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Cazadero
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18/08/15 01:07 PM
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Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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Did anyone else watch this program as a kid?
Africa owes a lot to Marlin and Jim, and I realized that when I came across this quote tonight.
Anyone who ever watched the show will understand what it means.
I only wish that I was creative enough to think of this on my own.
"While Jim is milking the boar, I'm very comfortable in the shade of a Baobab tree enjoying a cool drink while being serviced by a beautiful young indigenous girl. "
- Marlin Perkins
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gryphon
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18/08/15 05:16 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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Too right watched em all as a kid. Would like to see the best again.
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DarylS
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18/08/15 10:53 PM
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Yes - a favourite of mine, along with the Disney movies and shows. I used to 'shoot' the animals with an air rifle (unloaded, of course), "pow", "pow"!
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Ripp
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18/08/15 11:09 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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YUP--Did as well
Ripp
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Huvius
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19/08/15 12:55 AM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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Quote:
Yes - a favourite of mine, along with the Disney movies and shows. I used to 'shoot' the animals with an air rifle (unloaded, of course), "pow", "pow"!
Did the same, although one time, my Red Ryder was loaded and I shot Kung Fu.
I hid under the kitchen table scared of what my dad was going to do but when he got home he was surprisingly pleased that there would be no more TV in the house for a while!
To this day, I contend that my brother secretly loaded it just to get me in trouble!
The Wild Kingdom set is available on dvd.
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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"Welcome to Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"
Loved it..........especially when things got a bit tough and old Marlin used to send big Jim in to "scruff" something.
What was the zoo that they were catching for?
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I remember going to my grandfathers house to watch it. He had a color tv!
Always got a kick out of the sticky situations when Marlin would be back at the vehicle while Jim had to go in and "poke the lion with a stick".
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xausa
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19/08/15 10:50 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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Marlin Perkins was once curator of reptiles at the St. Louis Zoo, and as such was bitten by a Gabon viper. He was immediately given hemotoxic antivenin, which had no effect. He was then given neurotoxic antivenin, which saved his life. This was the first indication that Gabon viper venom is both hemotoxic and neurotoxic.
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21/08/15 12:41 PM
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I did not appreciate as much as a youngster watched before Disney do remember jim wrestling an anaconda in the Amazon and shooting a nutria I think our the other big rodent whose name escapes me and watching the piranhas eat it
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Cazadero
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29/08/15 12:33 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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With no one to take me to the Field as a kid it was Marlin on Sunday evenings...
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NitroX
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29/08/15 01:13 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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I don't know or remember if I ever saw these TV programmes. Pity from the sounds of it, but possibly I have forgotten as "wild kingdom" does have a small remembrance to it, but not Martin Perkins,
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Remember watching it in the 70s ,im sure it was on Saturday afternoons, Channel 0 ,there is part of it on you tube, with them in the Northern Territory, getting chased by a buffalo on foot [wish i was that fit ]
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Cazadero
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16/09/15 11:49 AM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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I don't know or remember if I ever saw these TV programmes.
Lots of it available on you tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=721Te40h4vg
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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Did anyone else watch this program as a kid?
Africa owes a lot to Marlin and Jim, and I realized that when I came across this quote tonight.
Anyone who ever watched the show will understand what it means.
I only wish that I was creative enough to think of this on my own.
"While Jim is milking the boar, I'm very comfortable in the shade of a Baobab tree enjoying a cool drink while being serviced by a beautiful young indigenous girl. "
- Marlin Perkins
Did I, every chance I could, a great program that would be a good repeat in the off season.
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NitroX
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16/09/15 06:32 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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"Oldtimers" again, I did have some recollection of "Wild Kingdom" but nothing of Martin Perkins. I do remember the face however. Must have been five or something when I saw some of those programmes.
Thanks for the link.
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NitroX
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16/09/15 06:42 PM
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Re: Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH_uS9MXAZg
Water buffalo.
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