Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Marlin debunks many of the baseless belief about living creatures from the fish to the gorilla with his firsthand knowledge.

The survival value of a wide range of protective devices used by wild creatures is demonstrated and investigated.

Marlin and Jim Fowler investigate trapping and capturing techniques both primitive and modern.

Marlin and Jim perform experiments in a bat cave to reveal how bats maneuver in the dark without colliding. They demonstrate how the intelligent porpoise use inaudible signals to find their way about.

Marlin and Jim set out to separate the truth from the myths and unfold many strange but true tales from the wild kingdom.

The great cats of the world, lions, tigers and jaguars are placed in an observation room and tested for their reactions to various objects.

Marlin and Jim demonstrate how to handle dangerous animals of the zoo and the wild.

An analysis of the miracle of flight from the soaring condors of the Andes to the backward-flying fairy terns of Midway.

The famous performing chimp show at the St. Louis Zoo and a close look at its most appealing star attractions.

At the base of Devils Tower near Horse Heaven Pass in Wyoming, is a wilderness city populated by the ....prairie dog.

The great tropical rain forest supports life at all levels. Fowler captures the largest mammal of the Amazon Jungle.

The world-famous trained animals of the St. Louis Zoo present a "command performance".

In the southeastern coastal plain of the United States in Georgia, there exists one of the world's truly unique jungle swamps named by the Indians OKEEFENOKEE (land of floating islands).

Winter is night, summer is day, and you need your wits to survive in the forbidding land north of the Arctic Circle. In this story you go by walrus skin boat, dogsled, airplane and helicopter. You hunt seal with Eskimos, find polar bear and beluga whale. You round up a large herd of reindeer and tag them for conservation officials. And you watch Jim Fowler discover a far-north version of a popular rodeo event: bulldogging moose from a helicopter.

Marlin visits the Grand Teton Mountains in the U.S. and the wilderness north of Canada to show us the territorial fight, the rescue of a baby moose and to see the sandhill cranes.

Marlin and Jim make a fascinating climb up the Philmont Trail with a troop of Explorer Scouts at the famous Boy Scout ranch near Cimarron in northern New Mexico.

In the Kalahari region of southern Africa, Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler study the life and habits of the graceful and cunning leopard by establishing a camp near a hidden leopard den.

Marlin and Jim continue their investigation into the home life of the leopard.

Marlin and Jim travel by jeep at the hottest time of the year to the rugged Sonora Desert in Arizona on a reptile collecting expedition.

Marlin and Jim journey by flat-bottomed boat into the uncharted, moss-covered silence of the Louisiana bayou country on an animal collecting trip.

This is the tale of the fox cub as it explores the wild kingdom for the first time in the North Woods of Wisconsin.

Marlin and Jim observe a family of bobcats in the Zion Canyon area in the Utah wilderness.

Many mysteries of the wild present a challenge to seek the answer. In this episode Jim Fowler brings to the viewer some of the most memorable scenes ever captured on film.

Marlin and Jim visit South Africa to study and photograph the chacma baboons in their natural environment and to conduct some fascinating experiments.

Marlin goes unarmed deep into the jungles of India to film the adventures of a full-grown Bengal tigress and her two young cubs.

Travel with Marlin and his band of adventurers as they explore the Gulf of California, the last great unexplored marine paradise in the Western hemisphere, lying between the Mexican main land and Baja, California.

There's a legend that during the 16th century, Spanish ponies from a sinking galleon swam ashore to the island of Assateague, Virginia. Today, once a year, men from neighboring Chincoteague Island gather for one of the most unusual roundups.

Marlin travels to Gir Forest in India in search of the king of beasts...the lion.

Marlin and Jim visit the mountain prairies of Wyoming where falcons, eagles and hawks rule the air.

Marlin and Jim follow a pair of black bear cubs in Yellowstone National Park; track a large black bear to tag for future reference.

Marlin and Jim journey to Rhodesia to join in a game relocation project with the rangers of Wankie National Park, a game preserve where all kinds of wild animals make their home. Two animals are on their list: a zebra and a giraffe.

