Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor

"Tarzan and the Mysterious Visitor" is the thirty-fifth episode of The Legend of Tarzan. It originally aired on UPN on October 12, 2001.
==Synopsis==
A writer named Ed is in desperate need of some inspiration for his next novel. He finds it while walking down the street in the form of a newspaper article about Tarzan, "The Missing Link". Ed has the inspiration he needs and begins tracking down various leads to Tarzan's whereabouts ... including Samuel T. Philander, Hugo and Hooft, and Renard Dumont. They all tell Ed of their first encounters with Tarzan. Ed heads out into the jungle to find Tarzan himself.
After meeting up with Tarzan in person for the first time when saved by the jungle man himself from Nuru and Sheeta, Jane, claiming that Ed is completely missing the point of Tarzan's character, then shares with Ed about the romantic side of Tarzan's personality which is what led her to fall in love with Tarzan and to stay in the jungle.
Returning home, Ed then incorporates the various elements of Tarzan's personality, adventures and encounters as interviewed by the various people he met, to create the novel Tarzan of the Apes, which receives Mr. Dobrez's approval and becomes Ed's most successful novel.
==Cast==
*Michael T. Weiss as Tarzan
*Olivia d'Abo as Jane Porter
*Jeff Bennett as Archimedes Q. Porter
*Jim Cummings as Tantor
*April Winchell as Terk
*René Auberjonois as Renard Dumont
*Craig Ferguson as Samuel T. Philander
*Joe Flaherty as Hooft
*Kevin Michael Richardson
*Stacy Sibley
*Dave Thomas as Hugo
*Steven Weber as Edgar Rice Burroughs
==Trivia==
*This episode is most famous for the theme of a literary character meeting his own original creator, as well as the fact that it is almost completely composed of flashbacks from previous Tarzan episodes.
** Disney had done the same premise in the Little Mermaid episode "Metal Fish", where Ariel encounters her original creator, Hans Christian Andersen.
** Given that this episode depicts multiple flashbacks from previous Tarzan episodes, not unlike the sequel film Tarzan & Jane, it likely belongs chronologically among the last few episodes in the series.
** Among the flashback clips of previous Tarzan episodes included in this episode, in chronological order, are the following: "Tarzan and the Hidden World", "Tarzan and the Fugitives", "Tarzan and the Trading Post", "Tarzan and the Challenger", "Tarzan and the Race Against Time", "Tarzan and the Rogue Elephant", "Tarzan and the Poisoned River", "Tarzan and the Lost Cub", "Tarzan and the Lost City of Opar" and "Tarzan and the Rift".
*Professor Porter is the only major human character whom is not interviewed by Ed Burroughs in this episode.
*Mr. Dobrez mentions Burroughs' previous novel, A Princess of Mars. In 2012, Disney adapted the novel into the film John Carter.
*Mr. Dobrez mentions having rejected Burroughs' manuscript for The Outlaw of Torn.
*Characters from "Tarzan and the Silver Screen", had made a cameo in this episode.
Category:The Legend of Tarzan episodes