The BEST episodes of Tarzan (1966) season 1
Every episode of Tarzan (1966) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tarzan (1966) season 1!
Tarzan (Lord Greystoke), already well educated and fed up with civilization, returns to the jungle and, more-or-less assisted by chimpanzee Cheetah and orphan boy Jai, wages war against poachers and other bad guys.
#1 - Eyes of the Lion
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1966
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 - The Fire People
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/30/1966
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.
#3 - Man Killer
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/1967
Tarzan's search for a murderer is complicated by a village whose natives employ drugs in their ceremonial rituals.
#4 - Algie B. for Brave
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/7/1967
General Bertram returns, and gets Jai's help on a mission to locate a foreign power's nuclear-detection equipment.
#5 - The Ultimatum
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/31/1967
A dangerous woman and her hired thugs threaten to destroy a native village unless Tarzan submits to being their prisoner.
#6 - The Circus
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/1967
Jai and Dutch encounter a fugitive who is trying to evade a manhunt by joining the circus.
#7 - The Perils of Charity Jones (2)
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/1967
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.
#8 - The Perils of Charity Jones (1)
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/10/1967
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.
#9 - Jungle Dragnet
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/3/1967
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.
#10 - To Steal the Rising Sun
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1967
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.
#11 - Mask of Rona
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/17/1967
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.
#12 - Basil of the Bulge
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/10/1967
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.
#13 - The Golden Runaway
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/3/1967
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.
#14 - A Pride of Assassins
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1967
When Tarzan and a young woman threaten to expose his gunrunning scheme, a smuggler sends assassins after them.
#15 - Cap'n Jai
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1967
Jai is duped by three double-crossing sailors, who are attempting to recover some stolen diamonds.
#16 - The Day the Earth Trembled
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1967
Tarzan reluctantly enlists the aid of three escaped convicts to escort a group of endangered children to safety.
#17 - Track of the Dinosaur
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1967
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 - The Ultimate Duel
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/23/1966
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.
#19 - The End of the River
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1966
A airplane crash in the jungle results in Tarzan racing to save a girl's life and a perilous struggle with a convicted criminal.
#20 - Pearls of Tanga
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1966
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.
#21 - The Day of the Golden Lion
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1966
A native athletic championship is to take place, with Tarzan taking part, but there is an attempt to steal the prize.
#22 - Village of Fire
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1966
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.
#23 - The Figurehead
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1966
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.
#24 - The Deadly Silence (2)
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1966
Though still deafened by grenades, Tarzan relies on his animal friends to help him elude the colonel's heavily-armed soldiers.
#25 - The Deadly Silence (1)
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1966
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.