Search results
Tarzan and Jane (or Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane) is an animated television series, produced by Arad Animation, 41 Entertainment and Arc Productions and is based on the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The first season streamed on Netflix on January 6, 2017. The second season streamed on October 12, 2018.
- 13
- January 6, 2017 –, October 12, 2018
- 2
- Netflix
Saved from a plane crash and given supernatural powers, teen Tarzan joins forces with brave city girl Jane to protect his jungle home from threats. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 2
- January 6, 2017
- Plot summary
- Characteristics
- Philosophy
- Influence
As a young adult, Tarzan meets a young American woman, Jane Porter, who along with her father and others of their party is marooned at exactly the same spot on the African coast where Tarzans parents were twenty years earlier. When she returns to America, he leaves the jungle in search of her, his one true love. In later books, Tarzan and Jane marr...
In Tarzan, Burroughs created an extreme example of a hero figure largely unalloyed with character flaws or faults. He is described as being Caucasian, extremely athletic, tall, handsome, and tanned, with grey eyes and black hair. Emotionally, he is courageous, loyal and steady. He is intelligent and learns new languages easily. He is presented as b...
In contrast to these noble characteristics, Tarzans philosophy embraces an extreme form of return to nature. Although he is able to pass within society as a civilized individual, he prefers to strip off the thin veneer of civilization, as Burroughs often puts it. His preferred dress is a knife and a loincloth of animal hide, his preferred abode is ...
Tarzans primitivist philosophy was absorbed by countless fans, amongst whom was Jane Goodall, who describes the Tarzan series as having a major influence on her childhood. She states that she felt she would be a much better spouse for Tarzan than his fictional wife, Jane, and that when she first began to live among and study the chimpanzees she was...
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane. Saved from a plane crash and given supernatural powers, teen Tarzan fights to protect his jungle home, with help from his brave city pal Jane. 1. A Hero Is Born. After being rescued from a plane crash by gorilla Kala, baby Tarzan receives special medicines that both heal him and give him super animal powers.
Show all TV shows in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 1:16:56 PM, 04/19/2024. Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane is 10064 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The TV show has moved up the charts by 9687 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Joan & Melissa: Joan ...
- 2017
People also ask
Is Tarzan and Jane based on a true story?
Did Edgar Rice Burroughs write Tarzan?
How did Tarzan meet Jane?
When does Tarzan rerun on Discovery Family?
Oct 21, 2012 · As Tarzan and Jane’s first year in the jungle approaches, Jane searches for the perfect gift for Tarzan. She enlists the help of her hilarious gorilla and elephant pals, Terk and Tantor, who they remind her what an exciting year it has been, from outsmarting prowling panthers to surfing lava down an erupting volcano! But that’s nothing ...
Parents need to know that Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and Jane is a modern-day remake of the Tarzan tale inspired by the original stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Even though his story starts with the sadness of presumably losing his family in a plane crash, the details are fuzzy and it's not an emotional component of the series (unlike various Disney movies).
