SHEENA (2000-2002 TV series)
Episodes Guide - Season 2


INTRODUCTION
The second season of the Gena Lee Nolin Sheena series comprised 13 episodes that screened from 6 October 2001 to 23 February 2002.  All of the principal stars - Gena Lee Nolin as Sheena, John Allen Nelson as Matt Cutter, Margo Moorer as Kali and Kevin Quigley as Mendelsohn - were retained for the second series.  Veryl Jones continued to make regular guest appearances as Rashid, a Maltakan National Ranger.

Several interesting guest stars appeared on the program during Season 2 - Ron Ely, who played the lead role in 57 episodes of Tarzan from Sep 66 to Mar 68 appeared as a vicous killer in The Feral King;  Peter Reckell, who played Bo Brady for 10 years on the daytime soap, The Days of Our Lives, added Sheena to his list of feminine conquests in Rendezvous; and Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammad Ali, played a female boxer in Meltdown In Maltaka.

The most notable thing about Season 2 is that Gena Lee Nolin appears to have gained a substantial amount of weight since completing the filming of the first season's episodes.  This can be confirmed by a comparison of Episode No. 122, Unsafe Passage, and Episode No 201, The Maltaka Files.
 
NOTE: If you are interested in the exact sequence in which the episodes were made then I suggest you take note of the Production Numbers provided below.  The Production Number is a three digit number - the first digit indicates the season and the last two digits are the production sequence.
 

Season 2, Episode 1 - RENDEZVOUS; Original air date: 6 Oct 2001; Production Number 212

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Chuck Bowman
Written by Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
          Guest Stars:
          Peter Reckell; Quinn Duffy;
          Veryl Jones; Tom Schuster

Sheena agrees to assist an Interpol agent named Cody reach the river on the border for his rendezvous with his contacts when she learns he is the lone survivor of an ambush and has an injured ankle.  His partners have been killed by the gunmen of a drug lord that Cody has been working undercover to apprehend.  Nicodemus, the drug lord, hires a party of ex-South African secret police, led by a killer named Steel, to find and eliminate Cody.  Cutter, aware that Sheena is missing, uses his CIA contacts to learn about Cody and his trouble.  He and Mendelsohn manage to infiltrate Nicodemus' compound and learn the whereabouts of Steel, and escape safely with the information.  Sheena and Cody seek refuge overnight in an abandoned building, and they consummate their growing attraction to each other.  However, everything about Cody reminds Sheena of Cutter.  When they reach the river they are surprised by Steel and his men and are pinned down by heavy fire (right).  Sheena fights Steel and his men and Cutter and Mendelsohn arrive in a boat equipped with a machine gun to ferry Cody to safety.  Cody disappears as a protected witness against the drug lord and Sheena sees Cutter differently.

 
Season 2, Episode 2 - THE FERAL KING; Original air date: 13 Oct 2001; Production Number 202

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Carl Weather
Written by Melissa Good & Christopher Mack
          Guest Stars:
          Ron Ely; Rick Perkins; Justine Eyre; Robert Herrick;
          J Larose; Pete Penuel, Edward Walker Jr

Several parties arrive in the Turaga region of the Lamistas to look for a young boy who was lost in the jungle 12 years earlier - an attractive woman named Andrea, who has hired Cutter to guide her and a group of heavies led by a viscous character named Bixby.  Sheena finds the boy, who is now a good-looking young man with very long hair and a muscular build, but he is easily spooked and runs away.  Sheena joins Cutter and Andrea, who confides that the boy is really Jared Chambers, heir to the Chambers Oil fortune, and his parents were killed in the plane crash that stranded Jared in the LaMistas.  Bixby, and his accomplice, Roland Chambers, the executor to the Chambers' fortune engineered the Chambers' plane crash and must now kill Jared to maintain their hold on the Chamber's loot.  Andrea sneaks away to try to find the plane crash site, which she does.  She also finds Jared but Bixby shoots him with a tranquilizer dart and captures Andrea (right).  Sheena becomes the Darak'na and eliminates Bixby, Roland and their two men.  Andrea takes Jared back to civilisation and Sheena reminds him he will always be a part of the jungle.

