The WORST episodes of The Legend of Tarzan
Every episode of The Legend of Tarzan ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Legend of Tarzan!
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#1 - Tarzan and the Missing Link
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 10/5/2001
In this episode, Philander blames all of his problems on Archimedes Porter and his ""missing link"" son-in-law, Tarzan. Then Philander even knocks his experiment table over and loses...Einstein's Theory of Relativity? Nonetheless, two cockney thugs barge in, trying to collect their dues from Philander who obviously doesn't have the money. Philander then tries to convince the bounders that Tarzan is a missing link, and he persuades them to follow him into the jungle. Meanwhile, Archimedes is feeling rather distraught over his problems ""fitting-in"" in the jungle, so he dons a loincloth and tries to at like Tarzan. Tarzan and Jane though decide to go berry picking with Tantor and Terk instead. This then leads to an idyllic scene where Tarzan rests his head on Jane's lap, while they share berries. (Very ""B. Lagoon,"" I think. lol ;) Anyway, when Philander and the thugs reach Africa, it's old Archimedes they see ""swinging from vines"", not Tarzan. Philander though tries to convince the thugs th
#2 - Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/12/2001
This is a very interesting episode indeed. It starts off with this frustrated writer, named Ed, who needs to find inspiration. He happens across Dr. Philander's article about Tarzan possibly being a missing link. Ed then tracks down Philander in a run-down apartment building/flophouse, and Philander goes on to tell of his adventures in Africa, meeting Tarzan, exploring Pellucidar, being embarrassed by the photos of the baby baboon, etc. (I'm surprised though that he didn't go on to talk about how he'd captured Maghani, the Silver ape, and almost threw Tarzan overboard after he'd been injured.) Anyway, Ed finds Philander's story of Pellucidar a bit too unbelievable so he leaves. But a waitress convinces him to at least ""check it out"". After all, Philander's photo features a real guy in a real loincloth surrounded by real apes, doesn't it? Ed proceeds to sail to Africa, where he meets up with Hugo and Hooft, who recall their own adventures with Tarzan, escaping the wild animals and their French Foreign Legion Captain.
#3 - Tarzan and the Caged Fury
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/10/2001
Following the Proffesor's latest (unsuccessful) attempts to make tea, he goes to the trading post to try to persuade Dumont to trade something for a box of Earl Grey. Dumont obliges, when Jane persuades him that 'a good deed can be its own reward', which Tarzan overhears her saying. As they are about to leave, none other than those less-than-friendly-diamond-miners, Neils and Merkus arrive. They want to search for their lost diamonds, and Tarzan reluctantly allows them on the condition that they leave the gorilla family alone. While mining, Neils and Merkus are attacked by Tublat, the banished bull-ape enemy of Tarzan and family. However by some lucky turn of fate, the dynamite goes off close to the creature and injures him, and the devious miners decide to cage him and sell him. Tarzan arrives, and tells Neils and Merkus that he doesn't mind if they take Tublat, or even kill him. When the gorillas find out that Tublat is gone, they celebrate, but Tarzan feels guilty and leaves the
#4 - Tarzan and One Punch Mullargan
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/4/2001
The arrogant and aggressive heavyweight boxing champion 'One Punch' Mullargan, along with his manager and personal journalist, visit the jungle while on safari. When Tarzan accidentally knocks One Punch out cold (with one punch) the boxer is mortified and demands a 'rematch'. Tarzan refuses, with encouragement from Jane who explains that in the world of men fighting never solves anything, and would probably just make it worse. However, One Punch is stubborn and looks for a way to provoke Tarzan into a fight.
#5 - Tarzan and the Hidden World
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2001
Samuel T. Philander, Professor Porter's academic rival, who often takes credit for the Professor's findings, visits Africa believing that the Professor has found something spectacular there. Unfortunately for everyone, the Professor has indeed just discovered something spectacular -- Pellucidar, a hidden land beneath Africa, where dinosaurs still live. Philander, seeking to take all the credit for this discovery, uncaringly sets loose the dinosaurs on the jungle.
#6 - Tarzan and the British Invasion
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/3/2003
Jane's friends, Eleanor, Greenley, and Hazel, thinking Jane is in trouble, come to rescue her. When they find her and everything is explained, they fret Jane has changed. So, to prove she hasn't, Jane takes them on a picnic in the jungle... where trouble ends up finding them.
#7 - Tarzan and the Eagle's Feather
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/8/2001
Tarzan and Jane attend a Waziri wedding (Basuli and his betrothed). Jane is startled at the Waziri custom for the groom to complete a challenge before he is alowed to wed, and she accidentally causes an upset between Basuli's fiance Naoh and Kewazi, the chief. Meanwhile, Tarzan accompanies Basuli on his quest to find an eagle's feather (from a specific eagle), but a lot of accidents happen along the way. Basuli claims that fate is against them, but Tarzan suspects sabotage. So while they are fighting their way to the eagle's mountain, Jane is back at the village trying to patch things up between Naoh and the chief. The story is basically about the importace of tradition vs. the importance of one's personal values, morals and desires.
