Meerkat Manor

Meerkat Manor (2005)


  • Genre: Documentary, Drama
  • First Air Date: 2005-09-02
  • Last Air Date: 2008-08-22
  • Total Seasons: 4
  • Total Episodes: 52
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 24 min.
  • Network: Animal Planet
star 7.5/10
From 11 Ratings

Summary

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing. Meerkat Manor premiered in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2005, and the first 13-episode series concluded on 24 October 2005. With the success of the programme in the United Kingdom, Animal Planet started broadcasting it on its national channels in Australia, Canada, and the US. It has since been rebroadcast in more than 160 other countries. The fourth, and final, series aired initially in the United States from 6 June 2008 to 22 August 2008; it aired in the United Kingdom in April 2009. In August 2009, it was reported that the programme had been cancelled.

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  • Meerkat Manor Trailer

    Meerkat Manor Seasons

    Season 0

    First Air Date: 2008-05-25
    1 Episodes

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2006-06-09
    13 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 2006-09-29
    13 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 2007-08-10
    13 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date: 2008-06-06
    13 Episodes

    Meerkat Manor Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1A Family Affair30 min
    Season 1Episode 2Love Thy Neighbor30 min
    Season 1Episode 3Some Like It Hot30 min
    Season 1Episode 4Revolution30 min
    Season 1Episode 5Childhood's End30 min
    Season 1Episode 6Boys Will Be Boys30 min
    Season 1Episode 7Divided Loyalties30 min
    Season 1Episode 8The Good, the Bad and the Desperate30 min
    Season 1Episode 9Daisy's Choice30 min
    Season 1Episode 10Flower Power30 min
    Season 1Episode 11An Awfully Big Adventure30 min
    Season 1Episode 12The Calm Before the Storm30 min
    Season 1Episode 13Moving On30 min
    Season 2Episode 1Cold Comfort30 min
    Season 2Episode 2The Three Amigos30 min
    Season 2Episode 3Young Blood30 min
    Season 2Episode 4Iron Lady30 min
    Season 2Episode 5There's No Place like Home30 min
    Season 2Episode 6When Flower Met Hannibal30 min
    Season 2Episode 7United We Stand30 min
    Season 2Episode 8The Enemy Within30 min
    Season 2Episode 9The Art of Leadership30 min
    Season 2Episode 10Balance of Power30 min
    Season 2Episode 11Growing Pains30 min
    Season 2Episode 12The Godmother30 min
    Season 2Episode 13The Quiet Fields30 min
    Season 3Episode 1On Dangerous Ground30 min
    Season 3Episode 2The Mission30 min
    Season 3Episode 3Sister Act30 min
    Season 3Episode 4The Death of Romance30 min
    Season 3Episode 5The Tale of Len and Squiggy30 min
    Season 3Episode 6Sibling Rivalry30 min
    Season 3Episode 7Heavy is the Crown30 min
    Season 3Episode 8Journey's End30 min
    Season 3Episode 9A New Day30 min
    Season 3Episode 10Farewell, My Lovely30 min
    Season 3Episode 11Three Degrees of Separation30 min
    Season 3Episode 12The Graduate30 min
    Season 3Episode 13A Family at War30 min
    Season 4Episode 1To Have and To Have Not30 min
    Season 4Episode 2All Manor of Love30 min
    Season 4Episode 3Rising Star30 min
    Season 4Episode 4The Family Way30 min
    Season 4Episode 5The Mask of Zorro30 min
    Season 4Episode 6Great Expectations30 min
    Season 4Episode 7The Bodyguard30 min
    Season 4Episode 8Divided We Fall30 min
    Season 4Episode 9To The Manor Born30 min
    Season 4Episode 10The Birds30 min
    Season 4Episode 11The Rovers Return30 min
    Season 4Episode 12Home Alone30 min
    Season 4Episode 13The Darkest Day30 min
    • Bill Nighy

      as Narrator
    • Stockard Channing

      as Narrator
    • Sean Astin

      as Narrator

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