You know, people I think who watched Zoo Parade and who watch Wild Kingdom know you as Marlin Perkins of television, and people in the zoo profession who know you more as not only a zoo man but as herpetologist and someone who’s worked all his life with reptiles. When… Read More
No, no, no. Well, it’d be too expensive to send them back. Read More
I think you probably don’t have a picture because it’s on bad. Effectively happened during the filming of Zoo Parade. Yes. When you were doing that Lincoln Park, there was one incident where you were working with a poisonous or a hot snake, and you were bitten, could you kind… Read More
And then he turned around and looked at him, and I said, why don’t you turn around let us see your face again, and so he did. So you really had. You got things like that. Yeah, it was all at lib, we had a so called script which was… Read More
Well, I expect so, and I guess by this time, Wild Kingdom, is the longest, they say it’s the longest running syndicated half hour program with the same sponsor, mutual of Omaha of course. Now when you were at Lincoln Park and doing Zoo Parade, and I was one of… Read More
Well, it must have been pretty good concept because am I correct, that that’s the longest running animal show that’s, I mean, from Zoo Parade starting with yourself to Wild Kingdom?… Read More
and I said, I just saw your unit down at the, why don’t we bring that after the zoo?… Read More
So she said, okay, I’ll see what I can do, then I got the sad work that it was too expensive, they didn’t have enough funds to do it, so I said, well, bye guys, if they can take it down to the museum of science and industry and do… Read More
They said, this is for WBKB, and it’s a remote control unit, then we’re beaming a program out from here from, so I went back and asked the director, I went back to telephone the director. Read More
And I had to get the same answer, oh, shrug a shoulder, you talk until you run out of steam, or until the animals get tired, you run out of animals, and then Margie will give a chalk talk or play the organ or do something else, there were a… Read More
Well, I would, before I would start the program that evening, whichever evening it was, I’d say, how long do you want the program to go?… Read More
Zoo Parade?… Read More
Yeah. When I came here in 1944, it was only a year later, the war was going on, and I met a director from television station and that station was WBKB, it was run by a man named Bill Eddie, and it was the only television station I had ever… Read More
You’re very well known for Zoo Parade and Wild Kingdom now, it started in Lincoln Park, how did it start?… Read More
Raja. Raja, yeah. Well, unusual names, but they turned out to be alright. It’s interesting in some of the old films though, that you, maybe that’s just the way it was programmed, but the one that seemed to have most of the attention was Sinbad, or seemed to be kind… Read More
Now you’re up to your ears and gorillas, and I think it’s great that you are, that’s actually one of the concepts about zoos that has changed, in the early days you’d have one specimen, you’d have two specimens on occasion, that’s all you felt you needed, but that concept… Read More
So Lotus, Sinbad, and what was the other?… Read More
When it came in out there. It it just came in as a surprise, and I got permission then from the head of that department to increase my permit for three to four, and he said, you might as well take this one along too, and of course that turned… Read More
They said, sure, we can radio there, and they could relay the message, and I knew the hotel where they were, so we were all set, so the message was that, at this moment Marlin Perkins is in a TWA playing with four gorillas flying over Boston, heading for Chicago,… Read More
How did you decide, when did you decide to take the fourth animal?… Read More