Jambo is a wildlife anthology television series broadcast on NBC from 1969 to 1971.Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007 (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008), p.766.
Intended for children, the show was hosted and narrated by actor Marshall Thompson. Spots were filmed on location in Africa.Terrace, p.766. The series was intended to be a companion of sorts to Thompson's series Daktari. Ivan Tors was creator and executive producer of both.
The title "Jambo" is a greeting in Swahili, a language used throughout East Africa.Terrace, p.766, neglects to mention which language.
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Sources Terrace, Vincent. Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2008.
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