Yascov falls on his own knife while fighting Sheena, the satellite is disabled and the bombers head for home just seconds away from ground zero (right). |
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Stars: Jennifer Hammon; Dave Corey; Isaac Singleton; Steve Zurk |
| Sheena accuses Cutter of smuggling jirds, a small rodent valuable because their extract is reputed to cure impotence. Cutter discovers that a shipment of coffee tins he has been hired to deliver are full of jirds. One animal is covered in blood, evidence it bit it's captor. A cute wildlife researcher named Tracey makes advances on Cutter, but he finds himself dreaming of Sheena and resists her. Sheena accompanies Cutter on the flight to deliver the coffee tins, hoping to catch the seller, but Cutter foolishly follows the buyer's vehicle in his plane. When he finds the coffee tins empty, the buyer, a dangerous character named Kumar, goes after Cutter with his thugs. Sheena realises that the scent of the blood on one of Cutter's towels from a scratch on Tracy matches the blood on the jird in the coffee tin, and they set a trap for her. Cutter tells Tracy he knows where there is a cage of trapped jirds and when he confronts her she pulls a gun on him. They are both surprised by Kumar and his men, looking for his missing shipment of jirds (right). The Darak'na makes short work of them and Tracy escapes to her compound, where she is attacked by a plague of jirds. |
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Stars: Paul Brodie; Veryl Jones |
| Animals have begun attacking surrounding villages and when a rogue silverback assails Kali Sheena protects her and spears it in the side before it runs away. Sheena thinks that Kali is acting strangely and when her teacher disappears into the jungle Sheena follows her. Cutter decides to tag along, concerned that Sheena is acting irrationality now that the stabilising centre of Kali's presence is under threat. Kali finds the wounded gorilla in a ruined stone city in the jungle and performs some mystic rituals at an alter, transforming herself into a gorilla. Sheena is unnerved by this when she witnesses it, because she always believed they Kaya needed to look an animal in the eyes to be able to change. Kali then reverts to herself and transforms the gorilla into a man and explains to Sheena that he is her husband, Naya. We learn that many years before the entire Kaya tribe, except Kali, decided to transform themselves into animals permanently because the influence of Western civilisation had tainted their world (right). Naya is angry that Kali did not accompany him on his journey to the animal world and reverts back to a gorilla. Sheena fights the rogue gorilla and Kali kills it with Sheena's bow. |
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Stars: Tony Armatrading; Kayla Campbell; Veryl Jones; Elizabeth Frederick; Jim Coleman; Bob Lipka; Nancy Tait; Willie E Teacher; Lamont Lofton; Jamison McIntyre; Tyrone C Wiggins |
| A family group of tourists that Cutter is transporting in a safari bus are highjacked by a group of terrorists that have stolen a vial of ebola virus from the government laboratory. The terrorists' leader, Mbuli, (right) is heading for the border of neighbouring Dufari to sell the virus to that government's military. Mariah, the granddaughter of the family, is dying of Grayson's Disease and has come to Africa hopeful of meeting The Jungle Princess who grants wishes, a story her mother told her. Mariah's condition deteriorates after the terrorists discard all of the luggage, including Mariah's medicines, and when they stop to camp at night she becomes very sick (right). Sheena launches an attack on the camp aided by a group of panthers. She recovers the vial, Cutter manages to free the prisoners and Sheena decides to take the girl to Kali for help, with the terrorists in pursuit. Lion's blood is said to be helpful for Mariah's disease so Sheena transforms herself partially into a lion for the transfusion. The terrorists arrive and Sheena fights and defeats them while her body is still part lion. Mariah soon starts to feel better, her wish granted by The Jungle Princess. |
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Stars: Veryl Jones; Carol Graw; David Horner; Brittany Robertson |
