Forgotten TV- Tales of the Gold Monkey

The year was 1982 and a number of well-known or long-running tv shows began their run. Cagney and Lacey, Family Ties, Knight Rider, Cheers, Remington Steele, St. Elsewhere and Newhart are pretty well remembered. This show ran three unfilmed episodes short of a whole season before it was canceled by ABC.
A light-hearted adventure set in 1938 South Pacific, Stephen Collins played Jake Cutter, a pilot who flew a red and white Grumman Goose called Cutter's Goose. He is joined in his adventures by his trusty dog, Jack who would bark once for "no" and twice for "yes" (or the opposite if it suited him.) The gold monkey referred to a brass monkey statue Cutter went after in the pilot episode.
While many thought the show was meant to imitate Raiders of the Lost Ark, which hit it big at the box office the previous year, Donald Bellisario actually had been shopping the series back in 1979 and had no takers. TV executives thought no one would watch a show set in the 1930s.
For one brief season this show was the highlight of Wednesday night television.