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Producer-Director Ivan Tors, who with such TV series as Flipper and Daktari has made animals his livestock in trade (TIME, June 16), combines two supposedly potent ingredients into one wide-screen epic: The Dark Continent and the Wild West. In Africa, the world's champeen rodeo rider (Hugh O'Brian) and his Navaho sidekick come to Kenya to round up a bunch of wild beasts for an altruistic rancher (John Mills). Object: to create a meat source for the protein-poor Masai...
...latest discovery of Producer Ivan Tors, 50, who has besieged TV on land (Daktari), at sea (Flipper) and in the air (Ripcord). He is the king of the "beasties"-outdoor adventure films starring big-name big game. This month, as part of a 14-picture pact with Paramount, Tors released Africa-Texas Style, a semidocumentary with Hugh O'Brian as a cowpoke who hunts big game with a rope instead of a rifle. Also planned or in production at Tors's studios and animal compounds, scattered from North Miami and Saugus, Calif., to Nairobi and the Bahamas...
...DAKTARI (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Filmed in Gorongoza National Park, Mozambique, this episode about how Dr. Tracy treats his injured pet lion includes some striking scenes of a village actually besieged by a pride of hungry wild lions...
...radio version are James Bond-type hardware and a bigger-beat theme song, blown by Al Hirt. There is nothing wrong with the show that cannot be cured by turning off the set. Tarzan (NBC) has a vaster menagerie than last season's high-rated jungle epic, Daktari, and just as soupy a scenario. Ron Ely is mesomorphic enough as Tarzan, but he is a trifle too citified-his call of the wild is Johnny Weissmuller's voice. There is no Jane, but the first episode featured Nara, a blind bush girl who got Tarzan to rescue...