The Mexican-French-Canadian Tarzan show is an early piece of 90s cool

Welcome back, fans of 90s cool! 

Well, thank goodness Wolf Larson’s in ERB Inc. He’s such a smart, creative businessman that he’s moved on from medium-low tv budget acting. Wolf’s a promoted fanboy of Tarzan after all. That’s because he must’ve watched the 1960s show with Ron Ely as a kid, decades before playing a 90s Tarzan variant raised by gorillas. Thankfully his own take on Tarzan can speak normally, but usually acts somewhat like a gorilla because as a young child, he survived a terrible plane crash that killed his birth parents.

Tellingly, the 1990s French-Canadian Tarzan show, though flawed but decent, does have great moments and is a spiritual predecessor to Disney’s Tarzan because it’s got Thomas Yeates-esque writing. Comic writer-artist Thomas Yeates himself must’ve watched the Ron Ely show too when he was young! 

It’s a more optimistic and humorous take on the edgier but more nuanced 1960s show with Ron Ely, which is aimed at a young adult to new adult audience, but both shows are also great for family viewing because both teens and perhaps even preteens can be allowed to watch it with some parental guidance.

While I did watch the intros to both shows and both are alright, the 90s series, which is somewhat more known to younger generations than even the 60s show, can be janky and somewhat slogging just like the 1960s show. Nonetheless, the 90s Tarzan show, with its Pop-rocky afrobeat intros, is more freely available online (even on YouTube, where otherwise soggy vids are shown) and can be seen on Tubi as well. But apart from home video releases, the more Latin sounding 1960s Tarzan show isn’t easily accessible online because of the super corrupt WB Discovery!


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