Because of its inaccessibility to man and its climate, the So. American jungles encourage the growth of its animal life. Marlin and Stan Brock go on an expedition to capture the largest of their kind and to see just why these jungle giants grow to such proportions.

Throughout the wild kingdom there are many examples of animal cooperation, and one of the most remarkable takes place in a picturesque little valley in southern Utah home for families of badgers, bobcats, coyotes and golden eagles.

Marlin and Jim journey to Kruger National Park in the Republic of South Africa to join the rangers there in an exciting wild elephant capture.

Marlin and Jim journey to the blue waters of the Bahamas to take part in a collecting expedition for the Miami Seaquarium. Almost the entire show takes place underwater as they search for some of the most dangerous animals of the deep.

Four fuzzy kittens tumble out of their den; they're baby cheetahs taking those first uncertain steps into a dangerous world. The rugged bush country of Rhodesia is an excellent training ground for life in the wild kingdom.

Marlin, Jim and Stan journey to Kruger National Park in South Africa to go after one of the most difficult to capture of all the world's wild animals, the hippo.

Marlin and Stan are invited to help capture one of the most feared animals on four legs -- a livestock marauding grizzly. They plan to use the only capture method suited to the animal and the country, roping the fierce and powerful bear.

Far out in the Pacific Ocean lies a tiny island. Once every year, these barren rocks explode with life as Steller sea lions come ashore by the thousands to breed and give birth to their young. Marlin sails to the island to join a team of scientists to observe and take part in a tagging project.

High over the mountains of Peru spirals a giant of the skies: the Andean condor. Jim and Marlin join an expedition to catch the giant birds and attach tracking gear on them.

In the chill, glacier-fed streams of Alaska sockeye salmon are born, and follow the current to the sea. After two or three great annual circuits of the North Pacific, the call comes to return.

Marlin and Stan journey to Guyana, South America in search of one of the world's rarest wild animals, the giant armadillo.

When the Guri Dam was built on the Caroni River in the wilderness of eastern Venezuela, it created a huge lake that flooded 500 square miles of prime wildlife habitat. Marlin, Jim and Stan help capture these stranded animals.

In this second part, Marlin, Jim and Stan continue their work of testing animal capture systems as part of a follow-up team checking islands for animals that may have escaped the initial rescue teams.

Set in the scenic country of the American west, this story follows two badger cubs from their birth in a prairie den.

A forest fire raging out of control greets Marlin and Stan as they fly with the Forest Services smoke jumpers in western Montana. They study the behavior of wildlife fleeing the inferno.

After days of steady winds, the wildfire has spread. Now Marlin and Stan trade their passive role of observation and attempt to save threatened animals.

A porpoise captured and taken to Sea Life Park near Honolulu, Hawaii was trained in the hope that it would be a valuable partner in an undersea experiment, carrying equipment and messages between the surface and the deep-sea chamber.

Marlin and Stan are in Botswana in southern Africa catching wild cheetahs as part of a conservation project conducted by the University of Pretoria and the National Parks System of South Africa.

Two of the big cats captured in Part I are transported to a compound near Kruger and fitted with identification collars and radio transmitters to aid in studying their movements and habits.

Marlin and Stan help capture and relocate a jaguar that threatens livestock.

Marlin and Stan have captured wild animals in just about every way possible but perhaps the most unusual capture of all takes place in the deep snow of the far north, in pursuit of caribou.

At a bayou in the northern part of Florida, a young bobcat awakens after sunrise and emerges from his den to begin his hunt.

Marlin and Stan challenges the buffalo, "M'Bogo" as the natives call him, as they take part in an unusual research project.

In the eucalyptus trees of Australia, the wooly and lovable koala bear spends his entire life totally dependent on it.

We follow several cougar yearlings striving to survive the harsh winter in the mountains and escaping the principle predators of this high country.

This film shows the Indian elephant at work in the teak forests, moving heavy logs more efficiently and with less ecological damage than any machine.

