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Danger Island (TV series)

Television series

Summary

Television series

Field	Value
image	Danger island.jpg
native_name	La Isla del Peligro
alt	Danger Island title card
caption	Title card
genre	Adventure
runtime	10 minutes (per episode)
director	Richard Donner
executive_producer	Joseph Barbera
William Hanna
producer	Edward J. Rosen
starring	Frank Aletter
Jan-Michael Vincent
Ronne Troup
Rockne Tarkington
Kim Kahana
Victor Eberg
narrated	Frank Aletter
theme_music_composer	Nelson B. Winkless Jr.
Ritchie Adams
Mark Barkan
opentheme	"Danger Island Main Theme"
composer
company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
country	United States
Mexico
language	English
Spanish
Nahuatl
network	NBC
first_aired
last_aired
num_episodes	36
location	Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
related	The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
Mystery Island

William Hanna Jan-Michael Vincent Ronne Troup Rockne Tarkington Kim Kahana Victor Eberg Ritchie Adams Mark Barkan Mexico Spanish Nahuatl Mystery Island Danger Island () is an American-Mexican live-action adventure serial produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast on NBC during the 1968–69 season, as a segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. It was filmed in Mexico, directed by future Superman, The Goonies and Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner, and featured Jan-Michael Vincent as Lincoln 'Link' Simmons.

The series comprises a six-hour adventure yarn broken down into 36 short chapters. Each chapter is roughly ten minutes long and includes a suspenseful cliffhanger ending that is resolved in the next installment. The live-action segment was created to cut production costs on the mostly-animated hour-long show.

Plot

Inspired by the 1964 series Jonny Quest (also produced by Hanna-Barbera), Danger Island depicted the adventures of a trio of explorers in an unnamed tropical island group: Prof. Irwin Hayden, an archaeologist; Lincoln "Link" Simmons, the professor's youthful assistant; and Leslie, the professor's daughter, who serves as both a love interest for Link and the series' token damsel in distress.

Several years earlier, the professor's brother (also an archaeologist) disappeared in the same island chain while searching for the mythical lost city of Tobanya. They are joined on their quest by Elihu Morgan, a shipwrecked merchant mariner, and his sidekick Chongo, who speaks only in a series of monkey-like chatters and birdcalls. They are pursued by a group of bumbling, but heavily armed, modern-day pirates led by the murderous Captain Mu-Tan, and by three tribes of cannibal natives known as "the Headhunters", "the Skeleton Men" and "the Ash Men". The show spawned a popular catchphrase, "Uh-oh, Chongo!", among children of that time.

Characters

Main characters

Prof. Irwin Hayden – Frank Aletter
Lincoln 'Link' Simmons – Jan-Michael Vincent (as Michael Vincent)
Leslie Hayden – Ronne Troup
Elihu Morgan – Rockne Tarkington
Chongo – Kim Kahana (as Kahana)

Villains

Captain Mu-Tan – Victor Eberg
Chu – Rodrigo Arrendondo

Home media

The first episode was released on the DVDs Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970s Vol. 2 & Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s-1980s Collection.

References

(2005). "Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003". McFarland & Co.
"Cinematic Lost Civilizations".
(1983). "Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part I: Animated Cartoon Series". Scarecrow Press.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200806010650/http://nightflight.com/uh-oh-chongo-danger-island-and-the-daredevil-life-career-of-kim-kahana/ The history of Danger Island]
[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits TV Tropes:Banana Splits]

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