Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is also the title of the eleventh novel in the original Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
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Format     Animated
Drama
Created by     Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Directed by     Don Towsley
Starring     Robert Ridgely
Lou Scheimer
Country of origin      United States
No. of episodes     36
Production
Executive producer(s)     Norm Prescott
Lou Scheimer
Producer(s)     Don Christensen
Running time     half-hour
Production company(s)     Filmation
Broadcast
Original channel     CBS
Original run     1976 – 1981

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is an animated series created by the Filmation studio for CBS. There are a total of 36 episodes produced over the first four seasons.

The series does not appear in the Entertainment Rights library, and the rights most likely rest with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs. However, Warner Home Video has released one episode on DVD, "Tarzan and the Colossus of Zome," on Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1; Warner Bros.' rights to the series may originate from their ownership of international TV distribution rights in the 1970s and 1980s

In many ways this is the most faithful adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan.

    * Tarzan is intelligent, and well spoken.
    * His friend/sidekick is N’kima the monkey. (Cheeta is from the movies).
    * The series uses much of Burroughs’ Mangani language (though some of the words used, particularly for animals not encountered in the novels, do not appear in his Mangani lexicons, and so were presumably newly invented for the program).
    * The series featured many of the lost cities from the novels.
    * The animation is based upon the work of Burrough's favorite Tarzan artist, Burne Hogarth.

[edit] Characters
Tarzan & Nikima

    * Tarzan – voiced by Robert Ridgely
    * N’kima – Tarzan’s manu (monkey) companion, voiced by Lou Scheimer
    * Jad-bal-ja (the golden lion) – raised and trained by Tarzan
    * Mangani (a fictional great ape) – Tarzan's friends, will come to his aid when summoned
    * Tantor (elephant) – Tarzan’s friends, they will come to his aid when summoned
    * Bolmangani (gorilla men) – they take manus as slaves
    * Tar-Sheeta (the Great Snow Tiger)

Other animals:

    * Argus (giant eagle)
    * Bolgani (gorilla)
    * Duro (hippopotamus)
    * Gimla (crocodile)
    * Gordo (water monster, resembles a sauropod dinosaur)
    * Histaa (python)
    * Lukota (giant tortoise)
    * Manu (capuchin monkey)
    * Numa (lion)
    * Sabor (lioness)
    * Sheeta (leopard or other large jungle cat)
    * Tangani (chimpanzee)
    * Zupita (great whale)

[edit] Episode list

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.