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- 1982–198329mTV-Y76.9 (78)TV EpisodeAs the tornado destroys the ship, the officers run away on the only lifeboat, and Esteban, Zia, Mendoza, Sancho, and Pedro find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y76.9 (90)TV EpisodeThe ship Esperanza departs from Barcelona with Esteban, Mendoza, Zia, and the rest of the crew. After a long voyage across the Atlantic it arrives to the dangerous Strait of Magellan.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y76.7 (73)TV EpisodeEsteban and his friends now know where the City of Gold is, but first they have to get back Mendoza's half of the pendant. So the three children set off for the Fort of the Black Eagle, accompanied by Vaina and Ketcha. For their part, Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho want to get to the Old Peak, but without Gomez. With a moment's inattention by the guards, they seize their opportunity and steal Gomez's cannon. Pursued by the Spanish soldiers, Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho run into Vaina and Ketcha, who lead them to Yupanki in the Fort of the Black Eagle. Mendoza tries to tell Yupanki that he stole the cannon for him, but Vaina and Ketcha have heard him telling Lord Gomez that the men in the Fort of the Black Eagle were preparing an ambush. Menoza's hoax revealed, Yupanki prepares to have him executed when suddenly Esteban appears, begging for Mendoza's life. In exchange for his own life and those of his companions, Pedro and Sancho, Mendoza realizes that he has to handover his half of the pendant to Esteban.
- 1982–198327mTV-Y77.5 (96)TV EpisodeAfter his caretaker dies, Esteban, a mysterious boy rescued at sea as a baby, embarks on a voyage to the New World to find his real father.
- The ship crosses the Strait of Magellan and reaches the Pacific, but a new, unexpected danger lurks ahead.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.5 (70)TV EpisodeHaving fallen asleep beside the Great Condor, Esteban and his friends are awoken by an earthquake. While Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho head down below the temple to try to discover what is happening, Esteban and Tao climb up the condor in order to see the quip that Pichu has discovered in the giant bird's beak. Suddenly overcome by dizziness, Esteban falls into a cavity which turns out to be the control cabin of the Condor. In the meantime, Zia has deciphered the message of the quip: "A danger is closing in on town. All the inhabitants have already left for the land of the Mayas, but in the event of danger, the Great Condor will come to their aid". While this has been happening, Pedro and Sancho have discovered a secret passage which leads them all to a well bearing the mark of the Great Condor. They take the stone stairs down inside the well, where they discover a grotto and a sheet of boiling lava. They realize that it is a crater which is about to erupt and so our friends fell back to the inside of the temple as the earth trembles under their feet. Before long, the ceiling of the temple collapses and the light floods in, shining on the blazon of the wall. This blazon begins to turn and reflects the light back to the Condor. The head of the bird begins to move up and down. All the time, the walls of the temple are crumbling around them, as our friends take refuge in the control cabin of the bird. A last eruption completely destroys the town and shoots the Condor out of the temple. Hardly knowing what to do, our friends have the idea of placing their pendants on the blazon in the Condor's control cabin. This sets off a mechanism: the golden bird begins to fly and it rises up into the skies.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.1 (72)TV EpisodeEsteban, Zia and Tao walk through the mountains in the direction of Zia's village. They are being followed by two men, both of whom are strangely dressed, wearing clothes such as Zia has never seen any Inca wearing before. They shake the two men off their trail, however, and arrive at last at Zia's village. But to their great distress, they realize that it is deserted. No one comes to greet them except for Zia's condor Pattu, who flies off abruptly when he feels the presence of soldiers. In fact it is Gomez and Gaspard who have also been following Zia on Pizarro's orders. He had