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''[[The Adventures of Sinbad]]'' is roughly a retelling of the adventures of Sinbad from "Thethe ''[[Arabian Nights]]''." It started in 1996, hoping to follow in on the popularity of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''. It did not, lasting only two seasons. Ending in 1998. A total of 44 episodes.
 
The story followed the adventures of a Caucasian Sinbad, his older brother Doubar, Firouz the alchemist, the mute Rongar, and Celtic sorceress Maeve.
 
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Attempted. Mustapha, who featured prominently in the first episode only to die in the second. However, since he wasn't in the opening credits, it was obvious from the beginning he was only a [[Sacrificial Lamb]].
* [[Arbitrary Scepticism]]: Firouz. He's not fazed by sorcerers, magic, the devil, demons, or Olympian-style ''gods'', but ghosts? They don't exist even when they're standing right in front of him.
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: At least everyone on the team got one.
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Rongar was a prince in his home realm. He remains both bald and black.
* [[Big Bad]]: Turok, only for the first two episodes, and he made a dismembered guest appearance in the Season 1 Finale.
* [[Bond One -Liner]]: During the second season, Sinbad throws a mook into a pit of spikes, then quips "I think he got the point".
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Maeve in one episode when she was captured by vikings ([[Hey, ItsIt's That Guy!|one of whom was]] [[Bret Hart]]. No seriously) as a sacrifice to free their ship from a [[Special Effects Failure|bad special effect]].
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Rumina, despite being a [[Vain Sorceress]], has more in common with this than [[Dark Magical Girl]].
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The entire selling point of the second (and last) season.
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: Maeve fell off the ship at the beginning of Season 2 and was pulled away in the tide. We later found out that [[A Wizard Did It]] to protect her from Rumina.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Rongar. The actor who portrayed him, Oris Erhuro, is pretty much a real life example of it.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Turok and Rumina
* [[Five -Man Band]]
** [[The Hero]]: Sinbad
** [[The Lancer]]: Doubar (although he overlaps with [[The Big Guy]])
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Rumina hates Sinbad for killing her daddy, but we all know she wants to get into his pants.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: This show mainly existed because of Hercules and Xena's shows.
* [[Get Onon the Boat]]: The boat was pretty much the plot device to get the group from episode to episode.
* [[Heroic Fantasy]]
* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!]]: Doubar is portrayed by George Buza who voiced Beast in the X-Men Animated series.
** One Shot villain Malek is portrayed by Anthony De Longis who would later voice [[Fear Effect|Deke]] and (much later) [[Red Dead Redemption|Marshall Johnson]] and [[Bulletstorm (Video Game)|General Sarrano]].
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: The show tried to advertise Season 2 as this, mostly by lots of fanservice shots of Bryn in the commercials.
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]]: "the Beast Within".
* [[Les Yay]]: Rumina, while she was disguised as Sinbad to seduce Maeve in Basra.
* [[Like an Old Married Couple]]: Sinbad and Maeve are arguing, and Caipra tells them to "Stop acting like an old married couple."
* [[Non -Action Guy]]: Firouz
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: Maeve, Rumina and Turok were nixed in Season 2, but could have been brought back easily, had the show not been cancelled.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Of course, Maeve couldn't return at all because Jacqueline Collen, the actress behind Maeve, had to deal with being a full-time mommy.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Mustapha, see above.
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