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Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Season 12 1973 - 1974
TV-G

  • 1973-09-16T04:00:00Z on Animal Planet
  • 25m
  • 5h (12 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Family
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.

12 episodes

Season Premiere

1973-09-16T04:00:00Z

12x01 World of the Sea Otter

Season Premiere

12x01 World of the Sea Otter

  • 1973-09-16T04:00:00Z25m

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

12x02 Search for the Angel Shark

  • 1973-10-07T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1973-12-30T05:00:00Z

12x06 Coyote Country

12x06 Coyote Country

  • 1973-12-30T05:00:00Z25m

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

12x07 Swans of Red Rock Lake, Part I

  • 1974-01-27T04:00:00Z25m

Filmed on location at Red Rock Lakes in Montana, this first program depicts beautiful trumpeter swans wintering on the lake and the observance and study of wintering animals on the shore including elk, moose, and coyotes.

This is the conclusion of the story of efforts being made to save the almost extinct trumpeter swans in Montana by stepping up winter feeding and capturing and banding while the birds are in molt and unable to fly.

12x09 World of the Black Maned Lion

  • 1974-02-17T04:00:00Z25m

Marlin Perkins travels to Rhodesia, Africa to make a behavioral study of the black-maned lion

1974-02-24T04:00:00Z

12x10 Operation Quick Find

12x10 Operation Quick Find

  • 1974-02-24T04:00:00Z25m

Marlin joins U.S. scientists in witnessing the training of sea lions, pilot whales and killer whales in doing emergency location work at great depths in the sea.

1974-03-10T04:00:00Z

12x11 Eagle Island

12x11 Eagle Island

  • 1974-03-10T04:00:00Z25m

Marlin's crew treks to beautiful Okavango Swamp in Botswana, Africa to observe the graceful superb black and white fish eagles which reside there -- their habits and habitat.

1974-03-24T04:00:00Z

12x12 Chase of the Onager

12x12 Chase of the Onager

  • 1974-03-24T04:00:00Z25m

This is an exciting story of the capture of rare Persian onagers -- the wild donkey of Iran with Marlin and his group using aircraft and land rovers in the chase.

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