Zoo Family (1985)
Follows a family who live at Melbourne Zoo in Victoria, Australia. Doctor David Mitchell is the zoo's veterinarian. His children Nick and Susie love being with all the animals.
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Episode 1 - Zoo Family
Release Date: 1985-07-28 -
Episode 2 - A Bird in the Hand
Release Date: 1985-08-04 -
Episode 3 - Seal Song
Release Date: 1985-08-11A girl whose mother died in a boating accident befriends the seals and the Mitchell family. Thomas Spencer suggests his sister in law would make an ideal live-in maid for the Mitchell family.
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Episode 4 - The Last Cheetah
Release Date: 1985-08-18 -
Episode 5 - Short Waves, Tall Stories
Release Date: 1985-08-25 -
Episode 6 - Going Home
Release Date: 1985-09-01 -
Episode 7 - Diamonds Are Forever
Release Date: 1985-09-08 -
Episode 8 - Penguin Parade
Release Date: 1985-09-15 -
Episode 9 - Ride for Your Life
Release Date: 1985-09-22 -
Episode 10 - Trust Me
Release Date: 1985-09-29 -
Episode 11 - Elephants and Runaways
Release Date: 1985-10-06 -
Episode 12 - Watson of the Jungle
Release Date: 1985-10-13 -
Episode 13 - Love, Romance, Elephants
Release Date: 1985-10-20 -
Episode 14 - All in a Day's Holiday
Release Date: 1985-10-27 -
Episode 15 - Reptiles Can't Cry
Release Date: 1985-11-03The Mitchell family catch troubled teen Ace, red-handed, as he spray paints one of the zoo's giant turtles. But the reptile keeper decides to give him a chance and Ace finds, to everyone's surprise, that he truly enjoys caring for reptiles. He is taken in by the Mitchell family and earns the respect of the two Mitchell children, Susie and Nick. Meanwhile, the irascible Col Archibald Spencer does his own detective work and wrongly accuses young Tim Watson of harming the turtle and putting a stumpy-tailed lizard in Mrs Spencer's handbag. More by fortune than design, Col Spencer eventually tracks down the correct culprit and uses his influence as the zoo's primary benefactor to insist on redressing the crime. To the dismay of zoo vet Dr David Mitchell, zoo director Ken Bennett has his hand forced by Spencer and has to fire Ace. However, the episode ends with Ace promised a job at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and heading north on the train.
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Episode 16 - Rotters and Otters
Release Date: 1985-11-10 -
Episode 17 - Tote That Bale
Release Date: 1985-11-17 -
Episode 18 - Star Attraction
Release Date: 1985-11-24 -
Episode 19 - Me and Jane
Release Date: 1985-12-01 -
Episode 20 - Mavis of the Apes
Release Date: 1985-12-08 -
Episode 21 - Yvonne the Terrible
Release Date: 1985-12-15 -
Episode 22 - The Good, the Bad and Martin
Release Date: 1985-12-22 -
Episode 23 - Monkey Business
Release Date: 1985-12-29 -
Episode 24 - A Bunch of Emigrants
Release Date: 1986-01-05 -
Episode 25 - Dangers of the Job
Release Date: 1986-01-12 -
Episode 26 - The Way of the Bison
Release Date: 1986-01-19