"The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" (1977) TV series 1977-1978

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Creator:

Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

9 February 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Family | Western

Plot:

An innocent fugitive from the law lives in the wilderness with a grizzly bear companion and helps passers-by in the forest.

Plot Keywords:

Wilderness | Grizzly Bear | Bear | Grizzly Adams | Fugitive

Cast

Dan Haggerty	...	James 'Grizzly' Adams (36 episodes, 1977-1978)
Denver Pyle	...	Mad Jack (36 episodes, 1977-1978)
Don Shanks	...	Nakoma (35 episodes, 1977-1978)

Runtime:

60 min (39 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Park City, Utah, USA

Company:

Sunn Classic Pictures

Trivia:

Ben, the bear was played by Bozo and Mad Jack's mule was Number 7.

Quotes:

Mad Jack: [title sequence narration] They call me Mad Jack, and if there is anybody in these mountains that knows the real story about James Adams, that'd be me. So I'm putting it down in writing just how it happened in hopes of setting the record straight. Well, my friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit...
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Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Alien from L.A. (#6.16)" (1993)

Soundtrack:

Maybe

a forgotten classic, please remember it!!!!

Sunn Classic Pictures was a movie company out of Salt Lake City Utah that made a lot of good high quality films in the 1970's. Films like The Mysterious Monsters, In Search Of Noah's Ark, The Lincoln Conspiracy, Beyond And Back, The Bermuda Triangle and In Search Of Historic Jesus. This tv series was a forgotten jem. It is an absolute atrocity that people do not remember it or cannot see it today, especially in the light of the trash that they call tv shows they shove down people's throats. Dan Hagerty and Denver Pyle did a wonderful job in creating a fine show that the whole family can enjoy. Grizzly Adams was a tv hero that kids can look up to. We need him today more then ever. I watched this show growing up in Fairmont, West Virginia and have such fond memories of it. They need to put it into syndication. Shows like this and Little House On The Prarie and Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman teach such important lessons to our children. A great tv journalist named Edward R. Murrow once said that without a social conscience, tv is a horrible weapon and will corrupt our children. By the way, I loved the song for this tv show "Maybe, theres a world that we won't have to run maybe, theres a time we call our own living free in harmony....take me home, take me home.