Leo the Lion: The Sabertooth Tiger

This is a complete episode of "Leo the Lion," the English title for Osamu Tezuka's 1966 Japanese animated series, "Jungle Taitei Susume Leo" (Jungle Emperor Forward Leo), which was the follow-up series to "Jungle Taitei," which had been shown in the U.S. in 1966 in an English-dubbed version as "Kimba the White Lion." The sequel was not shown in the U.S. until 1984 when the Christian Broadcasting Network ran it, in in a newly dubbed version. It's actually a great series, although the English dubbing is terrible. This episode, "The Sabertooth Tiger," focuses on a perilous trip to the icy terrain of Mount Moon where Leo and his son Runi have been asked by a surviving wooly mammoth to protect the mammoth's ancestor, frozen in ice, from the efforts of a hungry sabertooth tiger to dig it out. The tiger is aided by a trio of even unlikelier prehistoric creatures, which leads so some grueling and violent battles for Leo and his son. Look for other Leo the Lion episodes on this channel.

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