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Tarzan (1966)
TV Series (1966 - 1968)
Tarzan aired on NBC from 1966-68.Actor Ron Ely played Tarzan, a well educated man who became tired of civilization and so returned to the jungle where he had been raised.
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Last Episode
02x26 Trina Aired: Apr. 05, 1968A girl gets Tarzan to help her locate her long lost uncle. [continue reading]
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Sep. 09, 1966
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
60 min.
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Genre
Series Fun Facts
- Mike Henry, who had just filmed several big-screen adventures as Tarzan, was intended to have also played the lead in the TV series, but backed out. Ron Ely, who took his place, was…
[show]Mike Henry, who had just filmed several big-screen adventures as Tarzan, was intended to have also played the lead in the TV series, but backed out. Ron Ely, who took his place, was originally to have played a Tarzan imposter in a proposed episode of the TV series.
[hide] - 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…
[show]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.
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