known that the girl would try to return to her village. This time the children cannot escape and Gomez threatens to burn down the village if Zia refuses to read the quip for him. Zia will still not agree. Then he threatens to throw Tao and Esteban into a giant nest of ants. At last Zia agrees and gives them the following interpretation: "Go up to the Old Peak, north of Puma village". Gomez decides to leave the next morning to check this reading and locks the three children up in a temple. At this moment, the two strangely-dressed men who had been following them up the mountain appear and tell them "Don't be afraid of us. We are here to save you. We are sent by Kraka, the Great Chief of the Old Peak". The children escape from their Spanish guards and, escorted by Vaina and Ketcha, head along a secret path toward the Old Peak, where Kraka is awaiting them.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.3 (72)TV EpisodeNo one in Machu-Pichu knows where the City of Gold is. Tao finds a blazon, engraved in a stone, representing the sun, at the bottom of a well, but no one knows what it means except perhaps Mayucca, an old man who knows a multitude of the Inca legends. The children set of to find him, hoping that he will also be able to tell them something about Esteban's father. Mayucca tells them a story: Twelve or thirteen years ago, a man who came by boat over the great ocean to the west, is said to have had a child by a young Inca girl, who was a vestal, one of the servants of the Sun God. The sun, in anger, threatened to plunge the land into darkness. Terrified, the Incas offered the young girl as a sacrifice, then they built a boat and set the man and his child adrift on the great ocean to the west. Before leaving, the man is supposed to have said, "In the place where Inti, the God of the Sun and Koyolite, the brilliant star meet, there will be born again the sacred blazon of the sun." "That is the place represented by the sculptures that you saw" says Mucca, thus ending his story. The old Inca adds that he does not know if the story is true or just a legend. Zia decides that she prefers it is a legend as this would mean that there is still hope of finding Esteban's parents alive. Back again at the old Peak, Tao manages to work out the significance of the blazon on the stone with the help of his ancestors' book. In addition he makes some calculations which lead him to the conclusion that from where they are now, he can find the City of Gold.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.3 (72)TV EpisodeEsteban, Tao and Zia, led by Vaina and Ketcha, are heading towards the Old Peak when they realize that they are being followed by Gomez and Gaspard, accompanied by Mendoza, Sancho and Pedro. However, the children soon reach the fort of the Black Eagle where they are warmly greeted by Chief Yupanki. No Spaniard has ever ventured this region before so Chief Yupanki, who guards the Old Peak, has never seen or even heard of rifles. In addition to this, the Incas never fight at night because "only the protection of the sun allow us to win", as they explain to Esteban. But Gomez is famous for his night attacks and the children know that he will attack as soon as darkness falls. Thanks to an ingenious system that the clever Tao thinks up, however, the children push back the Spaniards who are completely taken by surprise. The next morning, Esteban and his friends move on towards the Old Peak and arrive at last at a town that seems to be hanging in the clouds. This is Machu-Pichu, the town of the old Peak. Chief Kraka immediately asks them where their pendants come from. "This belongs to my family," Zia tells him. "It has been passed down from generation to generation, always to the first-born daughter". "And this is mine," says Esteban, showing his medallion. "I don't have the have which shows the sun though. Mendoza has that." My children, you posses the keys to the Golden Cities of Tseila. For generations, my people have been waiting for you. It is said that when these two medallions, having left the goddess of the Moon, are in the arms of Pacha-Mam, then shall be opened the gates of the Golden City of Tseila.
- 1982–198327mTV-Y77.3 (77)TV EpisodeEsteban and his friends depart to South America on the Solaris. A danger lies in their path, but the Solaris is more powerful than it would seem.
