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The Best Episodes of Grizzly Adams

Every episode of Grizzly Adams ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Grizzly Adams!

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An innocent fugitive from the law lives in the wilderness with a grizzly bear companion and helps passers-by in the forest.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 16 - The Runaway
    8.9/10(42 votes)

    #1 - The Runaway

    S2:E16

    On his way to the river, Adams sees a black man in shackles, named Isaac, who runs away as soon as he sees Adams, but later he faces him, and Adams takes him to his cabin. Mad Jack thinks that it's a very bad idea to let Isaac stay in the cabin.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writers:Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs

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  2. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 8 - Track of the Cougar
    8.6/10(42 votes)

    #2 - Track of the Cougar

    S2:E8

    Nakoma is looking for a cougar who destroyed his village, and tore apart some of his lodges. Adam realizes that it's Sekota, a cougar he raised in his own club.

    Director:Sharron Miller
    Writer:Worley Thorne

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  3. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 19 - The Renewal
    8.5/10(36 votes)

    #3 - The Renewal

    S2:E19

    It's Easter, a special times for Adams' and the entire mountain. The guys, along with Robbie, are about to go pick up some things for the celebration, when they meet two strange guys, and then they witness their wagon bursting into flames after being struck by lightning.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writers:Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs

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  4. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 1 - Adam's Cub
    8.4/10(79 votes)

    #4 - Adam's Cub

    S1:E1

    Eliza Bowker (Kristen Curry), a young girl traveling west with her parents (Hank Kendrick and Lucky Hayes) in a covered wagon, gets lost in the vast mountain wilderness. While her parents search vainly, she wanders aimlessly through the forest, alone and frightened. A mountain lion stalks Eliza and then gives chase, but she is rescued by the grizzly bear, Ben, who frightens the vicious cat away. Eliza realizes that Ben won't hurt her and follows the bear back to Adams (Dan Haggerty). Taking the small girl to his cabin, Adams feeds her and listens to her story of what happened. He promises to help find her parents and they begin by searching the nearby mountains. Eliza gradually causes Adams to change his life style, convincing him to clean up his cabin and to clean himself up too. When Mad Jack (Denver Pyle) arrives, he is surprised to see the little girl there, and flabbergasted by the neatness of Adams' cabin. With the help of Mad Jack, they finally locate Eliza's folks and there is

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Arthur Heinemann

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  5. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 4 - The Trial
    8.3/10(39 votes)

    #5 - The Trial

    S2:E4

    It is hunting season, a time when tribesman have to prove their manhood. A Indian orphan named Tumaqua catches more fish than anyone else, but a pesky otter eats everything that Tumaqua caught. After being teased by other men for coming back empty-handed, Tumaqua stals a bucket of fish by the river and runs away.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writer:David O'Malley

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  6. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 6 - The Search
    8.3/10(33 votes)

    #6 - The Search

    S2:E6

    Trapper Tom, a man known for trapping grizzly bears and taking them to the city zoo, returns to the mountain. Mad Jack realizes that he put new traps around the mountain, so Adams and Nakoma have to find Tom before he harms the mountain animals.

    Director:Richard Friedenberg
    Writers:Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald

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  7. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 9 - The Choice
    8.3/10(38 votes)

    #7 - The Choice

    S2:E9

    Robbie Cartman takes his friends' advice and decides to take his deer Ginger back to the wilderness, where Ginger belongs. Even though Robbie hates to give up his deer, he let's Ginger go. Later, when he returns to see how is Ginger doing, Robbie realizes that Ginger disappeared, or fell into a trap.

    Director:Sharron Miller
    Writers:Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald

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  8. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 12 - Marvin the Magnificent
    8.3/10(37 votes)

    #8 - Marvin the Magnificent

    S2:E12

    Marvin the Magnificent, an elderly man, stays at Adams's place with his wonder bear named "Babe," when the bear gets sick.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writer:Jack Jacobs

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  9. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 20 - The Stranger
    8.3/10(43 votes)

    #9 - The Stranger

    S2:E20

    Captain Ulysses S. Grant, a famous person arrives at the mountains, and explains how he is writing a book, and talks to them about how he could never live in the mountains and survive on his own. Adams will teach him a few things he learned over the past few years.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writer:Leonard B. Kaufman

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  10. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 21 - The Quest
    8.3/10(32 votes)

    #10 - The Quest

    S2:E21

    An ecstatic Mad Jack arrives at Adams' cabin where Adams and Nakoma are fixing the roof, and informs them that he met an Army Corporal who said that the government is going to give a reward to all the animals on the mountain. Adams is shocked and informs the others that this is actually a scam, and that the corporal is actually a bounty hunter.

    Director:Chris Munger
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 8 - The Tenderfoot
    8.2/10(46 votes)

    #11 - The Tenderfoot

    S1:E8

    Mad Jack meets a young tenderfoot named Teddy in the wilderness, and believes that he is just a clumsy novice, which turns out to be true, when Teddy, or let's say Theodore Roosevelt, attacks Nakoma & Ben and attempts to ride Number Seven.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Samuel A. Peeples

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  12. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 9 - The Rivals
    8.2/10(50 votes)

    #12 - The Rivals

    S1:E9

    While escorting Sumi, a young Indian maiden back to the reservation, Mad Jack is stunned to learn that his burro, Number Seven, found a stone of gold. Meanwhile, Nakoma meets Sumi and thinks that she got closer to Mad Jack, so he challenges him to a match.

