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The Best Episodes of Tarzan Season 1

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Tarzan Season 1 Episode 1 - Eyes of the Lion
    7.1/10(57 votes)

    #1 - Eyes of the Lion

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 2 - The Ultimate Weapon
    7.0/10(35 votes)

    #2 - The Ultimate Weapon

    S1:E2

    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.

    Directors:Paul Stanley, Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 3 - Leopard on the Loose
    7.0/10(32 votes)

    #3 - Leopard on the Loose

    S1:E3

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

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  4. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 4 - A Life for a Life
    6.7/10(32 votes)

    #4 - A Life for a Life

    S1:E4

    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.

    Directors:Paul Stanley, Robert Day
    Writer:Oliver Crawford

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  5. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 5 - The Prisoner
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #5 - The Prisoner

    S1:E5

    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.

    Directors:Robert Day, George Marshall
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  6. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 6 - The Three Faces of Death
    7.0/10(29 votes)

    #6 - The Three Faces of Death

    S1:E6

    When the chief of a tribe, a friend of Tarzan, dies, his daughter prepares to succeed him, but 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.

    Directors:George Marshall, Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  7. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 7 - The Prodigal Puma
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #7 - The Prodigal Puma

    S1:E7

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

    Directors:Paul Stanley, Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 8 - The Deadly Silence (1)
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    #8 - The Deadly Silence (1)

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 9 - The Deadly Silence (2)
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #9 - The Deadly Silence (2)

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Erwin

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  10. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 10 - The Figurehead
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #10 - The Figurehead

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Lee Erwin

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  11. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 11 - Village of Fire
    6.8/10(21 votes)

    #11 - Village of Fire

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 12 - The Day of the Golden Lion
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #12 - The Day of the Golden Lion

    S1:E12

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

    Directors:Hollingsworth Morse, Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 13 - Pearls of Tanga
    6.5/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Pearls of Tanga

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown

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  14. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 14 - The End of the River
    6.9/10(29 votes)

    #14 - The End of the River

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 15 - The Ultimate Duel
    6.5/10(26 votes)

    #15 - The Ultimate Duel

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 16 - The Fire People
    5.8/10(26 votes)

    #16 - The Fire People

    S1:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 17 - Track of the Dinosaur
    6.0/10(24 votes)

    #17 - Track of the Dinosaur

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 18 - The Day the Earth Trembled
    6.8/10(32 votes)

    #18 - The Day the Earth Trembled

    S1:E18

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

    Director:Alex Nicol
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 19 - Cap'n Jai
    6.6/10(24 votes)

    #19 - Cap'n Jai

    S1:E19

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

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 20 - A Pride of Assassins
    5.8/10(25 votes)

    #20 - A Pride of Assassins

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Harmon Jones
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 21 - The Golden Runaway
    6.3/10(26 votes)

    #21 - The Golden Runaway

    S1:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 22 - Basil of the Bulge
    6.2/10(24 votes)

    #22 - Basil of the Bulge

    S1:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 23 - Mask of Rona
    6.9/10(26 votes)

    #23 - Mask of Rona

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown

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  24. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 24 - To Steal the Rising Sun
    6.3/10(28 votes)

    #24 - To Steal the Rising Sun

    S1:E24

    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:Unknown

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  25. Tarzan Season 1 Episode 25 - Jungle Dragnet
    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #25 - Jungle Dragnet

    S1:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Eyes of the Lion" is the best rated episode of "Tarzan" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 57 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/8/1966. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Ultimate Weapon".