Underplayed Gems

Tarzán (1991)

Tarzán poster
Directed by
Henri Safran
Genre
action & adventure
Country
France, United States
Length
3 seasons, 75 episodes
Rated
16
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a 1990s TV series about Tarzan, who is now a blond environmentalist living in the jungle. He works with Jane, a French ecologist, to protect nature and wildlife from threats.

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What happens

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. This was the first Tarzan series to feature Jane Porter as a major character, the 1966 series having excluded her as part of the "new look", and Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle having featured her in only one episode. Ron Ely, famous for playing Tarzan in the 1966 TV series, played a villain named Gordon 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. He would subsequently perform as a stunt double for the Bowmanville Zoo's two lions, Caesar and Bongo, for Paramount's The Ghost and the Darkness. The other lion that acted in this series was Josef of Salinas, California's Monterey Zoo. Disney's animation studio used him as a live action model for Mufasa in Disney's animated production of The Lion King around the same era. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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