Faint trails lead from the parched, forbidding Sonora Desert, to a small spot of moisture, a seep where underground water comes to the surface in tiny quantities.

In this show we will see the capture and translocation of one Bengal tiger whose hunting territory has been so reduced by the encroachment of agriculture that he has become a threat to the cattle herds.

A pair of foxes establish their home in particular forest and the filming follows the inter-relationship of this family with all the other creatures of their woody domain.

Marlin and Tom Allen continue intensive studies with Canadian experts both on the surface and under frigid waters of the adult seals as they swim along massive walls of blue green ice.

Marlin and Tom Allen join scientists doing shark research in an undersea laboratory in the Bahamian waters.

The cheetah, leopard and lion, ever watchful of each other, are forced to share the same water hole during the dry season in Africa.

We watch the exciting Australian gray kangaroo in the lofty eucalyptus forest along with the giant emus, smaller fowl, dingo, lizards and pythons all strange neighbors.

Marlin and Tom Allen join an Australian curator on an expedition to capture the most venomous snake in the world at night beneath the Great Barrier Reef.

This hammock of the Florida Everglades is a small island of dry ground surrounded by boggy marshland which provides refuge and habitat for a multitude of wildlife including the otter which observes racoons, pumas and snakes.

The habits of the sea otter in water habitat of coastal waters from California to Alaska are observed.

Divers using special underwater propulsion devices move the search of the seldom seen angel shark with Marlin operating from a Marineland laboratory ship over head and using a box-cage resting on the ocean floor.

Marlin and crew show you the wide variety of interesting animal life living on the Galapagos Islands lying 600 miles west of the coast of Ecuador.

Marlin continues exploration by going underwater around the Galapagos observing the sea lions, crabs, marine iguanas, some shark and octopus specimens.

Marlin and scientist companion travel to Canada's Melville Island in the Artic Ocean to study musk oxen and Perry caribou by using helicopters and small planes to penetrate deep into the Canadian mainland.

Filmed in the western United States, this species story is told without humans, of the coyote, its habits and life history.

The government of India invited Marlin and a fellow ornithologist to explore the bird habitat of the forest of Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

On locale in the Peruvian Andes near an altitude of 14,000 feet Marlin and fellow scientists seek and study the endangered vicuna.

A troop of the coati-mundi living in the mountains adjacent to the Sonora Desert of Arizona are under observation and narration from our guide as we follow this captivating show.

Marlin and crew journey into the Caribbean near the Virgin Islands to study the endangered humpback whale.

The second part of the humpback whale story takes place near the Silver Navida Banks where the whales come to bear the young and the herds are tracked by helicopter. Marlin is underwater in much of this action.

From the Natal National Parks of South Africa, Marlin participates in relocating large animals.

Captured in Canada and released in the Nicolet Forest of Wisconsin, the marten are observed and studied to insure their survival.

Marlin visits a small mountain island in the middle of Flathead Lake in southern Montana ... the home of a large herd of bighorn sheep.

An ecological study of a mountain valley in Canada shows the dramatic story of the inter-relationship of the animals in their natural habitat.

Marlin observes the study in operation during both winter and summer to learn what happens to elk of the Montana Rockies when forests are cut and logging roads built through their habitat.

Eskimos capture huge wild musk oxen and transfer them to Wrangel Island, USSR.

Marlin has been invited by the Tanzanian government to observe the baboons in the National Parks of Ruaha and Mikumi in southeast Africa.

Along the Snake River in southwestern Idaho is the world's largest concentration of golden eagles and Prairie falcons. Marlin participates in the research and observations.

Again Marlin participates in the study of the golden eagle as it nests in the canyon cliffs and hunts for food in the plateaus.

Marlin and Dick Denney observe the wildlife along the shores of Argentina's Patagonia.

The U.S. Forest Service in Alaska and Dick Denney attempt to discover if the dusky Canada goose might be in jeopardy because of an earthquake, which occurred over a decade ago.

