Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp Opening and Closing Theme 1970 - 1971 (With Snippets)
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Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp is an American action/adventure comedy series that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1970 to January 2, 1971. The Saturday morning live-action film series featured a cast of chimpanzees given apparent speaking roles by overdubbing with human voices. Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp had a "seven-figure budget" with location filming, props and costumes, and the laborious staging and training of the animals.
The filmmakers made the most of the budget, staging multiple episodes with the same settings and wardrobe, occasionally reusing the more elaborate chase footage that sometimes included a Rolls Royce. Two of the three producers/creators were Stan Burns and Mike Marmer, former writers for Get Smart! Both resigned from their jobs as head writers on The Carol Burnett Show to work on Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.
According to The Believer, "to make the dialogue fit the chimps? lip action, Burns and Marmer went to ridiculous lengths. Voiceovers were ad-libbed on the set, giving birth to beautifully absurd moments of the chimps breaking into songs at the end of sentences or spontaneously reciting Mother Goose rhymes just so it would look right. A regular weekly feature was chimp TV host "Ed Simian" introducing a musical number by an all-chimp band, "The Evolution Revolution."
An album of these songs was released on the ABC/Dunhill record label. There were also Lancelot Link comic books and other merchandise, including Halloween costumes.
In June 2006, most of the episodes were released on a 2-DVD set by Image Entertainment. On May 29, 2012, SBM Productions and Film Chest released the complete series on a 3-disc collector's edition. The Chimpies skits and Evolution Revolution music videos were included as separate items as well as inside the various episodes.
The documentary I Created Lancelot Link was included in the bonus features, along with an interview with the original producer Allan Sandler, an interview with music composer Bob Emenegger, and an interview with Tongo, the chimp who played Lancelot in the series. 
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As a kid I freaking loved this show
I think most people did
This show never gets old
This show was amusing when I was a kid... now, I'm impressed by the quality. These shows actually made sense. It must have been incredibly difficult!
Great show! It was part of the ABC Saturday Morning cartoon lineup back in 1971! 😎
I was only 9 years old, but remember it like it was yesterday..My how time flies..What people don't realize is that one of the evil chimps was voiced by Bernie Koppel, who went on to find fame as "DOC" on The Love Boat
Ah, the good old days when you actually had to have talent to be on a T.V. show.
Yep 👍
Haaaaa 👏
😂
Jealous?
The voice actors and the chimp actors were both talented.
I MUST HAVE ANNOYED MY WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD LAUGHING AT THIS SHOW ON SATURDAY MORNINGS....WHAT A CLASSIC
Just like you’re doing now typing in call caps… ; )
jk I loved this show, too.
As a kid my brother and I watched this show faithfully every Saturday morning.
I have fond memories of watching this on Nickelodeon in the 80s.
Same
Yep yep
This show is priceless.
I was born in 1980 and still remember watching this! I love this and the monkess
Loved this show when I was a kidda. Still do.
Haven’t seen this since I was 5 years old 1971.
I've always loved the catchy opening tune.
Now this is what I call "Representation and Inclusion in Films".
Fond childhood memory! I still think it's cute. The band and chimps in the nightclub are the cutest.
The world needs Lance Link, put out the call.
Maybe they could find and distribute a cure for coronavirus!
God, I loved this show when I was a kid. Sort of a simian Get Smart. The Baron was obviously Bernie Kopell reprising GS' Siegfried. Mata's whiny voice was a little annoying, though. Thanks so much for posting.
And he was great in both roles
What a beautifull and wonderfull remembers😍
I watched this show on WDCA 20 Washington DC on Sunday Morning before church in the 70's, worth it.
I used to watch this as a little kid. I so wanted to be a Member of A.P.E. The Agency to Prevent Evil! Who wouldn't?
I didn't appreciate it as a kid, but I fondly laugh at when Lance would reply to his boss. That's a good theory Darwin.
"Dragon woman is lovely but she's wicked all the same"? HILARIOUS Fu$ING BRILLIANT LMFAO
I was just thinking about this recently and I was happy to see I found it and to see all the great comments. I loved this show as a kid it was great to relive childhood memories rewatching this🥰👏🏼❤️❤️
So I didn't dream this!
No mack it actually happen.
Nor was it an acid trip.
Maybe not, but whoever came up with this show must have been in the middle of one!
