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The first series of Meerkat Manor commenced airing on Animal Planet International in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2005, concluded October 24, 2005, and ran for thirteen episodes. With the success of the programme in the UK, Animal Planet began broadcasting Meerkat Manor on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the United States and it is now available in more than 160 other countries.[1] It aired in the United States from June 9, 2006 through August 25, 2006. Because each channel had different broadcasting schedules, the UK sequence of new episodes ended well before those in the US and Canada.
As the show is based in the United Kingdom, this article refers to seasons as series. In the case of changes made in the American broadcast, the title it aired under in the US will be listed below the original title, while meerkat name changes will be noted in the episode summary.
The series was released to Region 2 DVD in the United Kingom as a four disk box set on September 4, 2006.[2] A special edition box set containing series 1 and series 2 was released on November 12, 2007.[3] "An Introduction to Meerkat Manor: Series 1", containing the first three episodes of series one, was released December 3, 2007.[4]
In Region 1, which includes the United States and Canada, Animal Planet US began releasing the first series of Meerkat Manor through its online store on November 30, 2006. The sets was also available with an optional meerkat plushie.[5] This set featured Discovery's usual "burn-to-order" system, in which the discs are burned to DVD-R discs when someone places an order. As such, they were only available on Discovery's online store and through Amazon.com. On October 9, 2007, Discovery began releasing the series in regular DVD season sets, through distributor Genius Products. The new sets featured new cover, a thinpak box design, and contained the same number of episodes, but on only two discs.[6]
[edit] Crew
Meerkat Manor was created by Caroline Hawkins, executive producer and series editor at Oxford Scientific Films,[7] and commissioned for Animal Planet International by executive producer and commissioning editor Mark Wild[8]. The original programme is narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts.
[edit] Episodes
| # | Original Title (top) US Title (bottom) |
UK airdate | US airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | "A Family Affair" | September 12, 2005 | June 9, 2006 |
| Flower, the matriarch of the Whiskers meerkat group, brings her three-week old pups above ground for the first time. One of Flower's oldest daughters, Tosca is pregnant. While the Whiskers are out foraging, Flower's teenage pups, led by Kinkajou, grab Mitch and taken him from the babysitting burrow to play. When they get bored, they abandon Mitch in the desert, but he is found by his older brother Shakespeare who carries him home. Three days later, the Whiskers are out foraging when they come upon a puff adder in one of their bolt holes. During the futile battle to remove the snake, Shakespeare is bitten on his face and thigh face and, unable to keep up with the foraging group, must limp his way home alone. | |||
| 1.2 | "Love Thy Neighbour" "Love Thy Neighbor" |
September 12, 2005 | June 9, 2006 |
| Severely weakened Shakespeare is unable to go foraging, so his sister Mozart stays with him to keep him company and act as his protecter. Having given birth during the night, Tosca is emerges from the burrows late and joins the already foraging Whiskers. Though Tosca makes apologetic gestures and noises, Flower attacks her when she smells the pups on her. Carlos, a roving male from a rival group called the Lazuli, finds the Whiskers' burrow, causing the babysitters to get nervous. One goes and brings back Flower and Zaphod, who quickly chase off the roving male before returning to the foraging group. With the Whiskers to the border between their territories, members of the Lazuli appear and challenge the Whiskers. Though they quickly retreat after the Whiskers take up the challenge, the Lazuli return again with their full group. After a short fight, the Lazuli are forced to retreat again. As the sun sets, Carlos returns to the Whiskers burrow, meeting with Flower's young daughter Daisy and mates with her. | |||
| 1.3 | "Some Like It Hot" | September 19, 2005 | June 16, 2006 |
| Four days since he was bitten by a snake, Shakespeare is still partially paralyzed and starving from being unable to eat. His sisters Mozart and Tosca continue to watch over him as he goes to forage for food early in the morning. Shakespeare is temporarily separated from his sisters while he's out, but Tosca finds him and they are quickly reunited. Though resources are scarce, Flower allows Tosca's four pups to live, as well as four pups Mozart gave birth to overnight. The next day, after being humiliated by Zaphod, nervous natured Yossarian returns to the burrows and pulls all of Tosca and Mozart's newborn pups out of the burrow to initiate a burrow move. The babysitters and Tosca are confused and begin trampling the pups, and leave them lying under the scorching desert sun. | |||
| 1.4 | "Revolution" | September 19, 2005 | June 23, 2006 |