Filmed in the Canadian Rockies this is a species story dealing with a day in the life of a Canada lynx.

Dick Denney and Dr. Bruning of the New York Zoological Society, "walk across the Pampas" and observe some of Argentina's most interesting bird life.

The beautiful cheetah is still being killed illegally for its highly prized coat and on the verge of extinction. Marlin Perkins joins in a search for a radio-telemetry-collared male to aid in preserving these animals and their habitat.

Marlin joins a scientific team in the remote Elburz Mountain region of northern Iran to study the habitat of the elusive Iranian ibex.

Marlin observes the cranes during the spring migration on one small area of the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska.

Wild Kingdom attempts to determine the habitat needs of the polar bear in an area where development of oil and natural gas resources may interfere with his natural habitat.

Marlin joins a biologist on a boat moving up the coastal rivers of northern Australia to observe the saltwater crocodiles, which live there.

Marlin joins Dr. Ted Bank, II, in an underwater adventure searching the ancient undersea beaches of the Bering Sea land bridges of prehistoric times looking for evidence of the past habitation of man.

Moose are extinct in Colorado. This show takes place in the mountains of Utah airlifting moose out of the mountains transporting them to Colorado.

Marlin joins Dr. Nelson to attempt to determine what causes sharks to attack.

This is a species story in which human beings are not involved. It is of a young bobcat facing his first winter on his own having been ousted by his mother.

A special wildlife report on outstanding conservation research being done by three women in the wild kingdom.

Marlin documents this special research project done by Harriet Huber monitoring the drama of the territorial fights of the stellar sea lion bulls during the breeding season taking place on an island in the Pacific.

Perhaps the only way to save certain endangered animals from extinction is through the use of zoos and wild animal parks. This question is examined in this episode.

Marlin travels to Africa, Galana Ranch, to observe the roundup of wild herd animals: eland, oryx, buffalo.

Marlin helps dart Bighorn Sheep from a helicopter along the Colorado River in the effort to transfer the sheep to the Henry Mountains on the other side of the river to increase their population.

Only once in 10 years does America's southwest Sonora Desert bloom spectacularly. The desert bursts into radiant color and the animals that live there do things they do at no other time. This episode features the animals of the desert when it's a carpet of flowers.

Perkins takes part in a research project in Newfoundland engaged in placing radio telemetry collars on the large male Woodland Caribou for observation purposes.

Marlin Perkins travels for the first time to Sri Lanka to study the behavior of rare and unusual monkeys

Marlin introduces Phyllis Lee who has been researching the behavior of one of the primates of Kenya, the Vervet monkey.

Perkins joins officials of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Wyoming where research is being done on what effect exploitation of mining resources might have on the wildlife.

Tells the story of a pride of lions living in one of the limited areas of permanent water on the Mara Plains of Kenya, east Africa.

Seven years later, Marlin returns to the Galapagos Islands in order to reflect on what changes, if any, have occurred. Is wildlife increasing, remaining constant or declining.

The conclusion to Marlin's return to the Galapagos Islands in order to reflect on what changes, if any, have occurred. Is wildlife increasing, remaining constant or declining.

Setting takes place in the western providence of Papua New Guinea at Lake Murray where research takes place of the salt and fresh water crocodiles.

This research project by the U.S. Army is centered around Fort Carson, Colorado. Bobcats are captured through the use of dogs and horse and then fitted with radio collars.

Setting takes place in the African country of Zambia and shows how Oxbow Lagoons are formed by the meanderings of the Luangwa River covering three different times of the year.

This episode will film the adventures of puma kittens from their birth in the Uinta Mountains of Utah until they are weaned from their mother.

In "Valley of the Beavers, Part I," the journey begins in the mesmerizing landscapes of North America, where the intricate lives of beavers and their ecosystems are the focus of exploration. This episode delves deeper into the complexities of the beaver's habitat, showcasing the remarkable engineering skills of these industrious rodents as they construct dams and lodges that significantly impact their surroundings.

