The Stationary Ark

The Stationary Ark was a documentary television miniseries hosted by zoologist Gerald Durrell on location at his Jersey Zoological Park. It was based on his 1976 book of the same name. The series was produced by Canadian company Nielsen-Ferns and aired from September to December 1975 on CBC Television and TVOntario. Ark on the Move, a follow-up TV series, was also hosted by Gerald Durrell.

The Stationary Ark
StarringGerald Durrell
Narrated byGerald Durrell
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
First shown inCBC
TVO
Original release16 September (1975-09-16) 
9 December 1975 (1975-12-09)

Theme song

The theme to Stationary Ark, originally composed by John Mills-Cockell, became popularized in the mid-1980s with a cover version (only very loosely based on the original theme[1]) released by Georg Feil[2] for the Commodore 64 and its SID chip.

References

  1. "Synth Sample". comp.sys.cbm newsgroup. 19 February 1991. (Georg Feil:) Note that the Stationary Ark thing is only loosely based on the television show (it appears as improvised from memory by a friend) .


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