Weintraub broke with the Johnny Weissmuller formula of portraying Tarzan as a pidgin-speaking noble savage who lives in a treehouse with Jane and Boy.
Instead, his Tarzan was an educated depressed loner, much closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs's original conception of the character and Boy is replaced by a young orphan named Jai.
When Henry was tired of his grueling Tarzan work and refused to do the television series, Weintraub hired Ron Ely for the role.
In 1982 Weintraub planned to co-produce six Sherlock Holmes films for television but only two, The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles, both with Ian Richardson, were produced in 1983.
When Weintraub discovered that Granada Television had acquired the rights for their own series with Jeremy Brett, he was awarded damages in an out-of-court settlement.