May 4, 2025, Happy Star Wars Day, and twenty-eight years ago on this day in 1997, Episode #19, “Tarzan and the Beast of Dunali, Tarzan: the Epic Adventures,” was broadcast. Joe Lara starred as Tarzan and Willian Tannen directed.
Details about this episode and all the episodes of the series are available at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0014a.html
An apelike creature is killing young women in Dunali. Tarzan comes to the town, which looks like the setting for a Sergio Leone western instead of a village in Africa. He insists that the killer is not a gorilla. The villagers attack Tarzan for his belief.
Tarzan later discovers that the coroner, Dr. Wheeler, has been killing the women while testing his “immortality serum.” He’s injected himself and in the best tradition of Mr. Hyde or Batman’s “Two Face,” he’s become a monster. He offers to share the serum with Tarzan and change him into an immortal anthropoid hominid. Tarzan declined and the two fought. Fighting Tarzan never turns out well for the bad guys.
The 100-word drabble for today is “Live Long and Putrefy,” inspired by the episode, “Tarzan and the Beast of Dunali.”
Tarzan said, “Your vile and dangerous experiments killed several women.”
“A necessary sacrifice,” replied Dr. Wheeler. “Their deaths ensured my immortality.”
“Have you looked in a mirror. You’re one butt-ugly man. Half your face looks like elephant poop.”
“Appearance is a small price to pay to live forever. Join me. My serum will make us both immortal arthropod humanoids.”
“If your serum makes me as ugly as you are, I’ll pass. If I had a face like yours, every day would seem like forever.”
Wheeler snarled, “Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.”
Tarzan growled, “Doctor, you’ve got both!”
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