Daktari

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Television series
German title Daktari
Original title Daktari
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1966-1969
Production
company		 Ivan Tors Productions,
MGM Television ,
Warner Bros. Television
length 60 minutes
Episodes 89 in 4 seasons ( list )
genre Animal film
idea Ivan Tors
production Ivan Tors
music Shelly Manne , Henry Vars
First broadcast Jan 11, 1966 (USA) on CBS
German-language
first broadcast		 January 4th 1969 on ZDF
occupation
synchronization

Daktari (= Swahili for "doctor, doctor") is an American television series that was produced from 1966 to 1969 by the American animal filmmaker Ivan Tors . Tors has also overseen the series Flipper , Underwater Adventures ( Sea Hunt ), Jump Out of the Clouds ( Ripcord ) and many more.

At the German premiere from the year 1969, the consequences were every Saturday at 17:45 in the ZDF simultaneously with the broadcast, ARD - sports show . Today Daktari is repeated from time to time on private channels (most recently in 2018 on Sat.1 Gold ).

content

The American veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracy works in Africa and runs the Wameru animal station. His daughter Paula and the Americans Jack Dane and Mike Makula help him with this . They receive support from the English District Officer Hedley .

The one-hour, crime-like episodes always revolve around animal welfare. Mostly they are about the fight against poachers and the protection of sick wild animals.

Animal protagonists

The chimpanzee Judy in the Kieler Nachrichten , 1973

Animals are also among the main characters in the series: The cross-eyed lion Clarence and the chimpanzee Judy were particularly popular with children in Germany in the early 1970s.

In the series, Clarence was doubled by another lion ( Leo ) in some scenes when filming truck scenes because Clarence was frightened by the sight of these vehicles. Leo had his own makeup artist who recreated Clarence's scars in such a way that he was indistinguishable from Clarence in close-ups. Both lions were trained by animal trainer Ralph Helfer.

Another less friendly lion, also called Leo , doubled Clarence in some scenes. It was only used for those scenes where it was supposed to look snarling and threatening and in scenes that were not played near people. Leo came from a family in Utah. His aggressive temper was largely due to previous abuse, as he had been regularly beaten with a stick by his former owner.

Voice actor

The series was set to music at Beta-Technik in Munich from dialogue books and under the dialogue direction by Klaus Kindler.

Role name actor speaker
Dr. Marsh Tracy Marshall Thompson Helmo Kindermann (1st voice)
Klaus Kindler (2nd voice)
Paula Tracy Cheryl Miller Ursula Herwig (1st voice)
Michaela Amler (2nd voice)
Jack Dane Yale Summers Peter Lakenmacher (1st voice - ZDF)
Volker Lechtenbrink (2nd voice - ZDF)
Axel Malzacher (3rd voice)
Mike Macula Hari Rhodes Fred Klaus (1st voice)
Frank Röth (2nd voice)
District Officer Hedley Hedley Mattingly Herbert Tiede (1st voice)
Thomas Reiner (2nd voice)
Beard Jason Ross Hagen Manfred Schott (1st voice)
NN (2nd voice)

Others

Hollywood company MGM first used the plot in 1965 for the feature film Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion ( Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion , 1965), directed by Andrew Marton , in which Marshall Thompson and Cheryl Miller also starred. Then MGM's television department took over the idea and produced the successful series, shot entirely in the USA, with Tors.

The landscape photographs used were almost entirely taken on a site in California . Only now and then were a few authentic African original motifs cut into the films. The film's trailer names include Africa, USA , a two-square-kilometer wild animal area around 60 kilometers north of Los Angeles owned by animal trainers Ralph and Toni Helfer. The interior shots were taken entirely in Ivan Tors' studios in Florida .

Living example for the series is the vet Susanne Hart , the first white vet in South Africa, about their lives under the title Daktari - The True Story ( The Real Daktari , 2007) was a documentary. At the end of 2007, Clarence, the cross-eyed lion, was broadcast on ARTE along with the documentary.

Theodor W. Adorno , as a philosopher great critic of dumbing down mass media, had a private passion for this series.

Episode list

Web links

Commons : Daktari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Daktari. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel issue 34/2003, "Narcissus and the Hippo King "