| One of Flower's teenage sons ends the chaos and leads the other babysitters in moving the pups to the burrow entrance. When Flower and the remaining Whiskers return, Flower quickly moves the pups back below ground. The next day, Flower's four pups go on their first foraging trip. After a few days of being snubbed for his attempted burrow move, Yossarian again drags Mozart and Tosca's helpless pups above ground to initiate a burrow burrow move. This time the babysitters go along with the plan, picking up the pups and following Yossarian's lead. Along the way, they pass the foraging Whiskers. Seeing Flower furiously descending on them, Yossarian drops the pup in his mouth and slinks off. Flower and Zaphod reassert their dominance over the babysitters, then lead the group to a new burrow. However, no one notices the pup Yossarian dropped until they reach the new burrow and Mozart realizes one of her pups is missing. She goes out to search for it, but can't find it and the pup dies. | |||
| 1.5 | "Childhood's End" | September 26, 2005 | June 30, 2006 |
| Flower's pup Mitch attacks one of Mozart's seven-week old pups. Shakespeare joins the family in a foraging trip for the first time since being bitten by a snake. All of the pups are taken with the family on the day's foraging trip. While the group takes a mid day break, Flower viciously attacks Mozart and evicts her from the family, forcing her to leave her pups behind. With thunder storms approaching, the Whiskers take shelter for the night in an empty Lazuli burrow. In the morning, the Whiskers claim the burrow for their own. Hours into the day, the Lazuli appear and attempt to retake the burrow. After a lengthy, ferocious battle, the Lazuli retreat, giving over that part of their territory to the Whiskers. | |||
| 1.6 | "Boys Will Be Boys" | September 26, 2005 | July 7, 2006 |
| Pregnant again, Flower evicts Tosca from the Whiskers and joins Mozart in following the Whiskers and watching their pups from a distance. While out foraging, the Whiskers accidentally cross into the territory of a neighboring meerkat family called the Gattaca, a small group with only a few adults. After some brief war displays, the Whiskers leave, but Yossarian and Big Will stay behind to look for Gattaca females without success. They are eventually run off by the Gattaca males. Mitch eats something that makes him very sick, to the point he can barely move. He manages to drag himself to the burrow for the night. During the night, Mitch recovers while Flower gives birth to a new litter of four pups. After Mozart carefully approaches Flower and makes extensive apologetic gestures, she is allowed to return to the group. Later in the day, Carlos, the wandering Lazuli male who previously impregnated Daisy, approaches the Whiskers den and mates with Mozart. | |||
| 1.7 | "Divided Loyalties" | October 3, 2005 | July 14, 2006 |
| Flower and Zaphod are finding it more difficult to control the now forty strong Whiskers. While the entire group are out foraging, the group begins to split into two. Seven meerkats, including Zaphod and Mozart and two other adults, stay near Flower, while the rest of the Whiskers wander in another direction and end up a mile away at the Whiskers favorite watering hole. The larger group, primarily made of teenagers, doesn't post any sentries and come under attack from Big Si and the Lazuli. Confused, the group flees in a blind panic, going even further from Flower and the others. Flower's group waits at the burrow that night for the others to return, but they do not. The larger "Splinter" group, successfully escaped the Lazuli. Daisy, showing signs of pregnancy, assumes leadership of the group, and Yossarian tries to woo Daisy into accepting him as her dominant male. Tosca finds the Splinter group, but stays at a distance. | |||
| 1.8 | "The Good, The Bad, And The Desperate" | October 3, 2005 | July 21, 2006 |
| Tosca, who was evicted from the Whiskers, reappears and deposes the more timid Daisy as leader of the Splinters. The Whiskers and Splinters are reunited, with Flower resuming her leadership of the group. Flower viciously re-evicts Tosca from the group. Though Daisy is pregnant from her encounter with Carlos, Flower allows her to stay in the group. | |||
| 1.9 | "Daisy's Choice" | October 10, 2005 | July 28, 2006 |
| Daisy gives birth to her new litter of pups, but she gives birth in the wrong burrow. With the rest of the Whiskers in another burrow, Daisy and her pups are alone and in danger. However, Yossarian finds Daisy and helps her carry her pups to the Whiskers burrow. The next day the babysitters initiate another burrow move and Daisy's pups are left behind. Daisy stays behind with her pups, but eventually abandons her pups and rejoins her family. Too young to survive on their own, the pups die. | |||
| 1.10 | "Flower Power" | October 10, 2005 | August 4, 2006 |
| Flower has her next litter of pups. When she goes foraging with the group the next day, Tosca's young sons Jogu and McMurphy are left behind as babysitters. Bored and hungry, the two abandon their duty and go off by themselves, leaving the newborns unprotected. Shakespeare returns to the burrow, though, and takes over babysitting. While out foraging, the Whiskers find a burrow containing a litter of Lazuli pups and kill them all. Tosca makes an attempt to rejoin the Whiskers, but is fiercely rebuffed. | |||
