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The Worst Episodes of The Legend of Tarzan

Every episode of The Legend of Tarzan ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Legend of Tarzan!

The Legend of Tarzan is an American animated television series created by The Walt Disney Company in 2001, based on the Tarzan character created by...
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Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

"Tarzan and the Rift" is the worst rated episode of "The Legend of Tarzan". It scored 6.3/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Don MacKinnon and written by Leslie Nordman, it aired on 9/16/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Tarzan and the Silver Screen".

  • Tarzan and the Rift
    6.3/1035 votes
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    #1 - Tarzan and the Rift

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/16/2001

    Poachers arrive in the jungle and are setting traps everywhere, so Tarzan warns everyone to be careful. Meanwhile, Terk encourages Tantor to act on his attractions to a female elephant named Dania with a talent for singing. The first date goes well, and though everybody finds Dania perfectly charming, she herself gets off on the wrong foot with Terk. When Terk discovers Tantor would rather spend his time with Dania than her, she plans to break them up, but ends up getting caught in one of the poachers' traps instead. Now Tantor must decide which is more important to him—his relationship with the difficult Dania, or saving his best friend from being kidnapped.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Leslie Nordman

  • Tarzan and the Silver Screen
    6.3/1032 votes
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    #2 - Tarzan and the Silver Screen

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 9/27/2001

    A film crew arrives in the jungle to shoot an action movie. Tarzan, being unaware of this, interferes in the process, causing him to appear in the scenes unintentionally. The film's male lead actor becomes jealous after being replaced by Tarzan and attempts to destroy the footage, causing a huge fire at the trading post.

    Director: Victor Cook

    Writer: Madellaine Paxson

  • Tarzan and the Giant Beetles
    6.5/1032 votes
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    #3 - Tarzan and the Giant Beetles

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/17/2001

    When Terk and Tantor accidentally spill some of the fluid from the giant flowers the Professor was studying onto a few beetles, it makes them giant themselves. To stay out of trouble, they keep it a secret. But how can you keep a couple of huge beetles a secret?

    Director: Victor Cook

    Writer: Carl Ellsworth

  • Tarzan and the All-Seeing Elephant
    6.6/1029 votes
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    #4 - Tarzan and the All-Seeing Elephant

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 9/30/2001

    Tantor starts believe in an "All-seeing elephant" that protects him after he survives series of dangerous accidents. Tantor decides to journey to Mount Indigo, where the all-seeing elephant supposedly lives, to prove his friends the elephant truly exists. Tarzan, Jane, Terk, and the Professor decide to accompany Tantor to make sure he stays safe.

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Mark Palmer

  • Tarzan and the Flying Ace
    6.6/1037 votes
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    #5 - Tarzan and the Flying Ace

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/2003

    A bush pilot named Bobby Canler, who is an old friend of Jane, comes to visit her, but Tarzan senses something bad about him. He is later convinced he's just jealous so he backs off. Unfortunately, Tarzan was right.

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Jess Winfield

  • Tarzan and the Seeds of Destruction
    6.8/1034 votes
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    #6 - Tarzan and the Seeds of Destruction

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/23/2001

    Disgusted by the decay near the elephant territory, Jane tries to use an English vine to cover up the scent. But the vines cover up everything and are too poisonous to eat. While Jane and the Professor try to think of a solution, Tarzan invites the elephants to live with the gorillas, but how long can they live together in harmony?

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Robert Askin

  • Tarzan and the New Wave
    6.8/1031 votes
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    #7 - Tarzan and the New Wave

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/1/2001

    Tarzan helps the people on an sinking schooner escape. He discovers the passengers are Jane's friends Eleanor, Hazel, and Greenly, as well as Greenly's fiancé Henry. Eleanor and Hazel do not think Henry is "well-rounded" enough, hoping the jungle and Tarzan can toughen him up. Eventually Henry's toughness is put to the test when an earthquake, followed by a tidal wave, hits the jungle.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Jess Winfield

  • Tarzan and the Prison Break
    6.8/1029 votes
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    #8 - Tarzan and the Prison Break

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 10/7/2001

    Hugo and Hooft use Tarzan to help them gather special ingredients for their hot sauce. The sauce, with the guys' names on the bottle, becomes popular to the French Foreign Legion, and is brought to the attention of Lt. Col. Staquait. Staquait vows to re-capture Hugo and Hooft for deserting, and succeeds eventually, resulting in the duo being sent to the Cape Doom prison. Upon attempting to free his friends, Tarzan is also captured. Jane attempts to contact the Magistrate to free Hugo and Hooft legally.