@@beatlequeen06 that would be ALL tv from 65 to 70
@@tednorton5150 Oh, come on!
Mel Blanc did many of the voices. I couldn't wait to watch this back when I was a kid. I miss the 70's
8:08
The Baron was voiced by Bernie Koppell, who went on to find fame as "DOC" on The Love Boat
@@BAKER22-l4u He was also in _That Girl_ with Marlo Thomas
@@BAKER22-l4u To us Gen-X ers, he'll always be Sigfreid, from "Get Smart!"
I remember reruns of this when i was really young. Always stuck out to me
The Band doing the music was The Grass Roots, The guy from the tv show The Office,"Creed" was a member of The Grass Roots.
And his name is actually Creed! Great! Right now watching The Office and decided to see this intro, cause used to watch Lancelot Link in my childhood years - so surprised
I was Born in 1974 in Rome. I Remember this movie when i was very young with the italian Opening ("Lancillotto 008"). What Memories!
This show is an angry vegans nightmare!! That's why I love it so much...so funny and lighthearted. These chimps can act better that the crap we have today
Vegan nightmare? WTF
@@BAKER22-l4u You mean Animal Rights Actives
I watched this in Honduras in the 70's, in spanish. Never forgot it!
I used to watch this show. On Saturday morning in 70s
Same here best times to be a kid
Loved this show!
NBC Saturday mornings-
ABC Saturdays
The end theme from Episode 1 is surprising the only time it doesn't fade. #FunFact
I hear the distinctive voice of Bernie Kopell, "Siegfried," on Get Smart. And he was one of the cast of The Love Boat.
The Doc on The Love❤️ Boat❗
You hear correctly. Bernie Kopell is listed in the credits.
Wow I forgot all about this show.
Thanks for posting.
:)
Nick Hill I never forgot this show!🙈🙉🙊🦍
This was a stoner's delight back in college days.
I worked as a stunt-double on this show. Great memories!
I'm glad I saw this as a kid.
why? because it woke you up to the plot against america unfolding around you? because it made you aware of animal cruelty and the need to end it? Or are you just a shill\bot that makes nonsensical comments?
@@morpheoswarden257 Quizás porque era divertido. Chao.
Sarah's Riding The Storm Wave. Whoa! dude idk ay? I guess i should just be more chilllll Ayyyyy
What a memory jog. All I could remember was watching a show with singing chimps on Nickelodeon back in the 80s. Finally decided to try and figure out what it was, and it was this.
i enjoyed watching this when i was a child.
2 agents of CHUMP disliked this.
Now it's up to 12 C.H.U.M.P. agents.
Now it’s up to 25 C.H.U.M.P. agents.
Animal Rights freaks
I could have sworn the show aired longer than 4 months, but it obviously wasn't cheap to make. Thanks for posting this!
+John Smith - your welcome John
Look up the first episode....it's the only one where the closing instrumental theme _doesn't_ fade out in the end (for some strange reason...)!
I think the series only had 4 months of new episodes,but continued running on SatAM for the entire season-and maybe the next.
Richard Ranke September 1970-September 1972.
Two words: Guilty pleasure.
I barely remember having watched this, when it was on my mother probably wanted to go shopping or something.
Of course times change and I seriously doubt this would ever be made today.
DAYUM ... back in the day, we (and that definitely includes me) would watch just about anything on TV.
WAYNE WILLIAMS didn’t have much of a choice when there was only five channels
@@3rdeyedread750 And yet... you had better quality; compare this to any of the bottom-feeding "reality" schlock and bodily-function-saturated "comedy" of today, and *Lancelot Link* trumps them all.
That was my favorite show.
Used to watch this when i was a kid
I remember seeing this a s kid on TV, as I was switching around, actually turning a knob to do it, NEVER watchec it, seemed dumb, but times have changed as comparining it to TV today I think it looks riveting.
Greatest show ever
So WRONG
Lance Link was my favorite Secret Chimp.
I remember it well. My brother had the lunchbox!
The show is still brilliant and hilarious to this day. Didn’t Lancelot eventually go on to play the talking chimp in 1976’ Ark II live action show or was that another?
Just came here because of the Ralph Report podcast
Figures it was ex-Get Smart guys behind this. My brother and I always thought this was the “cartoon” version of Get Smart, like Flinstones was to the Honeymooners.
I remember this aired on Nick At Nite back in the late 80s.
