The Human Jungle

Saw this - accidentally - on the Talking Pictures channel (old films, and TV from yesteryear). I was around in the early 60s, which this show dates from, but I don't remember it.

It seems a solid attempt to show a rather different sort of show, that early TV era had crime shows, and various dramas, but this seems to be an attempt to educate the public about mental health or psychiatric issues, rather ahead of its time?

The issues are put into some sort of drama, and played out, with Lom in the main role and lots of supporting talent.

It's not my subject matter, so I doubt I'll bother any more, but if nothing else it's a good look back at that era.

Oh, reviewer Gibbs says "Also don't talk about diversity - not a black actor in sight." . . .which may be one of the daftest comments on here, some achievement!

Back then, in the early 60s, most of the country had VERY FEW black people, in some country areas, a black face appeared about as often as Halley's Comet.

I first saw this excellent series when I was about ten years old back in the 60's, and even though much of the content went over my young head I found it fascinating. At the time, much of British TV was made up of shows like the Avengers, No Hiding Place, The Scales of justice, Gideon's Way etc, and although they were good they tended to be rather 'samey'. The Human Jungle was different, dealing as it did with the human condition, mental illness and relationships. I cannot agree with some of the comments disparaging the show for not falling into the same mould as those productions. Far from boring, I found Herbert Lom perfect in the role of Roger Corder, and the rest of the regular cast, although a little featureless and paper-thin were perfectly good. The film quality is very nice and in common with most other programmes from this period, every word uttered by the actors is as clear as a bell. Great viewing.

I don't recall seeing 'The Human Jungle' when it was originally shown on TV but its return on the excellent 'Talking Pictures' channel has provided much pleasure. In every respect, the production is very good, with credible storylines and characters, and crisp dialogue and photography. I have never found Herbert Lom to fail to deliver, whatever his role, and this is certainly no exception as he fits the part of Dr Roger Corder perfectly and acts it with aplomb. And he is invariably well-supported by the other actors, who are a veritable cornucopia of reliable stalwarts from the period - mostly well-recognised if not always easy to name. Fiction it is, but it is convincing as well as entertaining and it is perhaps a pity that Dr Corder is not in reality available for consultation - not that I am (yet) in need of psychiatric help!

I am 72 years old now but still remember seeing this superb tv series on tv in the mid 1960s.For a while episodes had been shown on You Tube.com but were taken down presumably as Talking Pictures had bought up the tv series of "The Human Jungle"in their entireity.What a find as I was idly re-tuning my tv to go back to my youth to see these wonderful "Cholomdley- Warner" (to quote a Harry Enfield expression ) films again on this wonderful channel 81 ! tonight at 9pm I saw Johnny Sekka in "The 24 hour man".My favourite episode is "Solo Performance" (1964) starring the late Margaret Lockwood which I hope they will repeat.If so I will have to make a date to record these episodes on my old VCR.

Absolutely love this programme, great acting and storylines, have never missed an episode yet