Gentle Ben: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Hurricane Coming
Sep 10, 1967 · 30 min
Mark befriends a boy whose family is vacationing on a houseboat in the river. While out on an adventure together a hurricane quickly comes in. They get the boy's mother from the ho
Green Eyed Bear
Sep 17, 1967 · 30 min
As Tom and Mark are watching a mother bear play with its cub the mother gets shot by a swamp hunter. Tom issues as citation to the hunter and takes the cub. Ben appears to be jealo
Fish and Chips
Sep 24, 1967 · 30 min
Ben and Mark stumble upon fish poachers and their illegal smokehouse. The men threaten to kill Ben if Mark tells his father. Later Ben wanders off and Mark follows him onto the po
Gator Man
Oct 1, 1967 · 30 min
Mark befriends shoeless Jenny Maddox at school. However, when Tom drops her off at her father's dock in the airboat, he discovers that Jenny's father is the alligator poacher he ha
Voice From the Wilderness
Oct 8, 1967 · 30 min
Mark gets Tom to put a radio transmitter on Ben so he can hear what he's doing when he's away. After Ben wanders off a plane carrying exotic animals crashes in the bush. Ben runs a
Invasion of Willie Sam Gopher
Oct 15, 1968 · 30 min
Mark is mocked at school and on the school boat when he is the only child in his class that didn't bring in an Indian artifact for show and tell. He decides to go to the private is
Restless Bear
Oct 22, 1967 · 30 min
Ben gets restless when wild bears come near the Wedloe home during mating season. Tom explains to Mark Ben's natural instincts and Mark agrees Ben should be allowed to wander off t
Battle of Wedloe Woods
Oct 29, 1967 · 30 min
Developer Philip Garrett wants to clear cut and burn the brush to build a housing development on 60 acres of land adjacent to the game reserve. Concerned about all the animals that
Warden For Man and Beast
Nov 5, 1967 · 30 min
Professor Hugo brings his performing bear Victor to the Wedloe home. He has bought a bungalow in a retirement community and wants to release Victor into the wild. Hugo is unable to
A Waste of Honey
Nov 12, 1967 · 30 min
Mark leads some thieves to Boomhauer's honey farm and overhears them saying they will kill the game warden if he catches on. They notice Mark has heard them and tell him that if he
Jennifer
Nov 19, 1967 · 30 min
A little girl gets lost in the Everglades. There is also an injured wildcat roaming the same area. Against his father's orders, Mark and Ben join in the search. Just as the girl is
Warden in the Bear Pit
Nov 26, 1967 · 30 min
A couple of con artists try to steal Ben to gamble on him in fights against dogs. Unable to get Ben, they find another bear. Tom and Ben break up the illegal bear-baiting ring.
A Medal For Ben
Dec 3, 1967 · 30 min
A group of Seminole children approach Mark for help in attending his school, having been impressed by him getting Jimmie Boy into the school in the earlier episode ""The Invasion o
The Ransom
Dec 17, 1967 · 30 min
Tom offers Packy Benner some work, but he decides he can make more money more easily by stealing Ben and waiting for a reward. Tom is on to him and runs into Packy at the general s
The Wayward Bear Part 1
Dec 24, 1967 · 30 min
While on a shopping trip, Ben climbs into a delivery truck and gets separated from the Mark and Ellen. Subsequently Ben has a number of solo adventures including licking the shavin
The Wayward Bear Part 2
Dec 31, 1967 · 30 min
An injured Ben wanders into the camp of a couple of old carneys whose own bear is too old to perform anymore. They are going to keep Ben and train him but an announcement on the ra
The Opportunist
Jan 7, 1968 · 30 min
Poachers are stealing the animals from a newly repopulated island. As they try to get away with their live cargo they also load Ben onto the truck, but he is spotted by Mark. The
The Battle of Birthday Bay
Jan 14, 1968 · 30 min
Mark and Tom have a surprise for Ellen's birthday. They are going to a cabin deep in the woods to spend a few days. When they get there they discover that the cabin has been broken
Trophy Bear
Jan 21, 1968 · 30 min
Hunting guide Joe Cardigan takes rich Miami big game hunter John Coberly into the swamp looking for a bear. Messing up on his first attempt and enticed by the promise of $1000 for
Mama Jolie
Jan 28, 1968 · 30 min
Mark takes Ben to Mama Jolie, a woman with alleged magical powers, to seek a remedy for Ben's lack of appetite. Ultimately, Mark and Tom help her son Geoffrey who is in the country
Batter Up
Feb 4, 1968 · 30 min
St. Louis Carndinals star pitcher Bob Gibson is vacationing in the Everglades. When his small boat capsizes, Tom comes along in the airboat and gets him out of the water. Gibson ag
Growing Pains
Feb 11, 1968 · 30 min
Mark befriends an older boy with a minibike, Steve, and ignores Ben, who stops eating. Mark punishes Ben for being a nuisance and Ben runs away. Mark realizes that Ben is his only
Fire in the Glades
Feb 18, 1968 · 30 min
Looking for an injured deer they saw the day before, Mark and Ben hitch a ride directly into the area which becomes engulfed in a wildfire. The instinctively go to the river to see
Take a Giant Step
Feb 25, 1968 · 30 min
Feeling neglected by his hard-working father, Mark's friend Jamie runs away from home. He hides in a shipwreck but it is in danger of being washed out to sea in a fierce storm. Bas
Survival in the Swamp
Mar 3, 1968 · 30 min
Two armed criminals run into the swamp to elude the police after robbing a jewellery store. Tom, Mark and Ben are camping in the same area. While Mark and Ben are elsewhere, the fu
Who's Afraid?
Mar 10, 1968 · 30 min
Right after Mark has been teased by girls on the school boat, his cousin Virginia comes to stay with the Wedloes for the weekend. Mark tries to entertain her but she is reluctant t
Greener Pastures
Mar 17, 1968 · 30 min
Tom's boss visits and offers him the job of District Manager, which means more money, no danger, and a move to the big city. The family visits the city and are impressed by the par
Ol' Joe's Gotta Go
Mar 24, 1968 · 30 min
Farmer Lloyd Larkin thinks local alligator Ol' Joe has turned rogue and is eating his pigs and chickens. Tom offers to catch him and move him away, enlisting the help of champion a