
Gentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son Mark and Ben the grizzly bear.
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Air Date: 1967-09-10
Mark befriends a boy whose family is vacationing on a houseboat in the river. While out on an adventure together a hu...
Air Date: 1967-09-17
As Tom and Mark are watching a mother bear play with its cub the mother gets shot by a swamp hunter. Tom issues as ci...
Air Date: 1967-09-24
Ben and Mark stumble upon fish poachers and their illegal smokehouse. The men threaten to kill Ben if Mark tells his...
Air Date: 1967-10-01
Mark befriends shoeless Jenny Maddox at school. However, when Tom drops her off at her father's dock in the airboat, ...
Air Date: 1967-10-08
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 ...
Air Date: 1968-10-15
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...
Air Date: 1967-10-22
Ben gets restless when wild bears come near the Wedloe home during mating season. Tom explains to Mark Ben's natural ...
Air Date: 1967-10-29
Developer Philip Garrett wants to clear cut and burn the brush to build a housing development on 60 acres of land adj...
Air Date: 1967-11-05
Professor Hugo brings his performing bear Victor to the Wedloe home. He has bought a bungalow in a retirement communi...
Air Date: 1967-11-12
Mark leads some thieves to Boomhauer's honey farm and overhears them saying they will kill the game warden if he catc...
Air Date: 1967-11-19
A little girl gets lost in the Everglades. There is also an injured wildcat roaming the same area. Against his father...
Air Date: 1967-11-26
A couple of con artists try to steal Ben to gamble on him in fights against dogs. Unable to get Ben, they find anothe...
Air Date: 1967-12-03
A group of Seminole children approach Mark for help in attending his school, having been impressed by him getting Jim...
Air Date: 1967-12-17
Tom offers Packy Benner some work, but he decides he can make more money more easily by stealing Ben and waiting for ...
Air Date: 1967-12-24
While on a shopping trip, Ben climbs into a delivery truck and gets separated from the Mark and Ellen. Subsequently B...
Air Date: 1967-12-31
An injured Ben wanders into the camp of a couple of old carneys whose own bear is too old to perform anymore. They ar...
Air Date: 1968-01-07
Poachers are stealing the animals from a newly repopulated island. As they try to get away with their live cargo they...
Air Date: 1968-01-14
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. W...
Air Date: 1968-01-21
Hunting guide Joe Cardigan takes rich Miami big game hunter John Coberly into the swamp looking for a bear. Messing u...
Air Date: 1968-01-28
Mark takes Ben to Mama Jolie, a woman with alleged magical powers, to seek a remedy for Ben's lack of appetite. Ultim...
Air Date: 1968-02-04
St. Louis Carndinals star pitcher Bob Gibson is vacationing in the Everglades. When his small boat capsizes, Tom come...
Air Date: 1968-02-11
Mark befriends an older boy with a minibike, Steve, and ignores Ben, who stops eating. Mark punishes Ben for being a ...
Air Date: 1968-02-18
Looking for an injured deer they saw the day before, Mark and Ben hitch a ride directly into the area which becomes e...
Air Date: 1968-02-25
Feeling neglected by his hard-working father, Mark's friend Jamie runs away from home. He hides in a shipwreck but it...
Air Date: 1968-03-03
Two armed criminals run into the swamp to elude the police after robbing a jewellery store. Tom, Mark and Ben are cam...
Air Date: 1968-03-10
Right after Mark has been teased by girls on the school boat, his cousin Virginia comes to stay with the Wedloes for ...
Air Date: 1968-03-17
Tom's boss visits and offers him the job of District Manager, which means more money, no danger, and a move to the bi...
Air Date: 1968-03-24
Farmer Lloyd Larkin thinks local alligator Ol' Joe has turned rogue and is eating his pigs and chickens. Tom offers t...