 
Season 2, Episode 3 - MIND GAMES; Original air date: 20 Oct 2001; Production Number 205

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Walter Von Huene
Written by Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
          Guest Stars:
          Afemo Omilami; Veryl Jones; Jermaine D'Aguiar;
          Peggy Sheffield; Todd Rogers Terry

Reports of strange behaviour in both Kali's village and the surrounding villages makes Kali suspect that a banished Nayakan Shaman named Kon Ti has returned.  She is worried that he is using a forbidden hypnotic drug called alodia, extracted from the Kalosa plant, to bend the will of the people to his wishes.  Cutter becomes involved when a truckload of tourists being driven by Mendelsohn are attacked by some crazed tribesmen.  Sheena becomes the Darak'na, knowing Kon Ti fears it, and attacks one his trucks full of harvested Kalosa plants.  Kon Ti, however, learns that Sheena is the Darak'na, when his "familiar", a hawk, transfers it's vision to Kon Ti.  Rashid falls under the alodia spell when he tries to reason with Kon Ti, who orders him to abduct Kali.  Sheena and Cutter investigate Kali's disappearance at Kon Ti's lair, a cavern in the mountains (right).  Kali, now under Kon Ti's alodia spell, bewitches them both with the drug but Sheena manages to break the spell.  She and Cutter do battle with Kon Ti's men and Rashid, while Kali battles Kon Ti with sorcery in the spiritual realm of the mind.  Kali kills Kon Ti and his power over Rashid and others is broken.

 
Season 2, Episode 4 - COLLATERAL DAMAGE; Original air date: 27 Oct 2001; Production Number 210

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Chuck Bowman
Written by Rick Husky
          Guest Stars:
          Karen Kim; Christian Boeving; Veryl Jones;
          Avis-Marie Barnes; Michael Hartson; Andrew Stoppard

Sheena pursues a woman who has blown up the Supply Depot, badly injuring Rashid, and manages to defeat and capture her after a viscous fight.   Meanwhile, two CIA agents, Devlin and Hansen, aware of Cutter's past, approach him to help them catch a CIA traitor named Cassandra, who they say has just killed two CIA operatives at the Supply Depot.  Cutter leads them after Sheena, aware she has pursued the bomber, but they try to kill Cassandra as soon as they see her.  Cutter smells a rat and joins Sheena and her prisoner, and the three escape into the jungle.  Cutter figures out that Cassandra has been duped into killing two bona fide agents in a rogue CIA operation.  Cutter recognises Cassandra from a CIA training camp 10 years earlier and learns she has a crush on him.  Devlin and Hansen call in a dozen mercenaries as backup.  Sheena, Cutter and Cassandra take refuge in an abandoned Ranger Station, where they become involved in a savage fire fight against Devlin and Hansen's reinforcements (right).  When they have killed them all, including the two CIA killers, Cassandra rapidly disappears, and Cutter hopes she will abandon her life as an assassin and start anew.

 
Season 2, Episode 5 - MELTDOWN IN MALTAKA; Original air date: 3 Nov 2001; Production Number 206

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by John Cassar
Written by Gene Miller & Karen Kavner
          Guest Stars:
          Laila Ali; Jim Borda; Leesha Halstead; Tristen Spears;
          Johnny "Yakya" McClain; Josephine Bracamontes

