"Tarzan" (1966) TV series 1966-1969

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Alex Nicol

Writer:

Edgar Rice Burroughs (character)

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

8 September 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Plot:

Tarzan (Lord Greystoke), already well educated and fed up with civilization, returns to the jungle and...

Plot Keywords:

Tarzan | Monkey Actor | Character Name In Title

Cast

Ron Ely

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Tarzan (36 episodes, 1966-1968)

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Series Directed by
Alex Nicol		(10 episodes, 1967-1968)
Harmon Jones		(9 episodes, 1967-1968)
William Witney		(6 episodes, 1967-1968)
Barry Shear		(5 episodes, 1967-1968)
Lawrence Dobkin		(3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Robert L. Friend		(3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Anton Leader		(3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Paul Stanley		(3 episodes, 1966)
James Komack		(3 episodes, 1967)
Earl Bellamy		(2 episodes, 1966)

Series Writing credits
Jackson Gillis		(8 episodes, 1967-1968)
Carey Wilber		(8 episodes, 1967-1968)
Samuel Newman		(4 episodes, 1967)
Don Brinkley		(3 episodes, 1966)
Jerry Adelman		(3 episodes, 1967-1968)
William Driskill		(3 episodes, 1967-1968)
Esther Shapiro		(3 episodes, 1968)
Richard Shapiro		(3 episodes, 1968)
Lee Erwin		(2 episodes, 1966-1968)
George F. Slavin		(2 episodes, 1966)
S.S. Schweitzer		(2 episodes, 1967)
Richard H. Landau		(2 episodes, 1968)
Edgar Rice Burroughs		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Leon Benson	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Don Brinkley	....	co-producer (unknown episodes)
Vernon E. Clark	....	associate producer (unknown episodes)
Jon Epstein	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Steve Shagan	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Maurice Unger	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Sy Weintraub	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Walter Greene		(unknown episodes)
William Loose		(unknown episodes)

Series Cinematography by
Gabriel Torres		(1 episode, 1967)
Raúl Martínez Solares		(unknown episodes)
Kenneth Talbot		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
Edward M. Abroms		(unknown episodes)
William Austin		(unknown episodes)
Reg Browne		(unknown episodes)
Bob Collins		(unknown episodes)
Robert Crawford		(unknown episodes)
John Joyce		(unknown episodes)
Danny B. Landres		(unknown episodes)
Laurette Odney		(unknown episodes)
Renn Reynolds		(unknown episodes)
Morton Tubor		(unknown episodes)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jaime Contreras	....	assistant director (1 episode, 1967)

Series Sound Department
Jim Bullock	....	sound editor / supervising sound editor (unknown episodes)

Series Music Department
Quinn Amper	....	composer: title music (unknown episodes)
Walter Greene	....	conductor (unknown episodes)
Sydney Lee	....	composer: theme music (unknown episodes)
William Loose	....	conductor (unknown episodes)
Nelson Riddle	....	composer: theme music / conductor (unknown episodes)

Series Other crew
'Chema' Hernandez	....	head wrangler / head wrangler: Mexico (2 episodes, 1967)
Humberto Gurza	....	animal wrangler (unknown episodes)
Miguel Gurza	....	animal wrangler (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Banner Productions

Distributors

• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1966-1969) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• AVRO Television (1971-1972) (Netherlands) (TV)

Runtime:

60 min (57 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Brazil

Company:

Banner Productions

Trivia:

In the course of the first season's shooting, Ron Ely, who insisted on performing his own stunts, sustained seventeen different injuries. These included: singeing his arms and legs running through a burning village, being bitten in the forehead by a "tame" lion (in a later fight with the same lion, Ely was bitten on the lower left thigh), falling down a hill and ripping the skin off the tops of his feet, falling twenty-five feet off a vine and separating his shoulder, falling off another vine and breaking his other shoulder, fracturing three ribs and spraining both wrists.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Monkees: The Chaperone (#1.9)" (1966)

ELY WAS THE GREATEST TARZAN OF THEM ALL.

What a fantastic and action packed show this was.Ron Ely for my money was the best Tarzan ever (certainly the most articulate)and this series should be resurrected forthwith for modern TV audiences to enjoy.In the UK this hasn't been seen for many years.Certain episodes stand out in my mind even now as some of the best I have seen in any action adventure series;episodes like THE PEARLS OF TANGA, THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER and ALEX THE GREAT with guest star Neville Brand as adventurer Alex Spence(which packed more fistfights into its 50 minute running time than any other show I have ever seen)This was wonderful stuff and I maintain that this was the definitive Tarzan and unfairly one of the most neglected.