SYNOPSIS

Filmed at Africa, U.S.A., a wild-animal park near Los Angeles, Daktari told the story of an American doctor and his daughter living in Africa. "Daktari" is a native word for doctor. Marsh Tracy was a veterinarian who ran an animal study center with the assistance of his daughter Paula, an American named Jack Dane, and a native named Mike. The Tracy's had two distinctive pets, a lion name Clarence and a chimpanzee named Judy. (Clarence had previously starred in an Ivan Tors movie called Clarence the Crosseyed Lion.) Also featured was Hedley, the British game warden, who often called on Marsh for help in dealing with animals, natives, and poachers. Added to the cast in 1968 were Bart Jason, a former ranger and hunter who had become a guide for camera safaris, and Jenny Jones, a seven-year-old orphan who became part of the Tracy household.