Yea - Sunday nights. Always at home, Wild Kingdom, Disney. Was there a movie on one channel? Things kind of changed in the early 70's, Saturday nights early with 'wait til your father gets home' and 'All in the Family'. How about summer replacement shows like Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando & Dawn, etc. The 70's were retty cool to be a kid in. Couldn't wait until the folks left tto go out and i could watch 'Love American Style', etc.
wild kingdom was staged using tamed animals. if you don't believe me google or youtube the fifth estate documentary "cruel camera". learn the truth about so-called wildlife shows.
Sundays at home. Would watch the Steelers or Eagles with dad (we lived in Eastern Pennsylvania, but he was a Steelers fan. I became an apostate and went with the Black and Silver) and then Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. We both loved the games and the documentaries. Ah, the 70's. The Raiders were good and life was simple.
This melody is in my head for 35 years now.... I've searched for it for YEARS. In Germany it was called "Im Reich der wilden Tiere" ( = Kingdom of wild animals), but I didn't know the original titel. It was such an indescribable moment when I found the vid and could hear that music after so many years...
Great show! There's a revision of any bloody shit on TV....why not THIS? :-(
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was a Sunday night institution that ran on NBC-TV from 1963 until 1972. Then after NBC canceled the series,it ran continously in syndication from 1972 until 1988,and was most recently revised in 2002 and 2008 for Animal Planet. Sunday nights on NBC during the mid-1960's and 1970's consisted on "Wild Kingdom","The Wonderful World of Disney",and "Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Finn",not to mention "Bonanza" after a good Sunday dinner. Life was simple and easy back then.
Has any actor had a more gravelling, tough guy voice than Robert Conrad? I remember him doing a nature show standing on a beach narrating, and thinking that his voice, along with Leonard Nimoy's, Charleton Heston's and James Earle Jones'' were the best narrative voices ever. Which one do you think had the best voice to play God in a movie?
I know the one you mean- I came here looking for that one- it was played on a marimba or something- I thought it was this show. Anyone know what it was?
ahh I found it! It was an entirely different show! "Untamed World". I tried putting a link in this but it wouldn't post, it's on YouTube- just put this after the youtubedotcom bit: /watch?v=vkTXlsSnZfE
Sunday Nights on NBC growing up: GE College Bowl, Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Finn, Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom & The Wonderful World Of Disney. All after a good Sunday family dinner. Enough to make a grown man cry. Life will never be that simple again.
@DJKhrome I know what you mean. I wouldn't trade having been a kid in the 70s for anything. It seems like the last decade before the world got really big. Ah innocence lost. How I miss it.
Ah man.....I remember watching this on Saturday evenings as a kid. Those were the good old days. I wish they could put classic shows such as this one back on television for our generation of kids....I would be right there watching too just as my mom did with me.
Mutual Of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" was a brilliant program during the heydays of the 1970's. I remember the show on Saturdays and Sundays as a young kid. A Brilliant 6!! Long Live Marlin Perkins!! Educational for everyone at home to see on television.
I use to watch this when I was little, I was just going to say I think it was on Sunday nights them I see the 1st poster already said it, then their was The Wonderful World of Disney also on Sunday nights I think.
Yea - Sunday nights. Always at home, Wild Kingdom, Disney. Was there a movie on one channel? Things kind of changed in the early 70's, Saturday nights early with 'wait til your father gets home' and 'All in the Family'. How about summer replacement shows like Sonny and Cher, Tony Orlando & Dawn, etc. The 70's were retty cool to be a kid in. Couldn't wait until the folks left tto go out and i could watch 'Love American Style', etc.
RevRonL 2 months ago
Great theme music ,makes me remember when Dad would call me in the house to watch this with him.Brings a tear to my eye!!
sdgordonphotography 4 months ago
wild kingdom was staged using tamed animals. if you don't believe me google or youtube the fifth estate documentary "cruel camera". learn the truth about so-called wildlife shows.
theeuprise 7 months ago
Good memories!!lol
IceManLikeGervin 10 months ago
Sundays at home. Would watch the Steelers or Eagles with dad (we lived in Eastern Pennsylvania, but he was a Steelers fan. I became an apostate and went with the Black and Silver) and then Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. We both loved the games and the documentaries. Ah, the 70's. The Raiders were good and life was simple.
andrewhollinger3 10 months ago
:-( Miss Sunday nights watching WK and then Wonderful World of Disney. :-( Those where the days :-(
russwinkler 1 year ago
OMG...the music @ 0:54 :-O
This melody is in my head for 35 years now.... I've searched for it for YEARS. In Germany it was called "Im Reich der wilden Tiere" ( = Kingdom of wild animals), but I didn't know the original titel. It was such an indescribable moment when I found the vid and could hear that music after so many years...
