Totally brilliant series loved it so much very informative and educational as well and gave many insights into life in the Neaderthal days of 70000 BC! Plus Burgess Meredith's marvellous narration was the icing on the cake!😊👌👍🧔🦁🦌🍖🍗🍘🔥
I don't think I have ever seen an episode of this show. But back in the 70's not everyone was scheduled to see all the shows that were available. Every now an than we got lucky an got to just see the advertisiments for show's that never made it to our part of the United States. Thank You Loader.
Thanks for the blast from the past. I remember this show. It wasn't on for too long and I didn't even remember the title. I was reading about another show on the Wikipedia and it also mentioned this show. Great memories.
oh wow, thanks SO much for posting this. I havent seen Korg since the early 80s. It is one of my earlist memories of television and I waish they would release an official DVD of the series.
Here's a bit of trivia for you Korg fans out there: All the "animal" pelts worn by the cavemen in this series were in fact woven from Joe Barbera's back hair.
I remember this! The only episode I recall is one where their meat is taken from them, it somehow ends up in the ocean, and once they cook it, they say it's the best meat they've ever tasted (it had been soaked in the salty brine).
Everyone was going dinasaur crazy during the 70's and 80's. This show was one of others that were on like Land of the Lost. It came on though late in the morning..and by the time this show was on...I was already ready to go outside and play football or basketball with the neighborhood kids.
It was mostly educational, it was canceled after 16 episodes in 1975. I remember one episode when a piece of meat was accidentally soaked in the ocean, and when they cooked it, voila!!!, discovery of salt ... good old times!!!
for a long time I couldn't remember the name of the show and finally found thanks to wikipedia and some searching when i saw it was the usa kids club and I only saw one show where the got stuck in a cave in
I remember this show. Hardly watched it. For some reason, the women stood out more to me as a kid, I guess becuase they looked just like the men. I remembered Mara was mom and Ree was sister. Ree helped a wolf once. And I remember them sorting out how to lift a boulder, discovered a seesaw basically, conversation around the campfire that night. I guess this aired the same year as Land of the Lost and Valley of the Dinosaurs.
@themanacting thanks! Hadn't heard about the episodes being made into a movie, will have to check into that. Strange if they don't put them on DVD's if they bothered to re-edit for tv.
I remember that one episode where they accidentally dropped their meat in the ocean, and discovered that salty flavor makes their food taste better....
Maybe I was over Saturday Morning programing by the time this show came out, but I've never even heard of it. What year did this show debut? It couldn't have lasted more than a season.
For the life of me I don't remember when but I did see an episode of this once. I seem to remember a partially blind caveman kidnapping a boy and using him as his seeing-eye cavedog. This show was from the 70's? Pretty bold and intelligent for its time. I wouldn't expect to see anything like that today.
I don't think that I watched this as a kid (it was mostly CBS and NBC Saturday mornings- okay, a bit of Hong Kong Phooey on ABC...). Judging from this, it appears to make more sense than ABC's forthcoming "Cavemen" sitcom. What was Geico thinking when they gave ABC the rights?
Someone replied to drfunk444 and I tried to reply to their question but accidentally hit "remove" instead of "reply" - 2nd time I've done that (the other time was when Christopher Man who played Tane on the show posted here! aaargh). Anyway, to the poster I just deleted: you were asking about the futuristic show with jetpacks, it was Ark II, if you go to 70slivekidvid (.com) you'll find info/youtube links (including link to buy that series on DVD).
used to have the board game from milton bradley. really poor game with cards like 'no value card' skin & bones of a fish. Get ne out of this time warp!
As I recall, it wasn't too bad. They had input from actual scientists on Neanderthal lifestyle. Maybe the family was implausibly the first to figure out ladders, using shiny things to signal, and inventing rafts -- but that was a refreshing change from the 'stupid, crude, brute' that most people thought of.
Well,,it wasn't "THE FLINTSTONES"-but the people at Hanna-Barbera sure had some unusual ideas back in 1974,,as did ABC's "Funshine Saturday"-although it had a remarkable concept of Prehistoric survival,"KORG:70,000 BC" just didn't have the sort of "punch" to make it as a Saturday morning series. and,,do we really know exactly what sort of language that Primeal man relly used? even though using Burgess Meredith as a narrator,this didn't go very far! "VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS" was way better!