

Tarzan
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.
Cast

Ron Ely
Tarzan

Manuel Padilla Jr.
Jai
Alan Caillou
Jason Flood

Rockne Tarkington
Rao
Seasons

E1Eyes of the Lion
Sep 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.

E2The Ultimate Weapon
Sep 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.

E3Leopard on the Loose
Sep 23, 1966
A trading-post worker in need of money tries to steal Jai's pet leopard.

E4A Life for a Life
Sep 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.

E5The Prisoner
Oct 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.

E6The Three Faces of Death
Oct 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.

E7The Prodigal Puma
Oct 21, 1966
An embittered big-game hunter tries to steal a rare puma that Tarzan has captured.

E8The Deadly Silence (1)
Oct 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.

E9The Deadly Silence (2)
Nov 4, 1966
Though still deafened by grenades, Tarzan relies on his animal friends to help him elude the colonel's heavily-armed soldiers.

E10The Figurehead
Nov 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.

E11Village of Fire
Nov 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.

E12The Day of the Golden Lion
Dec 2, 1966
A native athletic championship is to take place, with Tarzan taking part, but there is an attempt to steal the prize.

E13Pearls of Tanga
Dec 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.

E14The End of the River
Dec 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.

E15The Ultimate Duel
Dec 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.

E16The Fire People
Dec 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.

E17Track of the Dinosaur
Jan 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.

E18The Day the Earth Trembled
Jan 13, 1967
Tarzan reluctantly enlists the aid of three escaped convicts to escort a group of endangered children to safety.

E19Cap'n Jai
Jan 20, 1967
Jai is duped by three double-crossing sailors, who are attempting to recover some stolen diamonds.

E20A Pride of Assassins
Jan 27, 1967
When Tarzan and a young woman threaten to expose his gunrunning scheme, a smuggler sends assassins after them.

E21The Golden Runaway
Feb 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.

E22Basil of the Bulge
Feb 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.

E23Mask of Rona
Feb 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.

E24To Steal the Rising Sun
Feb 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.

E25Jungle Dragnet
Mar 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.

E26The Perils of Charity Jones (1)
Mar 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.

E27The Perils of Charity Jones (2)
Mar 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.

E28The Circus
Mar 24, 1967
Jai and Dutch encounter a fugitive who is trying to evade a manhunt by joining the circus.

E29The Ultimatum
Mar 31, 1967
A dangerous woman and her hired thugs threaten to destroy a native village unless Tarzan submits to being their prisoner.

E30Algie B for Brave
Apr 7, 1967
General Bertram returns, and gets Jai's help on a mission to locate a foreign power's nuclear-detection equipment.

E31Man Killer
Apr 14, 1967
Tarzan's search for a murderer is complicated by a village whose natives employ drugs in their ceremonial rituals.

E1Tiger, Tiger
Sep 15, 1967
A deadly tiger is loose in the jungle but, despite a warning from Tarzan, an engineer insists on continuing work on a project although he lacks the experience to cope with the animal.

E2Voice of the Elephant
Sep 22, 1967
Jai's pet baby elephant is charged with killing a white man. Under tribal law the elephant is entitled to a trial. Jai goes on the search for evidence and someone to present it.

E3Thief Catcher
Sep 29, 1967
Two convicts escape while being transfered to another prison. Their actions spark a wave of crime around local villages. Tarzan must track and capture the two men before more people are put in danger.

E4The Blue Stone of Heaven (1)
Oct 6, 1967
After a guide for an archaeological expedition is killed, Tarzan decides to accompany the group in their quest to enter the forbidden "City Of Death", not only to protect them, but also to find out why a plant specialist and an ambitious colonel are also so interested in the place.

E5The Blue Stone of Heaven (2)
Oct 13, 1967
After uncovering the mythical Blue Stone of Baskar, Colonel Tatakombi takes advantage of the legend associated with it to declare himself the leader/god of the surrounding tribes, in the hope of later taking control of the country. Tarzan is determined to expose and stop him.

E6Curse of the Mugumba Tree
Oct 20, 1967
A local white woman becomes the subject of an spiritual attack by the local witch doctor after a sacred tree is chopped down. Tarzan must find out who really destroyed the tree and try to help his friend fight of the effects of the bad voodoo.

E7The Fanatics
Oct 27, 1967
Tarzan encounters a female journalist who has arrived in the area for local tribal elections. The journalist has concerns over the conduct of a local white sponsor for one of the candidates.

E8Last of the Supermen
Nov 3, 1967
Four men are found murdered and Tarzan goes up country to try and establish what happens. What he discoverers shocks everyone and reveals a secret that dates back to WW2.

