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Grizzly Adams: Season 2

24 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 1977 Updated Sep 29, 2026
Previously on Grizzly Adams

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Grizzly Adams Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (21): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

Hot Air Hero

Sep 28, 1977 · 60 min

An accident happens during an experimental ballon flight, which causes an unexpected visitor to end up in Adams' cabin--Monsieur Andre Gerard, a balloonist trying to speed up the P

S2·E2 Core

Survival

Oct 12, 1977 · 60 min

Robbie Cartman returns to the mountain, and wants Adams to cure his sick pet deer named Ginger. Adams decides to help him and goes into the woods to get medicine, and ends up heavi

S2·E3 Core

A Bear's Life

Oct 19, 1977 · 60 min

Adams, Mad Jack, Number Seven and Ben are enjoying their days, and are doing as much work as they can. Meanwhile, Ben decides to enjoy a sunny day in a way only a bear knows.

S2·E4 Core

The Trial

Oct 26, 1977 · 60 min

It is hunting season, a time when tribesman have to prove their manhood. A Indian orphan named Tumaqua catches more fish than anyone else, but a pesky otter eats everything that Tu

S2·E5 Core

The Orphans

Nov 2, 1977 · 60 min

Adams and Mad Jack are busy with watching two orphan children, Michele & Eugene, who are bored by the rules around the mountain, and decide to do something reckless.

S2·E6 Core

The Search

Nov 9, 1977 · 60 min

Trapper Tom, a man known for trapping grizzly bears and taking them to the city zoo, returns to the mountain. Mad Jack realizes that he put new traps around the mountain, so Adams

S2·E7 Core

Gold Is Where You Find It

Nov 23, 1977 · 60 min

Two schemers search for gold on the mountain with a map they bought for ten dollars. They eventually find another more honest way to make their living.

S2·E8 Core

Track of the Cougar

Dec 14, 1977 · 60 min

Nakoma is looking for a cougar who destroyed his village, and tore apart some of his lodges. Adam realizes that it's Sekota, a cougar he raised in his own club.

S2·E9 Core

The Choice

Dec 21, 1977 · 60 min

Robbie Cartman takes his friends' advice and decides to take his deer Ginger back to the wilderness, where Ginger belongs. Even though Robbie hates to give up his deer, he let's Gi

S2·E10 Core

Woman in the Wilderness

Dec 28, 1977 · 60 min

The hunters in the mountain are surprised when a lady appears at the mountains asking for information about black bears. It's Mrs. Kate Jackson, a writer. Adams finds out the truth

S2·E11 Core

The Spoilers

Jan 4, 1978 · 60 min

The people at Hoot Owl Creek find out that the fish is dying off and the animals are suffering from some kind of an epidemic, and it's obvious that someone is poisoning the creek.

S2·E12 Core

Marvin the Magnificent

Jan 11, 1978 · 60 min

Marvin the Magnificent, an elderly man, stays at Adams's place with his wonder bear named "Babe," when the bear gets sick.

S2·E13 Core

A Time of Thirsting

Jan 18, 1978 · 60 min

A lack of moisture in the mountains brings problems to the inhabitants, who are worried about their animals. Adams and Mad Jack decide to put drip sacks along the mountain trails.

S2·E14 Core

The Seekers

Jan 25, 1978 · 60 min

When Master Sargent Monahan arrives at the mountain, Mad Jack mistakes him for Maurice, a half-bear, half-bull. Meanwhile, the mountain is about to be hit by a storm.

S2·E15 Core

A Gentleman Tinker

Feb 8, 1978 · 60 min

Mad Jack is convinced that he found a genuine leprechaun, and overhears Tinker talking about gold. Thinking that it's the luckiest day of his life, Mad Jack wants to prove that he

S2·E16 Core

The Runaway

Feb 22, 1978 · 60 min

On his way to the river, Adams sees a black man in shackles, named Isaac, who runs away as soon as he sees Adams, but later he faces him, and Adams takes him to his cabin. Mad Jack

S2·E17 Core

The Great Burro Race

Mar 1, 1978 · 60 min

Mad Jack is visited by his old pal Gus Thackery and his wife Gerty, who are glad to see him again, but when Gus shows that he is still the same old competitive person, Mad Jack wil

S2·E18 Core

The Littlest Greenhorn

Mar 15, 1978 · 60 min

The animals in the mountains are acting strange, and Mad Jack tells Adams about the reason---a big gorilla was seen in the forest. But, the gorilla will turns out to be something e

S2·E19 Core

The Renewal

Mar 22, 1978 · 60 min

It's Easter, a special times for Adams' and the entire mountain. The guys, along with Robbie, are about to go pick up some things for the celebration, when they meet two strange gu

S2·E20 Core

The Stranger

Apr 5, 1978 · 60 min

Captain Ulysses S. Grant, a famous person arrives at the mountains, and explains how he is writing a book, and talks to them about how he could never live in the mountains and surv

S2·E21 Core

The Quest

Apr 5, 1978 · 60 min

An ecstatic Mad Jack arrives at Adams' cabin where Adams and Nakoma are fixing the roof, and informs them that he met an Army Corporal who said that the government is going to give

S2·E22 Core

The Skyrider

Apr 26, 1978 · 60 min

While Adams and Ben have to take care of a hawk, Mad Jack comes upon Mr. Milton Wright, and a few more people, who wants to get a glider to fly. Mad Jack is convinced that the "gli

S2·E23 Mytharc

The World’s Greatest Bounty Hunter

May 5, 1978 · 60 min

Mad Jack & Adams' friendship is put under a test when Mad Jack returns to the mountain with a fever that causes him to hallucinate. Mad Jack thinks he is the world's greatest bount

S2·E24 Mytharc

Once Upon a Starry Night

May 12, 1978 · 90 min

In the Christmas Special, the mountains are safer than ever. The show is falling, and the entire mountain is covered in snow. While Adams is spending time with Ben the bear, diggin

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