S1 • E1
This pilot shows a day in the life of George and Joy Adamson. They are working in Kenya to help local wardens protect the wildlife. When the poaching activities increase George suspects a long-time friend of aiding the criminal enterprise.
S1 • E2
Local villagers lodge a complaint about Elsa the lioness. The Adamson's are asked by government officials to relocate Elsa to prevent further trouble.
S1 • E3
Free spirited Terri Hill has to survive in the bush after crashing her light aircraft.
S1 • E4
Ex-hunter Archie Gordon plans to make amends for his past by tackling some modern day ivory poachers.
S1 • E5
A friend of the Adamsons allows his granddaughter to stay with them for a while. Will bush country make an impression on young Regan?
S1 • E6
A Masai warrior decides to prove his manhood by hunting a large lion. Big game hunter (Glenn Corbett) has the same idea.
S1 • E7
Dr. Claire Hanley sets out on her first village tour with the East African Flying Doctor Service. She will need to learn to be adaptable to both local customs and demanding field conditions. Joy is on hand to offer advice. Elsa is in a rather mischievous mood.
S1 • E8
After several years of absence, a tribe of Masai nomads is back. Some time after their coming, Paul Morgan, the vet, finds that their cattle has been contaminated by rinderpest. He accordingly asks the Masais the right to examine the animals but, despite Joy and George Adamson's intervention, Olotuno, the tribe's chief formally opposes the idea...
S1 • E9
Two killer lions have claimed several lives. George begins a coordinated search using both villagers and game wardens. These particular lions are unusually cunning however.
S1 • E10
Regan clings to Joy when her estranged mother turns up in Kenya unexpectedly to meet her. Elsa becomes a temporary surrogate parent to some lion cubs.
S1 • E11
Rob Mallory is shocked when the government adds his land to a requisition list. Fearing for the farm he had planned to leave to granddaughter Regan, he agrees a contract with a zoo trapper to raise funds.
S1 • E12
Constant cross border raids in the north of the territory risk spreading disease among the villagers cattle. Young Jama becomes an orphan when his father is killed during a skirmish but shows courage as events unfold.
S1 • E13
The Adamsons hunt a killer leopard while tribesmen are being encouraged by an anthropologist to return to their old illegal ways.
George Adamson
Joy Adamson
Joe Kanini
Nuru
Awaru
Regan Mallory
Rob Mallory
Friend
First Herdsman
Ken Warren