Zoo Family - Season 1

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Zoo Family

1 - Zoo Family

Air Date: July 28, 1985

A Bird in the Hand

2 - A Bird in the Hand

Air Date: August 4, 1985

Seal Song

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.

The Last Cheetah

4 - The Last Cheetah

Air Date: August 18, 1985

Short Waves, Tall Stories

5 - Short Waves, Tall Stories

Air Date: August 25, 1985

Going Home

6 - Going Home

Air Date: September 1, 1985

Diamonds Are Forever

7 - Diamonds Are Forever

Air Date: September 8, 1985

Penguin Parade

8 - Penguin Parade

Air Date: September 15, 1985

Ride for Your Life

9 - Ride for Your Life

Air Date: September 22, 1985

Trust Me

10 - Trust Me

Air Date: September 29, 1985

Elephants and Runaways

11 - Elephants and Runaways

Air Date: October 6, 1985

Watson of the Jungle

12 - Watson of the Jungle

Air Date: October 13, 1985

Love, Romance, Elephants

13 - Love, Romance, Elephants

Air Date: October 20, 1985

All in a Day's Holiday

14 - All in a Day's Holiday

Air Date: October 27, 1985

Reptiles Can't Cry

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.

Rotters and Otters

16 - Rotters and Otters

Air Date: November 10, 1985

Tote That Bale

17 - Tote That Bale

Air Date: November 17, 1985

Star Attraction

18 - Star Attraction

Air Date: November 24, 1985

Me and Jane

19 - Me and Jane

Air Date: December 1, 1985

Mavis of the Apes

20 - Mavis of the Apes

Air Date: December 8, 1985

Yvonne the Terrible

21 - Yvonne the Terrible

Air Date: December 15, 1985

The Good, the Bad and Martin

22 - The Good, the Bad and Martin

Air Date: December 22, 1985

Monkey Business

23 - Monkey Business

Air Date: December 29, 1985

A Bunch of Emigrants

24 - A Bunch of Emigrants

Air Date: January 5, 1986

Dangers of the Job

25 - Dangers of the Job

Air Date: January 12, 1986

The Way of the Bison

26 - The Way of the Bison

Air Date: January 19, 1986