May
28, 1950
Zoo
Parade hosted by Marlin Perkins
The TV show Zoo Parade,
the first television program about highlighting wildlife, debuted on NBC and
was hosted by Marlin Perkins, the director of Chicago's Lincoln
Park Zoo. Zoo Parade is an
American television program broadcast from 1950 to 1957 that featured animals
from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The
program's host was Marlin Perkins, the Zoo's director. Perkins went on
to host the program Wild Kingdom. Jim Wehmeyer has described the show:
"A precursor of sorts to the regularly featured animal segments on The
Tonight Show and other late-night talk shows, Zoo Parade was a
location-bound production (filmed in the reptile house basement) during which
Perkins would present and describe the life and peculiarities of Lincoln Park
Zoo animals
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