11/13/09

Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Saw some good nature documentaries recently, and it got me to thinking of some of the nature docs of my youth. This, of course, leads into Wild Kingdom, presented by Mutual Of Omaha Insurance Company.

I just loved Marlin perkins, the host. Biut it was always cool to see how he'd send his flunkies, Jim Fowler or Stan Brock out into the field to do the hard work, like wrestling an alligator, or the like.

Here are two intros from the 1960s: