Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom: Season 22

Air Date

October 9, 1983

Episodes

11 episodes

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Season 22

Overview

Season 22 of Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

Episodes

1. To Collar a Swimming Moose

October 9, 1983
24 min

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.

2. The African Game Catcher

October 30, 1983
24 min

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.

3. Operation Bighorn

November 20, 1983
24 min

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.

4. Exploring the Undersea Mountain

December 11, 1983
24 min

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.

5. Marsh Spring

December 25, 1983
24 min

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

6. Elk Drive

January 8, 1984
24 min

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.

7. Water Holes of Etosha

January 22, 1984
24 min

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

8. Saving a Priceless Resource

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.

9. Exploring Dark Waters

March 11, 1984
24 min

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.

10. Sunken Ships and Sharks

March 18, 1984
24 min

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.

11. Wildlife Ranching at Okonyati

April 1, 1984
24 min

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.