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* '''Bolmangani''' - A race of [[gorilla]] men. They take manus, gorillas, and/or other animals to be used as slaves. They have fought Tarzan many times and have been thwarted by him.
* '''Bolmangani''' - A race of [[gorilla]] men. They take manus, gorillas, and/or other animals to be used as slaves. They have fought Tarzan many times and have been thwarted by him.


Other animals:
===Other animals===

* '''Argus''' - A giant [[eagle]].
* '''Argus''' - A giant [[eagle]].
* '''Bolgani''' - A [[gorilla]].
* '''Bolgani''' - A [[gorilla]].
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| 1-06 || '''Tarzan’s Return to the City of Gold''' || ||
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| 1-07 || '''Tarzan and the Strange Visitors''' || ||
| 1-07 || '''Tarzan and the Strange Visitors''' || || Tarzan has an encounter with an anthropologist named June Bennington at the same time when aliens led by Dr. Krolar arrive in their floating city/space station to capture animal specimens to bring to their world.
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| 1-08 || '''Tarzan and the Land of the Giants''' || || During a drought, Tarzan comes to the aid of a [[Giant (mythology)|giant]] named Yuri when his father Muro has been imprisoned by the tyrant King Odysseus and that the giants live in fear of Buto (who has been said to be a god in the form of a [[White Rhinoceros|white rhinoceros]]). To make matters worse, a dangerous storm is heading to the giants' village of Zoran.
| 1-08 || '''Tarzan and the Land of the Giants''' || || During a drought, Tarzan comes to the aid of a [[Giant (mythology)|giant]] named Yuri when his father Muro has been imprisoned by the tyrant King Odysseus and that the giants live in fear of Buto (who has been said to be a god in the form of a [[White Rhinoceros|white rhinoceros]]). To make matters worse, a dangerous storm is heading to the giants' village of Zoran.
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| 1-09 || '''Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr''' || || Upon finding a crashed balloon, Tarzan searches for it's pilot which leads him to the Valley of Nimmr where he encounters [[knight]]s that end up taking him to Queen Grenalda. He soon encounters the balloonist Annie Talbot who is a writer. When the queen falls ill and Sir Mallad has Tarzan imprisoned in the dungeon, Tarzan learns from the Queen's Royal Physician Sir Ronald that Sir Mallad plans to steal the throne from Queen Grenalda.
| 1-09 || '''Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr''' || ||
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| 1-10 || '''Tarzan’s Rival''' || ||
| 1-10 || '''Tarzan's Rival''' || ||
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| 1-11 || '''Tarzan and the City of Sorcery''' || ||
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| 2-01 || '''Tarzan and the Sunken City of Atlantis''' || || Upon saving Zupisa the [[Right whale|great whale]] who had been beached, Tarzan discovers that Lord Cinnabar of [[Atlantis]] had enslaved the whales and uses them to power it while King Neptune is in the way. Tarzan gets help from Princess Aquila to find another way to power Atlantis.
| 2-01 || '''Tarzan and the Sunken City of Atlantis''' || || Upon saving Zupisa the [[Right whale|great whale]] who had been beached, Tarzan discovers that Lord Cinnabar of [[Atlantis]] had enslaved the whales and uses them to power it while King Neptune is in the way. Tarzan gets help from Princess Aquila to find another way to power Atlantis.
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| 2-02 || '''Tarzan and the Bird People''' || || While hiding out in a cave during a thunderstorm, Tarzan and N'kima come to the aid of Layir of the [[List of avian humanoids|Bird People]] who had injured his wing upon going down in the thunderstorm. Tarzan soon learns that the Bird People have been in a feud with the local "Land People." Upon learning about what the Bird People have been doing to the Land People from their chief Tarin, Tarzan visits the Bird People ruler Aviaro who considers the Land People to be primitive. Now Tarzan must find a way to unite both people whatever way possible.
| 2-02 || '''Tarzan and the Bird People''' || ||
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| 2-03 || '''Tarzan and the Colossus of Zome''' || ||
| 2-03 || '''Tarzan and the Colossus of Zome''' || ||
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| 3-01 || '''Tarzan and the Spider People''' || ||
| 3-01 || '''Tarzan and the Spider People''' || ||
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| 3-02 || '''Tarzan and the Space God''' || || After stopping a stampede of elephants, Tarzan learns from Tantor that their stampede was caused by the appearance of giant [[spider]]s who have been abducting some of the elephants. When he follows the giant spiders to their lair, he discovers that the giant spiders are actually machines piloted by the workers led by Rachnid who plans to use the elephants for their labor much to the objection of their leader Ziller.
| 3-02 || '''Tarzan and the Space God''' || ||
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| 3-03 || '''Tarzan and the Lost World''' || ||
| 3-03 || '''Tarzan and the Lost World''' || ||
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| 4-06 || '''Tarzan and the Future King''' || ||
| 4-06 || '''Tarzan and the Future King''' || ||
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| 4-07 || '''Tarzan and the Huntress''' || || After saving a gorilla and her son from the Bolmangani, Tarzan ends up having an encounter with Fana the Huntress and her pet white panther Pasha. Fana ends up targeting Jad-bal-ja. During Fana's hunt, the Bolmangani Commander Kerlock and his men mistaken her as an ally of Tarzan and capture her and Pasha causing Tarzan to come to her rescue.
| 4-07 || '''Tarzan and the Huntress''' || || After saving a gorilla and her son from the Bolmangani, Tarzan ends up having an encounter with Fana the Huntress and her pet [[white tiger]] Pasha. Fana ends up targeting Jad-bal-ja. During Fana's hunt, the Bolmangani Commander Kerlock and his men mistaken her as an ally of Tarzan and capture her and Pasha causing Tarzan to come to her rescue.
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| 4-08 || '''Tarzan and the White Elephant''' || ||
| 4-08 || '''Tarzan and the White Elephant''' || ||