| 1.11 | "An Awfully Big Adventure" | October 17, 2005 | August 11, 2006 |
| Now three weeks old, Flower's newest pups are almost old enough to go foraging. One of the pups, Columbus, decides he's ready to go foraging and sneaks away from his babysitters to go out on his own. He is found and rescued by Shakespeare, who takes him back to the burrow to rejoin his siblings and the other babysitters. The next day an eagle owl threatens the group, requiring them to sneak around it to get back to their home burrow. | |||
| 1.12 | "The Calm Before the Storm" | October 17, 2005 | August 18, 2006 |
| Realizing Flower will never allow her back into the Whiskers, Tosca begins to search for a roving male to start a new group with. The Lazuli come into the Whiskers territory while the Whiskers are out foraging. They find the Whiskers burrow, guarded by lone babysitter Shakespeare. When the Lazuli dominant male Big Si comes into the burrows, Shakespeare puts himself between him and the young pups to protect them. | |||
| 1.13 | "Moving On" | October 24, 2005 | August 25, 2006 |
| The Whiskers return and rout the Lazuli invading their burrows. The pups are alive, however Shakespeare is nowhere to be found. The next day, the group goes foraging, taking the pups. They stumble onto an area with multiple raptors, but Mitch saves the day by leading them into a nearby bolt hole. Yossarian runs into roving male Carlos and chases him off. Carlos runs into the lone Tosca and mates with her. Flower leads the Whiskers to a new burrow. Shakespeare is not seen again, and the narrator notes that he may have died underground in his battle with Big Si. | |||
[edit] References
- General
- Official Meerkat Manor Season 1 Episode Guide. Animal Planet. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- Unofficial Meerkat Manor Season 1 Episode Guide. TV.com. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- Specific
- ^ Southern Star (2007-21-08). "Primetime Emmy Nominations for Meerkat Manor" (in English). Press release. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
- ^ Meerkat Manor on DVD Finally!. the Bill Nighy fansite (2006-08-02). Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
- ^ Meerkat Manor - Series 1 & 2 Box set. Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
- ^ An Introduction To Meerkat Manor. Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved on 2009-01-04.
- ^ Discovery Channel Store > Meerkat Manor DVDs. Discovery Channel. Retrieved on 2008-01-05.
- ^ Lambert, David (2008-03-11). Meerkat Manor - Two Meerkat DVD Releases This June Include 3rd Season Set. TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
- ^ Key Personnel - Southern Star Group. Southern Star. Retrieved on 2007-11-11.
- ^ Animal Planet Begins Production on Third Season of Meerkat Manor. World Screen (2007-03-12). Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
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[edit] Series 2
This is an episode list for the on-going British documentary Meerkat Manor. The programme, which is in its fourth series, was created by Caroline Hawkins, executive producer and series editor at Oxford Scientific Films,[1] and commissioned for Animal Planet International by executive producer and commissioning editor Mark Wild.[2] The original episodes are narrated by Bill Nighy. As the Australian and American channels redubbed the episodes using their own narrators. the Australian episodes are narrated by Mike Goldman. In the US, episodes for the first three series were narrated by Sean Astin. For the forth series, Astin was replaced with Stockard Channing.[3] Meerkat Manor is also broadcast in more than 160 countries.[4]
The show premiered on Animal Planet International in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on October 24, 2005. With the success of the programme in the UK, Animal Planet began broadcasting Meerkat Manor on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The programme premiered in the United States on June 9, 2006, with the first series airing through August 25, 2006. The second series aired simultaneously in both the US and the UK, starting September 29, 2006. The third series premiered in the United States on August 10, 2007, followed in the UK on September 10, 2007, and in Canada on October 3, 2007. Because each channel had different broadcasting schedules, the UK sequence of new episodes ended well before those in the US and Canada. The fourth series premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008 with the subtitle of The Next Generation.[3]
Notable merchandise based on the series include multiple DVD episode sets covering the first three series released in two regions, an upcoming feature film that will be a prequel to the Meerkat Manor series,[5] and a book by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock entitled Meerkat Manor - The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 0-297-84484-9).[6]
As the show is based in the United Kingdom, this article refers to seasons as series. In the case of changes made in the American broadcast, the title it aired under in the US will be listed below the original title, while meerkat name changes will be noted in the episode summary.
