6.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Gentle Ben (1967)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.4
Overview
Gentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son Mark and Ben the grizzly bear.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
Gentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son Mark and Ben the grizzly bear.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film primarily explores apolitical themes of family, friendship, and the human-animal bond within a wilderness setting, balancing individual responsibility with empathy for nature without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology.
The movie features primarily traditional casting, consistent with its production era, without intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral to positive portrayal of traditional identities, with no explicit critique or central DEI themes.
Secondary
The 1960s family adventure series 'Gentle Ben' centers on a young boy and his pet bear in the Florida Everglades. The show's narrative does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes, resulting in no portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1967 television series "Gentle Ben" is an adaptation of Walt Morey's novel. All primary characters, including Mark Wedloe, his parents Tom and Ellen, and the bear Ben, maintain their established genders from the source material in the show.
The 1967 TV show "Gentle Ben" is an adaptation of Walt Morey's 1965 novel. The primary human characters, the Wedloe family, were depicted as white in the source material and portrayed by white actors in the television series. No race swaps are identified.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
6.3
Critic Ratings
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