Ramar of the Jungle


Ramar of the Jungle is a 1952-1954 syndicated American television series that starred Jon Hall as Dr. Tom Reynolds and Ray Montgomery as his associate, Professor Howard Ogden. M'liss McClure played Sahib. Episodes were set in Africa and India.
Other cast members included Nick Stewart, Victor Millan and James Fairfax.
Actor Jon Hall created the series, and starred in it, obviously trying to emulate the then-popular Jungle Jim movies. Produced by Rudolph Flothow for Arrow Productions and ITC Entertainment, four sets of 13 episodes were produced, for a total of 52. Each episode runs approximately 25 minutes. In season one, the first 13 episodes are set in Africa and the second 13 are set in India. In the second season, all 26 episodes take place in Africa.
Several television episodes were later combined and released as theatrical movies by producer Leon Fromkess.
Alpha Video has released 11 Ramar DVDs, containing a total of 44 of the 52 episodes. There are eight episodes which have not been released by Alpha.

The 52 Episodes (in alphabetical order)

Four movies were made which were then theatrically distributed by Lippert Pictures in the USA and Eros Films in the UK:
In addition to the 4 theatrical features, seven additional movies were created in 1964 for television viewing only:
Ramar's popularity in not only its initial run but syndication led to a wide variety of tie-in toy guns, comic books, board games, costumes, iron-on shirt transfers, jigsaw puzzles and playsets.

Popular culture

referenced this show in his song "Pencil Thin Mustache" in the verse, "Ramar of the Jungle was everyone's bwana, but only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana."