Daktari Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Daktari: Season 4 (1968 - 1969)

• Season 4 Episode 15: Judy, Come Home

  With Judy and Clarence long missing, Marsh tries to console panic-stricken Jenny by relating tales of the unlikely duo's past adventures.

• Season 4 Episode 14: A Tiger's Tale

  Dr. Tracy's former pet tiger comes back after three years in the bush, leaving Mike and Marsh to wonder about the reason for her return.

• Season 4 Episode 13: Jungle Heartbeat

  Marsh's attempts to save the seriously ill son of a chief are complicated by confrontations with an angry medicine man and black magic.

• Season 4 Episode 12: The Discovery

  Two wildlife-documentary filmmakers plan to take advantage of Judy's discovery of a cave full of artifacts to boost their own careers.

• Season 4 Episode 11: The Divining Rods

  Wameru Reserve is left dry when a chief engineer refuses to admit he erred in calculating the watershed during a native resettlement.

• Season 4 Episode 10: Once Upon a Fang

  Dr. Tracy rescues from a leopard attack a teenage storyteller (Glynn Turman) who was banished from his village; guest Adolph Caesar.

• Season 4 Episode 9: African Showdown

  Jenny and the animals are in danger when they try to stop a rancher (Alan Hale) from fencing off his land for a private hunting preserve.

• Season 4 Episode 8: The Runaways

  Jenny, mistakenly believing she is to be sent back to the orphanage, takes Judy and a lion cub and runs to her treehouse in the bush.

• Season 4 Episode 7: A Man's Man

  A father (Stephen McNally) who wants to make a real man out of his estranged son finds his own courage tested while on a camera safari.

• Season 4 Episode 6: Adam and Jenny

  Adam and Judy conspire to conceal a runaway orphan boy while they try to convince a native couple to adopt him; guest Louis Gossett Jr.

• Season 4 Episode 5: Strike Like a Lion

  A wealthy idealist seeking to recruit Bart for an army finds himself unable to accept the violence he sees while observing a lion pride.

• Season 4 Episode 4: The Outsider

  A newlywed big-game hunter comes to Marsh for help after losing his pet cheetah, unaware that his bride has secretly set the animal free.

• Season 4 Episode 3: African Heritage

  A thrill-seeking author (Allison Price) visiting Wameru endangers Jenny's life in a search for excitement to fill her upcoming novels.

• Season 4 Episode 2: Clarence the Lionhearted

  Clarence and a tribesman-turned-poacher discover lessons in survival when they become prey and predator during a trek through the bush.

• Season 4 Episode 1: A Family for Jenny

  Orphan girl Jenny Jones (Erin Moran) rushes to save the cub of a killer lioness being stalked by a government-hired hunter (Ross Hagen).

Daktari: Season 3 (1967 - 1968)

• Season 3 Episode 27: The Will to Live

  Mike and Jack's argument over heredity and environment is put to the test when they encounter a tame tiger that has reverted to the wild.

• Season 3 Episode 26: The Monster of Wameru

  Pressured by his brother's need for money, a native dresses as a monster gorilla in an attempt to entice tourists to visit his village.

• Season 3 Episode 25: The Killer of Wameru

  Judy tries to feed a starving lion driven to Wameru by a drought, but her efforts almost cost the chimp her life; guest Alfred Daniels.

• Season 3 Episode 24: The Lion Killer

  Dr. Tracy is faced with a dilemma when he must operate on a dog with a brain tumor, knowing it will recover and resume killing lions.

• Season 3 Episode 23: Toto the Great

  Toto's ability to ward off leopards after being doused with repellant causes her to be mistaken for the reincarnation of a great chief.

• Season 3 Episode 22: The Killer Cub

  Dr. Tracy must find a way to stop a young cheetah from killing domestic cattle before an embittered local rancher takes deadly measures.

• Season 3 Episode 21: Judy Strikes Back

  Judy and the other animals devise a plan to prove they are superior to an electric alarm system installed to protect a valuable vaccine.

• Season 3 Episode 20: License to Kill

  Dr. Tracy attempts to save a valuable lioness stalked by a former boxing champion (Ron Hayes) seeking revenge after being attacked by the animal.

• Season 3 Episode 19: The Big Switch

  Medicine supplied by Judy to a banished native chief makes the man feel strong enough to challenge his rival for leadership of the tribe.

• Season 3 Episode 18: Riddle of the Bush

  Marsh's old university professor (Harold Gould), supposedly searching for an elephant graveyard, chooses to keep his true purpose secret.

• Season 3 Episode 17: Miracle in the Jungle

  An unknowing nun (Jan Clayton) pays off Wameru's debts with stolen money, putting the staff in danger from police and the original thief.

• Season 3 Episode 16: The Elephant Raid: Part Two

  Marsh and the Wameru staff race to save the elephant herd from the district official's maze of land mines and explosives.

