Monkey

- Season 1

(1978)

Monkey is summoned to Heaven. He steals and eats the heavenly peaches, whilst there and gains immortality. He then fights 2 of the Emperor's officials whilst there and all 3 of them are expelled to earth. Monkey gets imprisoned under a mountain, whilst the 2 Emperor's officials are transformed into a pig monster (Pigsy) and a water monster (Sandy). Buddha requests that a holy man must fetch holy scriptures from India, to save the world.

Buddha sends a messenger to find a holy man to make the journey from China to India. She chooses the boy priest and bestows upon him the name Tripitaka. Joined by the irrepressible Monkey - with his magic wishing staff and magic powers.

Tripitaka and Monkey begin their journey at a village terrorized by a greedy and lustful monster Pigsy and his deadly muckrake, and the Mighty River of Flowing Sands and the cannibalistic water monster Sandy. Will Monkey save the day?

Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy, Tripitaka and the horse enter a land ruled by the demonic Golden Horn and his wife, Silver Horn. Pigsy discovers that all is not what it seems and Tripitaka and Sandy find themselves a bit tied up.

The immature King of Youth decides to kidnap Tripitaka to gain the attention of Heaven and Earth. When Monkey's powers prove no match for the King's fiery temper, and Pigsy and Sandy are otherwise engaged, who will save Tripitaka?

When Monkey kills a girl and her elderly parents, Tripitaka sends him home. No one believes Monkey's story that they were demons disguised as humans. When they discover the truth, Tripitaka wishes he'd never denied the demons' existence.

Desperate for water, the pilgrims find that the local water monster has caused a drought, because there are no boys to sacrifice to him. With Monkey's cloud out of action, brave Pigsy volunteers to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Monkey saves a pretty widow from a Demon, Pigsy falls in love with her, but she only has eyes for Tripitaka. The pilgrims move on, Pigsy stays behind to win her heart. When Monkey goes to fetch Pigsy, Tripitaka and Sandy end up in trouble.

When Lord Li's stepdaughter is kidnapped by bandits, Monkey takes the job of catching them. He learns the bandits secret. Meanwhile, Tripitaka, Pigsy and Sandy spend the night at an inn that's owner has a surprise for Tripitaka.

Tripitaka is visited in a dream by the spirit of a deceased king. He tells Tripitaka he was murdered; for years a magician has been impersonating him. Tripitaka and his disciples set out to prove that the current king is a fake.

An invisible wall separates the land of night from the land of day. The blood-sucking Queen of Night terrorises the inhabitants of her land, while everyone in the land of day is forced into slavery by their merciless king.

Tripitaka and his companions battle three evil animal demons who have taken control of a once-prosperous kingdom.

A village headman and his wife grieve for their beautiful daughter Hai-Min who disappeared a year ago. Lecherous Pigsy offers to go and look for her. He finds a slug monster who says he is Hai-Min's reluctant husband

The pilgrims enter a volcanic land that is plagued by earthquakes caused by the frequent quarrelling of two local demons; a catfish demon and a faceless shape-changer demon, who can take on the shape of anyone.

To help an old priest dig a tunnel through the mountains Monkey uses his magic. Only to find that the old priest is really a crow demon that was looking for an egg in the mountain.

Desperate to please Chun-Shou, the woman he hopes to marry the unhappy king of Unicorns promises to find a new toy for her spoilt brat son, little Chen. When he finds out about Monkey's magic wishing staff, he decides this would be ideal.

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Tripitaka starts to believe that by eating the frozen pig they found, they have eaten Pigsy and starts to take on the persona of Pigsy.

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