MCOG OPENING THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 42s
MYSTERIOUS CITIES INSTRUMENTAL (TRACK 16) 1m 23s
In the last episode of Mysterious Cities of Gold, The children are ambushed by the fierce giants of the Urubu tribe. They escape via a narrow cave where they find an unconscious girl Lana who comes from the floating village of Tetola.
She leads them to her village, built on a floating island of reeds on Lake Titicaca. The grateful villagers welcome them, but have no useful knowledge of the cities of gold. The Urubu appear at the lakeside, building rafts to attack the island and retrieve their intended sacrifice.
The children defeat their attackers and the captured Urubu chief points them in the direct of the sacred mountain of Pachamama, the earth goddess.
On finding the statue, Esteban and Zia place their medallions upon the statue's breasts, and the nearby rock face slides open, revealing a hidden, abandoned city. Searching for gold, they investigate a huge temple with a gold sun emblem on the wall. Esteban removes the centre piece. Light shines from the hole he opens, reflecting off the ceiling onto the floor. The room is filled with a brilliant light and a huge gold statue of a condor emerges from the floor.
Later they find out that they are inside a volcano which is about to erupt. As the temple they are in collapses and the volcano erupts, the children climb into the condor which is pushed high into the air by the erupting volcano.
The condor, in reality a flying machine, goes into autopilot.
FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR (TRACK 6) 1m 23s
The condor, still on autopilot, flies west. It passes over a village being ransacked by Europeans, scaring them greatly. They run to inform Governor Pizarro. The condor lands on the Nazca plateau. Mendoza and the children examine the mysterious giant markings which cover the plain. They decide that the condor landed because it uses the power of the sun, and the approaching sunset would have caused it to crash. Sancho and Pedro fiddle with the controls and a snake-shaped lever emerges from the panel. The children discover that it controls the bird's movements.
Pizarro's men tell him about the condor, and he leaves immediately to capture the children. While the party sleep by the condor, Pizarro reaches the nearby village, and with soldiers rides to the plateau. They arrive just before sunrise and surround the condor. Mendoza decides it would be prudent to surrender rather than be killed. Pizarro demands to see Esteban fly the condor. As the sun rises, the condor powers up, glowing blindingly. The party, their eyes closed against the glare, run to the condor. The condor leaves the ground, Mendoza leaping on just in time. Esteban flies around, trying out the condor's controls.
PRINCIPAL THEME (TRACK 21) 1m 27s
The party agree to fly in the condor to the land of the Mayas. First they set off for the High Peak, to seek directions from Chief Kraka. On the way, Zia's pet condor approaches, and they follow it. The Europeans are rebuilding the rope bridge to get to the High Peak. Kraka is warned and orders his men to block the entrance behind the waterfall. The condor arrives on the scene. Esteban sees the cannon being moved across the bridge and flies at it, breaking the bridge. Cannon and soldiers alike plummet down the canyon. The others note that Esteban seems quite recovered from his fear of heights.
Gomez, Gaspard and a group of soldiers are already across the bridge, and find the cave behind the waterfall blocked. They remove the obstruction with gunpowder, but the explosion causes a landslide. Gomez and Gaspard fall into the river and are carried away. The cave is left sealed for all time, leaving the people of the High Peak secure in their isolation. The condor lands there, but no-one there knows the whereabouts of the land of the Mayas. According to old Mayuka, the only man who would know is the Papa Camaillo of Puna - Zia's father, who left to find the sacred fountain of the Mayas. The party leaves the following morning, seeing Pachu's chicks en route.
END THEME TRACK 36 1M 50
In our next episode, the condor flies on over the jungle but a black storm cloud gathers, blocking out the sun and the giant machine goes into a dive. Find out what happens in our next episode of The Mysterious Cities of Gold.
Adapted and produced for radio from episode summaries written by Tyrone Cartwright,
Original music composed by Haim Saban and Shulki Levy and performed by Le Group Apollo
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