    Director: Troy Adomitis

    Writer: Madellaine Paxson

  • Tarzan and the Face from the Past
    6.8/1030 votes
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    #9 - Tarzan and the Face from the Past

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 10/9/2001

    Zutho, a shady mandrill from Tarzan's past, resurfaces, demanding a favor he claims is owed for keeping a 20-year-old secret. This results in Tarzan having to do everything Zutho tells him to. What secrets does Zutho know to gain such a hold over the lord of the jungle?

    Director: Victor Cook

    Writer: Gary Sperling

  • Tarzan and the Caged Fury
    6.8/1031 votes
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    #10 - Tarzan and the Caged Fury

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 10/10/2001

    Johannes Niels and Merkus return to the jungle to mine diamonds. Tarzan agrees to this as long as they stay away from the gorillas. Niels and Merkus are threatened by Tublat, who they capture and plan to make money out of him. Tarzan sets out to free Tublat, despite Terk's protests and the past conflict between them.

    Director: Dave Bullock

    Writer: Ken Koonce, David Wiemers

  • Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor
    6.8/1031 votes
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    #11 - Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 10/12/2001

    A writer named Ed is in desperate need of some inspiration for his next novel. He finds it while walking down the street in the form of a newspaper article about Tarzan, "The Missing Link". He begins tracking down various leads to Tarzan's whereabouts, including Tarzan's friends and enemies. They all tell Ed of their first encounters with Tarzan, prompting Ed to head out into the jungle to find Tarzan himself.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Madellaine Paxson

  • Tarzan and the Lost City of Opar
    6.9/1040 votes
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    #12 - Tarzan and the Lost City of Opar

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/6/2001

    Two leopard men take the Professor to the forgotten city of Opar, where Queen La is hoping for a king. She refuses the Professor and has the leopard men do what they wish with him. When Tarzan and the others find out, they all head for Opar, just in time to save the Professor. However, after seeing Tarzan, La falls in love with him and plans to get rid of Jane.

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Bill Motz, Bob Roth

  • Tarzan and the Rogue Elephant
    6.9/1037 votes
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    #13 - Tarzan and the Rogue Elephant

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/9/2001

    Baruti and Jamila, an elephant couple, migrate into Tantor's herd to protect their hypochondriac son, Jabari, from the mad rampages of Mbaya, an elephant gone "rogue". Tantor and Jabari instantly bond, but through a series of coincidences, Tantor comes to believe that he's responsible for Mbaya's recent rampage through Tarzan's protectorate and retreats into the jungle. Meanwhile, Jane attempts to discover something that Tarzan's afraid of.

    Director: Sean Bishop

    Writer: Mirith J. Colao

  • Tarzan and the Beast from Below
    6.9/1031 votes
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    #14 - Tarzan and the Beast from Below

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 9/28/2001

    Terk gets scared when she sees a monster, which is later revealed to be a velociraptor from Pellucidar. The others initially dismiss Terk, but believe her after the dinosaur attacks the Professor's camp as well as Tarzan and Jane's treehouse. Tarzan attempts to find out how the velociraptor managed to get out of Pellucidar and how it can be sent back.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Ken Koonce, David Wiemers

  • Tarzan and the Return of La
    6.9/1037 votes
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    #15 - Tarzan and the Return of La

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/3/2001

    While the gang is setting up a surprise croquet game for the Professor, Jane encounters an ill-looking fawn. Upon touching the fawn, the soul of Queen La enters her body. Failing to return to Opar by herself, La turns to Tarzan, who senses something wrong right away. Instead, she turns to Dumont for help. Can the aid of Usula, the Waziri elder, bring Jane back before La retrieves her staff and brings Opar to life again?

    Director: Victor Cook

    Writer: Peter Gaffney

  • Tarzan and the Silver Ape
    7.0/1031 votes
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    #16 - Tarzan and the Silver Ape

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/24/2001

    The Professor learns about a spiritual silver ape that, supposedly, cures the injured of the jungle. Not believing this is a spiritual creature, he plans to study it more. But when Philander steals his notes and finds out about the ape, he plans to capture it.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Rob Humphrey, Jim Peterson, John Behnke

  • Tarzan and the Fugitives
    7.1/1035 votes
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    #17 - Tarzan and the Fugitives

