List of The Tribe seasons

This is a list of series from the TV show The Tribe.

Five series of The Tribe have been created, with 52 unnamed episodes per series, amounting to 260 half-hour episodes in the entire run. The first series mainly focuses on the Tribe of the Mall Rats and their life in the Mall, while later series explore other locations in and around the City. Most characters appear in more than one series, however each series have a different story where the Mall Rats have to overcome a problem or defeat an enemy Tribe.

Series 1

The Tribe Series 1
Country of origin  United Kingdom
 New Zealand
No. of episodes 52
Release
Original network Channel 5
Original release April 24 (1999-04-24) – October 23, 1999 (1999-10-23)

Series 1 of the television series The Tribe was first broadcast from April 24, 1999 to October 23, 1999 on Five in the UK.

It starts about six to nine months after a deadly Virus has killed all the adults.[1] A group of children take refuge in a Mall in an unnamed City and form a Tribe, the Mall Rats. Series 1 mainly takes place in the Mall, where the new Tribe learns to deal with everyday problems. The main opponents of the Mall Rats during Series 1 are the Locos.

Major subplots

Summary

At the beginning of Series 1, we are introduced to the strong-willed, responsible leader Amber and her younger friend, aspiring doctor/mechanic Dal. They find a little girl called Cloe wandering the dangerous streets, then meet cute kids, twins Patsy and Paul who are being looked after by Salene. A peace-loving loner, Bray, is taking care of the heavily pregnant Trudy and looking for a place for her to give birth. Arrogant street fighter Lex, his sweet if slow friend Ryan, Lex's material girl Zandra and confrontational Glen are trying to join the top Tribe in the City, the Locusts (or Locos). In one way or another, all end up in the Phoenix Shopping Mall (bar Glen who got caught by the Locos) and meet Jack, the boy scientist who lives there alone. Soon, Asian spiritualist Tai-San and slippery young thief KC also join the Tribe.

A multitude of serious subjects are tackled in Series 1. There is a power struggle from the start in the Mall between Lex, Amber and Bray, and on the outside, between the Locos and Demon Dogs for the City. Lex kills Zoot, the leader of the Locos, who turns out to be the father of Trudy's baby and Bray's kid brother (his real name is Martin, a play on words for 'martyr'). Lex tries to rape Zandra, but she ends up marrying him later anyway. Salene suffers from bulimia, only beating it with Ryan's help.

Jealousy is rife in the Mall - Lex of Zandra and Ryan's friendship, Zandra of Lex's trysts with Tai-San and Ebony, Trudy of Bray and Salene, and later Bray and Amber. The virus begins to affect kids later in the series and Lex is infected with it just when his new wife Zandra tells him she is pregnant. Bray and Amber finally find love with each other after an iffy start. The Tribe goes on a quest for the antidote at the end of the series, and the finale shows them finding pivotal information at the Eagle Mountain Observatory.

Characters

This is a list of the main characters of Series 1. See List of The Tribe characters for a more thorough list.

Series 2

The Tribe Series 2
Country of origin  United Kingdom
 New Zealand
No. of episodes 52
Release
Original network Five
Original release November 14, 1999 (1999-11-14) – May 6, 2000 (2000-05-06)

Series 2 of the television series The Tribe was first broadcast from November 11, 1999 to May 6, 2000 on Five in the UK.

It starts right as the Mall Rats deal with the loss of Amber and Zandra in the explosion on Eagle Mountain. Series 2 mainly deals with the struggle of the Mall Rats to unite the Tribes of the City and their effort to produce an antidote for the Virus. As the Tribes ally themselves, a new unknown enemy, later revealed to be the Chosen, gradually takes power over the City.

Major subplots

Summary

Series 2 shows a much more overarching plot. The focus is less on the inner struggles of the Mall Rats, and more on their struggles as part of the many Tribes that make up the City. The series begins with the Mall Rats dealing with the loss of Amber and Zandra who are killed in an explosion on Eagle Mountain. Bray is distraught, but soldiers on. Lex takes the opposite route, spiralling into alcoholism, and even attempting to rape Salene. This results in his being kicked out of the Tribe until Ryan goes to look for him.

