Daktari (TV series)

Daktari is a television series from the 1960s about a veterinarian named Dr. Marsh Tracy, his daughter Paula and his staff located in the natural park Wameru Study Center for Animal Behavior in East Africa. Daktari means ' doctor ' in Swahili. The series came about after the film Clarence, the cross-eyed Lion was released. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == The name is derived from the Swahili Daktari doctor. In Kenya the active Dutch ecologist and veterinarian Toni harthoorn was a model for Daktari.
 * Dr. Marshall Tracy - Marshall Thompson
 * Paula Tracy - Cheryl Miller
 * Mike Makula - Hari Rhodes
 * Jack Dane - Yale Summers
 * Ranger Hedley - Hedley Mattingly
 * Clarence the cross-eyed lion
 * Judy the Chimp