Season 1
Season 1 • 1985
0For 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.
Episodes
1. Zoo Family
1985-07-28 • 30 min
2. A Bird in the Hand
1985-08-04 • 30 min
3. 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.
1985-08-11 • 30 min
4. The Last Cheetah
1985-08-18 • 30 min
5. Short Waves, Tall Stories
1985-08-25 • 30 min
6. Going Home
1985-09-01 • 30 min
7. Diamonds Are Forever
1985-09-08 • 30 min
8. Penguin Parade
1985-09-15 • 30 min
9. Ride for Your Life
1985-09-22 • 30 min
10. Trust Me
1985-09-29 • 30 min
11. Elephants and Runaways
1985-10-06 • 30 min
12. Watson of the Jungle
1985-10-13 • 30 min
13. Love, Romance, Elephants
1985-10-20 • 30 min
14. All in a Day's Holiday
1985-10-27 • 30 min
15. 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.
1985-11-03 • 30 min
16. Rotters and Otters
1985-11-10 • 30 min
17. Tote That Bale
1985-11-17 • 30 min
18. Star Attraction
1985-11-24 • 30 min
19. Me and Jane
1985-12-01 • 30 min
20. Mavis of the Apes
1985-12-08 • 30 min
21. Yvonne the Terrible
1985-12-15 • 30 min
22. The Good, the Bad and Martin
1985-12-22 • 30 min
23. Monkey Business
1985-12-29 • 30 min
24. A Bunch of Emigrants
1986-01-05 • 30 min
25. Dangers of the Job
1986-01-12 • 30 min
26. The Way of the Bison
1986-01-19 • 30 min