    Director:Sharron Miller
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 12 - Home of the Hawk
    8.2/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Home of the Hawk

    S1:E12

    A tough old settler named and his daughter travel west into the rugged mountain territory, and after a small accident, they end up in Adams' cabin.

    Director:Richard Friedenberg
    Writers:Gerry Day, Jane MacKenzie

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  14. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 13 - The Storm
    8.2/10(38 votes)

    #14 - The Storm

    S1:E13

    Ben and Adams prepare to welcome Mad Jack and Nakuma for the annual feast and celebration, but their preparation is interrupted when an Indian woman arrives, looking for help. Her daughter is missing.

    Director:Richard Friedenberg
    Writer:Preston Wood

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  15. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 3 - A Bear's Life
    8.2/10(35 votes)

    #15 - A Bear's Life

    S2:E3

    Adams, Mad Jack, Number Seven and Ben are enjoying their days, and are doing as much work as they can. Meanwhile, Ben decides to enjoy a sunny day in a way only a bear knows.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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  16. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 10 - Woman in the Wilderness
    8.2/10(35 votes)

    #16 - Woman in the Wilderness

    S2:E10

    The hunters in the mountain are surprised when a lady appears at the mountains asking for information about black bears. It's Mrs. Kate Jackson, a writer. Adams finds out the truth--Kate is a widow, who's father was killed by black bears, and now she is here to avenge her fathers death.

    Director:Richard Friedenberg
    Writers:Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald

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  17. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 11 - The Spoilers
    8.2/10(35 votes)

    #17 - The Spoilers

    S2:E11

    The people at Hoot Owl Creek find out that the fish is dying off and the animals are suffering from some kind of an epidemic, and it's obvious that someone is poisoning the creek. Mad Jack, Nakoma & Adams decide to investigate.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 22 - The Skyrider
    8.2/10(32 votes)

    #18 - The Skyrider

    S2:E22

    While Adams and Ben have to take care of a hawk, Mad Jack comes upon Mr. Milton Wright, and a few more people, who wants to get a glider to fly. Mad Jack is convinced that the "glider" is some kind of an animal trap and goes to find Adams, while Milton decides to fly with the glider, and has an accident.

    Director:Allan Eastman
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 2 - Blood Brothers
    8.1/10(54 votes)

    #19 - Blood Brothers

    S1:E2

    Adams recalls how he met Nakoma, a Native Indian. We're taken back in past to find out how Adams found Ben, how Indian fought with a lion and much more.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writer:Paul W. Cooper

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  20. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 5 - Howdy-Do, I'm Mad Jack
    8.1/10(44 votes)

    #20 - Howdy-Do, I'm Mad Jack

    S1:E5

    Mad Jack accidentally becomes trapped on a raft in rapids and Adams sets up to find the man, but when he finds his personal belongings, Adams is convinced that Mad Jack is gone, and he recalls the first time he met Jack.

    Director:Jack Hively
    Writers:Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

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  21. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 7 - The Redemption of Ben
    8.1/10(48 votes)

    #21 - The Redemption of Ben

    S1:E7

    While trying to rescue a raccoon, Adams is accidentally buried by a rock slide. Nakoma and Mad Jack believe that he is died, and they leave him under the rocks. Ben sadly wonders off, Nakoma and Mad Jack return to find Adams alive. In the meantime, Ben is captured by an owner of a animal circus, Mitch Morgan.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 1 - Hot Air Hero
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    #22 - Hot Air Hero

    S2:E1

    An accident happens during an experimental ballon flight, which causes an unexpected visitor to end up in Adams' cabin--Monsieur Andre Gerard, a balloonist trying to speed up the Pony Express mail system to air mail.

    Director:Richard Friedenberg
    Writer:E. Jack Kaplan

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  23. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 2 - Survival
    8.1/10(41 votes)

    #23 - Survival

    S2:E2

    Robbie Cartman returns to the mountain, and wants Adams to cure his sick pet deer named Ginger. Adams decides to help him and goes into the woods to get medicine, and ends up heavily injured. He loses memory and starts walking around, unaware of the danger that surrounds him.

    Director:Sharron Miller
    Writer:Peter B. Germano

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  24. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 23 - The World’s Greatest Bounty Hunter
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    #24 - The World’s Greatest Bounty Hunter

    S2:E23

    Mad Jack & Adams' friendship is put under a test when Mad Jack returns to the mountain with a fever that causes him to hallucinate. Mad Jack thinks he is the world's greatest bounty hunter, named Brett Carson, and his main mission is to catch Adams, a fugitive.

    Director:S. Travis
    Writers:Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell, Dick Conway

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  25. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 4 - Unwelcome Neighbor
    8.0/10(46 votes)

    #25 - Unwelcome Neighbor

    S1:E4

    When a man named Cartman and his son make a camp at the valley in the mountains, Adams wants to become a great neighbor, but Cartman doesn't want any help from Adams. Things get complicated when the Cartmans' build a lean-to downwind of the campfire and endanger their lives.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writers:Lawrence Dobkin, Paul Hunter

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Runaway" is the best rated episode of "Grizzly Adams". It scored 8.9/10 based on 42 votes. Directed by Jack Hively and written by Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs, it aired on 2/22/1978. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Track of the Cougar".