Korg: 70,000 B.C. (Scripted, English)
Genres: Drama, Action, Adventure
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1974-09-07
Ended: 1975-01-04
Network: ABC
Country: US
Airs on: Saturday
Air time: 10:30
Runtime: 25 minutes
A family of Neanderthals struggle to survive the harsh conditions of the Ice Age. More than 70,000 years ago, every step man took out of the cave to discover and challenge the world around him was both a new experience and an adventure. "Korg: 70,000 B. C." is the story of that world and of Neanderthal man as he attempts to survive that hostile enviorment. The series premieres on the ABC television network on September 7, 1974, 10:30-11 a.m.The series is a live-action production, filmed on location in remote natural areas of Southern California approximately the untouched wilderness of the world of pre-civilization. Hollywood craftsmen, under the guidance of anthropologists and archaeologists, authentically reproduced the settings and the primitive world of early man.THE STORY centers around Korg, the leader of a small clan consisting of his brother Bok, and his own immediate family, a wife and three children. Cut off from the larger clan because of an act considered offensive to the leader.