A uniqe series long over due!Ron Ely was a great Tarzan
Tarzan for its time 1966-1968 was a great action series with neat locations and sets and actors.Nichelle Nichols, Don Marshall,Diana Ross and the Supremes, Helen Hays,James MacArthur,Sally Kellerman,Ethel Merman,Nemiah Persoff,Lloyd Haynes,George Kennedy,Nancy Malone,James Earl Jones and many many more enliven this series with these great actors.Ron Ely was in excellent shape at the time to play this character for two seasons.Ron really took this role seriously and rarely used a stunt double.During the first season he sustained at least 17 separate injuries. He was bitten by a lion on the forehead and thigh on two different occasions.He singed his feet and legs running through fires, He ripped the skin off his feet sliding down a hill.While swinging on those vines they have broken at least three times falling 25 feet sustaining a separated shoulder,a broken shoulder, tons of cuts and bruises including both wrists and three ribs.Now thats really a trooper for and actor to really want...
GREAT SERIES FINALLY ON DVD, LOOKING BETTER THAN EVER.
TARZAN fans can rejoice. This memorable series is at long last now available on DVD, and they've done an outstanding job with this release. The quality is awesome,with bold colors, and superior, crisp definition. It looks so good in fact, that it's hard to believe what you're viewing is over 45 years old. Ron Ely's take on the character always impressed me as a kid, and revisiting these episodes now as an adult did not dissapoint. Each episode is really like a short movie, with unusually high production values for the period, and excellent performances from a stable of fine actors in guest roles, most notably former movie-Tarzan Jock Mahoney. Can't wait to get season two!
A Swingin' Good Time
It's been decades since I watched the Tarzan show as a teenager, and I always remembered the show as having the most faithful portrayal of Edgar Rice Burroughs' literary character. Most big and little screen portrayals of Tarzan are so disappointing for fans of the original books, but Ron Ely's portrayal of Tarzan is satisfying and still the best and most authentic to this day. Production values of the show were good for the time and the scripts, acting and directing and overall storytelling are generally good. The audio/visual quality of the DVD's are quite decent. I did have an issue twice with the audio and video being out of sync, but hitting the stop button followed by hitting play on the DVD player immediately resolved the problem. These Tarzan show DVD's are a swingin' good time and I highly recommend them!
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