NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Adam's Cub
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/1977
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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Blood Brothers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - 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...
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Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - The Storm
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/1977
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: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - The Trial
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1977
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - The Search
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1977
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
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - 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
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#21 - Track of the Cougar
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/1977
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: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - The Choice
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/1977
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
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - 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
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
"Adam's Cub" is the worst rated episode of "Grizzly Adams". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by James L. Conway and written by Arthur Heinemann, it aired on 2/9/1977. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Blood Brothers".