The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams is a 1972 novel by Charles E. Sellier Jr..
There is a 1974 film based on the novel, a two-season NBC television series, and a 1982 TV movie.
The title character, played by Dan Haggerty, is loosely based on the actual trapper James "Grizzly" Adams.
The series was concluded with a 1982 TV movie called The Capture of Grizzly Adams
where a bounty hunter used Adams's daughter — not seen or mentioned since the 1974 film
— to draw him back to civilization. In the end, Adams proved his innocence.
NBC aired this 2 hour finale on February 21, 1982.
Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Don Shanks as Nakoma,
were wonderful in their roles in this childhood favourite.
Some say that if the kids today had folks like this to watch,
they would all be better off, and others think differently,
that he abandoned his wife and childen ran away and left them all to it!!
Whichever side you take, it will not spoil the enjoyment.
However there is no doubt that the attitudes of a few bears
would benefit from watching Ben!!
Superb series and I am sure a favourite amongst all.
i really enjoyed watching the grizzly adams series on tv it made for good family watching then it suddenly disappeared off our tv and was never seen again.
User Review
Quotea forgotten classic, please remember it!!!!
12 September 2003 | by dtucker86 (Germany)
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.