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Tarzan

  • NR
  • 1966–1968
  • 2 seasons
  • Action & Adventure, Drama
  • 6.9

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.

Episodes

31 episodes
  1. 1Eyes of the Lion

    46 minSep 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.

  2. 2The Ultimate Weapon

    46 minSep 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.

  3. 3Leopard on the Loose

    46 minSep 23, 1966

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

  4. 4A Life for a Life

    46 minSep 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.

  5. 5The Prisoner

    46 minOct 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.

  6. 6The Three Faces of Death

    46 minOct 14, 1966

    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.

  7. 7The Prodigal Puma

    46 minOct 21, 1966

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

  8. 8The Deadly Silence (1)

    46 minOct 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.

  9. 9The Deadly Silence (2)

    46 minNov 4, 1966

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

  10. 10The Figurehead

    46 minNov 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.

  11. 11Village of Fire

    46 minNov 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.

  12. 12The Day of the Golden Lion

    46 minDec 2, 1966

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

  13. 13Pearls of Tanga

    46 minDec 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.

  14. 14The End of the River

    46 minDec 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.

  15. 15The Ultimate Duel

    46 minDec 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.

  16. 16The Fire People

    46 minDec 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.

  17. 17Track of the Dinosaur

    46 minJan 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.

  18. 18The Day the Earth Trembled

    46 minJan 13, 1967

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

  19. 19Cap'n Jai

    46 minJan 20, 1967

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

  20. 20A Pride of Assassins

    46 minJan 27, 1967

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

  21. 21The Golden Runaway

    46 minFeb 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.

  22. 22Basil of the Bulge

    46 minFeb 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.

  23. 23Mask of Rona

    46 minFeb 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.

  24. 24To Steal the Rising Sun

    46 minFeb 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.

  25. 25Jungle Dragnet

    46 minMar 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.

  26. 26The Perils of Charity Jones (1)

    46 minMar 10, 1967

    A missionary from America's midwest enlists Jai's help to fulfill her father's last wish and deliver an organ to a primitive tribe, but their boat is disabled.

  27. 27The Perils of Charity Jones (2)

    46 minMar 17, 1967

    Tarzan rescues Charity and Jai from hostile natives, but then the trio are pursued by another tribe who are after the guns that Jai has hidden.

  28. 28The Circus

    46 minMar 24, 1967

    Jai and Dutch encounter a fugitive who is trying to evade a manhunt by joining the circus.

  29. 29The Ultimatum

    46 minMar 31, 1967

    A dangerous woman and her hired thugs threaten to destroy a native village unless Tarzan submits to being their prisoner.

  30. 30Algie B for Brave

    46 minApr 7, 1967

    General Bertram returns, and gets Jai's help on a mission to locate a foreign power's nuclear-detection equipment.

  31. 31Man Killer

    46 minApr 14, 1967

    Tarzan's search for a murderer is complicated by a village whose natives employ drugs in their ceremonial rituals.

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Series cast

Ron ElyTarzan57 episodes
Alan Caillou27 episodes
Manuel Padilla Jr.Jai26 episodes
Rockne TarkingtonRao26 episodes
Harry LauterJosh Miller5 episodes
Bernie Hamilton5 episodes
Robert DoQui4 episodes
Ben Wright4 episodes
Julie Harris4 episodes
Maurice Evans4 episodes
Jock MahoneyHoby Wallington4 episodes
Joel Fluellen3 episodes
Howard Morton3 episodes
George Murdock3 episodes
Lloyd HaynesMatto3 episodes
Robert J. WilkeSpooner3 episodes
James Earl Jones2 episodes
Simon Oakland2 episodes

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