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Season 1

  • SPECIAL 0x99 Pilot

    • March 28, 2009
    • BBC One

    The comedy talents of Jason Manford and friends combine with natural history footage.

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • August 15, 2009
    • BBC One

    Meet the Not-Very-Scary-Shark Choir, maverick eagle cop Jack Hawk, and a marmot named Alan

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • August 22, 2009
    • BBC One

    Meerkat Sir Alan looks for an apprentice, some lizard punks spend the Bank Holiday reliving their youth, and a Geordie anteater guides us through the complex world of ant cuisine. Jason Manford and friends are joined by special guest and national treasure, Rolf Harris, playing a koala in this half-hour teatime talking animal hoedown.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • August 29, 2009
    • BBC One

    Jason Manford, Rhod Gilbert, Isy Suttie et al are joined by natural treasure Barbara Windsor as the natural world talks rhubarb. Meet Lonesome George, a belligerent tortoise with a Jamie Oliver-shaped axe to grind, drop in on Sebastian the chimp's therapy session, and catch up with the 18th live semi-final of Penguin's Got Talent.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • September 5, 2009
    • BBC One

    Richard E Grant is an angry camel. Fact. An owl with indigestion, a down-on-his-luck Ninja Turtle and a community of puffins preparing for Mexican Night are among the animal folk in this 30-minute talking beast barn dance. Jason Manford, Isy Suttie, Sarah Millican, Steve Edge, Jon Richardson, Harriet Carmichael, Gavin Webster, Pal Aran, Rhod Gilbert and Harry Peacock are the vessels through which they talk.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • September 12, 2009
    • BBC One

    Jason Manford and the regular cast are joined by living legend Sir Tom Jones - he's a penguin with a plan, boyo. Also featuring some Bird Builders From Hell, and the first slice of Wildlife On Mars, in which Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt are resurrected as monkey cops.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • September 19, 2009
    • BBC One

    A small exotic bird called Kevin performs a moving tribute to Michael Jackson, some wolves are cheating at Bingo, and the credit crunch hits Santa's team of reindeer as new boy Ken is made redundant. With special guest species Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Episode 1

    • September 18, 2010
    • BBC One

    Tensions run high in the natural world as a young lion cub called Malcolm is lost at Giraffestonbury. There is tragedy for Candi as she attempts to become America's Next Top Bison, and the programme meets a Scouse dolphin with serious 'wind issues'.

  • S02E02 Episode 2

    • September 25, 2010
    • BBC One

    A vulture tries out a saucy joke; two Geordie chimps have a close encounter with aliens; An evil cloned giraffe threatens to "kiss your mum".

  • S02E03 Episode 3

    • October 2, 2010
    • BBC One

    Alistair and Arnold the very British airmen; Sid the monkey's conscience plays a joke on him; Keith the dolphin farts through his blowhole

  • S02E04 Episode 4

    • October 9, 2010
    • BBC One

    Two parent petrels fake giving their son a fish; showering beavers conversation is derailed by their mate obsessed with his wife's affair; camel Queen awards a knighthood; a heron repeatedly pretends it's nighttime then daytime; Monkey Mastermind

  • S02E05 Episode 5

    • October 16, 2010
    • BBC One

    Chester MacArthur's Guide To Wood-whittling; Finbar Finnegan's Fancy Feet; a hyena Police chase

  • S02E06 Episode 6

    • October 30, 2010
    • BBC One

    A chimp who can't remember if he left the front door unlocked; opera-singing storks; squirrel Henry Edwardson's memoirs of being a jobbing actor

  • S02E07 Episode 7

    • November 6, 2010
    • BBC One

    Midsafari Murders; Animal Casualty; a bear after his stag night

Season 3

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Best in Show 1

    • October 13, 2012
    • BBC One

    Colin the Emu shows off his clumsy seduction techniques, and Meerkat Sir Alan is stressed.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Best in Show 2

    • March 3, 2013
    • BBC One

    A compilation of the best moments from the first two series of the comedy animal show.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Best in Show 3

    • April 7, 2013
    • BBC One

    Highlights from the first two series of the talking animal comedy.