Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

October 9, 1983

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.

October 30, 1983

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.

November 20, 1983

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.

December 11, 1983

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.

December 25, 1983

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

January 8, 1984

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.

January 22, 1984

Setting takes place in Namibia, in Africa near a huge shallow waterhole where wildlife come to drink and also predators will come to prey.

February 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.

March 11, 1984

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.

March 18, 1984

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.

April 1, 1984

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.