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Me, I was just another guy on salary.” Hall, however, made no big pro¬ duction of bolting the movies for TV. He and producer Rudy Flothow devoted two full years to pre-produc¬ tion work before setting up Arrow Productions and turning a camera on the initial footage. The immediate problem, of course, was a suitable format for Hall’s tal¬ ents. Cowboys had been done to death, and there were already enough space projects afoot to think seriously about starting still another. It was Hall who finally came up with the key: what single branch of the en¬ tertainment world has never laid an egg? The obvious answer was: the circus. What did the circus have that nobody else had? Wild animals. “So,” said Hall, “let’s do an animal show.” Blood ami Bandages The result was Ramar of the Jungle, which, as any five-year-old can tell his ignorant parents, is pronounced Rahm’ -uh, not Ray-mar. Hall is cast as Dr. Tom Reynolds, known as Ra- mar, the white witch doctor, to the African natives. As a doctor, Hall is in a position to accomplish good deeds as well as rassle about the place with wild animals. Hall has two fetishes about the series, which has been sold in 73 markets as this is written and is one of the Nation’s top-rated shows in the younger set. He insists on both historical and geographical accuracy, and no sex. “Kids,” he says, “get smarter every day. You can’t fool them and we don’t try to. Even our African dialects are genuine. As for sex, who needs it at their age?” Whenever a script drags a blonde into the proceedings, Hall makes sure he doesn’t so much as make eyes at her. Africa, The Locale In his element: Ramar on a jungle trail. Laid chiefly in Africa (they’ve done a few with India as the locale), the show relies heavily on animal shots but rarely shoots its own. “There’s a lot of footage available,” Hall says, “and it’s good.” In the beginning. Hall and Flothow tried using live animals from Cali¬ fornia’s famed Jungle Compound but soon found it was much too risky. “Couple of the boys got pretty badly