Legends of the Hidden Temple
| Legends of the Hidden Temple | |
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| Genre | Game show |
| Created by |
David G. Stanley Scott A. Stone Stephen Brown |
| Presented by | Kirk Fogg |
| Narrated by | Dee Bradley Baker |
| Composer(s) | David G. Stanley Scott A. Stone |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 120 |
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| Executive producer(s) | David G. Stanley Scott A. Stone |
| Location(s) |
Nickelodeon Studios Universal Studios Florida |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Stone Stanley Entertainment |
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| Original network | Nickelodeon |
| Original release | September 11, 1993 – 1995 |
Legends of the Hidden Temple is an American action-adventuregame show that aired from 1993 to 1995 on Nickelodeon. Created by David G. Stanley, Scott A. Stone, and Stephen Brown, the program centered on a temple that was "filled with lost treasures protected by mysterious Mayan temple guards". Kirk Fogg was the host and served as the teams' guide while Dee Bradley Baker announced and voiced a talking Olmec who "knows the secrets behind each of the treasures in his temple". Six teams of two children (one boy and one girl) competed to retrieve one of the historical artifacts in the temple by performing physical stunts and answering questions based on history, mythology, and geography.
Legends of the Hidden Temple was produced by Stone Stanley Productions in association with Nickelodeon and was taped at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. Following the series' conclusion, it aired in reruns on Nick GAS from 1999 to 2007 and occasionally on TeenNick's block The Splat since 2015. In 1995, Legends of the Hidden Temple won a CableACE award for Best Game Show Special or Series.
The set design of Legends of the Hidden Temple was based on the Indiana Jones movies, and Marianne Arneberg of the Orlando Sentinel described the program as "a combination of Jeopardy and Raiders of the Lost Ark". The set design has been described as Mayan. It included areas for different types of physical challenges: a broad but shallow pool of water (the moat), a set of steps (the Steps of Knowledge), and a large, two-and-a-half-floor vertical labyrinth (the "hidden temple"). At the temple's gate was a talking Olmec head simply named Olmec (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker). Olmec narrated the stories told in the steps of knowledge and temple game challenges (although in the first season, Fogg narrated the temple game challenges). Each episode centered on a particular legend regarding an artifact (real or fictional) from around the world that found its way to the temple. Some artifacts included "Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress", "The Electrified Key of Benjamin Franklin", "The Jewel-Encrusted Egg of Catherine the Great", and "The Broken Wing of Icarus". In addition to providing an artifact, the legend also was important to other aspects of the show: the Steps of Knowledge used questions based on the historical legend, and the theme of the temple games was also loosely based on the legend.
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