Jambo (TV series)

Jambo
Genre	Wildlife anthology Children
Narrated by	Marshall Thompson
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
Production
Executive producer	Ivan Tors
Production location	Africa
Running time	30 mins.
Original release
Network	NBC

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

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.

Sources

• Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008.

External links

• Jambo at IMDb