With the addition of Bray's soon-to-be Amber replacement, the mysterious Danni, the Mall Rats struggle to bring a peaceful balance to the City, cleaning it up and trying to introduce a Bill of Rights, while also distributing the antidote to the masses free of charge. It is Tai-San who discovers the antidote recipe, memorises it, then burns it to keep the other Mall Rats from taking advantage of the other Tribes with the knowledge, like Ebony wants to do. When she shares the secret with Bray, Ebony plots with the Zoot-worshipping Tribe the Chosen to help them kidnap Trudy and Brady. Bray gives her the recipe in defeat, and Ebony later tries to poison Tai-San, killing Patsy and Cloe's dog, Bob, in the process.

In this series, the pasts of many characters are revealed. We find out in flashback how Bray's shy brother Martin spiralled into insanity and became Zoot. It is also shown how both Ebony and Trudy fell for Bray, and also when Trudy and Martin conceived Brady. When Ebony is tortured by her ex-militia leader, Spike, after setting him up for Tai-San's attempted murder, we find out why she is so manipulative and power-hungry. Lex and Ryan's meeting in boot camp is revealed, as is Lex's affair with a vicious, much older female sergeant at the camp. Danni's shocking secret, that it was her father who accidentally engineered the killer Virus while trying to make the Elixir of Youth, is also revealed by Jack and Ellie.

A double marriage takes place as the series draws to an end, that of Ryan and Salene, and Tai-San and Lex. This series ends in a climactic face off between the Chosen and the leaders of the City's Tribes. Many of them, including Danni, are murdered or disappear following this.

Bray and Lex escape the Chosen's wrath, but the series ends with them both falling victim to a car crash, their fates left hanging in the balance.

Characters

This is a list of the main characters of Series 2. See List of The Tribe characters for a more thorough list.

Series 3

The Tribe Series 3
Country of origin  United Kingdom
 New Zealand
No. of episodes 52
Release
Original network Five
Original release November 18, 2000 (2000-11-18) – May 11, 2001 (2001-05-11)

Series 3 of the television series The Tribe was first broadcast from November 18, 2000 to May 11, 2001 on Five in the UK.

Summary

Series 3 starts with some of the Mall Rats being held prisoner in the Mall as the Chosen make it their headquarters. However, the Mall Rats who were not captured (Lex, Bray and Ebony) leave the city. They come across a group called the Gaians, or Eco Tribe, whose leader is Amber (now called Eagle), previously believed to have been killed at Eagle Mountain with Zandra. It is revealed that Ebony met the injured Amber after the explosion and convinced her she had no future with Bray, as they (Ebony and Bray) had already had a child before the Virus. Amber had agreed to let Ebony make the Mall Rats think she had died. A resistance movement is set up by some members of the Mall Rats and both the Supreme Mother (Trudy) and the Divine Child (Brady) escape the City. Eventually, the rebels overcome the Chosen and win back the City with the help of non-city Tribes. A city wide election is held, and Ebony craftily manages to elect herself as the City Leader. She expels several Mall Rats from the city, including Bray and Amber, and makes herself a virtual dictator.

This series heralds an almost mass exodus of many of the familiar and long-running cast members from Series 1, including Patsy and Ryan (who are taken away by the Chosen) and Dal (who falls to his death). A trend of introducing expendable, short-term characters, such as Andy, Tally and Ned, is started.

Series 3 also shows two strong couples together for much of the series: Tai-San and Lex, and Amber and Bray. Tai-San and Lex struggle to maintain their marriage, despite Lex's blinding jealousy of Tai-San's bond with the Guardian and her problems with Lex's corruption as the City sheriff. Amber and Bray mainly find solid ground and conceive a child together. They balance their private lives with their public ones as leaders. Salene and Ryan also conceive a child but they lose it when Salene falls down the Mall's stairs. Ryan is taken away by the Chosen after attacking the Guardian, because he was told he would not be allowed to see his baby under the religious rules.

The series ends on a cliffhanger, with Amber being left to deliver her baby alone in a barn and with the sight of aeroplanes flying over the City: a sight not seen since before the Virus hit.

Characters

This is a list of the main characters of Series 3. See List of The Tribe characters for a more thorough list.

Series 4

The Tribe Series 4
Country of origin  United Kingdom
 New Zealand
No. of episodes 52
Release
Original network Five
Original release January 5 (2002-01-05) – July 6, 2002 (2002-07-06)

Series 4 of the television series The Tribe was first broadcast from January 5, 2002 to July 6, 2002 on Five in the UK.

