 In the course of the first seasons shooting, Ron Ely (qv), who  insisted on performing his own stunts, sustained seventeen different  injuries. These included: singeing his arms and legs running through  a burning village, being bitten in the forehead by a "tame" lion (in  a later fight with the same lion, Ely was bitten on the lower left  thigh), falling down a hill and ripping the skin off the tops of his  feet, falling twenty