NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
NaN/100 votes#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
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,...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Eyes of the Lion" is the best rated episode of "Tarzan" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/8/1966. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Ultimate Weapon".