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/2001

    Two deserters of the French Foreign Legion called Hooft and Hugo flee into the jungles of Africa. Unfortunately, their former superior, Lt. Colonel Staquait, finds their tracks and vows to follow them to the ends of the earth. Tarzan rescues the deserters from the perils of the jungle and the duo begin taking advantage of the resulting hospitality. Jane, being suspicious of the parasitic pair and their fantastic stories, decides to turn them in, only to realize who the real criminal is.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Liz Friedman, Vanessa Place

  • Tarzan and the Enemy Within
    7.1/1034 votes
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    #18 - Tarzan and the Enemy Within

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2001

    Tarzan and Terk find an injured gorilla named Gobu in the forest. Little do they know, but he is under orders from his leader to lure Tarzan back to Gobu's family. Once the injured gorilla (who Terk has taken a strong shine to) is better, he and Tarzan embark on the long journey to Gobu's home, only to find the evil Tublat, a bull ape who was expelled from Kerchak's family many years before, was waiting there to trap him. Meanwhile, Jane and the Professor attempt to teach Terk to be more lady-like.

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Ken Koonce, David Wiemers

  • Tarzan and the Missing Link
    7.1/1035 votes
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    #19 - Tarzan and the Missing Link

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 10/5/2001

    Philander returns to Africa with two British thugs to capture "Tarzan: The Missing Link" in a last-ditch effort to pay off the thugs. While there, they meet up with the Professor and Philander attempts to convince the thugs that the Professor is Tarzan.

    Director: Victor Cook

    Writer: David Slack

  • Tarzan and the Poisoned River (Part 1)
    7.2/1034 votes
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    #20 - Tarzan and the Poisoned River (Part 1)

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/10/2001

    Tantor drinks water from the river and gets ill. Tarzan, Jane, and the Professor go upstream to find out what's poisoning the river while Terk tries to save Tantor. Along the way, they lose their boat and get captured by a group of natives who blame them for poisoning the river.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Peter Gaffney

  • Tarzan and the Fountain
    7.2/1031 votes
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    #21 - Tarzan and the Fountain

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/13/2001

    The Professor eagerly awaits the arrival of a Doctor Doyle. Upon arrival, everyone is surprised to find that Doyle is actually a woman. Doctor Robin Doyle had come to Africa to study Keewazi's tribe with the Professor. While studying, they find some of the older men to have quite startling ages (from 500 to 700), and learn about a great fountain. The professor, who feels he's too old for Robin, secretly sets forth to find this fountain.

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Eddie Guzelian

  • Tarzan and the Jungle Madness
    7.2/1036 votes
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    #22 - Tarzan and the Jungle Madness

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/18/2001

    Tarzan and Jane return from a trip to the Waziri village to find the Professor missing and his camp in ruin. Jane momentarily fears the worst, but soldiers on with Tarzan in an attempt to determine her father's whereabouts and condition—a pursuit impeded by the hordes of apparently mad animals, including Terk and Tantor, destroying everything in their path and pleading for the cessation of a mysterious, unheard ringing.

    Director: Victor Cook

    Writer: Madellaine Paxson

  • Tarzan and the British Invasion
    7.2/1041 votes
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    #23 - Tarzan and the British Invasion

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/2003

    Jane's friends, Eleanor, Greenly, and Hazel, thinking Jane is in trouble, come to rescue her. When they find her and everything is explained, they fret Jane has changed. To prove she hasn't, Jane takes them on a picnic in the jungle. That's when trouble comes up.

    Director: Don MacKinnon

    Writer: Mirith J. Colao

  • Tarzan and the Trading Post
    7.3/1046 votes
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    #24 - Tarzan and the Trading Post

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/4/2001

    A trade manager named Renard Dumont makes his trading post where the rhino herd is, causing them to move into gorilla territories. Will the gorillas have to move?

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Eddie Guzelian

  • Tarzan and the Protege
    7.3/1032 votes
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    #25 - Tarzan and the Protege

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/19/2001

    Doctor Robin Doyle returns to the jungle with her nephew Ian, a bookish child with few friends who spends his time collecting butterflies. While Robin and the Professor spend some quality time "spooning", the task of entertaining Ian falls to Tarzan, whom Ian sees as a much-needed role model. Lacking any other experience, Tarzan fills the day with activities he enjoyed as a child, and it's not long before the boy has discarded his formal trappings for a loincloth. None of this sits quite well with Jane, who worries about the dangers of a small child swinging recklessly from tree to tree—and what the good doctor will say when she finds out.

    Director: Nick Filippi

    Writer: Randy Rogel