151 Tarzan

First  watched : Uncertain

My  first  exposure  to  Tarzan  was  through  this  TV  series  which  was  made  between  1966  and  1968  and  shown  on  ITV  here  in  the  early  seventies. The  character  was  played  by  Ron  Ely  , a  physically  impressive  stud  if  not  much  of  an  actor. For  the  series  Jane  was  dumped  as  his  companion  in  favour  of  a  young  boy called  Jai. It's  best  remembered  for Ely's  insistence  that  he  perform  all  his  own  stunts  despite  a  lack  of  any  training  and  the  catalogue  of  injuries  he   suffered  as  a  result.

Ely  went  on  to  star  in  the  famously  awful  film  Doc  Savage - Man  of  Bronze  ( which  didn't  stop  me  going  to  see  it )   and  later  became  a  reasonably  successful  writer  of  detective  fiction.