- 1982–198327mTV-Y77.2 (75)TV EpisodeOvercome by the loss of the Solaris, our friends decide to go to Zia's village. But in order to get there, they will have to go through the fort of Tumbes, where Pizarro and his soldiers are stationed. In the fort, they must find an ancient priest, Pacha, who is the only living man to know the way to Zia's village. Learning from Gaspard that the children are fleeing through the underground drains, Pizarro remembers the Inca temple under the fort where he is holding an old man prisoner. This man, at lest 100 years old, had been to the Cities of Gold but refused to tell the Spaniards his secrets. The governor set his men off in pursuit of Esteban and his friends. Meanwhile, the young adventurers have found Pacha who, seeing the pendants of the Sun does not hesitate to show them the way. The old priest calls upon his ancestral learning to summon up the sun witch melts the god of the temple, represented by an enormous pillar of ice. In this temple also, Tao explains, "there is a huge machine which concentrates the power of the sun and magnifies it one thousand times". The old man orders the children to flee and leave him to die in the temple which will crumble. He shows them a secret passage which will allow them to escape from Pizarro's men. They set off for Zia's village.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.4 (75)TV EpisodeThe heroes are marooned on an island they think is deserted, until they discover it has one strange inhabitant.
- The Great Condor is flying over the Amazon forest. Esteban makes the bird fly low so that they can all admire the river. Suddenly the sky is covered with clouds that hide the sun. The Condor, no longer finding any energy on which to fly, comes lower and lower, in spite of Esteban's efforts at the controls. Finally it crash-lands in the jungle. In vain, Esteban tries to make the Condor take off. "If we don't get out this forest", says Mendoza "we will be the prey of wild beasts". At that moment a giant snake throws itself out of the water at the Condor with such force that Esteban and his friends are thrown clear. Hardly have they picked themselves up and pulled themselves together, than they meet a jaguar. To escape this new threat, the group hurries down a dark passageway formed by the foots of a gigantic tree. Thy come out into an enchanted land. While the children are admiring the view, a drum beat rings out through the forest and two warlike women appear before them: Amazons. The women summon them to follow, threatening them all the while with their weapons. The six friends are greeted by an old priestess, Omuro, who announces them that they are sacrificed to appease the wrath of the Rain God. Mendoza tells her that Esteban has the power to make the sun appear. Omuro does not believe him, but the Queen Sabbat interrupts. "Omuro, give these people a last chance. I want to see what this boy can do". Esteban begs the sun, the storm calms and Sabbat, now convinced that Esteban is really the child of the sun, decides to recognize him with all the honor due to his rank ... She receives the group with the warmest hospitality.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.2 (75)TV EpisodeEsteban and his friends have hardly left the bay when they meet the Saint Miguel, a Spanish warship under the command of Gomez and Gaspard, which begins to fire at them. Our friends believe that all is lost, when Esteban pulls a lever next to the wheel by mistake. Suddenly the Saint Miguel bursts into flames and Tao finds the explanation in his book: "Behind the solar sail is a reflective panel which has accumulated a fantastic energy. Once this panel is aimed, it is as if all the power of the sun were contained in a cannon". After this episode, Esteban and Zia notice smoke rising from the village. It is Tohaka's village, a young Inca boy who helped them escape from the fortress at Tumbes. It looks as though the Spanish are attacking the village. Our friends decide to help the villagers with their reflective panel. The Spanish soldiers flee bit while the little group is still in the village, the Saint Miguel manages to reach shore. Gomes threatens to raze the village if Zia is not handed over to him. Zia pretends to give herself up but manages, thanks to a ruse of Mendoza's, to get back to the Solaris. Tao has already swam out to the ship, fearful that Gomez would seize it. Gomez is furious at their escape and gives the order to raze the village. Trying to save it, Zia and Tao pull on the red lever on board the Solaris. The accumulated heat from the reflective panel is suddenly dispersed in one burst as if from a bomb. The Solaris explodes in a blinding flash. The Saint Miguel, however, is also sunk by the explosion as Zia and Tao had hoped. So Esteban and the village are saved. But the Solaris is destroyed and it sinks to the bottom of the sea.
