History Series / RelicHunter

Relic Hunter was a television series that ran for three seasons in {{syndication}} from 1999-2002. Relic Hunters are adventurers who travel the globe to track down lost or stolen objects and return them to their owners or donate them to museums, sometimes for a fee but never working entirely for profit - unless they're this week's bad guy who'll get their comeuppance at the end.

The [[ActionGirl tough girl]] heroine, Sydney Fox (Creator/TiaCarrere), is a renowned Relic Hunter but also has a day job as a university professor of Ancient Studies which she is somehow never fired from despite taking a ridiculous amount of unscheduled time off to Relic Hunt (occasionally LampShaded by a boss who complains Sydney is never in). Her Hugh Grantesque teaching assistant Nigel Bailey (ChristienAnholt) accompanies her on hunts and largely gets used as the comic relief, whilst secretaries Claudia (seasons one and two) and Karen Petruski (season three) hold the fort back at Trinity College. The latter two were respectively played by Lindy Booth and Tanja Reichert.

The show sometimes features bursts of cheesy dialogue and various national stereotypes and all violence is carefully [[DiscretionShot filmed around]] with no visible blood for reasons of transmission time.

** Sydney doesn't have much of a nudity taboo and needs surprisingly little encouragement to take her clothes off.

** The season one credits even include a shot of her taking off her top!

The [[ActionGirl tough girl]] heroine, Sydney Fox (Creator/TiaCarrere), is a renowned Relic Hunter but also has a day job as a university professor of Ancient Studies which she is somehow never fired from despite taking a ridiculous amount of unscheduled time off to Relic Hunt (occasionally LampShaded by a boss who complains Sydney is never in). Her Hugh Grantesque teaching assistant Nigel Bailey (ChristienAnholt) accompanies her on hunts and largely gets used as the comic relief, whilst secretaries Claudia (seasons one and two) and Karen Petruski (season three) hold the fort back at Trinity College. The latter two were respectively played by LindyBooth and TanjaReichert.

** In episode 2 of season 1, Sydney insists on sharing a shower with Nigel (there is no sexual intent, she is just really dirty and needs to clean up quickly). The scene ends up with a wet and miserable-looking towel-clad Nigel standing outside the bathroom door, with Sydney calling for him to come back in. "Bathing with people of the opposite sex is a great way of relaxing."

* TheCastShowoff: Sydney gets to sing on occasion. Tia Carrere is also a singer and sang the AwardBaitSong for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys

** Sydney didn't have much of a nudity taboo and needed surprisingly little encouragement to take her clothes off.

* HotLibrarian: Sydney during her university job (though she is a professor, not a librarian)

* ActionGirl: Sydney Fox. Relic hunting can be dangeorus business, and Sydney is an expert in various martial arts. Even when she's back at her office we frequently see her practicing her kicks and punches.

** Claudia often wears skimpy and revealing clothes, though unlike Syndey she tends to keep them on.

* EvilIsNotAToy

* LingerieScene: Sydney gets quite a few of these.

* MentorOccupationalHazard

* OireLand
* OneTrueSequence

* PunctuatedPounding

* TheKnightsTemplar

* ActionGirl: Sydney Fox. Relic hunting can be dangeorus business.
* ActionDressRip: Sydney at a garden party.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: Guess who ?!?
* AncientConspiracy

* ActorSharedBackground: Sydney was born and raised in Hawaii, as was Tia Carrere.

** In episode 2 of season 1, Sydney insists on sharing a shower with Nigel (there is no sexual intent, she is just really dirty and needs to clean up quickly). The scene ends up with a wet and miserable-looking towel-clad Nigel standing outside the bathroom door, with Sydney calling for him to come back in. "Bathing with friends of the opposite sex is a great way of relaxing."

** Nigel also gets some {{ShirtlessScene}}s, though he's far more reluctant than Sydney to take his shirt off.

* ItBelongsInAMuseum: Most of the relics do.

** Her first scene has her teaching introducing a class on tribal culture by demonstrating pacific island styled dance in a bikini and she spends most of the next scene in her bra.

** Also, whenever Nigel gets a ShirtlessScene.

* ItBelongsInAMuseum

* ValleyGirl: Claudia, who at one point confuses astrology and astronomy.

The [[ActionGirl tough girl]] heroine, Sydney Fox (TiaCarrere), is a renowned Relic Hunter but also has a day job as a university professor of Ancient Studies which she is somehow never fired from despite taking a ridiculous amount of unscheduled time off to Relic Hunt (occasionally LampShaded by a boss who complains Sydney is never in). Her Hugh Grantesque teaching assistant Nigel Bailey (ChristienAnholt) accompanies her on hunts and largely gets used as the comic relief, whilst secretaries Claudia (seasons one and two) and Karen Petruski (season three) hold the fort back at Trinity College. The latter two were respectively played by LindyBooth and TanjaReichert.

* ActionGirl: Sydney Fox.

* FanService: Sydney took surprisingly little encouragement to strip to her underwear, in fact her first scene has her teaching introducing a class on tribal culture by demonstrating pacific island styled dance in a bikini and she spends most of the next scene in her bra, the season one credits even include a shot of her taking off her top! Also, whenever Nigel gets a ShirtlessScene.

* HotLibrarian: Sydney during her university job.

* MacGuffin: Many of the relics.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: In episode 8, Sydney and Nigel must enter a Swedish [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudist spa]] to search for a medieval runestone. Sydney doesn't appear to have any problem with this at all, while Nigel is plainly uncomfortable and agrees to the plan only after [[UnresolvedSexualTension Sydney promises not to look]].

* {{UST}}: Sydney and Nigel - played for laughs when they have to go undercover in a [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudist colony]].

* FanService: Sydney took surprisingly little encouragement to strip to her underwear, the season one credits even include a shot of her taking off her top! Also, whenever Nigel gets a ShirtlessScene.

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--> "Welcome to Ancient Studies. I'm not really a stickler for attendance, from time to time I'm called away from the classroom myself."
-->'' Sydney's Season Two pre-credits introduction. ''

* Then in episode 13 she's forced to undress inside a taxi in order to remove a less-obvious-than-[[IncrediblyObviousBug usual]] listening device, while the driver watches. She does eventually force him to wait outside, at least.

* TheCastShowoff: Sydney gets to sing on occassion. Tia Carrere is also a singer and sang the AwardBaitSong for ''BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm''.

* ActorAllusion: Sydney was born and raised in Hawaii, as was Tia Carrere.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Episode 13 features the diamond of Thutmose III, which is revealed to have a refractive index so high that it "absorbs light and doesn't allow it to escape". Apparently, this mostly means it fires a [[FrigginLaserBeams big exploding laser]] when you shine bright light on it.

The show sometimes features bursts of cheesy dialogue and various national stereotypes and all violence is carefully filmed around with no visible blood for reasons of transmission time.

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Sydney in a slightly different way then normal. She shows no signs of preferring nudity. But rather is "No more or less comfortable" in the nude then clothed. Evident in an episode where her and Nigel must investigate a nudist colony. Getting naked for the sake of her investigation seems to be an absolute walk in the park for her, as she shows absolutely zero signs that being naked bothers her in the slightest. As opposed to Nigel who is plainly very uncomfortable naked

* TheyJustDidntCare: In the opening credits, the shot of Sydney throwing a knife appears twice.