Jambo (TV series)

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Jambo
Genre Wildlife anthology
Children
Narrated by Marshall Thompson
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
Production
Executive producer Ivan Tors
Production location Africa
Running time30 mins.
Original release
Network NBC

Jambo is a wildlife anthology television series broadcast on NBC from 1969 to 1971. [1]

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Intended for children, the show was hosted and narrated by actor Marshall Thompson. Spots were filmed on location in Africa. [2] The series was intended to be a companion of sorts to Thompson's series Daktari. Ivan Tors was creator and executive producer of both.

The title "Jambo" is a greeting in Swahili, a language used throughout East Africa. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008), p.766.
  2. ↑ Terrace, p.766.
  3. ↑ Terrace, p.766, neglects to mention which language.

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