Saturday, June 22, 2024

ZOO CHARADE

ZOO PARADE
NBC 1950-1957

ZOO CHARADE
Panic #9, June-July 1955
w: Jack Mendelsohn
a: Joe Orlando

Marlin Perkins of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and announcer Jim Hurlbut would talk about various animals there. It was sponsore by Mutual of Omaha, sort of a precursor to the later Wild Kingdom series.
Another sponsor was Ken-L-Ration dog food.

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  1. The story makes a passing reference to a "Greggary Peccary"... could that have helped inspire this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aymj5wcIhiY

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