Sy Weintraub
Director
Tarzan (1966)
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.
Released Sept. 8, 1966
Episode 46 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
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Production Companies: Banner Productions
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Eyes of the Lion
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.
Sept. 8, 1966, midnight
S1E2 - The Ultimate Weapon
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.
Sept. 16, 1966, midnight
S1E3 - Leopard on the Loose
A trading-post worker in need of money tries to steal Jai's pet leopard.
Sept. 23, 1966, midnight
S1E4 - A Life for a Life
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.
Sept. 30, 1966, midnight
S1E5 - The Prisoner
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.
Oct. 7, 1966, midnight
S1E6 - The Three Faces of Death
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.
Oct. 14, 1966, midnight
S1E7 - The Prodigal Puma
An embittered big-game hunter tries to steal a rare puma that Tarzan has captured.
Oct. 21, 1966, midnight
S1E8 - The Deadly Silence (1)
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.
Oct. 28, 1966, midnight
S1E9 - The Deadly Silence (2)
Though still deafened by grenades, Tarzan relies on his animal friends to help him elude the colonel's heavily-armed soldiers.
Nov. 4, 1966, midnight
S1E10 - The Figurehead
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.
Nov. 11, 1966, midnight
S1E11 - Village of Fire
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.
Nov. 18, 1966, midnight
S1E12 - The Day of the Golden Lion
A native athletic championship is to take place, with Tarzan taking part, but there is an attempt to steal the prize.
Dec. 2, 1966, midnight
S1E13 - Pearls of Tanga
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.
Dec. 9, 1966, midnight
S1E14 - The End of the River
A airplane crash in the jungle results in Tarzan racing to save a girl's life and a perilous struggle with a convicted criminal.
Dec. 16, 1966, midnight
S1E15 - The Ultimate Duel
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.
Dec. 23, 1966, midnight
S1E16 - The Fire People
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.
Dec. 30, 1966, midnight
S1E17 - Track of the Dinosaur
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.
Jan. 6, 1967, midnight
S1E18 - The Day the Earth Trembled
Tarzan reluctantly enlists the aid of three escaped convicts to escort a group of endangered children to safety.
Jan. 13, 1967, midnight
S1E19 - Cap'n Jai
Jai is duped by three double-crossing sailors, who are attempting to recover some stolen diamonds.
Jan. 20, 1967, midnight
S1E20 - A Pride of Assassins
When Tarzan and a young woman threaten to expose his gunrunning scheme, a smuggler sends assassins after them.
Jan. 27, 1967, midnight
S1E21 - The Golden Runaway
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.
Feb. 3, 1967, midnight
S1E22 - Basil of the Bulge
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.
Feb. 10, 1967, midnight
S1E23 - Mask of Rona
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.
Feb. 17, 1967, midnight
S1E24 - To Steal the Rising Sun
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.
Feb. 24, 1967, midnight
S1E25 - Jungle Dragnet
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.
March 3, 1967, midnight
S1E26 - The Perils of Charity Jones (1)
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.
March 10, 1967, midnight
S1E27 - The Perils of Charity Jones (2)
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.
March 17, 1967, midnight
S1E28 - The Circus
Jai and Dutch encounter a fugitive who is trying to evade a manhunt by joining the circus.
March 24, 1967, midnight
S1E29 - The Ultimatum
A dangerous woman and her hired thugs threaten to destroy a native village unless Tarzan submits to being their prisoner.
March 31, 1967, midnight
S1E30 - Algie B for Brave
General Bertram returns, and gets Jai's help on a mission to locate a foreign power's nuclear-detection equipment.
April 7, 1967, midnight
S1E31 - Man Killer
Tarzan's search for a murderer is complicated by a village whose natives employ drugs in their ceremonial rituals.
April 14, 1967, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 46 min.
Season Runtime: 2622 min.
Released: Sept. 8, 1966
Last Air Date: April 5, 1968, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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