Cutter becomes suspicious when Malena, a female boxer he has agreed to train, is almost injured and he begins to suspect the reigning champion's promoter, Victoria Stevens.  She has guaranteed her gangster bookie a win and when she starts to realise that Malena has true potential she starts to fear for her safety.  Victoria becomes desperate and an attempt is made on Malena's life, but the Darak'na intervenes.  Cutter hides and trains Malena in the jungle but Mendelsohn is kidnapped by Bill, Victoria's right-hand man, to try to stop the fight.  Cutter is given an ultimatum - either his fighter takes a dive or Mendelsohn is killed - which he explains to Malena (right).   Melena fights defensively to buy time while Sheena locates and frees Mendelsohn by transforming herself into a serval.  When Mendelsohn appears ringside Malena is free to take down Kelly Lewis with a savage barage of punches.  Sheena goes after Victoria and Bill and during a fight with Sheena a bullet from Bill's gun ignites the fuel tanks of Victoria's car and she is killed in an explosion.  Malena departs on a world tour, determined to build a youth camp with her prize money when she returns.

 
Season 2, Episode 6 - TREASURE OF SIENNA MENDE; Original air date: 10 Nov 2001; Production Number 207

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Goran Gajic
Written by Harry Dunn
          Guest Stars:
          Alexandra Tydings; Mira Furlan; Thomas Merdis;
          Gregory Davis; Greg Sproles

Sheena attempts to find the lost treasure cave of the Zukuma tribe so that she can help them build an irrigation system to fight a drought.  She is forced to take an attractive, fast-talking female thief named Elena, with her because she is the only one who knows the location of the cave.  An art collector named Yoka Laneesh is also after the Zukuman treasure and she and her two thugs follow Sheena and Elena because they have the crystal skull that is the key to finding it.  They also have Cutter as a hostage.  Elena tells Sheena about her difficult childhood and how she became an accomplished thief.  Sheena frees Cutter they find the Zukuma cave.  They place the skull on a pedestal and at the appointed time it transmits a beam powerful enough to clear the rockfall obstructing the treasure chamber.  When Laneesh and her men arrive Elena, Sheena and Cutter battle and defeat them.  Elena manages to remove a bundle of jewels in her shirt  but when Laneesh attempts to do the same she is buried alive inside the cave.  Elena thanks Sheena for the moral guidance (right) and she donates some of her riches to the construction of the Zukuma irrigation system.

 
Season 2, Episode 7 - THE DARKNESS; Original air date: 17 Nov 2001; Production Number 213

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Steven L Sears
Written by Terry Ingram
          Guest Stars:
          Patricia Tallman; Veryl Jones; John K Brown;
          Dennis Neal; Simon Needham; Humberto Regio

The local people become hostile towards Kali when several government officials are mysteriously slaughtered, and rumours begin to spread that the shamaness has awoken The Darkness, a malign occult power.  Sheena and Cutter investigate and learn that Caroline Dular, who had run Animal Refuge No. 6 a decade earlier, has now returned and amassed a large collection of animals.  When Sheena approaches the refuge she senses that it is full of rogues and becomes very alarmed.  Dular has managed to acquire a rogue stick, a mystic device used to control rogues by blowing into one end of it.  Sheena and Cutter take Rashid to the refuge to examine it and discover that all of the workers there, as well as the animals, have all been badly mutilated. Kali is being protected at the ranger station where N'gama's payroll is stored and is forced to flee through the window when an unseen assailant arrives.  Kali encounters Dular blowing into the rogue stick in the forest.  A giant tiger appears stalking Kali but the Darak'na arrives and kills it in a savage battle (right).  Dular, who has removed the payroll tins from the ranger station, is apprehended by Rashid at the border. 

 
Season 2, Episode 8 - STILL HOSTAGE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS; Original air date: 24 Nov 2001; Production Number 203

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Walet Von Huene
Written by Babs Greyhosky
          Guest Stars:
          Yvette Nipar ; Jim Coleman; Veryl Jones; Steven West;
           Mel Johnson; Ronald McCall; Leroy Mitchell

