Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Wild Kingdom, sometimes known as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, is an American television show that features wildlife and nature. It was originally produced from 1963 until 1988, and was revived in 2002. The show's second incarnation currently airs on Animal Planet in the U.S.

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Entertainment

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• Wild
• Kingdom
• Mutual
• of
• Omaha
• wildlife
• nature
• Marlin
• Perkins
• zoology
• Don
• Meier
• Jim
• Fowler

[DJKhrome]

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.

[Green18600]

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.

[RevRonL]

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.

[sdgordonphotography]

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!!

[theeuprise]

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.

[IceManLikeGervin]

Good memories!!lol

[brooke050870]

@tsntana HAHAHAHAHA...YES! When I think of Wild Kingdom, that is the first thing that comes to mind! 

[brooke050870]

@rushguy515 I agree! I loved being a kid in the 70s too! Sunday nights now are just not what they were back then. 

[andrewhollinger3]

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.

[russwinkler]

:-( Miss Sunday nights watching WK and then Wonderful World of Disney. :-( Those where the days :-(

[DJKhrome]

@rayssonation I forgot about "Bonanza", but by then it was almost bedtime for us school-aged kids.......

[AlterWagner]

@DJKhrome : as you said: enogh to make a grown man cry - music @ 0:54

One of the most beautiful themes I've EVER heard!