[edit] Series 3
This is an episode list for the on-going British documentary Meerkat Manor. The programme, which is in its fourth series, was created by Caroline Hawkins, executive producer and series editor at Oxford Scientific Films,[1] and commissioned for Animal Planet International by executive producer and commissioning editor Mark Wild.[7] The original episodes are narrated by Bill Nighy. As the Australian and American channels redubbed the episodes using their own narrators. the Australian episodes are narrated by Mike Goldman. In the US, episodes for the first three series were narrated by Sean Astin. For the forth series, Astin was replaced with Stockard Channing.[3] Meerkat Manor is also broadcast in more than 160 countries.[8]
The show premiered on Animal Planet International in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on October 24, 2005. With the success of the programme in the UK, Animal Planet began broadcasting Meerkat Manor on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The programme premiered in the United States on June 9, 2006, with the first series airing through August 25, 2006. The second series aired simultaneously in both the US and the UK, starting September 29, 2006. The third series premiered in the United States on August 10, 2007, followed in the UK on September 10, 2007, and in Canada on October 3, 2007. Because each channel had different broadcasting schedules, the UK sequence of new episodes ended well before those in the US and Canada. The fourth series premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008 with the subtitle of The Next Generation.[3]
Notable merchandise based on the series include multiple DVD episode sets covering the first three series released in two regions, an upcoming feature film that will be a prequel to the Meerkat Manor series,[9] and a book by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock entitled Meerkat Manor - The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 0-297-84484-9).[10]
As the show is based in the United Kingdom, this article refers to seasons as series. In the case of changes made in the American broadcast, the title it aired under in the US will be listed below the original title, while meerkat name changes will be noted in the episode summary.
[edit] Series 4
This is an episode list for the on-going British documentary Meerkat Manor. The programme, which is in its fourth series, was created by Caroline Hawkins, executive producer and series editor at Oxford Scientific Films,[1] and commissioned for Animal Planet International by executive producer and commissioning editor Mark Wild.[11] The original episodes are narrated by Bill Nighy. As the Australian and American channels redubbed the episodes using their own narrators. the Australian episodes are narrated by Mike Goldman. In the US, episodes for the first three series were narrated by Sean Astin. For the forth series, Astin was replaced with Stockard Channing.[3] Meerkat Manor is also broadcast in more than 160 countries.[12]
The show premiered on Animal Planet International in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on October 24, 2005. With the success of the programme in the UK, Animal Planet began broadcasting Meerkat Manor on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the United States. The programme premiered in the United States on June 9, 2006, with the first series airing through August 25, 2006. The second series aired simultaneously in both the US and the UK, starting September 29, 2006. The third series premiered in the United States on August 10, 2007, followed in the UK on September 10, 2007, and in Canada on October 3, 2007. Because each channel had different broadcasting schedules, the UK sequence of new episodes ended well before those in the US and Canada. The fourth series premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008 with the subtitle of The Next Generation.[3]
Notable merchandise based on the series include multiple DVD episode sets covering the first three series released in two regions, an upcoming feature film that will be a prequel to the Meerkat Manor series,[13] and a book by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock entitled Meerkat Manor - The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (ISBN 0-297-84484-9).[14]
As the show is based in the United Kingdom, this article refers to seasons as series. In the case of changes made in the American broadcast, the title it aired under in the US will be listed below the original title, while meerkat name changes will be noted in the episode summary.
