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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 Worst Episode
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    Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 11 - Beaver Dam
    7.4/10(39 votes)

    #1 - Beaver Dam

    S1:E11

    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:Paul Hunter

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  2. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 3 - The Fugitive
    7.7/10(47 votes)

    #2 - The Fugitive

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  3. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 17 - The Great Burro Race
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    #3 - The Great Burro Race

    S2:E17

    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:Jack Hively
    Writer:Dick Conway

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  4. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 24 - Once Upon a Starry Night
    7.7/10(45 votes)

    #4 - Once Upon a Starry Night

    S2:E24

    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:Jack Hively
    Writers:Brian Russell, James Simmons

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  5. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 10 - The Unholy Beast
    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #5 - The Unholy Beast

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 15 - A Gentleman Tinker
    7.8/10(34 votes)

    #6 - A Gentleman Tinker

    S2:E15

    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:David O'Malley
    Writer:Brian Russell

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  7. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 23 - The World’s Greatest Bounty Hunter
    7.8/10(26 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 4 - Unwelcome Neighbor
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 1 - Hot Air Hero
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 5 - The Orphans
    7.9/10(36 votes)

    #10 - The Orphans

    S2:E5

    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:Jack Hively
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 14 - The Seekers
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #11 - The Seekers

    S2:E14

    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:Richard Friedenberg
    Writer:Brian Russell

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  12. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 18 - The Littlest Greenhorn
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    #12 - The Littlest Greenhorn

    S2:E18

    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
    Writers:Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs

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  13. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 6 - Adam's Ark
    8.0/10(41 votes)

    #13 - Adam's Ark

    S1:E6

    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:Jack Hively
    Writer:Samuel A. Peeples

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  14. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 3 - A Bear's Life
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 7 - Gold Is Where You Find It
    8.0/10(34 votes)

    #15 - Gold Is Where You Find It

    S2:E7

    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:Richard Friedenberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 13 - A Time of Thirsting
    8.0/10(32 votes)

    #16 - A Time of Thirsting

    S2:E13

    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:Jack Hively
    Writer:Brian Russell

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  17. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 22 - The Skyrider
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 2 - Blood Brothers
    8.1/10(50 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 5 - Howdy-Do, I'm Mad Jack
    8.1/10(41 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 7 - The Redemption of Ben
    8.1/10(47 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 9 - The Rivals
    8.1/10(48 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 12 - Home of the Hawk
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Grizzly Adams Season 1 Episode 13 - The Storm
    8.1/10(37 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 2 - Survival
    8.1/10(39 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. Grizzly Adams Season 2 Episode 10 - Woman in the Wilderness
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Beaver Dam" is the worst rated episode of "Grizzly Adams". It scored 7.4/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by Richard Friedenberg and written by Paul Hunter, it aired on 4/27/1977. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Fugitive".