

Premiering in 1963 broadcast on prime-time from 1968-1971 and airing in syndication until 1988 the Emmy Award-winning Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was one of the longest-running and most beloved television series of all time. A pioneer of the narrative nature-documentary format the educational series followed venerable host and ecologist Marlin Perkins (later joined by Jim Fowler Peter Gros Stan Brock and Tom Allen) as he trekked to the farthest reaches of the globe to study wild animals in their natural habitats.

Oct 9, 1983 - 24m
The sparkling lakes of north central Maine are the background for this episode featuring Jim Fowler locating a moose in a lake where it is feeding and slips a noose around its neck.

Oct 30, 1983 - 24m
Black wildebeest, blesbok and giraffe are captured at three different game ranches in South Africa in order to give these animals a better chance to survive.

Nov 20, 1983 - 24m
High above the Colorado River on the towering rock cliffs above the canyons of Utah the bighorn sheep thrive. Jim Fowler helps from a helicopter drive the sheep to the nearest valley and into nets to be air lifted out of these mountains to another area to establish new herds.

Dec 11, 1983 - 24m
In the Sea of Cortez off the coast of Baja California in Mexico is a sea mountain that rises two thousand feet above the ocean's floor to within 60 feet of the Pacific Ocean's surface where sharks and moray eels are filmed by marine biologist Tommy Allen and one of the world's best underwater divers.

Dec 25, 1983 - 24m
Spring comes to a marsh at the base of a majestic mountain range in Utah and the beautiful eco-system comes to life.

Jan 8, 1984 - 24m
Jim Fowler reports on the exciting story and helps in the dangerous business of driving elk into nets to place radio telemetry collars on them.

Jan 22, 1984 - 24m
Setting takes place in Namibia, in Africa near a huge shallow waterhole where wildlife come to drink and also predators will come to prey.

Feb 26, 1984
Wild ducks and geese are North America's priceless resource and must be protected for future generations -- so this episode documents the beautiful mating rituals of the waterfowl, nesting activity of adult birds and the raising of young.

Mar 11, 1984 - 24m
The Great Barrier Reef in the Pacific Ocean is visited at night by the underwater cameras of the Wild Kingdom crew to photo sharks, moray eels, sea snakes and other predators of the deep.

Mar 18, 1984 - 24m
The underwater cameras of the Wild Kingdom crew journey to Australia and the Coral Sea where a sunken ship serves as the habitat for numerous sharks, and many other forms of sealife.

Apr 1, 1984 - 24m
Fowler travels to Namibia, Africa, to see how a ranch where wildlife is raised is operated. It is a 30,000 acre ranch where 2500 wild animals roam as freely as in the wild.