7.1/1030 votesLoading...#1 - Beaver Dam
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/1977
Adams' cabin is in danger when a group of beavers, after their valley was destroyed by a forest fire, move into Adams' valley. Mad Jack suggests that Adams' should get rid of them, but he has another plan.
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Writer: N/A
7.5/1038 votesLoading...#2 - The Fugitive
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/1977
Adams saves Will Boker, an entertainer and a magician, from drowning in a river, and takes him back to his cabin. Boker claims that he lost a bag full of his possessions when he was drowning, so Adams returns to the river and finds it, full of money. Boker claims that money fell in his hands by an accident, but what is the real truth?
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Writer: N/A
7.5/1026 votesLoading...#3 - The Seekers
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/1978
When Master Sargent Monahan arrives at the mountain, Mad Jack mistakes him for Maurice, a half-bear, half-bull. Meanwhile, the mountain is about to be hit by a storm.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1029 votesLoading...#4 - The Great Burro Race
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/1/1978
Mad Jack is visited by his old pal Gus Thackery and his wife Gerty, who are glad to see him again, but when Gus shows that he is still the same old competitive person, Mad Jack will be challenged into a race.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1028 votesLoading...#5 - Hot Air Hero
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1977
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: N/A
7.6/1043 votesLoading...#6 - Once Upon A Starry Night
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/12/1978
In the Christmas Special, the mountains are safer than ever. The show is falling, and the entire mountain is covered in snow. While Adams is spending time with Ben the bear, digging up a tree and having a snowball fight, Mad Jack decides to have a race. Adams witnesses Ned shooting a wolf. Accidentally, Ned shoots the snow, and causes an avalanche.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1033 votesLoading...#7 - The Unholy Beast
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/20/1977
Adams, Jack and Nakoma set off into the woods to find a monster, a strange creature that Mad Jack saw in the wilderness, a beast that makes Ben act uncomfortable. Soon they learn that the best is actually a camel and has an owner...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1026 votesLoading...#8 - A Bear's Life
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1029 votesLoading...#9 - Gold Is Where You Find It
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/1977
Two schemers search for gold on the mountain with a map they bought for ten dollars. They eventually find another more honest way to make their living.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1029 votesLoading...#10 - A Gentleman Tinker
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/1978
Mad Jack is convinced that he found a genuine leprechaun, and overhears Tinker talking about gold. Thinking that it's the luckiest day of his life, Mad Jack wants to prove that he found a leprechaun, although nobody believes him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1028 votesLoading...#11 - The Littlest Greenhorn
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/15/1978
The animals in the mountains are acting strange, and Mad Jack tells Adams about the reason---a big gorilla was seen in the forest. But, the gorilla will turns out to be something else.
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Writer: N/A
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#12 - Unwelcome Neighbor
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/2/1977
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
Writer: N/A
7.8/1030 votesLoading...#13 - The Orphans
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1977
Adams and Mad Jack are busy with watching two orphan children, Michele & Eugene, who are bored by the rules around the mountain, and decide to do something reckless.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1028 votesLoading...#14 - A Time of Thirsting
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1978
A lack of moisture in the mountains brings problems to the inhabitants, who are worried about their animals. Adams and Mad Jack decide to put drip sacks along the mountain trails. Meanwhile, someone sets a fire in the forest.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1032 votesLoading...#15 - Adam's Ark
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/1977
Mad Jack accidentally runs into Pinkerton, a man who wants to bring Adams back to the town for the trial. He rushes off to warn Adams, while that mountain is in danger when a volcano becomes active. While Jack tries to find Adams, Adams has to rescue the animals with Ben and Nakoma's help before the volcano erups.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1039 votesLoading...#16 - The Rivals
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/6/1977
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: N/A
7.9/1029 votesLoading...#17 - Woman in the Wilderness
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/28/1977
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
Writer: N/A
7.9/1028 votesLoading...#18 - The Spoilers
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1978
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1028 votesLoading...#19 - Marvin the Magnificent
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1978
Marvin the Magnificent, an elderly man, stays at Adams's place with his wonder bear named "Babe," when the bear gets sick.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1027 votesLoading...#20 - The Skyrider
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1978
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1033 votesLoading...#21 - Howdy-Do, I'm Mad Jack
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1036 votesLoading...#22 - The Redemption of Ben
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/1977
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: N/A
8.0/1036 votesLoading...#23 - The Tenderfoot
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/1977
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: N/A
8.0/1032 votesLoading...#24 - Home of the Hawk
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/1977
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
Writer: N/A
8.0/1034 votesLoading...#25 - Survival
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1977
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: N/A
The Worst 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.
Genres:WesternAction & Adventure
Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Beaver Dam" is the worst rated episode of "Grizzly Adams". It scored 7.1/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Richard Friedenberg and written by N/A, it aired on 4/27/1977. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Fugitive".