• Season 3 Episode 15: The Elephant Raid

  Tracy is caught between his convictions and the intentions of an old friend sent to destroy a rampaging herd of elephants.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Clarence's Love-In

  Runaway Clarence must choose between life in captivity and a position as head of a pride when he is 'adopted' by three wild lionesses.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Judy and the Wizard

  Judy suddenly takes the place of an aging performing chimp whose magician owner (Gil Lamb) refuses to accept the truth about his partner.

• Season 3 Episode 12: The Return of Ethyl and Albert

  Paula soon regrets banishing the flower-smashing duo of a hippopotamus and a donkey when the pair looks to be likely prey for a leopard.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Judy and the Thoroughbred

  Despite his misgivings about an Italian countess's insatiable drive to win, Dr. Tracy agrees to treat her ailing champion Thoroughbred.

• Season 3 Episode 10: One of Our Cubs Is Missing

  Jack and Mike test a theory by releasing a cub rescued from a brush fire back into the bush to see if it returns to its old territory.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Judy and the Jailbirds

  Two former convicts (Sterling Holloway, Leonid Kinskey) plan to return to their comfortable cell by being convicted of stealing Clarence.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Countdown for Judy

  The Wameru staff searches desperately for a berry bush whose poisoned fruit has brought Judy to the point of death; guest Karl Swenson.

• Season 3 Episode 7: The Phantom Leopard: Return of the Phantom

  A strange bond forms between Marsh and a native hunter (Percy Rodrigues) as they stalk a phantom leopard into a drought-stricken jungle.

• Season 3 Episode 6: The Scent of Fear

  Dr. Tracy's new game-warden trainee fails to get along with the wild animals, until a wolf's attack helps him to regain his lost courage.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Killer Tribe

  Unhappy over space experiments with chimps, Judy runs off with a native and finds herself made ruler of a tribe worshipping chimpanzees.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Goodbye, Wameru

  Mike's college friend (Clarence Williams III), a famous African journalist, comes to Wameru to prove the work done there is pointless.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Crime Wave at Wameru

  While Marsh and Paula try to save Hedley from forced retirement, Judy releases a royal lion cub and attaches a ransom note to Clarence.

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Execution

  A leopard cured by Dr. Tracy of a brain ailment returns to the compound seeking her cub, which has been adopted by surrogate-mother Judy.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Judy and the Astro Chimp

  Judy is mistaken for a valued chimp astronaut whose malfunctioning space capsule landed by mistake in the compound; guest Robert Clarke.

Daktari: Season 2 (1966 - 1967)

• Season 2 Episode 29: A Cub Called Danger

  Judy and Paula court disaster when they violate the laws of nature and try to save a starving lion cub from mistreatment by its mother.

• Season 2 Episode 28: Judy and the Vulture

  Paula must work alone to create a lifesaving serum after Clarence becomes infected with a virus carried by his new friend, a vulture.

• Season 2 Episode 27: The Long Hunt

  Several attempts on the lives of Wameru's tigers make Marsh suspicious of a young Indian guest (Harvey Jason) visiting the study center.

• Season 2 Episode 26: King Clarence

  Insulted Clarence and Judy disappear just before Clarence is to donate blood during difficult surgery on a rare, valuable royal tiger.

• Season 2 Episode 25: Operation Springtime

  Jack, Mike, Judy and Clarence become substitute mothers after they witness an ostrich's death and take on responsibility for her eggs.

• Season 2 Episode 24: Goodbye, Mike Makula

  Jack meets unexpected obstacles when he rushes to rescue smitten Mike from the clutches of a deceitful female visitor (Janet MacLachlan).

• Season 2 Episode 23: Judy the Poacher

  Dr. Tracy calls in Hedley to solve the mysterious disappearances of experimental wildlife, keys and sedatives from the Wameru compound.

• Season 2 Episode 22: A Bullet for Hedley

  Marsh searches frantically for stolen diamonds hidden by Judy, while the thief holds Hedley, Paula and Jack hostage; guest Alan Caillou.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Judy and the Baby Elephant

  Dr. Tracy is unable to help a wounded baby Indian elephant when its experimental African-elephant family refuses to let anyone come near.

• Season 2 Episode 20: Terror in the Bush

  Paula and Judy struggle to return Marsh to the compound after a jeep mishap leaves him suffering from delirium because of a head injury.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Countdown for Paula

  Paula is in a race for her life when a dam engineer sets off a charge two hours early and sends a wall of water hurtling across the bush.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Undercover Judy

  Both Paula and Hedley employ Judy in their plans to prevent two former German soldiers from retrieving diamonds hidden during the war.

• Season 2 Episode 17: House of Lions

  Clarence lies wounded in a village inhabited by lions after being speared in a trap while following a wounded lioness from the compound.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Judy and the Gorilla

  Husband-and-wife poachers (Michael O'Shea, Virginia Mayo) invade the Wameru Center in search of a baby gorilla that has eluded capture.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Little Miss Nightingale

  Mike becomes trapped in the bush beneath an overturned truck and must rely for his life on Clarence carrying a note back to the compound.

• Season 2 Episode 14: The Chimp Who Cried Wolf

  A former TV comedian (Morey Amsterdam) nearly costs lives when his bumbling interference with Wameru's wild animals suddenly backfires.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Clarence, the Killer

  Evidence weighs heavily against Clarence when he is accused of being the visually impaired lion that has been raiding a nearby village.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Cry for Help

  Paula falls victim to a spider's bite, and the only man who can save her is a doctor banished for wrongly diagnosing a chief's illness.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Shoot to Kill

  Dr. Tracy, Clarence and Judy rush to find an ailing, escaped circus bear before it becomes the victim of bounty hunters hired by local ranchers.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Revenge of the Leopard

  A woman asks Dr. Tracy to escort her on a photographic safari, while secretly planning to use the trek to hunt down a phantom leopard.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Death in the African Sun

  Worried Marsh, Mike and Clarence set out to find Jack and Judy whose jeep broke down in the desert as they were returning to Wameru.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Trial

  Greed prompts a man to try to take over his chieftain uncle's lands by sending one of Dr. Tracy's elephants on a drug-induced rampage.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Born to Die

  Paula, Judy and Clarence are the first to find a lost, pregnant former circus panther as she is about to give birth alone in the bush.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Test

  Using Clarence as an example, Mike allows a boy accused of cowardice to believe that a handclap will send a lion running into the bush.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Cheetah at Large

  Judy wreaks havoc by heading into the bush with a prize cheetah belonging to the leader of an African tribe; guest Raymond St. Jacques.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Judy's Hour of Peril

  The animals and people of the Wameru Center begin a desperate search for Judy, who was mistakenly injected with a fatal strain of virus.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Daktari's Last Hunt

  Dr. Tracy and Judy become the prey of an insane hunter when they enter the bush to investigate reports about a tiger; guest Jack Kelly.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Deadline to Kill

  Marsh and the Wameru staff rush to recapture tame cattle released on the reserve before wild predators slaughter the livestock.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The Return of Clarence

  Clarence suffers amnesia after being struck by Mike's truck then attacks Paula and drives her into a pit with a wild leopard cub.

Daktari: Season 1 (1966)

• Season 1 Episode 18: Judy and the Gun-Runners

  Marsh, Jack and Judy face death from thirst and starvation when an insane revolutionary (Theo Marcuse) imprisons them in a deserted cave.

• Season 1 Episode 17: Wall of Flames: Part Two

  The two hunters who set the bush fire capture Paula, Jack and Judy, and plan to cover their arson by murdering the trio.

• Season 1 Episode 16: Wall of Flames

  The staff of Wameru Center battles a raging brush fire set by poachers aiming to drive a rhinoceros herd into their sights.

• Season 1 Episode 15: Judy and the Hyena

  Judy is blamed for the disappearance of an injured hyena who came between the jealous chimp and Paula.

• Season 1 Episode 14: The Hostages

  Two bush characters with their eyes on Dr. Tracy's $75,000 grant kidnap Clarence and Judy for ransom.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Crisis at the Compound

  Marsh is happy when a a trade representative and his daughter lodge at the compound until he learns they plan to kill a leopard.

• Season 1 Episode 12: Maneater of Wameru

  A sophisticated magazine photographer's (Doris Dowling) determination to get action shots nearly costs Hedley and Clarence their lives.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Return of the Killer: Part Two

  Paula follows Marsh's instructions to remove the bullet then is taken hostage by the convicts as they race for the border.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Return of the Killer

  A convict (Ron Hayes) who was once captured by Dr. Tracy is wounded in an escape and comes to the Wameru Center for help.

• Season 1 Episode 9: The Killer Dog

  An injured dog taught to be a killer by its lonely, embittered master is found by Paula and Jack and learns kindness during its recovery.

• Season 1 Episode 8: The Chimp Who Went Ape

  Judy cuts short her visit with a wild chimp family when she must bring the youngest back to the compound for medical attention.

• Season 1 Episode 7: The Diamond Smugglers

  A pilot (Paul Winfield), unknowingly flying diamonds for smugglers posing as scientists, is knocked unconscious after crashing in the bush.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Leopards of Mdala Gorge

  Two archaeologists (Peter Brocco, Marian Moses), fearing leopard attacks, hire a hunter (Harry Lauter) to slaughter the local predators.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Trail of the Cheetah

  A suspected murderer loose in the area comes upon Marsh and his guest (Dina Merrill), who has broken her leg in a trap; guest Ron Hayes.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Adventure of the Lion Cubs

  Judy and Clarence come to the compound with three lion cubs whose mother has been snared by poachers (Sean McClory, Lawrence Montaigne).

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Killer Lion

  A farmer vows to kill a pet lioness after a brain tumor causes the animal to lose control and attack; guests Alan Napier, John McLiam.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Predator of Wameru

  An injured poacher nursed back to health in the compound disappears with Judy shortly before the study animals are stolen by bandits.

• Season 1 Episode 1: The Elephant Thieves

  Dr. Tracy, Paula and Jack search for the parents of a baby elephant and encounter two men illegally stealing animals to sell to zoos.