Relic Hunter - Series 1 - Episode 1
Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddha's fabled overflowing alms bowl for the residents of a small village building a shrine to the original Buddha, Siddhartha
Episodes: 22 | Released: 2000 | Certificate: 12 | Genre: Action/Adventure | Director: Ian Toynton
Actors: Tia Carrere
, Christien Anholt
Sydney and Nigel head to Nepal to recover Buddha's fabled overflowing alms bowl for the residents of a small village building a shrine to the original Buddha, Siddhartha
The grandson of a man framed for murder 70 years ago persuades Sydney to locate Al Capone's diamond-encrusted gun, which he hopes will clear his grandfather's name.
Returning from an expedition, Sydney crash lands at a convent in Nova Scotia where the Sisters of Mercy ask her help in finding the remains of Sister Evangeline, whose decapitated body has been missing for over 400 years.
It's off to the wild, wild West after Sydney and Nigel see an old photo of the Pioneers' Bear Flag of California, believed to have been destroyed during the struggle to control the state in 1846.
A washed-up musician appeals to Sydney to help him find his lost "treasure" - a guitar given to him by Elvis Presley during their GI days.
Frank Newhouse, an arrogant baseball star whose career is crashing and burning, hires Sydney to find the "magical" glove of former baseball great Jimmy Jonesboro, stolen over 50 years ago.
A military officer from a shadowy U.S. intelligence agency "persuades" Sydney - with Nigel in tow - to join him on an undercover mission to locate the Paracelsus scrolls, fabled to contain the formula to turn lead into gold, in a remote, war-torn Peruvian jungle.
Sydney's old "friend" and rival Relic Hunter, Stewie Harper, is up to his usual underhanded tricks when he shows up at the university posing as a visiting professor. He's got a hot lead on an ancient fortune but cannot recover it without Sydney's expertise.
Soccer superstar and international heartthrob Roberto Giannini sweet-talks Sydney - and Nigel - into launching a hands-on search for Casanova's Book of Love.
Stavros, a modern-day version of a Greek god, dangles an ancient trinket in front of both Claudia, on a European vacation, and Sydney, lecturing in Athens. Stavros claims that the marble charm is the key to the fabled Minotaur's Maze.
Molly, Sydney's former classmate at Frau Gutfreund's Finishing School in Geneva, Switzerland, fears the life of an online acquaintance is in danger and begs Sydney to help.
Sydney and Nigel head North to investigate a Chinese antiquity that washed ashore in Alaska, more than 3000 miles from its place of origin - and over 3000 years after being lost.
When an old friend of Sydney's, Bruce Farrow, is framed for plundering the tomb of Thutmose III and pocketing the Pharaoh's legendary diamond, Sydney and Nigel jet off to Cairo to chase down the real tomb raider.
Elizabeth Ruckeyser (special guest star Rena Mero), the curator of New York's Crawford Institute, summons Sydney and Nigel to the Big Apple to track down the sacred statue of the cat goddess Mafdet, a priceless, ancient Egyptian relic that Sydney found and returned once before.
Sydney and Nigel head to the Scottish Highlands in search of the missing half of the "twine-ing rings" that belonged to a doomed pair of star-crossed lovers from the 15th century.
Rex Rolands, a magician with a penchant for making things disappear, seeks out Sydney's expertise -- making things reappear - to locate Hungary's Cursed Scepter, a jewel-encrusted staff that belonged to the Hungarian royal family until they were the victims of a magic show hoax.
The unexpected discovery of a scroll hidden inside a toy horse once belonging to Louis XVII sparks a transcontinental mission to recover the lost crown jewels of France. The handwritten message points Sydney and Nigel to Chateau Halezan, a winery built and founded by Jerome Halezan, long considered to have been Marie-Antoinette's lover.
After monks deliver a Knights Templar medallion to Dr. Jaebert, curator at the French Institute of Antiquities, Sydney and Nigel are off to Paris to authenticate both the find and the legend behind it.
Nicole Chamfort, one of Sydney and Nigel's graduate students, is convinced that two young lovers from her ancestral hometown, a tiny village in France, were secretly married on the eve of the French Revolution, just moments before the happy groom was murdered by revolutionaries.
At the request of Sydney's old friend, author Eric Dalt, she and Nigel rush off to Brussels to search for Zeus' sacred sundial. Eric is convinced that his girlfriend is a lamae, a female vampire descended from Lamia, one of Zeus' lovers.
A steamer trunk of her grandmother Isabelle's things sparks a trip into the past for Sydney, who's long been fascinated with the relative who once sang at Paris' famed Moulin Rouge.
One of Sydney's former mentors, Professor Chandler, passes away before finishing his life's work - recovering the Ruby Chalice of Truth, a long-fabled relic imbued with hypnotic, truth-inducing powers.