S1.E14 ∙ Ceremony at Whispering Pines

Shabby Parisian nightclub singer Marguerite hides the rebel from the autonomous southern provinces who failed to kill the maharajah of Sadjurah. Next she's offered money to impersonate Rose, the daughter of the late French archeology professor Laurant, who discovered the treasure of the ruined ancient capital Changa. The club is torched and her unschooled preteen son Gustave 'Gus' kidnapped by a traitorous socialite arms dealer, Schwartz, and his secret accomplice, a rebel leader, to force her so as to steal the known pieces from the ruler. The real Rose offers to show them the rest of the treasure. After the switch and another bombing succeeds. The new maharajah Nadjah, mistaking her for the Rose that taught him at the Sorbonne, is spared under his enthronement pardon but Colonel Taradjahi orders her shot. Rebels attack, prevent her execution, bring her to their HQ in the lost city where she is discovered to be Rose's twin. Clever Gus mistakes Rose for Marguerite and helps her escape; she's seized by the guard but Nadjah chooses her as his maharani. The politics take over.

Magee is deep in debt and is told that he'll lose his freighter to Bartlet Stirling, wealthy owner of a big company. Enraged he seeks him on his ranch, but is told that Stirling is away on the hunt for the next week. Since he has to find him during the next two days, or his freighter will be scrapped, Magee kidnaps Stirling's stuck-up daughter Veronica to show him the way through the jungle and to her father.

A young couple becomes thrust in the middle of a dangerous conflict between opposing parties that have been secretly covering up the knowledge of a hidden artifact emitting special powers that might unlock the riddle of "the fountain of youth". This artifact, which is accidentally discovered by the young couple on a dive charter, is thought to have been placed here on earth thousands of years ago by extra-terrestrials. The attempts to keep this intriguing artifact hidden brings us into an amazing story that weaves history, romance, drama, and science into our homes.

The late 60's, early 70's were all about change: in society, our surfboards and the way we rode them. From the perspective of 'Four years after' you could see how far we had come. The best of the old. The newest of the 'new'.

Set in a traveling circus in modern (1962) Austria, the story centers around Tristie (Molly Mack), a 12-year-old escapee from behind the Iron Curtain, who is hunted by the law, rescued by a giant border dog and "adopted" by an elephant.