"Tarzan and the Priestess of Opar"
By Dennis Kerner

This was probably the best episode of "Tarzan: The Epic Adventures." When I first saw the episode, I kept thinking: "They tried. They really tried. But they missed." What amazes me about this script is that it is so good. If someone had shown this to me before TEA went on the air and said, "Here's a sample of what they're going to do with Tarzan," I'd have been blown away. There are rough spots. Aren't there in anything? But the script writer obviously knows Tarzan. I even like Themba when I read him in this script. (Unlike some ERB fans, I thought the concept for Themba was a great one: An African who prefers Europe, teamed with the European Tarzan, who prefers Africa. What potential that premise had!) What it comes down to is this: When I read this script, my own Tarzan is speaking the lines, and doing the fighting -- the one who grew up with me when I discovered ERB. My own La is reacting to Tarzan as I read this script. Let me know if your experience is similar.