Brilliant Old TV Shows That Almost No One Knows or Cares About Anymore

Plunk your magic twanger Froggy
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Hi ya kids. Hi ya. Hi ya.

Froggy with Smilin' Ed and the cast of Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang - the show later became Andy's gang, with Andy Devine

There was a show popular in the 1960’s called Daktari. It was about father and daughter veterinarians in Africa. It was sort of a spin-off of the movie Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion.
I looked it up and Daktari is Swahili for doctor.

Starman 1986-1987

I thought it was pretty good, and I hadn't seen the movie.

Ramar of th Jungle was a kinda dumm show of Colonil Africa with John Hall ho later starrre in a couple tacky Monster Flicks.

I remember Ramar. It wasn't a favorite but I sometimes watched it.

And there was "Jungle Jim" with Johnny Weissmuller.

Did someone already mention Bomba the Jungle Boy? Played by Johnny Sheffield, who was ‘Boy’ to Johnnie Weissmuller’s Tarzan.

And also Sheena of the Jungle.

The sixties seemed to be big on white jungle heroes
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I used to catch a few reruns of Long John Silver, starring Robert Newton. I have a book describing prime time TV from 1946 to 1985 and that one isn't listed. Maybe it was a British show.

There were some "adventure" shows, too. They were always out there shooting lions and tracking "rogue" elephants. It would be stomach-turning today.

One of the best westerns was "Broken Arrow" — the white hero was a friend of the Indians and they worked together.

I remember Daktari very well. I never realised Clarence the Cross eyed lion came first.

We used to get a lot of international telly when I was a kid. There was one African programme about a prince in sub Saharan Africa.

He is usurped by his uncle and has to flee. After many adventures he meets a group of desert traders who have rifles. He proves himself invaluable to them and at the end of the series he returned home with his new friends and rifles and retakes his kingdom.

The prince was the title character, but I can’t remember his name or the name of the show.

It was very popular.

I remember Broken Arrow. Michael Ansara starred.

Wikipedia
The Adventures of Long John Silver is a TV series about the Long John Silver character from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television

I think I saw one episode. It was Sunday lunchtime/afternoon, a notoriously tricky time, often; cancelled for a football match or something like that.

I remember watching it, but nothing about it.

I liked a show called, "Sky King" about a guy who had a plane and a niece named Penny. I remember reading something to the effect that a lot of the episodes perished in a fire, which may be why I've never seen it re-run.

Used to listen to Sky King on the radio.

The Ghost and Mrs Muir was a late 1960’s tv show that was based on a 1947 movie by the same name.
It starred Hope Lange and Edward Mulhare.
It was mushy/romantic and I didn’t care much about it. My mom and sisters loved it.