George of the Jungle was an American animated series produced by Jay Ward

Jay Ward

J Troplong "Jay" Ward was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken...

 and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959 to June 28, 1964 on the ABC and NBC television networks...

. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan

Tarzan

Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...

. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings

Saturday morning cartoon

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 from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV network ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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. The half-hour program was distributed for many years by Worldvision Enterprises, currently part of CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Distribution

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Each episode featured three segments in the form of three unrelated cartoons: George of the Jungle, Tom Slick

Tom Slick (cartoon)

Tom Slick is the cartoon star of a series of shorts that aired within the half-hour, animated television series George of the Jungle...

, and Super Chicken

Super Chicken

Super Chicken is a segment that ran on the animated television series George of the Jungle. It was produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who earlier had created the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons...

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Unlike previous Ward series, the animation production was done in Hollywood using veteran animators Phil Duncan, Rod Scribner

Rod Scribner

Roderick H. "Rod" Scribner was an American animator best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros.. His animation was one of the wildest things ever seen on screen during The Golden Age of American animation. He started as an animator for Ben...

, and Rudy Zamora

Rudy Zamora

Rudy Zamora was a Mexican American animator and a prolific animation director who was a veteran actor in George of the Jungle.-External links:...

, among others.