| Cutter helps Sheena enter the cave where her parents were trapped 20 years ago by providing the dynamite to clear the entrance, but warns her agaisnt entering it until the temors caused by nearby volcanic activity have subsided. Sheena ignores his hesitancy and as she enters the cave her mind is flooded by memories of her parents' noble goal to find acheological evidence inside the cave, despite the abundant wealth of diamonds present (right). Cutter and Sheena soon realise that a Kaya rogue black panther is inside the cave with them, but a tremor causes a rockfall that separates them before Sheena can kill it. Cutter keeps the panther at bay and Sheena stumbles upon Roberts, her parents' cave guide, who has been mining diamonds here for twenty years via another entrance. She remembers that as a child she saw Roberts planting a charge in the cave just before her parents were trapped. Her temper flares and she accuses him of murder. They fight violently and dislodge the rockfall separating them from Cutter. The panther kills Roberts and Sheena and Cutter escape via the created by Mendelshon and Rashid with dynamite. |
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Stars: Tom Savini; Yvonne Suhor; Jim Coleman; Steven West; Ross Bogart; Bill Condell; Chris Ford; Brian O Ward |
| AGMES, the multinational mineral company that Cutter encountered in the pilot episode, are attempting to build a petroleum pipeline across the land of the Soman tribe but are meeting formidable military-style resistance. Cutter gets Sheena to agree to help Peter Reynolds, a photojournalist, get the full story so the world can be alerted to the Soman's plight. Stanton, the tough blonde aide of millionaire AGMES CEO, Phillip Coulter, pressures N'Gama to send in a large number of troops to suppress the Soman. Sheena, Cutter and Reynolds are all captured during a Soman firebomb raid, and they discover that the brains behind the Soman offensive is a rogue military academy fugitive named David Wellman (right). They win him over and together launch a major attack on N'gama's soldiers, aided by the Darak'na. Reynolds will contact Coulter when he returns to the US and will negotiate not to publish what he has seen in exchange for a withdrawal of the pipeline. Wellman decides to live peacefully with the Soman. Finally, we learn that Reynolds is actually Coulter and he instructs Stanton to close down the whole operation and to find out as much as she can about Sheena. AGMES will be back. |
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Stars: Henry Polic II ; Veryl Jones; Vicki Phillips; Hank Stone; Danor Gerald; Andy Martin; Thomas Stearns |
| A assortment of press and adventures gather in Uhura searching for the Darak'na when rumours circulate that a strange, wild creature is loose in Maltaka. Both Kali and Cutter suspect that this beast may be Sheena. Cutter rejects an offer by a malevolent fortune-hunter named Morgan to search for the Darak'na, so Morgan and his men begin hunting the LaMistas with the aid of high-tech weapons. Kali investigates and learns that Sheena has become trapped in this state because an injured black panther she was attempting to rescue died during her transformation. Berringer, an elderly professor of African mythology, encounters the beast and manages to befriend her, although he is excited that he has discovered the Darak'Na and hopes to lead her out of the jungle. Morgan darts the beast with a tranquiliser, captures Berringer, and succeeds in caging his prize. Kali, Cutter and Mendelsohn assemble and launch an attack on Morgan's truck and his men, during which the beast escapes and kills Morgan (right). Cutter manages to shoot her with a dart containing the panther's blood that Kali has collected, which allows Sheena to complete the transformation and eventually revert to human form. |
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Stars: Erin Leshawn Wiley; Jim Coleman; Steven West; Jeffrey Laman; Maury Covington; Jane Park, Romonda Shaver |
| President N'Gama, a Muslim with many wives, arranges for the abduction of Jamila, a young native girl, and Sheena is forced to intervene. Sheena seeks Cutter's help and both he and Mendelsohn transform Sheena into a sophisticated beauty so that they can gate-crash N'gama's reception for Cardinal Righetti, a visiting Vatican representative. At the ball Cutter introduces Sheena as a model from the European circuit (right) and N'gama introduces Jamila to the cardinal as his "sole bride", who will soon join his Catholic faith. N'gama has ordered his other wives to remain hidden in an attempt to impress the Cardinal so that the Vatican will remove the trade sanctions it has imposed against Maltaka. Sheena slips away to explore N'gama's compound, but is captured, as is Sikani, Jamila's betrothed, who has come to search for her. Cutter creates a diversion by bursting balloons, which the guards think is an attack upon the cardinal, allowing one of N'gama's other wives to free Sheena and Sikani. Jamila and Sikani manage to escape and N'gama is tricked into thinking they have been eaten by crocodiles, allowing them to go into hiding and live in peace. |