Great show! There's a revision of any bloody shit on TV....why not THIS? :-(
Thx for posting ^^
AlterWagner 1 year ago
Can you believe that Stan Brock lives in my hometown now ? How much luckier could a kid from the 70s get ? He was the coolest ! :)
rushguy515 1 year ago
Mutual of OMAHA is PEOPLE...you can count on when the goin's rough. :)
tsntana 1 year ago
@tsntana HAHAHAHAHA...YES! When I think of Wild Kingdom, that is the first thing that comes to mind!
brooke050870 10 months ago
so beautiful!!
kerbschnitzerxxx 1 year ago
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was a Sunday night institution that ran on NBC-TV from 1963 until 1972. Then after NBC canceled the series,it ran continously in syndication from 1972 until 1988,and was most recently revised in 2002 and 2008 for Animal Planet. Sunday nights on NBC during the mid-1960's and 1970's consisted on "Wild Kingdom","The Wonderful World of Disney",and "Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Finn",not to mention "Bonanza" after a good Sunday dinner. Life was simple and easy back then.
rayssonation 1 year ago
@rayssonation I forgot about "Bonanza", but by then it was almost bedtime for us school-aged kids.......
DJKhrome 1 year ago
Has any actor had a more gravelling, tough guy voice than Robert Conrad? I remember him doing a nature show standing on a beach narrating, and thinking that his voice, along with Leonard Nimoy's, Charleton Heston's and James Earle Jones'' were the best narrative voices ever. Which one do you think had the best voice to play God in a movie?
sportshistorybuff 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this video. If I could, I'd give it a 10-Star Rating!
abcstardust 2 years ago 2
Was there another theme or another similar show that had all Africa instruments and less graphics, that one had a wicked beat and made us dance!
undurground 2 years ago
I know the one you mean- I came here looking for that one- it was played on a marimba or something- I thought it was this show. Anyone know what it was?
Quboingie 2 years ago
ahh I found it! It was an entirely different show! "Untamed World". I tried putting a link in this but it wouldn't post, it's on YouTube- just put this after the youtubedotcom bit: /watch?v=vkTXlsSnZfE
Quboingie 2 years ago
Sunday Nights on NBC growing up: GE College Bowl, Hanna-Barbera's Huckleberry Finn, Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom & The Wonderful World Of Disney. All after a good Sunday family dinner. Enough to make a grown man cry. Life will never be that simple again.
DJKhrome 2 years ago 18
Amen.
WaltzingWithWalz 2 years ago
@DJKhrome I know what you mean. I wouldn't trade having been a kid in the 70s for anything. It seems like the last decade before the world got really big. Ah innocence lost. How I miss it.
rushguy515 1 year ago
@rushguy515 I agree! I loved being a kid in the 70s too! Sunday nights now are just not what they were back then.
brooke050870 10 months ago
@DJKhrome : as you said: enogh to make a grown man cry - music @ 0:54
One of the most beautiful themes I've EVER heard!
AlterWagner 1 year ago
Comment removed
DJKhrome 2 years ago
Thanks for posting; brings back long forgotten pleasant memories 4 this so 2 be 45 yo man.
hnkstl 2 years ago 2
Ah man.....I remember watching this on Saturday evenings as a kid. Those were the good old days. I wish they could put classic shows such as this one back on television for our generation of kids....I would be right there watching too just as my mom did with me.
subwayfan68 2 years ago
Jim was the shit
mitchcumstine 3 years ago
Mutual Of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" was a brilliant program during the heydays of the 1970's. I remember the show on Saturdays and Sundays as a young kid. A Brilliant 6!! Long Live Marlin Perkins!! Educational for everyone at home to see on television.
Green18600 3 years ago 4
I was about 2-3yrs old when i was watching this in Nashville, TN. Awesome memories...of what I could remember at that age :-)
jericho4004 3 years ago
I use to watch this when I was little, I was just going to say I think it was on Sunday nights them I see the 1st poster already said it, then their was The Wonderful World of Disney also on Sunday nights I think.
Smiley6669 3 years ago 3
Great Post. Anyone have the "World of Survival" Series with John Forsythe from 1971?
tablemate585 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Instant regression to 5 years old in front of the TV on Sunday nights before school, heh. <3
Cathalain 3 years ago 2