In "Valley of the Beavers, Part II," the journey continues in the mesmerizing landscapes of North America, where the intricate lives of beavers and their ecosystems are the focus of exploration. This episode delves deeper into the complexities of the beaver's habitat, showcasing the remarkable engineering skills of these industrious rodents as they construct dams and lodges that significantly impact their surroundings.

When the Guri Dam was built on the Caroni River in the wilderness of eastern Venezuela, it created a huge lake that flooded 500 square miles of prime wildlife habitat. Marlin Perkins, Jim Fowler and Stan Brock help capture these stranded animals.

Filmed in Canada in spring when the majestic moose of Saskatchewan are calving. Jim Fowler joins the Canadian conservation officers in a research project in an attempt to learn why in recent years the mortality rate of moose calves is so high.

Two young women are doing research work in Africa, one studying the sable antelope and the other studying the vervet monkeys in Kenya.

Each year the squid return to an area in the Pacific Ocean off California coast to mate and deposit their eggs. This attracts sharks, which come to feed on the mating squid. Two scientists study the behavior of the sharks by capturing an angel shark and taken to the research vessel where its stomach will be pumped to learn what percent of its diet is comprised of squid.

In his first visit to Ethiopia, Marlin Perkins explores the "World of the Bleeding Heart Baboon." The Gelada gets its nickname from its red chest.

Helicopters take Marlin and a capture team into one of the most inaccessible areas of Canada, the Cumberland Delta in Saskatchewan where a moose is darted from one of the choppers; a radio telemetry collar is attached to its neck.

Jim Fowler joins in the airlifting of the overly abundant red deer by helicopter out of an area so dense that choppers can't land. A dart-gun is used which tranquilize and at the same time attaches a tiny radio telemetry transmitter to the animal for tracking purposes. The deer is placed in a canvas bag and lifted to a large boat in a fjord nearby.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spring comes to a marsh at the base of a majestic mountain range in Utah and the beautiful eco-system comes to life.

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.

Fowler joins Brian Thring, an African game catcher, to engage in a roundup of wildebeest and blesbok in Zululand. Because the animals have been chased by helicopters, they are extremely wary, consequently motorcycles and a two-wheel rough-terrain vehicle is used.

Dr. Dian Fossey, spent 14 years in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda Studying the huge primates where after a number of years she was accepted by one of the gorilla family groups and treated as a member. After an absence of 3 years, she returns to visit her beloved gorillas to find out if they still remember and accept her.

Tom Allen, Bob Johnson and Dr. Samuel Gruber go on an expedition to further man's knowledge of the greatest predator in the sea -- the shark! The lemon and tiger sharks are the objects of interest that are captured and handled in this episode.

Fowler and Perkins reminisce about 23 years of traveling the world-participating in many exciting and dangerous projects.

The extreme drought in this part of Africa forces the surviving animals north to areas where there is still water in pools along the Zambezi River. The lions are not welcome by the resident lions that are protective of their territories. These migrating lions must be caught and relocated so as not to hunt for domestic livestock. Fowler and companions use a cannon net and net gun to capture the lions.

A story about a large cougar, bobcat and coyote who have claimed a beautiful marsh, at the base of a mountain range in the northwestern part of the U.S., for their territory.

Jim Fowler joins Dr. Steve Amstrup to observe the impact on polar bears on the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska by the recent exploration of oil in that area.

Jim Fowler and Peter Gros enter the bayous of Louisiana in the dark of night to capture alligators using a spotlight and their loop nooses to subdue the huge reptiles, some of which measure up to 15-feet long. These dangerous alligator captures are made so the animals can be translocated to the bayous of Arkansas where hunting and poaching have all but eliminated the ancient reptile.

Toward the end of autumn, in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, a pair of two-year-old black bears are in their final activities prior to entering hibernation for the winter. The show is about the exploring, playing with and encounters with other animals of their habitat.

Tom Allen joins marine scientist Julia Whitty to study a school of wild spotted dolphins in the tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the west end of the Grand Bahama Island.

