Sure if you watch these episodes back to back you will notice that the same shot would be used again and again, but as a kid that’s something you’d never pick up on. With artwork based heavily on the works of legendary comic strip artist Burne Hogarth, the look of the show surpassed much of its Saturday morning contemporaries, with the use of rotoscoping it gave Tarzan a smooth and graceful look that meshed beautifully with the fantastic foreground and background paintings of the series’ talented art department. Lord of the JungleĬreated by Filmation for CBC Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is easily the most faithful of all screen-based adaptations as the creators of this show drew heavily from the books.
That is if you were a kid in 1976 because to date the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon still stands apart as the best adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s legendary ape-man. In this animated series Tarzan speaks perfect English, as well as the animal language created by Burroughs, and if you wanted to see Tarzan and his monkey friend Nkima finding lost cities, hanging around with the noble lion Jad-bal-ja or battling evil sorcerers you weren’t going to find those adventures in the cinema, but strangely enough you could find them here on the small screen. We’ve seen countless adaptations of Tarzan ranging from the monosyllabic Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan The Ape Man to the recent and more verbose Alexander Skarsgård in The Legend of Tarzan, but rarely have these “adaptations” done more than just borrow the origin story and then make up their own adventures.
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