Zoo Family Season 1, Episode 1: Zoo Family

A Bird in the Hand

30 min

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.

30 min

The Last Cheetah

30 min

Short Waves, Tall Stories

30 min

Going Home

30 min

Diamonds Are Forever

30 min

Penguin Parade

30 min

Ride for Your Life

30 min

Trust Me

30 min

Elephants and Runaways

30 min

Watson of the Jungle

30 min

Love, Romance, Elephants

30 min

All in a Day's Holiday

30 min

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.

30 min

Rotters and Otters

30 min

Tote That Bale

30 min

Star Attraction

30 min

Me and Jane

30 min

Mavis of the Apes

30 min

Yvonne the Terrible

30 min

The Good, the Bad and Martin

30 min

Monkey Business

30 min

A Bunch of Emigrants

30 min

Dangers of the Job

30 min

The Way of the Bison

30 min