Mummies Alive - Series 1 - Episode 1
Scarab is introduced and attacks Presley, but Mummies appear to protect him. Nefertina is revealed to be a female, and the stage is set.
Episodes: 25 | Released: 1998 | Certificate: U | Genre: Animated | Director: Seth Kearsley
Actors: Scott McNeil
, Bill Switzer
, Dale Wilson
, Graeme Kingston
, Cree Summer
, Gerard Plunkett
Scarab is introduced and attacks Presley, but Mummies appear to protect him. Nefertina is revealed to be a female, and the stage is set.
Scarab uses dream magic to lure sleep-walking Presley. As Presley walks into Scarab's clutches, his dream takes him back into ancient Egypt, into the plot that took his and the Mummies' lives.
Scarab sends a pack of animal spirits after Presley, who is out camping with his mom. Scarab discovers that an approaching eclipse is the key to using the boy to gain immortality. Set and Anubis first seen. All four struggle with first 'modern life' encounters.
Scarab invokes the earth spirit Geb to help defeat the mummies and grab the boy in time for the eclipse. They get Ja-Kal and demand Presley give himself up or Ja-Kal will die. Presley goes, and the eclipse nears, but he and the other mummies foil Scarab.
Nefertina frustrated by lack of respect, falls in love with a charming biker who in truth is the snake demon APEP, and is looking to take revenge on the family of the boy prince. Apep becomes a dashing rebel biker, and falls in love with Nefertina.
While Scarab yearns to be younger, Presley yearns to be older, to win an eighth-grade girl's heart. Scarab invokes the water spirit, Nuhn, to find the fountain of youth and all four Mummies must rescue Presley.
An amnesiac Rath must swallow his haughty pride and depend on the kindness of homeless strangers to survive until the mummies can find him. Meanwhile, Scarab is draining the years out of the homeless in order to add them onto his own life.
Rath is stalked by former love Chantra, a vain, greedy sorceress. She appears as Presley's substitute teacher as Mr. Huxley is sent to the demon-filled world beyond the Western Gate.
A weakening Armon seeks to prove himself by entering a toughest man competition. He must face Talos, the bronze giant, in the finale.
When imperious, cat goddess Bastet appears, Nefertina and all city cats are driven crazy. Bastet is furious that cats are no longer worshipped. Nefertina abandons the others to be with cat goddess Bastet.
The Mummies are forced to team with Scarab to defeat raging goddess Sekhmet. She has unleashed various plagues on San Francisco because modern society's failure to respect her. It falls to Rath to trust in his own 'mortal' abilities to outwit Sekhmet and save them all.
A girl in Presley's journalism class is sure something mysterious is going on with him. Like a crack investigative reporter, she tracks his every move. While the Mummies are forced to deal with a deadly Scarab plot, Presley must keep his inquisitive classmate from finding out about him, and he must protect her life at the same time.
The apparent return of Pharaoh Amenhotep I surprises and thrills Presley and the Mummies -- except for Ja-Kal, who has his suspicions. Vulnerable Presley is delighted at the chance to learn more about Rapses' real father while Ja-Kal feels threatened. Ultimately they uncover the truth it's a plot by Scarab.
When Scarab focuses all the powers of his magic at Rapses, in the hopes of obtaining the Spirit of Pharaoh, an explosive separation occurs instead. When the smoke clears, Presley finds himself in 1525BC Egypt, being attended to by princely servants, while the personality of Rapses, with all of its royal pretensions, finds himself in the body of a 20th century American seventh grader. The Mummies have to get things back to normal before the haughty prince gives them all away to Scarab. All four Mummies must reverse the separation of Presley/Rapses.
A bully bothering Presley forces Armon to take Presley under his wing and teach him self-defense. Meanwhile, Scarab uses a travelling carnival to lure Presley to him.
Scarab locates and raises the remains of a sunken ship containing Egyptian artifacts on its own artificial island. Presley falls into a trance-like state and heads off for the island. The Mummies follow, and Rath learns that if Presley looks at a magic mirror in the cargo then Scarab will obtain his Spirit of the Pharaoh. The Mummies must confront Set and Anubis, who were raised with the wreckage and now work for Scarab.
Presley is told emphatically NOT to mess with something because Rath knows he can't handle it. Presley goes ahead anyway - and unleashes Talos.
Scarab has challenged the Mummies to a supposedly fair contest. However, Presley must find out how Scarab is cheating to defeat his challenge.
Ja-Kal, fearful that he's become a danger to the others, leaves the team. The others fall to bickering and infighting. Presley helps hold them together until they can get him back.
The ghosts of gold-rush miners are accidentally invoked by Scarab. Armon loses his nerve when his golden arm is stolen by gold-rush ghosts.
Scarab gets Chantra to turn herself into an appealing girl to lure Presley to him. But Chantra, overhearing what Scarab plans to get from Presley (eternal youth), decides to keep it for herself. All four Mummies are ordered by Presley to protect his mum Amanda, but must also rescue Presley from Scarab and Chantra.
Scarab changes himself into an 8-year-old boy so he can look for Presley. Gooey battles ensue with Kid Scarab and a dough monster attack during a school field trip to a sour-dough bread plant.
Geb, the spirit of the earth, is having marital problems with his wife, Nut, spirit of the sky. The Mummies get caught in the middle.
Water spirit Nuhn returns and promises to hand Rapses (Presley) over to Scarab. The Mummies lure him out to Death Valley and he evaporates. All four Mummies involved.
The un-bulked Mummies find themselves far from home. They have to struggle to make it back to their Sarcophagi in time to get recharged. Our recurring bickering cops, Joe and Bob, come close to nabbing them along the way. All four Mummies involved.