@Joe Carrol(opener): I was a high-school senior in 1988-89; I recall Nickelodeon had this on in the afternoons.
I usta watch this on Nickelodeon. Amazing what the creators were able to do. Would probably get cancelled today for the stereotypes tho but this was a great show.
I used to see reruns of this on "tv land" as a kid. He was a better secret agent than James bond, in my opinion. 😂
stumbled on this , whoah thought i was havin a flashback !
Absolute genius
They should bring this show back and have Link be partners with Detective Chimp.
SMH
Can`t believe i looked for this found it from a kid wow
I Grew up in San Diego. Lived in OLD TOWN in late 60s and early 70s. MISSION BAY is a popular central area of San diego Beach life.
THE FILL SHOTS OF THE CHINESE JUNK (ship) And more was filmed In and around MISSION BAY and FIESTA ISLAND.
great memories. I WOULD DO MY 'ALI ASSAN' impression in the SHOWER. :)
Loved this as a kid. Have many friends from the same generation that never heard of it. Was it a regional show? I grew up in MD. The Evolution Revolution is still one of my favorite bands, just after Zepplin :)
This was all I needed to understand that Darwin's Theory of Evolution was the real deal! Greetings to my fellow apes.
I watched reruns of it as a kid in the 1970s (channel 45, I think) and I was in MD, too.
I grew up in VA and watched this show. It must've been a regional thing.
I grew up in Massachusetts, we had it here too.
They showed it in GA in the mid 70s, re-runs along side the Banana Splits.
It would have been funny if Charlston Heston showed up yelling: You blew it all up !!!
OH YES.
This stuff is still amusing. Evidence of my childhood...
In the southern illinois area i remember this being one of the 3 kiddie shows to lead of saturday mornings. Around 70 or 71, until it was moved to a later timeslot,i guess it was getting clobbered in the ratings!
Man sob I was starting to get in to the ski one!
a like for your comment and username, you old chunk of coal.
That is one loooong intro Teevees Greatests
i love that show i'm trying to find the complete series on dvd-tori
"Lance Link, whatcha gonna do!"
Definitely got that The Monkees vibe in the theme song.😅😅😅
I remember this show😃 I also liked Sigmund and the Seamonsters
Greatest show ever! No Chimpanzees were accidentally shot and killed with a blank gun during this series.
Amazing
1:10 The Baron reminded me of Coneral Klink who took a step or two back in evolution.
Hell I can't even get it to play
Oh no!
We goin’ need it.
The don and mike show sent me here. Wjfk
Saudades das tardes depois do colégio,1977,tomando café, Hugo
I would feel better if Lancelot Link and the rest of the cast were running the country.
The Wikipedia article on this says that Lance's voice actor was imitating Humphrey Bogart, but he sounds more like Walter Matthau if you ask me.
The kids of today DONT KNOW nothing about Great TV shows,,
I couldn’t remember the name of this! How could I forget Lancelot Link?? Lol 🙊🙉🙈🐵
I was looking at the episodes of this show and I was looking at the first episode and it came on January 1st 1970 not September.
Skip the video to :27 to get on with it
He will tell us about The Random Chimp Event
The Baron reminds me of Col. Klink.
Don Taylor (Donnie and The Moj) sent me here haha
didn't it air on ITV in the U.K.?
I watched five seconds and was dead on the floor laughing. This is so hilariously dumb!
I give it an ape plus rating
It reminds me of the game guess who I believe it's called
0:26 Intro
7:36 Outro
Lance sounds like Walter Mathau to me. And that is bernie kopell formerly 'Siegfried' from Get Smart: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Link,_Secret_Chimp
Does anyone else remember the cereal called Freakies
Yes I loved Freakies cereal too. Got several plastic miniatures as prizes in the box. It was only around for a year or two. I bought a t-shirt too recently. All the characters had profiles on the box. One had an inferiority complex. It seemed aimed at older people but kids buy or ask for cereal
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Watched this as a kindergartener. Still love it, especially the stereotypes that you could never get away with now...Ali Assa Sin , Wicked Wang Fu, Dragon Woman...guess they couldnt make fun of black folks with this show...being black, I'd have thought it was funny, just like old Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry were for me
Lance was a big crime fighter in his day. Funny as a heart attack.
this link said "full episodes" it's not the case
I'm here for the monkey news
oooo CHIMPANZEE THAT