(the episodes below are linked to screenshots)
Season One
(the episodes below are linked to screenshots)
Season One
Created by the Filmation studio this was the first animated television series based on the jungle hero.
The series aired Saturday mornings on the CBS television network from 1976-1979.*
* Second season episodes aired as The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour, third and fourth season episodes aired as Tarzan and the Super 7.
The rotoscoped animation was based upon the work of artist Burne Hogarth, who illustrated Tarzan newspaper comic strips from 1937-1950.
Providing the speaking voice of Tarzan, actor Robert Ridgely also did the same for the title character in the 1980-81 animated series Thundarr the Barbarian.
Tarzan's yell was performed by Danton Burroughs, the grandson of Tarzan creator and author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Danton Burroughs passed in 2008 at the age of 63.
