Leopard Attack/Marshall Thompson/Daktari "Outsider" COA

This is a three photo package from the CBS series "Daktari" starring Marshall Thompson.  The first photo is an original  from the episode titled "The Outsider" showing Thompson as Daktari fending off a leopard who thinks her cub is in Daktari's adopted daughter's (Erin Moran) bedroom.  This is staged for the purposes of the series as all the animals used for Daktari were trained on the "love" theory by famed animal trainer and handler Ralph Helfer and the show was shot at his compound for wild animal training "Africa USA".  But Thompson and this leopard had some history.  In a later scene from this show, Thompson was caught in a pit where he was suppossedly "attacked" by this same leopard.  Shooting in the San Fernando Valley at Africa USA- it was a very hot afternoon and the leopard (the same) was tired and hot- and got very cranky.  Thompson always did his own stunts and was also well-trained by Helfer.  The leopard got mad and clamped down on Thompson's arm.  The crew kept the camera's running and the blood seen in this second photo is real.  Thompson rightly knew not to pull his arm away- and that kept his arm safe from being detached.  A whole lot of stitches later, the third shot from the "Los Angeles Times" which picked up on the incident shows Thompson and our leapard making happy after the fact.  So, you have an 8" x 10" original shot from the series, the newspaper shot Thompson mounted and kept, and a reprint of the "pit shot" which is not a laser print- but a quality print on 66 Lb. Kodak glossy paper.  This is from "The Marshall Thompson Private Family Collection, c. 2007" and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the family.

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