Each episode centered on a particular legend regarding an artifact (real or fictional) from around the world that found its way to the temple. Olmec narrated the stories told in the steps of knowledge and temple game challenges (although in the first season, Fogg narrated the temple game challenges). At the temple's gate was a talking Olmec head simply named Olmec (voiced by Dee Baker). It included areas for different types of physical challenges: a broad but shallow pool of water (the moat), a set of steps (the Steps of Knowledge), and a large, two-and-a-half-floor vertical labyrinth (the 'hidden temple'). The set design of Legends of the Hidden Temple was based on the Indiana Jones movies, and Marianne Arneberg of the Orlando Sentinel described the program as 'a combination of Jeopardy and Raiders of the Lost Ark.' The set design has been described as Mayan. Title card of Legends of the Hidden Temple Production for the fourth season was stopped midyear before it could be released, canceling the season. In 1996, the Orlando Business Journal reported that Nickelodeon was considering renewing Legends for a fourth season, but according to Scott Fishman, then vice president of production services at Nickelodeon, renewal was 'not a sure bet' because Nickelodeon was considering three new game show pilots taped in Orlando. The show was originally conceived under the title Secrets of the Haunted House where monsters would jump out and frighten contestants while they try to complete challenges within the haunted house.

A forty-episode third and final season was produced from February 17 to March 12, 1995, and began airing a year and six days after the premiere of the previous season. Second-season episodes began airing June 6 of that year. Auditions for new episodes took place on February 26 and 27, and production occurred from March 27 through April 17. The show was renewed for a forty-episode second season in February 1994. Due to this success, the show began airing weekdays at 5:30 p.m. In that time slot, it increased the Nielsen rating from 1.5 to 2. The show originally aired on weekends at 6:30 p.m. Legends of the Hidden Temple began airing on Nickelodeon on September 11, 1993. In 1995, Legends of the Hidden Temple won a CableACE award for Best Game Show Special or Series. Legends of the Hidden Temple was produced by Stone Stanley Productions in association with Nickelodeon and was taped at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. Ī revival with adult contestants aired for a single season from October 2021 to January 2022 on The CW. The majority of the contestants were picked from the surrounding Orlando, Florida, area.

Contestants trying out had to compete in several physical tasks, including rope climbing and running, as well as a written test. Stone, and Stephen Brown, the program features a fictitious temple, 'filled with lost treasures protected by mysterious Mayan temple guards.' Kirk Fogg is the show's host, while Dee Baker is both announcer and voice of a stone head named Olmec who 'knows the secrets behind each of the treasures in his temple.' Six teams (Red Jaguars, Blue Barracudas, Green Monkeys, Orange Iguanas, Purple Parrots, Silver Snakes) of two children (one boy and one girl) compete to retrieve one of the historical artifacts in the temple by performing physical stunts and answering questions based on history, mythology, and geography. Legends of the Hidden Temple is an American action-adventure TV game show that broadcast from 1993 to 1995 on Nickelodeon.

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