Revision as of 18:06, 14 July 2011

For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation).
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is also the title of the eleventh novel in the original Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
Created byEdgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Directed byDon Towsley
StarringRobert Ridgely
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes36
Production
Executive producersNorm Prescott
Lou Scheimer
ProducerDon Christensen
Running timehalf-hour
Production companyFilmation
Original release
NetworkCBS
Release1976 –
1981

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is an animated series created by the Filmation studio for CBS. There are a total of 36 episodes produced over the first four seasons.

The series does not appear in the Entertainment Rights library, and the rights most likely rest with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs. However, Warner Home Video has released one episode on DVD, "Tarzan and the Colossus of Zome," on Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1; Warner Bros.' rights to the series may originate from their ownership of international TV distribution rights in the 1970s and 1980s.

Story

    The Jungle; here I was born; and here my parents died when I was but an infant. I would have soon perished too, had I not been found by a kindly she-ape named Kala, who adopted me as her own and taught me the ways of the wild. I learned quickly, and grew stronger each day, and now I share the friendship and trust of all jungle animals.
    The jungle is filled with beauty, and danger; and lost cities filled with good, and evil.
    This is my domain, and I protect those who come here; for I am Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.

— Opening narration

In many ways this is the most faithful adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan, and featured a number of "lost cities" from the novels. The rotoscoped animation is based upon the work of Burrough's favorite Tarzan artist, Burne Hogarth.

Tarzan is intelligent and well spoken, rather than the "me Tarzan, You Jane" of many films. His sidekick sidekick is N’kima the monkey; Cheeta being an invention of the movies. The series uses much of Burroughs’ Mangani language (though some of the words used, particularly for animals not encountered in the novels, do not appear in his Mangani lexicons, and so were presumably newly invented for the program).

Characters

Tarzan & Nikima
  • Tarzan – The main protagonist of the series.
  • N’kima – Tarzan’s manu (monkey) companion
  • Jad-bal-ja - A golden lion raised and trained by Tarzan
  • Mangani - A fictional great ape and one of Tarzan's friends who will come to his aid when summoned.
  • Tantor - A herd of elephants that are Tarzan’s friends. They will come to his aid when summoned.
  • Tar-Sheeta - The Great Snow Tiger.
  • Bolmangani - A race of gorilla men. They take manus, gorillas, and/or other animals to be used as slaves. They have fought Tarzan many times and have been thwarted by him.

Other animals

Episode list

There were 36 total episodes, produced over four seasons.

The first season (premiered September 11, 1976) consisted of 16 half-hour episodes. The second season (premiered September 10, 1977) added six new episodes, and aired with the half-hour series The New Adventures of Batman as the Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour. The third season (premiered September 9, 1978) added six new episodes, and aired with a number of other series as the ninety-minute Tarzan and the Super 7. The fourth season (premiered September 15, 1979) added eight new episodes, and aired as part of the second season of Tarzan and the Super 7.

The "fifth season" (The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour), and the "sixth season" (The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour) were all Tarzan reruns aired with other series.

