George Taylor Unlike the enjoyable if silly Weissmuller films, someone behind this actually read the books since Tarzan was erudite and intelligent. Protecting modern day Africa from many different threats, the one thing I could have done without was the kid. But this was a family show.

Sandy Loam In this episode (A Pride of ASS-ASSins) Jai asks stupid and annoying questions and makes you want to drown him. A gunman shoots at Tarzan with his full auto weapon from a helicopter with the stock under his armpit. An expert drunken knife dude throws his blade, nearly fatally, into Tarzan's armpit. Tarzan turns a hardened sociopath woman (Jill Donahue, known for her performance in, "Stacy Keach's Ex Wife), into a saint, then using his favorite 'Tarzan-pull-the-guy-on-top-of-you-then- flip-him-back-over-your-head' move, tosses her bad guy partner (Victor French, AKA Isaiah Edwards from Little Outhouse on the Prarie Dog) who's trying to kill her, off a cliff!! But not before turning him into a stiff dummy that bounces off the ground. Everyone but Tarzan, even though they are all sweating balls, is wearing heavy jackets. This is the dark continent, and I don't think they're anywhere near the snows of Kilmanjaro. Lose the jackets, morons.

kenburke0627 The Tarzan series and movies, for the most part, can be accused of racism and it is not difficult to see why. In the movies black Africans were either presented as vicious savages or lackeys good for little more than carrying things on their heads or running away at the first sign of trouble. The whole persona of Tarzan comes across as white superiority to the infinite power. There he is - super strong, capable of killing the fiercest of beasts with little more than a knife, or lowering the boom on the bad guys by summoning elephants with his fearsome yell. The Tarzan movies and television series were not meant to be intentionally racist like "Birth of A Nation", regretfully they come across as an unpleasant reminder of past attitudes towards race. The saddest fact was the Tarzan television series aired during a sixties, a time when African-Americans were struggling to be treated as equals and civil rights were becoming the law of the land.

Shield-3 I have fond memories of this show, which one of our local independent stations used to air on Sunday afternoons as part of `Tarzan Theatre.' I loved the show at first simply because I was a big Tarzan fan, but I truly came to appreciate it once I started reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels. This is one of the few times Tarzan is portrayed as ERB envisioned him: intelligent and articulate. ERB, however, gave Tarzan a savage and violent side, something you would never see on a `family' TV series of the 1960s. Fortunately, the producers compensated by loading the show with plenty of action.All the elements came together nicely: Ron Ely had both the physical presence and the acting skill to play a convincing ape-man. I've heard stories of the punishment he took while making the series, injuries that would make Jackie Chan wince, but he kept going. The producers were smart enough not to film in a studio jungle set, but instead take the show on location. The Mexican locations were a gorgeous stand-in for the African savanna and rain forests, and they increase the show's credibility.There's just one thing I never liked: Jai. I realize there's probably a lot of Jai fans out there, but the kid just irritated me. His main function was both to ask simplistic questions about what was going on so Tarzan could explain for his (and the audience's) benefit, and to eat up valuable screen time that could be spent on Tarzan. It's part of the whole `juvenile sidekick' syndrome in TV, movies and comics that drives me nuts. Ugh.In spite of that, `Tarzan' was a great series, deserving of much more attention than it currently gets. It may not be the way * you * see Tarzan, but you can't deny it was a well-crafted, exciting and eminently watchable show.