Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams' from 1970-1982:
- Dan Haggerty as James 'Grizzly' Adams (1977-1978)
- Denver Pyle as Mad Jack (1977-1978)
- Don Shanks as Nakoma (1977-1978)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Arthur Heinemann D: James L. Conway
With Lucky Hayes (Mary Bowker), Kristen Curry (Eliza Bowker), Hank Kendrick (Mr. Bowker). Debut of a series which provides a fictionalized portrait of a 19th century fugitive wildlife adventurer. Dan Haggerty stars as James "Grizzly" Adams, a fur trapper and mountain man who is pursued for a crime he did not commit. In the premiere episode, a young girl traveling west with her parents in a covered wagon gets lost in the vast mountain wilderness.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Paul W. Cooper D: Jack B. Hively Grizzly Adams explains to his young friend how he learned to survive when he first came to the wilderness.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Hindi Brooks D: Richard Friedenberg
With Ken Berry (Will Boker), Patrick Wright, Jason Clark. Adams rescues a traveling salesman from a river, unaware that the man is being pursued by a posse.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Lawrence Dobkin D: James L. Conway
With Ronny Cox (Jacob Cartman). Jacob Cartman, a newcomer to the wilds, shows a selfish and reckless disregard for the land and its inhabitants until, in a desperate emergency, he is forced to ask Grizzly Adams for assistance.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson D: Jack B. Hively Grizzly Adams believes that his friend Mad Jack has drowned, and recalls the details of their first meeting and the early days they spent together.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Samuel A. Peeples D: Jack B. Hively
With Don Galloway (Pinkerton). Grizzly Adams risks his life and freedom to save the lives of animals caught in an erupting volcano.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Samuel A. Peeples D: James L. Conway
With Earl Smith, Norman Fell (Mitch Morgan), Jane Harrison, Charles Young, Hayes Stewart. While Grizzly is is recuperating from am accident, Ben is captured by an animal trainer.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Samuel A. Peeples D: James L. Conway
With Charles Martin Smith (Teddy Roosevelt). Grizzly Adams and Mad Jack come to the aid of the eager but inexperienced young Teddy Roosevelt, who is trying to learn about wilderness living from a survival manual.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Joyce Perry, Lawrence Dobkin D: Sharron Miller
With Betty Ann Carr (Sumi). Adams, feaful that his serene environment will be disrupted because Jack found a gold nugget, tries to convince him not to stake a claim.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Ken Dorwood D: Jack B. Hively
With George Aguilar (Greywind), Slim Pickens (Findhope). When Mad Jack runs into a frightening creature, Adams and Nakona join him in a search for the monster.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Paul Hunter D: Richard Friedenberg A displaced family of beavers builds a dam which increases the likelihood of a flood -- and Mad Jack steps in.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Jane MacKenzie, Jon Gerald D: Richard Friedenberg
With Jack Kruschen (Metcalf), Margaret Willock (Deborah). A tough old settler and his daughter travel west into the rugged mountain territory.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Preston Wood D: Richard Friedenberg
With Lori Sutten (Talitha), Lois Red Elk (Indian Woman). A blizzard buries the mountains in snow as Adams and Ben prepare to welcome Mad Jack and Nakoma to their cabin for an annual feast and celebration.
September 28, 1977: Hot Air Hero
Season 2, episode 1
W: E. Jack Kaplan D: Richard Friedenberg
With Gene Conforti (Andre Gerard). Season premiere. Mad Jack, startled by a peculiar-looking flying object, shoots it down and causes a French balloonist to drop in on Grizzly's mountain camp.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Peter Germano D: Sharron Miller
With James Wainwright (Sam Steel), A Deer (Ginger), John Bishop (Robbie Cartman). Adams loses his memory following a hunting accident and becomes a stumbling, frightened stranger in an unfamiliar wilderness, unaware of the bounty hunter sworn to capture him.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Paul W. Cooper D: Jack B. Hively
With Oscar Rowland, Chief Eugene Standing Bear (Medicine Man), Elaine Daniels. Spring's first warm breezes lure Ben, the grizzly, far into the forest where he meets with a few surprises: an Indian witch doctor and a runaway wagon train.
