Relic Hunter

Relic Hunter
Main Screen-ing Title
Genre	Mystery Fantasy Action Adventure
Created by	Gil Grant
Starring	Tia Carrere Christien Anholt Lindy Booth Tanja Reichert
Composer(s)	Donald Quan
Country of origin	Canada/France Co-Production 1-2 series Canada/United Kingdom Co-Production 3rd series
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	66 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jay Firestone Adam Haight Simon MacCorkindale
Producer(s)	Papa Kahungi Ken Gord
Running time	43 minutes
Production company(s)	Digital Bongo Drums Halloween Filmworks No Equal Entertainment Ellipse Film + Television Productions CHUM Television Tayel Limited SND
Distributor	Paramount Domestic Television CBS Television Distribution (current as of 2007)
Release
Original network	first-run syndication (1999-2002)
Original release	September 20, 1999 – May 20, 2002

Relic Hunter is an anglophone Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt.

It centers on Sydney Fox, a professor who is also a globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the original owner. She is aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for monetary gain. The series includes fantasy and science fiction elements, with many of the relics featured having genuine supernatural powers or being pieces of unusually advanced technology.

It ran for three seasons in the U.S. between 1999 and 2002 after fulfilling its initial three-season, 66-episode contract, from which it was not renewed. In both Ireland and the United Kingdom, it is aired on Sky1 and subsidiary channels, while in Canada, it is aired on CityTV and Space, CTV's sister network A-Channel and recently Showcase. The series was shot in the Toronto area, and includes many familiar local landmarks among its locations.

Relic Hunter follows the globe-trotting adventures of unorthodox American archaeologist Sydney Fox (Tia Carrere), and her more reserved British assistant Nigel Bailey (Christien Anholt). They are assisted at their "home base", a generic American university identified only as Trinity College, by ditzy student secretary Claudia (Lindy Booth), the spoiled and fashion-conscious daughter of one of the college's major donors. The character of Claudia was replaced in the third season by Karen Petrushky (Tanja Reichert), who is closer to the standard "sexy secretary" stereotype but who was more talented than Claudia at dealing with predicaments of a bureaucratic nature.