Daktari | |
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Genre | Children's drama Adventure |
Created by | Art Arthur Ivan Tors |
Written by | William Clark Meyer Dolinsky Lawrence L. Goldman Alf Harris John Hogan Jack Jacobs Robert Lees Robert Lewin D.D. Oldland S.S. Schweitzer Stanley H. Silverman Malvin Wald |
Directed by | Paul Landres Andrew Marton Otto Lang |
Starring | Marshall Thompson Cheryl Miller Hari Rhodes Yale Summers Hedley Mattingly |
Theme music composer | Shelly Manne Henry Vars |
Composers | Herbert Doerfel Shelly Manne Henry Vars |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 89 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Ivan Tors |
Producer | Leonard B. Kaufman |
Cinematography | William A. Fraker Fred Mandl Paul Ivano Richard Moore |
Editor | George Hively |
Running time | 45–48 minutes |
Production companies | Ivan Tors Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | January 11, 1966 January 15, 1969 | –
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Daktari (Swahili for "doctor") is an American family drama series that aired on CBS between 1966 and 1969. The series is an Ivan Tors Films Production in association with MGM Television starring Marshall Thompson as Dr. Marsh Tracy, a veterinarian at the fictional Wameru Study Center for Animal Behavior in East Africa.