Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
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| Created by | Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters) |
| Directed by | Don Towsley |
| Starring | Robert Ridgely |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Norm Prescott Lou Scheimer |
| Producer(s) | Don Christensen |
| Running time | Half-hour |
| Production company(s) | Filmation |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 11, 1976 – September 6, 1980 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour |
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is an animated series created by the Filmation studio for CBS, starting in 1976. There are a total of 36 episodes produced over the first four seasons.
The jungle: Here I was born; and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have soon perished, too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I share the friendship and trust of all jungle animals. The jungle is filled with beauty, and danger; and lost cities filled with good, and evil. This is my domain, and I protect those who come here; for I am Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!
In many ways, the series is the most faithful of all screen-based adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan, and featured a number of "lost cities" from the original novels. The rotoscoped animation is based upon the work of Burrough's favorite Tarzan artist, Burne Hogarth.
In the series, Tarzan is depicted as intelligent and well-spoken – not the simple-minded ("Tarzan... Jane") caricature of many films. His sidekick is N'kima the monkey, as in the novels ("Cheeta" the chimpanzee was the creation of movie producers). It even uses much of Burroughs' Mangani language (though some of the words used, particularly for animals not encountered in the novels, do not appear in Burroughs' Mangani lexicons, and so were presumably newly invented for the show).
Almost all of the animals in the Filmation series are referred to using the Mangani-language names that Tarzan knows them by.
There were 36 total episodes, produced over four seasons.
The first season (premiered September 11, 1976) consisted of 16 half-hour episodes. The second season (premiered September 10, 1977) added six new episodes, and aired with the half-hour series The New Adventures of Batman as The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour. The third season (premiered September 9, 1978) added six new episodes, and aired with a number of other series as the ninety-minute Tarzan and the Super 7. The fourth season (premiered September 15, 1979) added eight new episodes, and aired as part of the second season of Tarzan and the Super 7.
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