A plane carrying vaccine for an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Kali's village is hijacked as it arrives at Uhura airport.  Also aboard is Biholo, a minister from neighbouring Dufari making a secret visit to begin peace negotiations.  Cutter calls in an expert hostage negotiator: his ex-wife, Amanda Prentice, which generates unexpected feelings of jealousy within Sheena.  Amanda learns that the terrorists are after the release of a dangerous Dufari revolutionary who once tried to assassinate President N'Gama.  The terrorists demand a shipment of blankets and when Sheena, wearing overalls, delivers them her jungle senses tell her that the plane's crew are not fearful and Amanda concludes they are accomplices.  They soon discover that the hostages have been moved from the plane using the blankets as a screen.  Using old tunnels under the runway the hostages have been relocated to a large hangar nearby and Amanda decides they are trying to assassinate N'Gama, who is moved to safety.  The Darak'na infiltrates the hangar via the underground tunnels, overcomes the terrorists and frees the hostages.  Sheena understands Cutter still has strong feelings for Amanda as they kiss each other goodbye.

 
Season 2, Episode 9 - RETURN OF THE NATIVE; Original air date: 26 Jan 2002; Production Number 209

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Goran Gajic
Written by Babs Greyhosky
          Guest Stars:
          Rick Worthy; Jim Coleman; Veryl Jones; Chet Johnson;
          Kelvin J Payton; Myles Thoroughgood

President N'Gama appoints Mako, a childhood friend of Sheena's, as the head of a new education project, but he is actually opposed to the project as he doesn't want "free thinkers" in his country.  N'Gama, and his aide, Rafika, plot to have Mako and Bantee, an ambitious plantation owner, destroy each other.  Kali informs Cutter that Mako and Sheena were once very close, and Cutter's jealousy urges him to spy on them talking.  He spots an assassin with a rifle, who fires at Mako but Sheena eliminates the killer. Rafika and Bantee arrange to have two new arriving teachers kidnapped but Sheena changes into a serval and locates them in an underground cell.  Cutter learns that Mako knows about Sheena's shape-changing abilities.  The footage on the teacher's video camera shows that Rafika was involved in the kidnapping and when Mako confronts him about it at a meeting Rafika threatens to kill both Mako and Bantee.  The Darak'na intervenes and both Rafika and Bantee are killed.  N'Gama, fearful of the incriminating video footage, opens Mako's school and Cutter learns that there are still some secrets between him and Sheena.  Mako does not know Sheena is the Darak'na.

Season 2, Episode 10 - THE MALTAKA FILES; Original air date: 2 Feb 2002; Production Number 201

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Terry Ingram
Written by Tony Blake, Paul Jackson & Harold Apter
          Guest Stars:
          K Danor Gerald; John Hostetter; Jim Helsinger; Margo Peace;
          Raleigh Stewart; Robert Carruth; Lucious Conway

The local people become hostile towards Kali when several government officials are mysteriously slaughtered, and rumours begin to spread that the shamaness has awoken The Darkness, a malign occult power.  Sheena and Cutter investigate and learn that Caroline Dular, who had run Animal Refuge No. 6 a decade earlier, has now returned and amassed a large collection of animals.  When Sheena approaches the refuge she senses that it is full of rogues and becomes very alarmed.  Dular has managed to acquire a rogue stick, a mystic device used to control rogues by blowing into one end of it.  Sheena and Cutter take Rashid to the refuge to examine it and discover that all of the workers there, as well as the animals, have all been badly mutilated. Kali is being protected at the ranger station where N'gama's payroll is stored and is forced to flee through the window when an unseen assailant arrives.  Kali encounters Dular blowing into the rogue stick in the forest.  A giant tiger appears stalking Kali but the Darak'na arrives and kills it in a savage battle (right).  Dular, who has removed the payroll tins from the ranger station, is apprehended by Rashid at the border. 