- Heading for the mountains of Pacha Mama Esteban and his friends come across Kuruga who has been wounded. He is laying on the ground, abandoned by his people because he failed in his attack on the village. Taking pity on him, the children give him their water. To thank them, Kuruga tells them that the Urubus are preparing to capture Zia, to offer her up as sacrifice to Pacha Mama. He advises them to escape through the Valley of the Dead where the Urubus never dare to go. The little group crosses the valley with difficulty but manages to escape from the clutches of the Urubus. As night is falling on the Andes, Esteban suddenly notices a bright light in the sky. He is sure that it must be the star of Kogolite. According to the words of the Wise Man of the Old Peak "You must place the two medallions of the sun there, where the Sun God crosses Kogolite. The moment the two medallions leave the Moon Goddess and are placed on the chest of the Goddess of the Earth, the gate of the City of Gold will open". Finding a statue of the goddess Pacha Mama, exactly where it was indicated, Zia and Esteban lay their pendants on the chest of the statue and the wall opens. Behind, the friends see a temple where they notice a sun emblem identical to the one on the pendants. Esteban draws out the central section and a beam of bright light shines from the heart of the blazon. A giant condor of solid gold rises up in the middle of the temple. Our friends look on amazed.
- The Great Condor flies over the sea towards the land of the Mayas. Suddenly the bird loses height. It flies down to the ground and into an immense grotto. The nose of the bird goes down to pierce an opening in the rocks, revealing a staircase that our friends proceed to climb. They come out of the grotto to find a ruined town. Esteban wonders who on earth could have built these wonderful monuments. Pichu signals that he has found something. Our friends realize it is a statue of a winged serpent, bearing an inscription which resembles the writings of the Mu people. Tao shows that the winged serpent must have been a god to the former inhabitants of the town. Carefully studying the inscriptions of the wall, Tao tells his friends, "a long time ago, in the land of the Mayas, lived a very intelligent man who knew the sky and the earth. They called him the Winged Serpent and apparently," says Tao, "he made a sort of giant oven". At these words, Mendoza leaps up and tells them that it must have been an oven for melting gold. But Tao can decipher no more. All he can say is that everything is inside the City of Gold. At this moment we hear cries of fear from Pedro and Sancho: while trying to tear a jade mask from the wall where it is encrusted, they have set off a mechanism. The walls begin to crumble, the inscriptions disappear, the ways out are closed. Fortunately Pichu finds a way out and our friends find themselves in the temple by which they entered. From what Tao could understand of the inscriptions, the Mayas had all departed for the Cities of Gold. But where are the mysterious Cities?
- In their flight, Esteban, Tao and Zia arrive before a lake with what appears to be gold lining the bottom. To investigate, the children draw near and are soon taken by a group of Indians led by the Doctor and Marinché. The children have desecrated the holy source and must be sacrificed in a ceremony of purification. From a young Indian girl who secretly brings them food, Zia learns that her father Papacamajo has passed this way. He asked the chief Tarashingo to show him the manuscript and then continued his travels, in search of the City of Gold. Tao realizes that there is something in common between this manuscript and that which Marinché now has. In the meantime, Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho, guided by Pichu, arrive at the edge of the lake to witness the ceremony of purification at the same time as the Doctor and Marinché. The chief of the village, Tarashingo, goes into the lake with his body covered in gold. The Indians then throw precious stones into the water. Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho realize that they are on an artificial wall which holds back the waters of the lake. They decide to breach the wall so that during the night the lake will empty, flooding the village and they will be able to pick up the gold and the precious stones without anyone being able to follow them. The next day, the children, prisoners in the temple, hear a great noise and are suddenly surrounded by water. Seeing Mendoza and his two companions, the children realize who has broken the dam. They escape through a crack in a wall as it begins to crumble and they join the three men, guided by Pichu who has in the meantime, got back the manuscript from Marinché. Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho are disappointed not to have got any of the gold or stones but now, armed with the precious manuscript that will lead them to the Cities of Gold, they set off with the children for new adventures.
