Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs' TARZAN hit the pulp pages as an example of what would happen if a high caliber white man was tempered by growing up in the harshest condition…
Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
In 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs' TARZAN hit the pulp pages as an example of what would happen if a high caliber white man was tempered by growing up in the harshest conditions possible. Tarzan was borderline superhuman physically, and an intellectual genius. (The "Me Tarzan, you Jane" stuff was just Hollywood.)
I uploaded a rather good animated adaptation of the character from Filmation last year at https://www.bitchute.com/video/kpnbTjGQ2o6i/
This week's ersatz Tarzan may have been on-par with the original in strength and durability... But him not brain so good.
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE was from Jay Ward Productions, best known for ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE. Unlike their previous cartoons, which were animated int Mexico, this one was done in the US. More expensive, but better quality. They also changed from the short-short serialized episodes that Ward had been using all the way back to CRUSADER RABBIT to roughly theatrical-length cartoons, packaged three to a half-hour show, similar to Hanna-Barbera's usual format.
George's back-up segments were SUPER CHICKEN, an anthropomorphic rooster who gets boozed-up and fights crime (I kid you not), and TOM SLICK, a race car driver.
George's original series had one production season of seventeen episodes which were rerun for years. (Typical for a Saturday Morning Cartoon.) Thirty years later, Disney revived the character for a live-action theatrical feature, then a straight-to-video sequel. In the 21st Century, there have been two new animated series featuring the character made for Cartoon Network and Teletoon.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!
So here, from 1967, is the first episode of the GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE show.
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