📺 'Daktari' Monday 17 October 1966 -- BBC1: 18:17 'Daktari' premieres on British television. Game thieves, diamond smugglers and big game hunters endanger the animals in the African bush. Although meant as a serious drama, 'Daktari' (the Swahili word for ‘doctor’). This was jungle quackery that had more thana whiff of Carry On Up The Jungle about it as Judy the chimpanzee and Clarence the cross-eyed lion continually managed to rescue their human masters. Not only were the animals more intellige