Day #21 of the 30 Day of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #21 of 30 Days of Television Challenge

The prompt is A favorite documentary, science or nature series or mini-series (can't be a reality show) (the prompt was not my idea, it was atpo omn - the only one who gave suggestions. )

I don't know, I'm not a huge doc fan and I'm drawing a blank on nature series.

Because there's been an increasingly annoying trend towards obscure 1950s and 60s television series that no one can watch now or would want to. (No offense but most of those shows were horribly racist, sexist, and dated.) The television series has to be post 1980s and available either on a streaming service,cable or network/broadcast television. I know you have watched television since the 1980s. Stop picking shows from your childhoods.

Mine? Ken Burns Country Music Documentary - which is among the few that I watched and enjoyed all the way through - much to my considerable surprise. (I realized I enjoyed country music far more than I thought.)

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Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Marlin Perkins had an earlier show on NBC which I won't name since Shadowkat has put down rules about series she's too young to have seen. He was then director of the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, in his 40s and he did do a lot of the action for that show. In his late 50s he moved to be director at the St. Louis Zoo where he had his first job after dropping out of college. It was in St. Louis where Wild Kingdom was begun and some of the indoor shots were done. We used to see him quite frequently at the St. Louis Zoo. (George Vierheller, the guy who Perkins succeeded and who gave Perkins that first job, used to climb into the spacious gorilla cage and share a cigar with our beloved Phil the gorilla.)

[shadowkat]

I saw Mutual of Omaha. I want more recent series. I know they exist. I'm not going to hunt down Mutual of Omaha again. It's horribly dated, and kind of chauvinistic.