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Korg: 70,000 B.C.

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FORGOTTEN SHOWS, SATURDAY MORNING EDITION

Korg: 70,000 B.C. was a live-action Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning kids show (they usually specialized in cartoons) about a family of Neanderthals. Supposedly “authentic” (and narrated by sniffy-sounding Burgess Meredith to give it an air of authoritativeness) the show featured characters with names like Korg and Tor and Bok and Ree — and how could they possible know that? Being nine at the time I watched all 16 episodes that aired, and used to re-enact them on the playground. I even remember some of the dialogue: “…and so I…charged…the giant bear.” And of course, every episode Korg would run into a monstrous creature and make this face:

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Here’s the show intro:

 

To find out more about show business past and present (including tv variety), consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold.

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And don’t miss my new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, just released by Bear Manor Media, also available from amazon.com etc etc etc

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Published by travsd

Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.

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