Ep. # Episode title Airdate Synopsis
1-01 Tarzan and the City of Gold
1-02 Tarzan and the Vikings A race of jungle vikings (who are descendants of the vikings that were blown to Africa by a north wind sent by Odin) capture Tarzan to be the slave to Corina, the daughter of the Viking Chief Erik. During that time, Tarzan uncovers a plot by the viking Torvald to overthrow Corina's father.
1-03 Tarzan and the Golden Lion Tarzan comes to the aid of the Manu when the Bolmangani are enslaving them. When Tarzan ends up in danger, Jad-bal-ja rallies the elephants to help Tarzan free the Manu and teach a tribe to stand up to the Bolmangani and their Emperor.
1-04 Tarzan and the Forbidden City
1-05 Tarzan and the Graveyard of the Elephants
1-06 Tarzan’s Return to the City of Gold
1-07 Tarzan and the Strange Visitors Tarzan has an encounter with an anthropologist named June Bennington at the same time when aliens led by Dr. Krolar arrive in their floating city/space station to capture animal specimens to bring to their world.
1-08 Tarzan and the Land of the Giants During a drought, Tarzan comes to the aid of a giant named Yuri when his father Muro has been imprisoned by the tyrant King Odysseus and that the giants live in fear of Buto (who has been said to be a god in the form of a white rhinoceros). To make matters worse, a dangerous storm is heading to the giants' village of Zoran.
1-09 Tarzan and the Knights of Nimmr Upon finding a crashed balloon, Tarzan searches for it's pilot which leads him to the Valley of Nimmr where he encounters knights that end up taking him to Queen Grenalda. He soon encounters the balloonist Annie Talbot who is a writer. When the queen falls ill and Sir Mallad has Tarzan imprisoned in the dungeon, Tarzan learns from the Queen's Royal Physician Sir Ronald that Sir Mallad plans to steal the throne from Queen Grenalda.
1-10 Tarzan's Rival
1-11 Tarzan and the City of Sorcery
1-12 Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
1-13 Tarzan and the Ice Creature
1-14 Tarzan and the Olympiads
1-15 Tarzan’s Trial
1-16 Tarzan, the Hated The Bolmangani Emperor returns and plans revenge on Tarzan by turning a tribe of Gorillas against Tarzan.

The following episodes aired as part of "The Batman/Tarzan Hour."

Ep. # Episode title Airdate Synopsis
2-01 Tarzan and the Sunken City of Atlantis Upon saving Zupisa the great whale who had been beached, Tarzan discovers that Lord Cinnabar of Atlantis had enslaved the whales and uses them to power it while King Neptune is in the way. Tarzan gets help from Princess Aquila to find another way to power Atlantis.
2-02 Tarzan and the Bird People While hiding out in a cave during a thunderstorm, Tarzan and N'kima come to the aid of Layir of the Bird People who had injured his wing upon going down in the thunderstorm. Tarzan soon learns that the Bird People have been in a feud with the local "Land People." Upon learning about what the Bird People have been doing to the Land People from their chief Tarin, Tarzan visits the Bird People ruler Aviaro who considers the Land People to be primitive. Now Tarzan must find a way to unite both people whatever way possible.
2-03 Tarzan and the Colossus of Zome
2-04 Tarzan and the Beast in the Iron Mask
2-05 Tarzan and the Amazon Princess
2-06 Tarzan and the Conquistadors

The following episodes aired as part of "Tarzan and the Super 7"

Ep. # Episode title Airdate Synopsis
3-01 Tarzan and the Spider People
3-02 Tarzan and the Space God After stopping a stampede of elephants, Tarzan learns from Tantor that their stampede was caused by the appearance of giant spiders who have been abducting some of the elephants. When he follows the giant spiders to their lair, he discovers that the giant spiders are actually machines piloted by the workers led by Rachnid who plans to use the elephants for their labor much to the objection of their leader Ziller.
3-03 Tarzan and the Lost World
3-04 Tarzan and the Monkey God While evading Tangani, N'Kima stumbles upon a village where the Mohani mistake him for the monkey god Komanu. When Tarzan arrives, he helps N'Kima and the Mohani deal with the white gorilla Tarbogani who has been raiding the village for food upon being wounded and separated from his gorilla tribe.
3-05 Tarzan and the Haunted Forest
3-06 Tarzan and the Island of Dr. Morphos

The following episodes were featured as part of "Tarzan and the Super 7's" Season Two.

Ep. # Episode title Airdate Synopsis
4-01 Tarzan and the Sifu
4-02 Tarzan and Jane After dealing with a gorilla named Terkoz, Tarzan meets Jane Porter and her father Professor Archimedes Q. Porter after falling victim to a mutiny during an archaeological expedition to the lost city of Cowloon. As Tarzan helps them to get back to civilization, he also ends up coming to the aid of Cowloon when their guardian beast Gordo has broken free.
4-03 Tarzan and the Land Beneath the Earth
4-04 Tarzan and the Drought
4-05 Tarzan and the Soul Stealer
4-06 Tarzan and the Future King
4-07 Tarzan and the Huntress After saving a gorilla and her son from the Bolmangani, Tarzan ends up having an encounter with Fana the Huntress and her pet white tiger Pasha. Fana ends up targeting Jad-bal-ja. During Fana's hunt, the Bolmangani Commander Kerlock and his men mistaken her as an ally of Tarzan and capture her and Pasha causing Tarzan to come to her rescue.
4-08 Tarzan and the White Elephant

Cast

Preceded by
Tarzan (NBC)
1966–1968
 Tarzan (TV series)
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
1976–1980 		Succeeded by
Tarzan in Manhattan
April 15, 1989
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