In a delightful species story, a young lynx who has been moving through the Canadian Rockies, is looking for a territory to claim as its own. He roams peaks and valleys and finally locates a high valley in the mountains that has a multitude of rabbits -- his favorite prey. This is a wonderful scenic and active show.

Tom Allen and Jeremiah Sullivan go in search of great white sharks 300 miles off Baja Ca near the island of Guadalupe. They also conduct two research experiments. The first attempts to determine if sharks are more attracted to light or dark colors. The second in a "food preference" test. Sharks are offered the flesh of ocean fish as well as red mammal meat to see which is preferred.

Southern coastal areas of Australia is the setting for the expedition as field report Tom Allen joins researchers in a close-up story of the most perfect predator in the world, the great white shark. They observe attack and feeding techniques from a small protective cage beneath the surface. Attracted to bait placed beside the cage, some of the sharks are tagged with radio telemetry devices as they pass closely.

Species story that takes place at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Reserve in Montana where the spring awakening of a great marshland is seen as the migrating species return to establish their territories, build their nests and raise their families. Canada geese have learned a unique method of protecting their nests, eggs and young from predators by building their nests atop nests built during previous seasons by ospreys in dead trees.

Jim Fowler travels to the magnificent north woods of Main to hear the plaintive "Call of the Loon", but Mr. LaRouche refuses to return his calls.

Jim Fowler journeys to Alaska to closely observe the studies being conducted in an effort to preserve and protect the Alaskan moose population.

Jim Fowler and Peter Gros are in the north central part of Namibia, where lions have been making nighttime raids on cattle farms. They along with Jan Oelofse, will capture and relocate the problem lions to a place where they can still roam and hunt as nature meant them to, without disturbing man. If this is not done, the lions will have to be destroyed.

Jim Fowler and Dr. Bart O'Gara try to reestablish mountain goats in an area of the rattlesnake where they once thrived but now no longer exist.

Near Barrow, Alaska, Jim Fowler and Peter Gros journey out onto the ice pack via helicopter and snowmobiles to observe two different research projects in progress at Point Barrow. The study includes research being done on the ringed seals and the polar bears who depend upon these seals as their prey.

In the desert outback of Australia, Jim Fowler joins University of New South Wales wildlife biologist Dr. Terrence Dawson on a sheep ranch near the remote town of Broken Hill where a research project is being carried on to determine what degree of competition exists between the kangaroos and domestic sheep being introduced to the area.

Jim Fowler and Peter Gros journey together to the wilds of Manitoba along the northwest shore of Hudson Bay to observe the steps being taken by authorities to reduce a hazard posed by polar bears which annually congregate in the area of Cape Churchill as they wait for the great bay to freeze so they can go out on the ice to hunt seals.

Jim Fowler travels to Nepal to participate in the capture and research work being done to bring the magnificent Royal Bengal Tiger back from the brink of extinction. Join Jim and a research team as they try to find ways to keep villagers from killing these great cats, which often raid their cattle and sometimes kill people.

Jim Fowler on location in one of India's extensive tiger sanctuaries. Following the activities of a large female tiger and her two large two-year-old cubs.

Tom Allen and Peter Gros have traveled to the waters of Dangerous Reef off the southern coast of Australia, to observe the attack behavior of the Great White Shark, with researcher Jeremiah Sullivan, to test a new armored diving suit. Tom and Peter first dive in the shallows and swim free as they watch the prey of the sharks, Australian seals and sea lions. A shark comes toward them, and they take refuge in the shark cage, which is furiously attacked. Later, testing a small mobile shark cage, Tom is attacked by an enormous Great White Shark, who severs his air line, power hose and tether to the mother ship, and Tom barely escapes with his life. Finally, the armored suit, designed by Jeremiah, is tested on a dummy that has been filled with fish bait. A shark comes and attacks the cage savagely, then goes after the dummy. An inspection of the dummy afterwards shows that the armored suit did in fact provide important protection.