The Crocodile Hunter Diaries

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The Crocodile Hunter Diaries
Created bySteve Irwin
Starring Steve Irwin
Terri Irwin
Country of originAustralia
United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes96
Production
Running time4548 minutes
Original release
Network Animal Planet
Release2 January 2002 (2002-01-02) 
19 January 2006 (2006-01-19)
Related
The Crocodile Hunter
Croc Files

The Crocodile Hunter Diaries is a wildlife documentary television series first aired on cable TV channel Animal Planet. It was created as a spin-off to the original The Crocodile Hunter series hosted by Australian naturalist Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin. [1] In the UK it was aired on ITV. In Australia it was aired on Network Ten.

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The show is more focused around the everyday lives of Steve, Terri, and the employees of Australia Zoo. The first season (filmed in 1998 and aired in 2002) covered, among other things, Terri's pregnancy with her and Steve's first child Bindi, medical problems with Steve's dog Sui, the construction of the Crocoseum, daily ups and downs experienced by zoo staff on the job and animal rescue adventures.

Episodes

Season 1 (2002)

This season was shot in 1998.

No. in seriesTitleOriginal air date
1"Pilot"2 January 2002
2"Wild About Harry"7 February 2002
3"What's the Buzz?"14 February 2002
4"Steve's Birthday"27 February 2002
5"Operation Sui"6 March 2002
6"Kelly's Big Day"13 March 2002
7"It's a Girl"29 May 2002
8"Mates"5 June 2002
9"Pelican Wars"24 June 2002
10"Gator Raid"25 June 2002
11"The Big Wet"26 June 2002
12"Day of the Devils"3 July 2002
13"Mary's Farewell"10 July 2002

Season 2 (2003)

This season was shot between 2001 and 2003.

No. in seriesNo. in seasonTitleOriginal air date
141"Tracie's Shadow"6 January 2003
152"Bundle of Ivory"7 January 2003
163"Ivory Returns"8 January 2003
174"Baby Bindi"13 January 2003
185"Road to Recovery"14 January 2003
196"Pink Gloves"15 January 2003
207"Concrete and Crocodiles"16 January 2003
218"Acco's Cool"20 January 2003
229"Zoo Babies"20 January 2003
2310"A Jellybean for Jody"27 January 2003
2411"Zoo Mates"19 February 2003
2512"Dancing with the Devils"9 April 2003
2613"Surgical Marvels"16 April 2003
2714"Mateship"30 April 2003
2815"Wombats, Kangaroos, & Koalas"7 May 2003
2916"Grumpy Gators"14 May 2003
3017"Aliens in the Outback"21 May 2003
3118"Breaking the Record"28 May 2003
3219"Growing Pains"2 June 2003
3320"Under Pressure"3 June 2003
3421"Steve's Dream"4 June 2003
3522"Working with Legends"5 June 2003
3623"A Plethora of Pythons"6 June 2003
3724"Croc Hunter LIVE!"9 June 2003
3825"Reticulated Babies"9 June 2003
3926"Emu Escape"10 June 2003
4027"Risky Rescues"11 June 2003
4128"Tazzie Devil Tango"12 June 2003
4229"The Devil You Know"13 June 2003
4330"Vet Check"16 June 2003
4431"Sore Like an Eagle"17 June 2003
4532"Pressure Point"June 18, 2003
4633"Wildlife Inferno"18 June 2003
4734"Ironbark Burning"19 June 2003
4835"My Best Friends"20 June 2003
4936"My Girls"23 June 2003
5037"Teamwork"24 June 2003
5138"Marsupial Mayhem"25 June 2003
5239"Gators in Love"26 June 2003
5340"Gators on Guard"27 June 2003
5441"Camel Crisis"30 June 2003
5542"Foxy Lady"1 July 2003
5643"Crowded House"2 July 2003
5744"Off the Record"3 July 2003
5845"Building a Dream"4 July 2003
5946"Battle of the Pythons"9 July 2003
6047"To the Rescue"16 July 2003
6148"Something's Burning"30 July 2003
6249"Wombat Woes"19 August 2003
6350"Koala Mates"15 September 2003
6451"At Loggerheads"22 September 2003
6552"Win One, Lose One"22 December 2003
6653"Croc Xmas"22 December 2003

Season 3 (2004−06)

This season was shot between 2003 and 2004.

No. in seriesNo. in seasonTitleOriginal air date
671"Emu Rescue"19 January 2004
682"Croc Live"6 February 2004
693"A New Zoo"3 March 2004
704"British Gorillas"10 March 2004
715"Backstage Bedlam"17 March 2004
726"South Pacific Croc Rescue"24 March 2004
737"Raiders of the Nest"30 March 2004
748"Celebrities and Practical Jokes"30 March 2004
759"Future Footprints"7 April 2004
7610"Wild Boys, Wild Crocs"21 April 2004
7711"Girls Can Catch Crocs Too"28 April 2004
7812"Croc School for Bindi"5 May 2004
7913"Matters of Life and Death"12 May 2004
8014"Steve's Singapore Safari"19 May 2004
8115"Days of Disaster"9 June 2004
8216"Crocoseum"30 June 2004
8317"Living Dangerously"14 July 2004
8418"Snake Wars"4 September 2004
8519"Plight of the Pelicans"4 September 2004
8620"Emergency Rescue"11 September 2004
8721"Spring"11 September 2004
8822"Two Socks"18 September 2004
8923"Floodwaters Rising"18 September 2004
9024"Mary"25 September 2004
9125"Las Invasores del Nido"25 September 2004
9226"Action Stations"17 October 2004
9327"Celebrities and Practical Jokes #2"28 November 2004
9428"Final Entry"26 December 2004
9529"Steve's Worst Moments"7 September 2005
9630"Wild Crocs"19 January 2006

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References

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