1x2 - A Bird in the Hand

August 4, 1985

1x3 - Seal Song

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.

1x4 - The Last Cheetah

August 18, 1985

1x5 - Short Waves, Tall Stories

August 25, 1985

1x6 - Going Home

September 1, 1985

1x7 - Diamonds Are Forever

September 8, 1985

1x8 - Penguin Parade

September 15, 1985

1x9 - Ride for Your Life

September 22, 1985

1x10 - Trust Me

September 29, 1985

1x11 - Elephants and Runaways

October 6, 1985

1x12 - Watson of the Jungle

October 13, 1985

1x13 - Love, Romance, Elephants

October 20, 1985

1x14 - All in a Day's Holiday

October 27, 1985

1x15 - Reptiles Can't Cry

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.

1x16 - Rotters and Otters

November 10, 1985

1x17 - Tote That Bale

November 17, 1985

1x18 - Star Attraction

November 24, 1985

1x19 - Me and Jane

December 1, 1985

1x20 - Mavis of the Apes

December 8, 1985

1x21 - Yvonne the Terrible

December 15, 1985

1x22 - The Good, the Bad and Martin

December 22, 1985

1x23 - Monkey Business

December 29, 1985

1x24 - A Bunch of Emigrants

January 5, 1986

1x25 - Dangers of the Job

January 12, 1986

1x26 - The Way of the Bison

January 19, 1986