Saturday, August 7, 2021

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Jana of The Jungle in Katuchi Danger (1978)

 Jana of The Jungle (B. J. Ward) and Montaro (Ted Cassidy) search for the occupants of an emergency plane carrying medical supplies, which has crashed in the jungle. However, the doctor and the pilot have already been captured by a tribe of man-apes. Here's "Katuchi Danger":


Ok, so Tiko was meant to be comedy relief. Rogue's Retro, the YouTube user who posted the video, intentionally mis-numbered the episode, as this is actually episode 3 in the series.

Jana, along with Ghost & Tiko, are part of the large cast of the new HBO Max series, Jellystone. I shudder to think how they'll be used.

Rating: B.

2 comments:

Goldstar said...

I've now seen the entire first season of Jellystone (10 episodes) and I haven't seen any of the Jana characters. Perhaps they were in the background somewhere and I missed them.

hobbyfan said...

That's possible. Given how CH Greenblatt redesigned the characters for the show, they'd be easy to miss.