Network: CBS
Episodes: 89 (hour)
Seasons: Four
TV show dates: January 11, 1966 — January 15, 1969
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Marshall Thompson, Cheryl Miller, Hari Rhodes, Yale Summers, Hedley Mattingly, and Erin Moran.
TV show description:
This family drama follows the work of Doctor Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson) as he works as a veterinarian and conservationist at the fictional Wameru Study Centre for Animal Behaviour in East Africa. (Daktari is the Swahili word for doctor.)
He’s joined by his daughter Paula (Cheryl Miller), and his conservationist staff; African native Mike Makula (Hari Rhodes), and American Jack Dane (Yale Summers), and . They frequently protect animals from poachers and local officials. District Officer Hedley (Hedley Mattingley) is the local game warden and Bart Jason (Ross Hagen) is a hunter.
Tracy has some unusual pets — Clarence, a cross-eyed lion, and a chimpanzee named Judy. In the last season, the vet takes in six-year-old orphan Jenny Jones (Erin Moran) and she becomes part of the family.
Episode 89 — Judy Comes Home
Young Jenny thinks the worst has happened after Judy the chimp and Clarence the lion disappear from the compound.
First aired: January 15, 1969.
I am a big fan of Daktari and Marsh Thompson, I was really smitten with him when I was a teenager, I am 70 years old now. I wrote stories about Daktari, including myself in them, I am still writing them. I was given a DVD for my 70th birthday and I watched them all. I will always love the show Daktari.
Animal movies are not my ppiece of cake. I really don’t know why animals are so important for some to make a movie.
WE are fully aware when an animal we can relate to is in a movie/ tv programme we find it more appealing and we relax. So if you are saying it’s not your piece of cake means you dislike animals. SAD as animals are known to ease our stress and help us cope with so much