by David Krell | Apr 6, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan inspired film studios to invent their versions of a jungle hero. The results range from hysterical to sober. In 1973, Disney mined Tarzan for laughs in The World’s Greatest Athlete, a benign film set on the fictional Merrivale College campus. Faced with...
by David Krell | Apr 5, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan’s popularity inspired takeoffs, parodies, and parallels. Television, in particular, provided a fertile platform for these offerings. On November 11, 1962, Carol Burnett gest starred on The Jack Benny Program. She plays Jane in the Jack Plays Tarzan...
by David Krell | Apr 4, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan benefited from the superhero craze of the mid-1960s ignited by the 1966 launch of the camp television show Batman. On September 8, 1966, Ron Ely debuted as the title character in Tarzan. Jane did not appear on the show. It lasted two seasons. Twenty-five...
by David Krell | Apr 3, 2013 | David Krell
The first appearance of Tarzan in popular culture took place in the 1912 magazine story Tarzan of the Apes. The character expanded to comic strips on January 7, 1929 under the aegis of Harold Foster. Buck Rogers’ comic strip also debuted on this date. The...
by David Krell | Apr 2, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan of the Apes reveals vital information about Tarzan a.k.a. Lord of the Jungle. Did you ever wonder about Tarzan’s origin? The meaning of his name? Why he is an English lord? This first Tarzan novel answers the questions. In Chapter 1 (Out To Sea), John...
by David Krell | Apr 1, 2013 | David Krell
Six letters. _ A _ _ A N. Clue: He is considered a superhero but he has no superpowers. He is the protector of a dangerous, labyrinthian jungle envorinment and its citizenry. Batman? No. Although Batman fits the description and Gotham City is an urban, concrete,...
by David Krell | Mar 27, 2013 | David Krell
On September 17, 1972, CBS introduced television viewers to M*A*S*H, a half-hour comedy filmed with a laugh track and set in an Army hospital situated approximately three miles from the front lines of the Korean War. The M*A*S*H acronym stands for Mobile Army...
by David Krell | Mar 15, 2013 | David Krell
Kid Power aired on ABC during the 1972-73 television season — it was another product of the Rankin-Bass animation machine that relied heavily on transforming the creations of others. Based on Morrie Turner’s Wee Kids comic strip, Kid Power centered on a...
by David Krell | Mar 13, 2013 | David Krell
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass created animation legacies. A Canadian studio, Rankin-Bass entered the American market in 1961 with versions of two classic stories in first-run syndication. First-run syndication is television programming that initially broadcasts a...
by David Krell | Mar 12, 2013 | David Krell
King Kong is a New York City film icon. He climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in the 1933 and 2005 King Kong films. In 1976, he climbed to the top of the World Trade Center. But the 1966-67 Saturday morning cartoon series King Kong depicted the title...
