

Diving underwater to get statues hidden in treasure chests.Climbing up a wall and collecting bananas/statues hidden in ridges.Collecting bananas/statues hanging above a swamp, using lilypads or a bridge.Discovering bananas/statues in a maze or obstacle course usually one member of the team would complete the course while others would provide assistance by using tools on the other side of the wall, or provision of guidance from above.Capturing statues while going down a zipwire.Games took approximately two to three minutes each, and included challenges such as: In some games, Sid and Elvis (a pair of monkeys loyal to the jungle king) would try to distract contestants by throwing coconuts or other objects in their direction. If multiple team members are trapped in the same game, one team member can be released for free while each additional team member must be bought out to be released. Occasionally, members of the team could be trapped by running out of time in an obstacle course or failing to complete a game involving cages the rest of the team would then decide if they wanted to forfeit 50 bananas/one (later two) statues to release them, or leave without them and lose no time. Usually, 100 bananas or four to five statues were available in each of the challenges. The same location could be used for multiple challenges, but each task could only be played in one place. Some were swamps or waterfalls others were obstacle courses or mazes, and some were just places out in the open. There was also one golden banana worth 50 bananas, later replaced with a Ruby monkey worth 20 seconds, in each episode, with the total amount of possible time standing at 3:20.Ĭhallenges took place in a variety of locations. However, from series 3 onward, these are replaced with silver monkey statues, each one giving them 10 seconds in the final challenge. In the first 2 series, bananas win them time in the final challenge. On their way they compete in 5 challenges (3 or 4 in celebrity editions) to win time inside the temple to better their chance of winning the top prize. It was recorded at the disused air base, RAF Newton, near Nottingham.Ī team of children come upon a mythical jungle ruled by the Jungle King, where the goal is to win treasure from the Temple of the Jungle King. The show has had three presenters, referred to as the "Jungle Guide": Dominic Wood from 1999 to 2000, Chris Jarvis from 2001 to 2002 and Michael Underwood from 2003 to 2006. It was a game show similar to shows such as Fort Boyard and The Crystal Maze.

Jungle Run is a British children's television adventure series that aired on CITV as part of the ITV network from 10 September 1999 to 29 November 2006.