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Stars: Leland Crooke; Antoni Cornacchione; Neil Brown Jr; Timothy Washington; Cheryl Lewis; Menek Huggar |
| Sheena dons western clothes because Kali wants her to learn more about the civilised world. When she sees the scratches on the forearm of Armstrong, one of Cutter's clients, it triggers the memory of a raid on her village when she was young, during which a young boy named N'Akili was abducted. She persuades Cutter to take her with him on their next monthly trip upriver, posing as an animal researcher. On route they are attacked by strange half-animal and half-human creatures and are taken to the compound of Dr. Daniel Miller, a DNA researcher. In Miller's basement Sheena discovers both caged animals and strange hybrids, including N'Akili, her childhood friend, but she is captured by Armstrong and put into a cage. Meanwhile, Cutter is released in a manhunt with the wild men on his trail, but Sheena escapes, cages Miller and manages to rescues Cutter from the wild men. She gets N'Akili to remember her by looking her in the eye (right). Armstong arrives with a rifle but falls on his own knife in a struggle with Sheena. Miller is killed by a lion when he escapes from his cage, the hybrids return to their villages and Kali assists in their reversion to their normal forms. |
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Stars: Tom Nowicki; Emilio Plana; Darryl Van Leer; Marc McCauley; Tim Goodwin; Heather Avery Clyde; Patrick Holland |
| Sheena learns that Carlton Rule, an ex-mercenary, is organising annual sporting events for hunters from around the world and is transporting rare animals to his compound as the prey. Sheena persuades Cutter to help her investigate the matter so Cutter goes to Rule's fenced jungle compound, posing as one of the hunting party. Sheena, as a serval, also explores the complex. Cutter learns that each of the hunters is to hunt a specific animal alone. Rafio, the first, must hunt a leopard and Sheena intervenes to save the leopard and, as the Darak'na, kills him. The next, Engelbert, is to hunt a lion but the Darak'na directs the lion away from him, slashes his leg, causing him to back into a prowling leopard. The third hunter, Wattle, looses his nerve following the deaths of the previous two and his boat explodes as he is leaving, clearly the work of Rule. Rule, now aware of Cutter's military past, captures him and puts dilating fluid in his eyes to blind him temporarily. Cutter is then set free in the jungle for Rule to hunt as prey. Sheena follows them and when she confronts Rule he threatens Cutter, but Sheena's taunts about his cowardice motivate him to shoot himself. |
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Stars: Warren "Philadelphia" Plowden; Amy Weber; Dyan Handelard; Tiffany Phillips; Anthony Hubert; Lou Walker; Gary Alderman |
| Cutter agrees to take a party from Stuff magazine into the jungle for an exotic photo shoot. The models, Ruby (left), Jade (centre) and Pearl (right), are accompanied by an ultra-camp photographer, Marcus, who Sheena soon suspects has other motives. Marcus' desired location for the shoot is close to the army prison camp and the guards discourage them from taking photos nearby. That night Marcus sneaks away and Sheena confronts him about why he is carrying dynamite in his bag and he confesses he is the nephew of Mbutu M'kwambey, a freedom fighter being held on death row in the prison. Together, they develop a plan to rescue Mbutu and Sheena convinces the girls to help out by distracting the guards. The girls dance in lingerie (right) while Cutter pretends to photograph them, allowing Marcus to slip inside driving a coffin cart pulled by a bull, that is really Sheena. Cutter is taken prisoner and Kisi, the vicious prison commandant orders him to be shot. Sheena and Marcus free Mbutu and sneak him out inside a coffin on the cart while the Darak'na creates mayhem with Marcus' dynamite, frees Cutter and the prisoners and Kisi is shot by a prisoner. |
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This independent, fan-based analysis of the Sheena material is copyright © 2006-2008 Paul Wickham