Alison Nisselle
Director
Zoo Family (1985)
Season 1
For Dr. David "Mitch" Mitchell and his children Nick and Susie, the dream of children the world over comes true. They are the Zoo Family and their home is the Royal Melbourne Zoo. It's just one of the best zoos anywhere. And with their dad the Zoo Vet, the kids live with the animals as no-one else can.
Released July 28, 1985
Episode 30 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.australia, tmdb.veterinarian, tmdb.zoo, imdb.zoo, imdb.veterinarian, imdb.australia, imdb.animal + 3 more, tmdb.melbourne-australia, tmdb.animals, tmdb.zoologist
Production Companies: Crawford Productions, Nine Network Australia
Network: Nine Network
S1E1 - Zoo Family
July 28, 1985, midnight
S1E2 - A Bird in the Hand
Aug. 4, 1985, midnight
S1E3 - Seal Song
A 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.
Aug. 11, 1985, midnight
S1E4 - The Last Cheetah
Aug. 18, 1985, midnight
S1E5 - Short Waves, Tall Stories
Aug. 25, 1985, midnight
S1E6 - Going Home
Sept. 1, 1985, midnight
S1E7 - Diamonds Are Forever
Sept. 8, 1985, midnight
S1E8 - Penguin Parade
Sept. 15, 1985, midnight
S1E9 - Ride for Your Life
Sept. 22, 1985, midnight
S1E10 - Trust Me
Sept. 29, 1985, midnight
S1E11 - Elephants and Runaways
Oct. 6, 1985, midnight
S1E12 - Watson of the Jungle
Oct. 13, 1985, midnight
S1E13 - Love, Romance, Elephants
Oct. 20, 1985, midnight
S1E14 - All in a Day's Holiday
Oct. 27, 1985, midnight
S1E15 - Reptiles Can't Cry
The 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.
Nov. 3, 1985, midnight
S1E16 - Rotters and Otters
Nov. 10, 1985, midnight
S1E17 - Tote That Bale
Nov. 17, 1985, midnight
S1E18 - Star Attraction
Nov. 24, 1985, midnight
S1E19 - Me and Jane
Dec. 1, 1985, midnight
S1E20 - Mavis of the Apes
Dec. 8, 1985, midnight
S1E21 - Yvonne the Terrible
Dec. 15, 1985, midnight
S1E22 - The Good, the Bad and Martin
Dec. 22, 1985, midnight
S1E23 - Monkey Business
Dec. 29, 1985, midnight
S1E24 - A Bunch of Emigrants
Jan. 5, 1986, midnight
S1E25 - Dangers of the Job
Jan. 12, 1986, midnight
S1E26 - The Way of the Bison
Jan. 19, 1986, midnight
Nine Network
30 min/ep
780 min
July 28, 1985
Jan. 19, 1986, midnight
Ended
NR
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