Zoo Family - Season 1
1 - Zoo Family
Air Date: July 28, 1985
2 - A Bird in the Hand
Air Date: August 4, 1985
3 - Seal Song
Air Date: August 11, 1985
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.
4 - The Last Cheetah
Air Date: August 18, 1985
5 - Short Waves, Tall Stories
Air Date: August 25, 1985
6 - Going Home
Air Date: September 1, 1985
7 - Diamonds Are Forever
Air Date: September 8, 1985
8 - Penguin Parade
Air Date: September 15, 1985
9 - Ride for Your Life
Air Date: September 22, 1985
10 - Trust Me
Air Date: September 29, 1985
11 - Elephants and Runaways
Air Date: October 6, 1985
12 - Watson of the Jungle
Air Date: October 13, 1985
13 - Love, Romance, Elephants
Air Date: October 20, 1985
14 - All in a Day's Holiday
Air Date: October 27, 1985
15 - Reptiles Can't Cry
Air Date: November 3, 1985
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.
16 - Rotters and Otters
Air Date: November 10, 1985
17 - Tote That Bale
Air Date: November 17, 1985
18 - Star Attraction
Air Date: November 24, 1985
19 - Me and Jane
Air Date: December 1, 1985
20 - Mavis of the Apes
Air Date: December 8, 1985
21 - Yvonne the Terrible
Air Date: December 15, 1985
22 - The Good, the Bad and Martin
Air Date: December 22, 1985
23 - Monkey Business
Air Date: December 29, 1985
24 - A Bunch of Emigrants
Air Date: January 5, 1986
25 - Dangers of the Job
Air Date: January 12, 1986
26 - The Way of the Bison
Air Date: January 19, 1986