Zoo Family (Season 1)

Zoo Family (Episode 1)

Writer: Vincent Moran

Air date: 1985-07-28

Runtime: 30 min

A Bird in the Hand (Episode 2)

Writer: Andrew Kennedy

Air date: 1985-08-04

Runtime: 30 min

Seal Song (Episode 3)

Writer: Cassandra Carter

Air date: 1985-08-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 4)

Writer: Alison Nisselle

Air date: 1985-08-18

Runtime: 30 min

Short Waves, Tall Stories (Episode 5)

Writer: Cassandra Carter

Air date: 1985-08-25

Runtime: 30 min

Going Home (Episode 6)

Writer: Leon Saunders

Air date: 1985-09-01

Runtime: 30 min

Diamonds Are Forever (Episode 7)

Writer: John Alsop

Air date: 1985-09-08

Runtime: 30 min

Penguin Parade (Episode 8)

Writer: Roger Dunn

Air date: 1985-09-15

Runtime: 30 min

Ride for Your Life (Episode 9)

Writer: John Reeves

Air date: 1985-09-22

Runtime: 30 min

Trust Me (Episode 10)

Writer: Roger Dunn

Air date: 1985-09-29

Runtime: 30 min

Elephants and Runaways (Episode 11)

Writer: David Phillips

Air date: 1985-10-06

Runtime: 30 min

Watson of the Jungle (Episode 12)

Writer: Peter Hepworth

Air date: 1985-10-13

Runtime: 30 min

Love, Romance, Elephants (Episode 13)

Writer: Alison Nisselle

Air date: 1985-10-20

Runtime: 30 min

All in a Day's Holiday (Episode 14)

Writer: Roger Moulton

Air date: 1985-10-27

Runtime: 30 min

Reptiles Can't Cry (Episode 15)

Writer: Mary Dagmar Davies

Air date: 1985-11-03

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 16)

Writer: John Lord

Air date: 1985-11-10

Runtime: 30 min

Tote That Bale (Episode 17)

Writer: Andrew Kennedy

Air date: 1985-11-17

Runtime: 30 min

Star Attraction (Episode 18)

Writer: Terry Stapleton

Air date: 1985-11-24

Runtime: 30 min

Me and Jane (Episode 19)

Writer: Michael Joshua

Air date: 1985-12-01

Runtime: 30 min

Mavis of the Apes (Episode 20)

Writer: Mary Dagmar Davies

Air date: 1985-12-08

Runtime: 30 min

Yvonne the Terrible (Episode 21)

Writer: Andrew Kennedy

Air date: 1985-12-15

Runtime: 30 min

The Good, the Bad and Martin (Episode 22)

Writer: Deb Cox

Air date: 1985-12-22

Runtime: 30 min

Monkey Business (Episode 23)

Writer: Alison Nisselle

Air date: 1985-12-29

Runtime: 30 min

A Bunch of Emigrants (Episode 24)

Writer: Judith Colquhoun

Air date: 1986-01-05

Runtime: 30 min

Dangers of the Job (Episode 25)

Writer: Mary Dagmar Davies

Air date: 1986-01-12

Runtime: 30 min

The Way of the Bison (Episode 26)

Writer: David Phillips

Air date: 1986-01-19

Runtime: 30 min