Ron Ely’s TARZAN-33-THE VOICE OF THE ELEPHANT
Ron Ely’s TARZAN-33-THE VOICE OF THE ELEPHANT “The boy’s persistent. I like that.” “I still don’t understand. If you had made them let Tanto go in the beginning, none of this would have happened.” For a series with so many elephants, it’s odd that this is the first time the name comes up in a title. True story. Not sure what it was about the show but my parents made sure I never knew it existed for the longest time. I was very young in 1966, probably five or almost six. About that time, I was introduced to my father’s one and only Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller (whom his brother resembled A LOT and even acted like) and was allowed to see the TARZAN movies on TV, mostly the ones with Boy, starting with TARZAN’S NEW YORK ADVENTURE. I guess they felt I was too young for some of the themes and violence in Ely’s TARZAN. As I grew up, the Tarzan movies were on constantly on UHF stations and every weekend, sometimes twice on both Saturdays and Sundays. I eventually saw e