- In spite of the previous day's adventures, Tao goes back into the underground grotto to study the mystery of the jade mask. Putting his face to the eye of the mask, Tao makes out some inscriptions that he can read. He presses on the stones indicated by the inscriptions and suddenly the ground rises up, showing a stone sarcophagus. Inside the children find a manuscript that Tao takes to read with the help of his ancestors' book. Coming out of the ruins, the children are taken prisoner by a strange couple, Dr Fernando Laguera and Marinché, who are also searching for the Cities of Gold. Seeing the manuscript Tao is holding, Marinché snatches it away and begins to read it, also having seized his golden vase. To get back his vase and the manuscript, Tao asks Pichu to undo the rope holding him prisoner with his beak. Then he frees his friends. The three children set out for the temple where the Doctor and Marinché are interpreting the manuscript. In spite of all the precautions that they take not to make any noise, the children are heard and once again captured by the couple. Fortunately Mendoza arrives in time to take on the Doctor. He threatens to cut his throat if the children are not released. The three children flee, leaving Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho to escape in their own way.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.2 (65)TV EpisodeIn the palace of the Queen Sabbat, our friends are well looked after. However, the Priestess Omuro is very hostile towards them. She tries to persuade the Queen that Esteban and his friends having failed to be executed, they would have to sacrifice Morka, the Queen's favorite to the Rain God. Morka takes refuge with Esteban and begs him to save her. She tells him how Omuro has sought to overthrow Sabbat for many years and how she is untouchable because only she has the power to speak to the Rain God and cause it to ran when she wishes. In the temple where Omuro speaks to the God, Tao discovers the device to calculate the atmospheric pressure and thus predict rainfall. He alters the machine, hoping that when Omuro discovers her deception is revealed, she will flee. For their part, Pedro, Sancho and Mendoza have found a means of escape. They get all the children onto a raft and set off for the Great Condor. Suddenly the anaconda, the Amazon's sacred snake, rears out of the water and attacks. Paola, one of the Queen's serving girls fears for the life of the Child of the Sun and kills the snake to save our friends. Omuro is furious and demands Paola's life as a sacrifice for having killed the sacred anaconda which protected the people against attacks of the Seibans who live downstream. Without this sacrifice, the city will be overcome by storm and apocalypse. Mendoza proposes a deal: "If you predictions are true, you may do with us as you will. But if your prophesies are lies and the rain does not come when you say, you will be driven from the tribe". Omuro accepts on the condition that should she prove herself right, Queen Sabbat will leave the city. But when she realizes that her machine no longer works, she decides to flee and to attack the city with the aid of the Seibans. With the help on Moon Mirror, which Queen Sabbat lends them, the children capture the sunlight which will allow the Great Condor to take flight again and to attack the Seibans.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.4 (68)TV EpisodeEsteban and his friends are flying on board the Great Condor but they have no idea of how to pilot the bird. Terrified, they eventually realize that it is following the course of the sun. At last the Condor lands on the deserted plain where Esteban sees gigantic animals etched to the ground. While the three children and Mendoza set off to examine the strange designs, Pedro an Sancho try to undo the emblem of the sun in the control cabin. In so doing, they set off a mechanism which causes a snake-like lever to appear. After pushing and pulling it, they realize that his is the control stick for the Condor. Meanwhile, Pizarro's men, who have spotted the Great Condor, surprise Esteban and his friends while they sleep. The Governor desires, above all, that Esteban would show him how he can fly the Condor. He threatens cut off the heads of Zia and Tao should he flee on board. Esteban carries out his manoeuvres and then, thanks to the cunning of Mendoza, all of the group escape once more from the grasp of Pizarro and his men who are blinded by the rays of the sun, reflected from the Condor. The Great Condor soars peacefully above the Andes, bearing our amazed friends on board.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.3 (77)TV EpisodeOur heroes arrive to South America, where they are caught by a ruthless Spanish governor, who wants Zia to help him find the Cities of Gold. Her only chance to save her people is to attempt a daring escape.
