Tarzán
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Tarzán is a television series that aired in syndication from 1991–1994. In this version of the show, Tarzan (Wolf Larson) was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane (Lydie Denier) turned into a French ecologist. The series aired in syndication in the United States.
Tarzán | |
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Genre | Adventure |
Written by | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Directed by | Henri Safran (23 eps), Sidney Hayers (20), Brian Trenchard-Smith (10), Kevin James Dobson (9), Gérard Hameline (3) |
Starring | Wolf Larson Lydie Denier Sean Roberge |
Theme music composer |
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Country of origin | France Canada Mexico |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 75 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Production location | Mexico |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Balenciaga Productions Dune TF1 Producciones Telemex Producciones UINIC William F. Cooke Productions |
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Network | TF1 (France) First-run syndication (United States) |
Release | October 6, 1991 (1991-10-06) – 1994 (1994) |
Ron Ely, famous for playing Tarzan in the original series, played a character named Gorden Shaw in the first-season episode “Tarzan the Hunted”.
Juma the Lion was performed by two trained male adult African lions. One of them was Sudan of Thousand Oaks, California's Animal Actors of Hollywood. The second lion actor was Josef of Salinas, California's Monterey Zoo. He was used as a live action model for Mufasa in Disney's animated production of The Lion King around the same era.[1]