• 4
    watchers
  • 110
    plays
  • 15
    collected

Outback Adventures With Tim Faulkner

Season 2 2016 - 2017
TV-G

  • 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 25m
  • 10h 50m (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • Family, Special Interest
This is a live action, half-hour television program designed to meet the educational and informational needs of children. Produced for ages 13-16, this educational and informational program is hosted by wildlife expert Tim Faulkner. Viewers will be provided an eye-opening experience as Tim, animal expert and wildlife park operations manager, showcases the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Audiences will be brought closer to the natural world as Tim explores the habitats and adventures of creatures of all sizes, including a giant Galapagos tortoise, a baby wombat, the flying fox, and even a newly discovered species of birds

26 episodes

Season Premiere

2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

2x01 The Koalas of Kangaroo Island

Season Premiere

2x01 The Koalas of Kangaroo Island

  • 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z25m

Tim travels to Kangaroo Island to explore how koala populations are being protected. Back at the Reptile Park, Tim encounters a blue-tongue lizard with a bizarre physical abnormality.

2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

2x02 The Endangered Numbat

2x02 The Endangered Numbat

  • 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z25m

Tim travels to the Dryandra Woodland in Western Australia to find out what is being done to save the endangered numbat population. Along the way, he encounters a Mitchell’s short-tailed snake and meets some baby woylies.

2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

2x03 Billy the KId

2x03 Billy the KId

  • 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z25m

Tim makes the rounds at the Reptile Park with his oldest son, Billy, where they interact with kangaroos, crocodiles, pythons, dingos, and parrots.

2x04 The Critters of Western Australia

  • 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z25m

Tim visits Rottnest Island where he finds quokkas, king skinks and Australian fur seals. On the mainland, he visits the Western Australian Conservation Center, which is home to endangered woylies.

2x05 The Mystique of Cape Leveque

  • 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z25m

Tim travels to Cape Leveque in Western Australia to visit his friend Brian Lee where he discovers new uses for seashells, finds exotic creatures and learns a little aboriginal history.

2x06 Rock Pools and Curlew Chicks

  • 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z25m

Tim details the most dangerous jobs around the reptile park, including cleaning the alligator lagoon, entering the cassowaries enclosure and milking a king brown snake.

2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

2x07 Wrangling Wild Wombats

2x07 Wrangling Wild Wombats

  • 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z25m

Tim journeys to South Australia to help with conservation of the southern hairy nosed wombat. Along the way he finds an Australian owlet-nightjar and travels back to the Park for the historic hatching of rare dwarf king brown snake eggs.

2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

2x08 Return to Kangaroo Island

2x08 Return to Kangaroo Island

  • 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z25m

Tim returns to Kangaroo Island for new adventures with the mysterious echidna, a colony of sea lions, and a mob of the hopping marsupials for which the island is named.

2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

2x09 Frogs of the Gold Coast

2x09 Frogs of the Gold Coast

  • 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z25m

Tim journeys to southern Queensland to learn more about frog conservation efforts and to search for some of the region’s endangered amphibians in the Gold Coast Hinterland.

2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

2x10 Pups and Joeys

2x10 Pups and Joeys

  • 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z25m

Tim provides care to two kangaroo joey orphans and brings them home to meet the family, and he checks in on some new dingo pups recently born at the Reptile Park.

2x11 The Journey of the Loggerhead

  • 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z25m

Tim travels north to Queensland to witness loggerhead sea turtles laying eggs and their hatchlings making their first journey into the ocean. In Western Australia, Tim helps remove a king brown snake from a resident’s shed.

2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

2x12 A Clean Bilby of Health

2x12 A Clean Bilby of Health

  • 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z25m

Tim welcomes two bilby babies and gives them a check-up, and travels to Watagans National Park to help capture deadly funnel-web spiders for the Reptile Park venom program.

Tim travels to the Dampier Peninsula in Western Australia where he finds a variety of lizards and snakes; closer to home, he visits Hunter Valley Zoo to assist with antelope grooming.

2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

2x14 Emus to Amuse

2x14 Emus to Amuse

  • 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z25m

On this week’s Outback Adventures, mischievous emus at the Reptile Park must be caught and relocated, and troublesome alligators must be tagged for identification.

2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

2x15 Swimming with Sharks

2x15 Swimming with Sharks

  • 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z25m

Tim goes on a shark adventure and climbs in the water and also visits a bird sanctuary on Kangaroo Island to get up close to a Wedge Tailed Eagle.

2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

2x16 A Globe of Frogs

2x16 A Globe of Frogs

  • 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z25m

Tim explores the frogs of Watagans National Park, researches the red-backed toadlet and discovers the unique features of Fraser Island.

2x17 Diamond Pythons and Pygmy Lizards

  • 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z25m

On today’s Outback Adventures, Tim rescues a diamond python from a family’s drainpipe and travels to South Australia to look for the pygmy bluetongue skink, a rare lizard long believed to be extinct.

2x18 The Richness of Roebuck Bay

  • 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z25m

Tim travels to Western Australia and uncovers the mysteries of Roebuck Bay, from curious creatures hidden in the mud to the thousands of migrating birds to a newly discovered dolphin species.

2x19 The Wonders of Wilpena Pound

  • 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z25m

On this week’s Outback Adventures, Tim travels to Wilpena Pound in South Australia to check on conservation efforts on behalf of two endangered marsupials, the quoll and the yellow-footed rock wallaby.

2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

2x20 The Road to Windjana

2x20 The Road to Windjana

  • 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z25m

Today on Outback Adventures, Tim searches for tiger snakes on Kangaroo Island, travels to Western Australia to find freshwater crocodiles and journeys to the legendary Windjana Gorge.

2x21 Myths from a Land Down Under

  • 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z25m

This week, Tim explores a variety of myths about Australian wildlife and assists with a massive saltwater crocodile named Bluey in Western Australia.

2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

2x22 Tim and the Tazzies

2x22 Tim and the Tazzies

  • 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z25m

On this week’s Outback Adventures, Tim investigates remarkable research to help save the Tasmanian devil and delves into the fascinating world of venomous snakes.

2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

2x23 Be Wary of he Cassowary

2x23 Be Wary of he Cassowary

  • 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z25m

On today’s Outback Adventures, Tim plays cassowary matchmaker, helps catch an antagonistic antelope and welcomes dwarf king snake babies to the Reptile Park.

2x24 The Marsupials of Dryandra

  • 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z25m

On today’s Outback Adventures, Tim travels to the Dryandra Woodlands in Western Australia to go in search of endangered numbats and woylies.

2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

2x25 Capturing Clever Koalas

2x25 Capturing Clever Koalas

  • 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z25m

This week on Outback Adventures, Tim travels to Kangaroo Island to learn about conservation of the koala population. In Western Australia, Tim helps assists in the removal of a king brown snake from a resident’s shed.

2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

2x26 South Australian Stories

2x26 South Australian Stories

  • 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z25m

Tim journeys to South Australia for adventures with the southern hairy nosed wombat and a colony of sea lions.

Loading...