Daktari Night of Terror, Ivan Tors NM- 1968 HB Big Little Book #2018 Vintage
Acceptable Vintage Condition. A section of the top edge binding was torn off. There are also scuss , corners are bent, and cover shows wear. Pages are discolored from age. All pages are present with no dog ears. Crisp pages. Please view pictures.
About book:
DAKTARI: NIGHT OF TERROR is based on the Ivan Tors TV program that ran from 1966 to 1969. Ivan Tors was famous for producing shows focusing on animals like FLIPPER and GENTLE BEN, and the movie CLARENCE THE CROSS-EYED LION upon which DAKTARI was based. Indeed, people who remember DAKTARI tend to remember Clarence most of all. The show also got a big boost from the story of Elsa the tame lioness in BORN FREE which was popular around the same time. "Daktari" means "Doctor" in Swahili. DAKTARI has no connection to the 1962 John Wayne safari movie HATARI! (which means "danger!" in Swahili).
DAKTARI concerned the fictional Wameru Wild Animal Study Center in East Africa. The "Daktari" of the title, Dr. Marsh Tracy, was the director of Wameru. His daughter Paula was his junior assistant.