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3	''Bring 'Em Back Alive'' was a Creator/{{CBS}} adventure television series starring Creator/BruceBoxleitner, Creator/CindyMorgan and Creator/RonONeal. Boxleitner plays the pith-helmeted GreatWhiteHunter Frank Buck, who here (unlike the real Frank Buck on whose life this series was very loosely based) works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting all kinds of bad guys in [[TheForties pre-war]] Malaya.
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5	''Bring 'Em Back Alive'' ran for 17 episodes in 1982-83. Even though it was just a short-lived adventure series, it had fairly complicated plots and even the bad guys got some CharacterDevelopment.
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8	!!''Bring 'Em Back Alive'' contains examples of:
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10	* AffablyEvil: G.B. Vonturgo
11	* TheAlcatraz: In "Escape from Kampoon", Buck and H.H. help an American agent free her secret contact from Kampoon prison---an Asian version of Devil's Island.
12	* BaldOfEvil: Vonturgo again
13	* BringItBackAlive
14	* ClosedCircle: In "Storm Warning", Buck escapes being murdered aboard a ship, then is forced to wait out a storm with his shipmates, one of whom is the would-be killer.
15	* DuelingShows: It was created to compete with ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'', as both shows were quickly green lit to capitalize on the success of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.
16	* GreatWhiteHunter: Frank Buck
17	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: While on a safari in "The Chase", Buck and a photographer are tracked by a tribe of hunters led by a sadistic escaped convict.
18	* JungleOpera
19	* SexSlave: In "The Shadow Women of Chung-Tai", Buck is drugged and his date abducted by a notorious flesh peddler.
20	* TwoFistedTales
21	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Very loosely based on the life of real life GreatWhiteHunter Frank Buck.
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