"Tarzan and the Rough Rider" is the seventeenth episode of The Legend of Tarzan. It originally aired on UPN on September 21, 2001. Written by comic book writer Marv Wolfman.
Synopsis[]
Theodore Roosevelt, a former U.S. President, is on safari in Africa when he becomes the focus of a kidnapping plot. It's up to Tarzan and the others to save him and to show the former Rough Rider that there are other ways of learning about nature than by shooting it.
Cast[]
- Michael T. Weiss as Tarzan
- Olivia d'Abo as Jane Porter
- Jeff Bennett as Archimedes Q. Porter
- Jim Cummings as Tantor and Jake
- April Winchell as Terk
- René Auberjonois as Renard Dumont
- Maurice LaMarche as Sam
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Thaddeus Hunt
- Stephen Root as Theodore Roosevelt
- Frank Welker as Manu
Trivia[]
- Judging by Theodore Roosevelt's presence and that he's a former present, the franchise is presumably set in the early 1900s.
- The Rough Rider is a title to 1st United States Volunteer Calvary which was commanded by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War from April– December 1898. And he also said to Tarzan about the Battle of San Juan Hill from the same war.
- Judging by when Tarzan told Roosevelt that he didn't want to know what he said to Manu in ape language, it's implied that Roosevelt accidentally said a swear word to Manu.
- The writer of this episode, Marv Wolfman, who is also a legendary comic book writer best known for co-creating the character Blade (for Disney’s sister division Marvel Comics) had previously written a Tarzan comic book for DC Comics.
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