E9Hotel Hurricane
Nov 10, 1967
A huge storm is bearing down on the area causing a plane with a very valuable cargo to crash. Tarzan helps locate the wreck and try and recover the cargo.

E10The Pride of a Lioness
Nov 17, 1967
Tarzan intervenes on behalf of a very sick girl. He insists rather than allow the girl to be treated by tribal medicine she should be treated by real doctor. The tribe reacts poorly to his actions and other lives are put at risk.

E11Mountains of the Moon (1)
Nov 24, 1967
Tarzan comes across a party of religious pilgrims who are being led by Rosanna McCloud to their "Promised Land". To not shatter their dreams, Mrs. McCloud does not inform her followers that her husband, whom they regard as their Prophet, has just been killed, and she is unaware that the government trader who sold the group the land from a reclusive tribe had his own motives for doing so and never intended for the group to reach it. When Rosanna finally tells her group about the death of their leader, she and Tarzan also find that their money has been stolen.

E12Mountains of the Moon (2)
Dec 1, 1967
Rosanna McCloud and her pilgrims are determined to continue in their trek toward their Promised Land, even after one of their people is killed. Now they are armed and determined to fight off the tribe that lives in the land. Tarzan, meanwhile, learns that the chief of the tribe was tricked into selling the land by the trader Whitehead, whom he hopes to expose before more blood is shed.

E13Jai's Amnesia
Dec 15, 1967
Jai loses his memory and a group of criminals decide to exploit the situation to plan a series of robberies. Tarzan must track down the men and attempt to save Jai before he gets into serious trouble.

E14Creeping Giants
Dec 29, 1967
Tarzan becomes concerned when news reaches him of plans to build a dam in a geologically unsound area. He needs to prove the weakness in the plan and why none of the government surveys in the area have not uncovered the same issues.

E15The Professional
Jan 5, 1968
Tarzan encounters a group of soldiers looking for a local tribe. He is unsure of their motives or if he can trust them, but decides to lead them to the tribe so he can keep an eye on the man.

E16The Convert
Jan 12, 1968
A nun returns to her village to bring medicine an treat the sick. She is torn between her tribal heritage and those who oppose her new life.

E17King of the Dwasari
Jan 26, 1968
Tarzan is checking on the Dwsari tribe when he discovers that somehow a white man, Arthur Brown, has become their king.

E18A Gun for Jai
Feb 2, 1968
Against Tarzan's wishes, Jai is given a rifle by one of the local hunters. However circumstances change and Tarzan discovers the value of allowing the boy a firearm.

E19Trek to Terror
Feb 9, 1968
A doctor trying to control an outbreak of disease among the tribes is wanted for murder. Tarzan intervenes to allow the doctor to complete his work before being taken into custody. Tarzan is concerned however that the charges against the man may not be all they seem to be.

E20End of a Challenge
Feb 16, 1968
Jai comes across an old man wounded in the jungle. He stops to help the man while sending word to Tarzan for help.

E21Jungle Ransom
Feb 23, 1968
Tarzan takes a boat to escort a convicted killer, Velasquez, to the authorities. Also on the boat is the wife of a man the killer's band is holding for ransom. She forces Tarzan at gunpoint to escort her with Velasquez to his camp where her husband is being held. She has left the ransom money hidden behind, but Jai and Cheetah find it.

E22Four O'Clock Army (1)
Mar 1, 1968
General Basil Bertram and missionary Charity Jones return in this two-part story, and this time must ally with Tarzan against a band of slavers who have been taking people and destroying villages.

E23Four O'Clock Army (2)
Mar 8, 1968
After the village is burned and Tarzan, Jai, the chief, and numerous villagers are captured by the slavers, General Bertram and Charity must work together despite their differences. Tarzan escapes his captors and comes to their aid. He decides to follow behind the slavers to discover who is leading them.

E24Rendezvous for Revenge
Mar 15, 1968
After poacher and arsonist Dan Burton escapes from custody, Tarzan tracks him and his adoring girlfriend to an oceanside cliff, and a fateful encounter. But Burton's girlfriend and two henchmen later track Tarzan down and force him to lead them back to the scene.

E25Alex the Great
Mar 22, 1968
The task of protecting a village from man-eating "cats" is complicated by the arrival of a man determined to prove to himself greater than Tarzan.

E26Trina
Apr 5, 1968
Trina MacKenzie, one of seven girls on an expedition, is also trying to find her uncle, who she believes to be doing humanitarian work. She finds that he has become the leader of a large tribe, and has helped them develop more peaceful ways. But Tarzan comes to believe that his latest crusade, involving a statue he claims to be obtaining but which locals insist does not exist, may involve less than noble intentions.
Storyline
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.
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