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The Best Episodes of Tarzan Season 1

Every episode of Tarzan Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Tarzan Season 1!

Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.

Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:NBC

Season 1 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Tarzan" season 1 is "Eyes of the Lion", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Eyes of the Lion" aired on 9/8/1966 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Ultimate Weapon".

  • Eyes of the Lion
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    #1 - Eyes of the Lion

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1966

    A man-eating lion is mistaken for the 'seeing-eye' lion of a young blind girl, who has trained the lion from infancy to be her eyes and protector in the jungle. Tarzan must prevent the hostile villagers from killing the wrong lion.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ultimate Weapon
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    #2 - The Ultimate Weapon

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1966

    When a game warden is shot by an ivory poacher looking to make a fortune off the seasonal elephant migration, the poacher falls off a cliff after tangling with Tarzan, but the accidental death causes the man's son to vow revenge.

    Director: Paul Stanley, Charles S. Dubin

    Writer: N/A

  • Leopard on the Loose
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    #3 - Leopard on the Loose

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1966

    A trading-post worker in need of money tries to steal Jai's pet leopard.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: Don Brinkley

  • A Life for a Life
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    #4 - A Life for a Life

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1966

    After a spider bite fells Jai, Tarzan races to find one of two people whose blood might have antibodies that could save the boy: a lady photographer and a wanted murderer.

    Director: Paul Stanley, Robert Day

    Writer: Oliver Crawford

  • The Prisoner
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    #5 - The Prisoner

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1966

    When a native policeman is seriously injured by a diamond thief, Tarzan tries to get the criminal to jail - and keep the officer's angry tribe from taking the law into its own hands.

    Director: George Marshall, Robert Day

    Writer: Don Brinkley

  • The Three Faces of Death
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    #6 - The Three Faces of Death

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1966

    When the chief of a tribe, a friend of Tarzan's dies, his daughter prepares to succeed him, a member of the tribe, opposes her being the tribe's new chief. So he asks that the old test, The Three Faces of Death be imposed to prove her worthy. But unfortunately a woman can't face a man in test, so another member of the tribe must face him in her place. When no one accepts, Tarzan steps in. And if her fails not only will she not be chief, she'll be killed.

    Director: Earl Bellamy, George Marshall

    Writer: Don Brinkley

  • The Prodigal Puma
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    #7 - The Prodigal Puma

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1966

    An embittered big-game hunter tries to steal a rare puma that Tarzan has captured.

    Director: Earl Bellamy, Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadly Silence (1)
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    #8 - The Deadly Silence (1)

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1966

    Tarzan tries to stop a blood thirsty Colonel from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. Tarzan has been rendered deaf by an exploding hand grenade, effectively limiting one of his keen senses. Tarzan relies on his telepathic powers to a lion.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadly Silence (2)
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    #9 - The Deadly Silence (2)

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1966

    Though still deafened by grenades, Tarzan relies on his animal friends to help him elude the colonel's heavily-armed soldiers.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lee Erwin

  • The Figurehead
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    #10 - The Figurehead

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1966

    Tarzan and Jai try to get young Prince Sharif out of the jungle to safety. The boy is being pursued by the same conspirators who assassinated his father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Lee Erwin

  • Village of Fire
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    #11 - Village of Fire

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1966

    Tarzan races to recover a serum stolen by a native chief. The drug is the only hope for the fever-wracked Jai, who has been bitten by a jaguar and is near death.

    Director: Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • The Day of the Golden Lion
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    #12 - The Day of the Golden Lion

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1966

    A native athletic championship is to take place, with Tarzan taking part, but there is an attempt to steal the prize.

    Director: Anton Leader, Hollingsworth Morse

    Writer: N/A

  • Pearls of Tanga
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    #13 - Pearls of Tanga

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1966

    Tarzan does battle with a criminal known as 'The Admiral' who has his own submarine and has been poisoning the waters so that his own crew are the only ones able to recover fabulously valuable pearl oysters.

    Director: R.G. Springsteen

    Writer: N/A

  • The End of the River
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    #14 - The End of the River

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1966

    A airplane crash in the jungle results in Tarzan racing to save a girl's life and a perilous struggle with a convicted criminal.

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ultimate Duel
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    #15 - The Ultimate Duel

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1966

    A deadly survival test pits Tarzan against an electronic computer. The jungle lord is being tracked by a tribe of native killers, directed by a scientist who uses a computer to predict Tarzan's every move.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fire People
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    #16 - The Fire People

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1966

    Tarzan and Jai risk their lives to help a native chief save his people. The superstitious tribesmen, frightened by a witch doctor, won't abandon their home on a volcanic mountain that's about to erupt.

    Director: Earl Bellamy

    Writer: N/A

  • Track of the Dinosaur
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    #17 - Track of the Dinosaur

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1967

    Tarzan is marked for murder when he clashes with a corrupt government official and his female co-conspirator. The pair are using the natives' beliefs in a monster to drive them away from a rich mineral deposit.

    Director: Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer: N/A

  • The Day the Earth Trembled
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    #18 - The Day the Earth Trembled

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1967

    Tarzan reluctantly enlists the aid of three escaped convicts to escort a group of endangered children to safety.

    Director: Alex Nicol

    Writer: N/A

  • Cap'n Jai
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    #19 - Cap'n Jai

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1967

    Jai is duped by three double-crossing sailors, who are attempting to recover some stolen diamonds.

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: N/A

  • A Pride of Assassins
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    #20 - A Pride of Assassins

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1967

    When Tarzan and a young woman threaten to expose his gunrunning scheme, a smuggler sends assassins after them.

    Director: Harmon Jones

    Writer: N/A

  • The Golden Runaway
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    #21 - The Golden Runaway

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1967

    To help find a woman's missing brother, Tarzan takes her to see a village headman, who turns out to be a red-headed Irishman.

    Director: Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer: N/A

  • Basil of the Bulge
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    #22 - Basil of the Bulge

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1967

    A renowned war-time general, on a treaty mission in the jungle, is captured by a dissenting tribe with the connivance of a corrupt official.

    Director: Alex Nicol

    Writer: N/A

  • Mask of Rona
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    #23 - Mask of Rona

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1967

    Tarzan leads a group on the hunt for missing artist Rona Swann, unaware that one of them is merely using the search to cover up gun smuggling.

    Director: James Komack

    Writer: N/A

  • To Steal the Rising Sun
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    #24 - To Steal the Rising Sun

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1967

    An exiled chief returns to the jungle with three thieves and a plan to steal his former tribe's valuable ruby - using Tarzan as his unwitting accomplice.

    Director: William Witney

    Writer: N/A

  • Jungle Dragnet
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    #25 - Jungle Dragnet

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1967

    A local revolutionary joins forces with a foreign soldier to try to prevent the discovery of a rich oil field by silencing a little girl.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A