 
Season 2, Episode 11 - STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE; Original air date: 9 Feb 2002; Production Number 204

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Carl Weathers
Written by Carla Wagner
          Guest Stars:
          Gary Graham; Ryan Fafarnte; Brett Rice; Elena Wohl;
          Mark Daniel; Mark Lainer; Willie E Teacher

The local people become hostile towards Kali when several government officials are mysteriously slaughtered, and rumours begin to spread that the shamaness has awoken The Darkness, a malign occult power.  Sheena and Cutter investigate and learn that Caroline Dular, who had run Animal Refuge No. 6 a decade earlier, has now returned and amassed a large collection of animals.  When Sheena approaches the refuge she senses that it is full of rogues and becomes very alarmed.  Dular has managed to acquire a rogue stick, a mystic device used to control rogues by blowing into one end of it.  Sheena and Cutter take Rashid to the refuge to examine it and discover that all of the workers there, as well as the animals, have all been badly mutilated. Kali is being protected at the ranger station where N'gama's payroll is stored and is forced to flee through the window when an unseen assailant arrives.  Kali encounters Dular blowing into the rogue stick in the forest.  A giant tiger appears stalking Kali but the Darak'na arrives and kills it in a savage battle (right).  Dular, who has removed the payroll tins from the ranger station, is apprehended by Rashid at the border. 

 
Season 2, Episode 12 - COMING TO AFRICA; Original air date: 16 Feb 2002; Production Number 211

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Terry Ingram
Written by Robin Burger
          Guest Stars:
          Magalyn Echikunwoke; Martin Roberts; Jimmy Roger;
          Lawrence Benjamin; Dushawn Moses; Cynthia Calhoun

The local people become hostile towards Kali when several government officials are mysteriously slaughtered, and rumours begin to spread that the shamaness has awoken The Darkness, a malign occult power.  Sheena and Cutter investigate and learn that Caroline Dular, who had run Animal Refuge No. 6 a decade earlier, has now returned and amassed a large collection of animals.  When Sheena approaches the refuge she senses that it is full of rogues and becomes very alarmed.  Dular has managed to acquire a rogue stick, a mystic device used to control rogues by blowing into one end of it.  Sheena and Cutter take Rashid to the refuge to examine it and discover that all of the workers there, as well as the animals, have all been badly mutilated. Kali is being protected at the ranger station where N'gama's payroll is stored and is forced to flee through the window when an unseen assailant arrives.  Kali encounters Dular blowing into the rogue stick in the forest.  A giant tiger appears stalking Kali but the Darak'na arrives and kills it in a savage battle (right).  Dular, who has removed the payroll tins from the ranger station, is apprehended by Rashid at the border. 

 
Season 2, Episode 13 - THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MENDELSOHN; Original air date: 23 Feb 2002; Production Number 208

Produced by Boris Malden
Directed by Jon Cassar
Written by Tom Blomquist
          Guest Stars:
          Stacy Meadows; Kevin O'Neil; Birdsong; Jennifer Bergeron;
          Harold Briscoe; Ray Fuller; Rueben Shaw; Paul Walton

The local people become hostile towards Kali when several government officials are mysteriously slaughtered, and rumours begin to spread that the shamaness has awoken The Darkness, a malign occult power.  Sheena and Cutter investigate and learn that Caroline Dular, who had run Animal Refuge No. 6 a decade earlier, has now returned and amassed a large collection of animals.  When Sheena approaches the refuge she senses that it is full of rogues and becomes very alarmed.  Dular has managed to acquire a rogue stick, a mystic device used to control rogues by blowing into one end of it.  Sheena and Cutter take Rashid to the refuge to examine it and discover that all of the workers there, as well as the animals, have all been badly mutilated. Kali is being protected at the ranger station where N'gama's payroll is stored and is forced to flee through the window when an unseen assailant arrives.  Kali encounters Dular blowing into the rogue stick in the forest.  A giant tiger appears stalking Kali but the Darak'na arrives and kills it in a savage battle (right).  Dular, who has removed the payroll tins from the ranger station, is apprehended by Rashid at the border. 

 
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SOURCES
• All original airing dates and production numbers are from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• All production credits are taken from the opening and closing titles of the episodes on my DVDs of this series
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LYNX
• Columbia Pictures TV Producer Steven L Sears' Sheena pages; the extensive production photos are very good


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