Synopsis
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.
Episodes
Season 11
Zoo Family30m2
A Bird in the Hand30m3
Seal SongA 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.30m4The Last Cheetah30m5Short Waves, Tall Stories30m6Going Home30m7Diamonds Are Forever30m8Penguin Parade30m9Ride for Your Life30m10Trust Me30m11
Elephants and Runaways30m12Watson of the Jungle30m13Love, Romance, Elephants30m14All in a Day's Holiday30m15Reptiles Can't CryThe 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.30m16Rotters and Otters30m17Tote That Bale30m18Star Attraction30m19Me and Jane30m20Mavis of the Apes30m21Yvonne the Terrible30m22
The Good, the Bad and Martin30m23Monkey Business30m24A Bunch of Emigrants30m25Dangers of the Job30m26The Way of the Bison30m
Zoo Family30m2A Bird in the Hand30m3Seal SongA 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.30m4The Last Cheetah30m5Short Waves, Tall Stories30m6Going Home30m7Diamonds Are Forever30m8Penguin Parade30m9Ride for Your Life30m10Trust Me30m11Elephants and Runaways30m12Watson of the Jungle30m13Love, Romance, Elephants30m14All in a Day's Holiday30m15Reptiles Can't CryThe 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.30m16Rotters and Otters30m17Tote That Bale30m18Star Attraction30m19Me and Jane30m20Mavis of the Apes30m21Yvonne the Terrible30m22The Good, the Bad and Martin30m23Monkey Business30m24A Bunch of Emigrants30m25Dangers of the Job30m26The Way of the Bison30mCast
