When did the cartoon George of the Jungle first start on tv?
http://movies.amctv.com/movie/19459/George-of-the-Jungle-TV-Series/details George of the Jungle [TV Series] Director: Jay Ward Year: 1967 George of the Jungle was a 1967 Saturday morning cartoon series produced by Jay (Rocky and His Friends) Ward. Each of the series’ 16 episodes contains three component cartoons. The first stars the titular George, a lamebrained Tarzan type who lives in a tree (a fact he invariably forgets) in the Imgwee Gwee valley. George’s mate — “that funny-lookin’ fella who never shaves” — is the voluptuous Ursula; his best friend is Ape, an erudite simian who sounds like Ronald Colman. The star of the second cartoon component is Super Chicken, aka Henry Cabot Henhouse II. Whenever he drinks his special super sauce, the feathered Henhouse transforms into do-gooder Super Chicken, aided and abetted by his bethumped lion assistant Fred (“You knew the job was dang
George of the Jungle was an American animated television series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created Rocky & Bullwinkle. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV network ABC. The half-hour program was distributed for many years by Worldvision Enterprises, currently part of CBS Television Distribution. Each episode featured three segments in the form of three unrelated cartoons: George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken. Unlike previous Ward series, the animation production was done in Hollywood using veteran animators Phil Duncan, Rod Scribner, and Rudy Zamora, among others. Each segment’s theme song was written by the team of Stan Worth and Sheldon Allman, though the cartoons themselves had little or no music scoring, as with Bullwinkle. Ward mainstays Bill Scott, June Foray, and Paul Frees provided most of the character voices over all three segments. The cartoons are technically more advanced than the
