Peter Benchley's "Amazon" (1999-2000)

Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Carol Alt, Fabiana Udenio

Adventure series about a commercial airliner that crashes deep in the Amazon jungle from which only six people survive: Dr. Alex Kennedy, flight attendant Karen Oldham, terminally ill biology teacher Andrew Talbott, opera diva Pia Clair, apprentice auto mechanic Jimmy Stack and 13-year-old orphan Will Bauer. When they cannot be located by search parties, the survivors are given up for dead. Injured, lost and with little hope of rescue, these modern-day castaways come face to face with the unbelievable: an encounter with a secret tribe of Caucasians whose ancestors were shipwrecked and similarly marooned in the vast Amazon jungle more that 300 years earlier.