#8 - 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--none other than--Queen La enters her body. Failing to return to Opar by herself, La turns to Tarzan, who senses something wrong right away. So, 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?
#9 - Tarzan and the Prison Break
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/7/2001
In this episode, 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 then vows to re-capture Hugo and Hooft for deserting when they did. He hasn't left without a plan, though. Trapping both Hooft, Hugo, and Tarzan in two separate nets, he is able to take them in... to ""Cape of Doom"" prison. Upon attempting to free his friends, Tarzan is captured and locked up, too. Can Jane contact the Magistrate and settle this once and for all?
#10 - Tarzan and the Gauntlet of Vengeance
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/11/2001
Clayton's sister (or rather her valet, Hobson) kidnaps Jane, Tantor, Terk, and the Professor, placing each in a separate, deadly peril. She then injects Tarzan with a fatal poison (via blowdart) and informs him that the antidote lies far away on a distant mountain she's dubbed ""Clayton's Peak"". He, therefore, has a choice, she says -- to suffer as she had (and lose those he loves) or as Clayton had (and lose his own life).
#11 - Tarzan and Tublat's Revenge
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/23/2001
A violent thunderstorm has Tarzan, Jane, and the rest of the gorilla family seeking shelter in nearby caves. When they reach the cave, they believe that they are safe but they have chosen the same cave that the banished gorilla named Tublat lives in.
#12 - Tarzan and the Volcanic Diamond Mine
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/4/2003
Two men, Johannes Niels and Merkus, arrive at the Trading Post and request Tarzan to take them to the volcano on the other side of the jungle to look for diamonds. Tarzan agrees as long as he gets a diamond for Jane in return. Little does he realize, Niels and Merkus are planning to kill him when the diamonds are collected.
#13 - 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 owed for keeping a 20-year-old secret. Much of this episode takes place in flashback as Terk relates to Jane the events that allowed Zutho (and cohorts Gozan and [???]) to gain such a hold over the lord of the jungle.
#14 - Tarzan and the Flying Ace
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/2003
A bush pilot (and an old friend of Jane) named Bobby Canler comes to visit Jane. But when Tarzan senses something off about him, everyone becomes convinced he's just jealous.
#15 - Tarzan and the Race Against Time
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2001
Tarzan is bitten by a poisonous spider and Jane must race to find an antidote.
#16 - 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". Eventually Tantor comes to believe that he may be responsible for Mbaya's recent rampage. Meanwhile, Jane attempts to discover something that Tarzan's afraid of.
#17 - Tarzan and the Giant Beetles
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/17/2001
The Professor takes a fluid sample from some giant flowers in the jungle, in order to study them further. But when Terk and Tantor accidentally spill some of the fluid onto a few beetles, it makes them giants themselves. To stay out of trouble, they attempt to keep them hidden in order to stop anyone from finding out about them.
#18 - 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. The rhinos refuse to leave or share the territory with the gorillas, leaving Tarzan to find a solution to this dilemma before the gorillas are forced to relocate.
#19 - Tarzan and the Fugitives
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/2001
Two American deserters from the French Foreign Legion find themselves in the jungle and befriended by Tarzan.
#20 - Tarzan and the Enemy Within
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/12/2001
Tarzan and Terk find an injured gorilla named Gobu, after being attacked by hyenas. Welcoming him into the herd, Gobu instead requests Tarzan to help him on his journey home. Unbeknownst to them, Gobu is actually under orders from an old enemy of his, to lure Tarzan into a trap. Meanwhile, Jane and the Professor attempt to teach Terk to be more lady-like, in order to impress Gobu.
#21 - Tarzan and the Silver Screen
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/27/2001
A film crew comes to make an action movie and Tarzan becomes confused by the acting, with his actions resulting in him replacing the film's male lead as the star. Later, a fire starts at the trading post when the jealous actor tries to destroy the film footage containing Tarzan, and they must stop it.
#22 - Tarzan and the Lost Cub
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/5/2001
When Jane finds a lost leopard cub in the jungle, Tarzan reluctantly puts aside his previous history with leopards and lets the cub stay. But when the cub inadvertently causes trouble, Jane realizes that the only solution is to find the cub's mother.
#23 - 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?
#24 - 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 things don't go too well. Terk is caught in one of the poachers traps and put in a cage. Now Tantor must decide which is more important to him, his relationship with the difficult Dania, or saving his best friend from being apenapped.
#25 - Tarzan and the Leopard Men Rebellion
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/20/2001
When the Leopard Men of Opar kidnap Jane, Tarzan must rely on Queen La's help to rescue her. But La has motives of her own... and so do the Leopard Men.