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- Season 1 Zoo Family
- Season 1 A Bird in the Hand
- Season 1 Seal Song
- Season 1 The Last Cheetah
- Season 1 Short Waves, Tall Stories
- Season 1 Going Home
- Season 1 Diamonds Are Forever
- Season 1 Penguin Parade
- Season 1 Ride for Your Life
- Season 1 Trust Me
- Season 1 Elephants and Runaways
- Season 1 Watson of the Jungle
- Season 1 Love, Romance, Elephants
- Season 1 All in a Day's Holiday
- Season 1 Reptiles Can't Cry
- Season 1 Rotters and Otters
- Season 1 Tote That Bale
- Season 1 Star Attraction
- Season 1 Me and Jane
- Season 1 Mavis of the Apes
- Season 1 Yvonne the Terrible
- Season 1 The Good, the Bad and Martin
- Season 1 Monkey Business
- Season 1 A Bunch of Emigrants
- Season 1 Dangers of the Job
- Season 1 The Way of the Bison
Zoo Family - Season 1 Episode 15 Reptiles Can't Cry
7.00 30 minutes The Mitchell family catch troubled teen Ace, red-handed, as he spray paints one of the zoo's giant turtles. But the reptile keeper decides to give him a chance and Ace finds, to everyone's surprise, that he truly enjoys caring for reptiles. He is taken in by the Mitchell family and earns the respect of the two Mitchell children, Susie and Nick.
Meanwhile, the irascible Col Archibald Spencer does his own detective work and wrongly accuses young Tim Watson of harming the turtle and putting a stumpy-tailed lizard in Mrs Spencer's handbag.
More by fortune than design, Col Spencer eventually tracks down the correct culprit and uses his influence as the zoo's primary benefactor to insist on redressing the crime. To the dismay of zoo vet Dr David Mitchell, zoo director Ken Bennett has his hand forced by Spencer and has to fire Ace.
However, the episode ends with Ace promised a job at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and heading north on the train.