- Mendoza and his men follow Esteban and Zia to the second island where Tao lives. With Tao's reluctant help they discover the ancient secret hidden inside the island.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.1 (68)TV EpisodeEsteban and his friends fly towards the Old Peak, where Esteban is hoping to tell Kraka everything that has happened on the mountain of the goddess Pacha Mama and to show him the Great Condor. Mendoza for his part hopes that Kraka will show them the way to the land of the Maya. Flying over the Old Peak, our friends see that Gomez and his men have built a bridge over the valley and are preparing to attack the Fort of the Black Eagle. With the help of the Great Condor, the children destroy the bridge and cause the Spaniards to loose the cannon with which they were hoping to attack the fort. In the meantime, Kraka and the villagers have built a wall to prevent the Spanish soldiers from entering the village. Gomez and his men discover the grotto where Kraka and the villagers are hiding and they prepare to blast the wall with gunpowder. The explosion however, breaks open a fault line in the mountain and water bursts out of the ground, flooding everything and carrying all before it. At this moment, the Great Condor appears and chases off the Spanish soldiers. Reunited with Kraka, Esteban questions him about the land of the Mayas, but the chief of the Old Peak thinks that none will be able to tell them except the wise Mayuka. "Alas, I can tell you nothing about the land of the Mayas" Mayuka tells them, however "the only man who knows that country is Papakamajo of Puna". "But Mayuka" exclaims Zia, "the man of whom you speak is none other than my father". This Zia learns that her father left long ago in search of the sacred fountain of the Mayas. The young girl sets off with her friends again, in search of the land of the Mayas and of her father.
- 1982–198328mTV-Y77.4 (71)TV EpisodeEsteban and his friends are now trapped with Mendoza, Pedro and Sancho in the Fort of the Black Eagle, surrounded by Gomez's men. Our friends attack the Spanish twice. First they draw up the stolen cannon, but the ammunition runs out very quickly. They then begin to use vases filled with gun powder as cannon balls. These unexpected attacks take Gomez's men by surprise and they draw back but, determined to take the Fort, they prepare for a second attack. Mendoza and Yupanki advise the three children to flee to the Old peak. But Gaspard almost catches them and a long chase begins through a dark grotto, inhabited only by bats. At last Tao discovers a secret passage of the Incas which leads them up towards the light. The children recognize the path leading to the Old Peak when they emerge. They see to be safe this time. But what adventures await them now that they have in their possession both pendants which will allow them to open the gates of the Cities of Gold?
- Under a burning sun, Esteban and his friends inch forward over the plain of the land of the Mayas. They are looking for the Swamp of the Rain God that is mentioned in the manuscript. However, the Doctor and Marinché have followed them and are now trying to overtake them by following a mountainside path when suddenly they are attacked by an eagle and fall into a ravine. Esteban and his friends also come to the mountainside and are attacked by the same eagle which the Doctor shoots and kills. He then demands in return for his favor that Mendoza help him and Marinchè out of the ravine where they are trapped. Much against his will, Mendoza throws them a rope, having first take the precaution of disarming the Doctor. As Marinchè knows the region well, Mendoza orders her to guide them to the prairie that the manuscript speaks of, threatening her all the time with his weapon. Once they reach it, our friends abandon the Doctor and Marinché who calmly watch as they press on. Marinché knows that the famous prairie that Mendoza and his friends are looking for is nothing more than a treacherous swamp full of alligators. In no time, an alligator springs out of the reeds. Mendoza shoots and kills it, but they are surrounded by a whole group of beasts. Esteban and his friends try to fend them off. Eventually, in desperation, Zia suggests that thy cross the swamp on one of the giant lotus leaves that are strewn everywhere. While some of them row as hard as they can, the others continue the fight against the alligators. Soon they can see trees on the horizon and at last our friends set foot on dry land. "Here we are out of reach of the alligators" says Mendoza, "and who knows, perhaps from here we can reach the prairie". Suddenly our friends spot a huge statue. "Perhaps that is the statue the manuscripts speaks of. Perhaps that is the Rain God", suggests Zia. "We're here," confirms Tao, "this is the Swamp of the Rain God".