Season 2, episode 4
W: David O'Malley D: Jack B. Hively
With Frank L. Martinez, John War Eagle. When Ben, the grizzly, is accused of swiping an Indian chief's huge catch of fish, Adams is forced to deliver a stern lesson in honesty.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Ray Goldrup, Malvin Wald D: Jack B. Hively
With Tiger Thompson (Eugene), James Griffith (Watts), Jodee Jetton (Michelle). Adams and Mad Jack must convince two fleeing young orphans to return to the safety of the orphanage.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald D: Richard Friedenberg
With Paul Brinegar. Adams races against time to locate the cub of a dying cougar before the hunters that are stalking the frightened animal find it.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Dick Conway D: Richard Friedenberg
With Larry Storch, Forrest Tucker. Adams encounters a pair of bumbling prospectors searching for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Worley Thorne D: Sharron Miller
With John Bishop (Robbie Cartman). Adams and Nakoma join forces in tracking a former pet cougar which has gone mad and attacked an Indian village.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald D: Sharron Miller
With John Bishop (Robbie Cartman). Adams must teach a youngster the painful lesson of allowing his pet deer to go free.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald D: Richard Friedenberg
With Tiffany Bolling. Adams must stop a woman who is determined to kill a black bear in an attempt to avenge her father's death.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Leonard B. Kaufman, Malvin Wald D: Jack B. Hively
With Ken Lynch, Walter Wonderman. Two inept silver prospectors unwittingly threaten the wilderness and its inhabitants by polluting the streams with mining chemicals.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Jack Jacobs D: Jack B. Hively
With Edward Andrews. An aging itinerant entertainer, who is depressed over his trained bear's failing health, learns a valuable lesson from Adams -- not only about animal care, but about life itself.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Brian Russell D: Jack B. Hively During the century's worst dry spell, Adams and his friends are threatened by a dwindling water supply and a raging forest fire.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Brian Russell D: Richard Friedenberg
With Keenan Wynn. Adams encounters a gullible ex-cavalryman who is searching the wilderness to find the non-existent farmland for which he exchanged his life savings.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Brian Russell D: David O'Malley Mad Jack searches merrily for a cache of legendary leprechaun gold.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Jack Jacobs, Malvin Wald D: Jack B. Hively
With Roger E. Mosley. A slave, injured during his wanderings in the wilderness after a daring escape from bondage, is befriended by Adams.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Dick Conway D: Jack B. Hively
With Jack Elam, Marilyn Burns. Mad Jack is duped out of his pet donkey by a long-time friend and nemesis.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Jack Jacobs, Malvin Wald D: Richard Friedenberg
With Walter Burke. Preoccupied wth his plan to convert a prairie schooner into a boat to provide a river-crossing service, a retired sea captain has little time for his pet chimp.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Jack Jacobs, Malvin Wald D: Jack B. Hively
With Patrick Wayne, Ned Romero. A widower and his young son, stranded in the wilderness following a severe mountain storm, join Adams and Indian chieftains Silver Fox and Watani in a wilderness celebration of Easter.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Leonard B. Kaufman D: Jack B. Hively
With Mark Slade (Capt. Ulysses S. Grant). Adams and Mad Jack befriend Army Captain Ulysses S. Grant and offer to assist him in an official survey of wildlife in the area.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Jack Jacobs, Malvin Wald D: Chris Munger
With Royce D. Applegate, David Carson. Adams dissuades a government official from placing a bounty on the lives of wilderness animals.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Dick Conway D: Allan Eastman
With Russ Tamblyn. Adams and Mad Jack are convinced by a stranger that his exotic flying machine will make aviation history.
Season 2, episode 23
W: Dick Conway, Lee Francis, Carl Jamesson D: S. Travis Stricken by a raging fever, Mad Jack believes himself to be an infamous bounty hunter whose prey is a fugitive named James "Grizzly" Adams.
Season 2, episode 24
W: Brian Russell, James Simmons D: Jack B. Hively
With Ken Curtis, Jack Kruschen. Adams sets out in a raging blizzard to locate a young couple who have become separated from their children by an avalanche. (Last show of the series.)