Summary

The planes and parachutes belong to an advanced tribe called the Technos. They are led by a germ-phobic paraplegic called Ram. He has two wives, Java and Siva – Ebony's sisters. They have vehicles, planes, futuristic weapons and computers. They bring electricity, water and food to the City, but have an ulterior motive. They set up Virtual Reality (VR) and get many city kids hooked on it, almost like a drug, in return for working for the Technos.

The Technos also take Bray, Tai-San, KC and Alice among others from the City. It is presumed that the missing Mallrats have been used in certain horrifying experiments to test VR. Trudy finds Amber and helps her give birth to a baby called Bray Jr. Lex is frantic over Tai-San's disappearance, as is Amber over Bray's. Pride and Salene find love together, much to May's and even Cloe's jealousy. But Cloe also fall in love with the techno Ved, and they are together for a while. Then Cloe disappears in these computer-games. Ram makes Ebony his third wife, but she loves his commander Jay. They eventually run away together but return to take down the Technos. Siva falls for Lex and leaves Ram and the Technos for him. Tai-San returns briefly, having been reprogrammed by the Technos. Mega – a Techno deletes her, but it remains uncertain as to if deletion means death.

The Mall Rats fight to bring the Technos down, and succeed by the end of the series. Ram is left to fend for himself on the outskirts of the City, alone and abandoned. The finale ends with the shock reveal of Zoot, apparently alive and well.

Characters

This is a list of the main characters of Series 4. See List of The Tribe characters for a more thorough list.

Series 5

The Tribe Series 5
Country of origin  United Kingdom
 New Zealand
No. of episodes 52
Release
Original network Five
Original release March 15 (2003-03-15) – September 6, 2003 (2003-09-06)

Series 5 of the television series The Tribe was first broadcast from March 15, 2003 to September 6, 2003 on Five in the UK.

Summary

Series 5 sees the TV series split between several locations, both in and out of the City. In the City, the remaining Technos assure the Mall Rats that they are willing to cooperate. A new Tribe, the Zootists, forms and tries to take advantage of the weakened situation in the City. Meanwhile, a small Western-style village called Liberty turns into a hot spot as several new and old characters (including Ram, the deposed Techno leader) find accommodation in its saloon.

Pride is killed by Technos early on in Series 5, leaving a devastated Salene and May behind. Many long-running characters leave the City frequently, such as Trudy and Amber, and much of the action takes place with new ones like Slade and Ruby. When Java attempts to kill Ebony, she accidentally kills Siva instead. Ebony kills Java in revenge. Lex, once again faced with the loss of another loved one, finds himself the object of the much younger Gel's attraction.

As the series develops, we discover that the Zootists are a ploy by the new Techno leader, Mega, to regain control of the City. He plays a vicious game by publicly demonizing this Tribe and advocating the need for a safe zone, fenced-off with secure exit and entrance points. He gradually extends the safe zone to gain a stronger control of the City.

In Liberty, a resistance with the goal of taking the tyrannic City leader down is set up. The overthrow is successful. However, even though the Mall Rats are back in control, there are things happening beyond their reach.

Ram had secretly developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI), which he lets loose on the Technos hardware. The AI develops too quickly and comes to the conclusion that human beings are a threat to the environment. During its roaming of the Technos networks, it comes across Mega's most secret project: a new, very lethal Virus.

The AI's attempt to eliminate humankind is prevented, but not before a generator next to the virus-container goes critical. The Mall Rats inform the rest of the City, in the hope that people will evacuate before the generator blows up, thereby releasing the Virus.

The TV series ends on a triumphant but sorrowful note. The Mall Rats manage to escape the City by sea, but are sad to be leaving the home they've known for so long behind. The ending shots show the characters Amber, Ebony, Slade, Lex, Ellie, Jay, Trudy and Salene, standing at the back of the boat, casting their final glances at the City as they leave it behind for an unknown future.

Characters

This is a list of the main characters of Series 5. See List of The Tribe characters for a more thorough list.

References

  1. ↑ Interview with the Creators of The Tribe—Raymond Thompson and Harry Duffin, The Tribe Official Website, retrieved on 2010-01-31.

External links

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