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Season 3

17 episodes · 1964

Season 3 of Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

  1. 1Land of the Quaking Earth

    18 Oct 1964 · 24 min

    In the southeastern coastal plain of the United States in Georgia, there exists one of the world's truly unique jungle swamps named by the Indians OKEEFENOKEE (land of floating islands).

  2. 2Trailing the Midnight Sun

    25 Oct 1964 · 24 min

    Winter is night, summer is day, and you need your wits to survive in the forbidding land north of the Arctic Circle. In this story you go by walrus skin boat, dogsled, airplane and helicopter. You hunt seal with Eskimos, find polar bear and beluga whale. You round up a large herd of reindeer and tag them for conservation officials. And you watch Jim Fowler discover a far-north version of a popular rodeo event: bulldogging moose from a helicopter.

  3. 3Cattail Country

    01 Nov 1964 · 24 min

    Marlin visits the Grand Teton Mountains in the U.S. and the wilderness north of Canada to show us the territorial fight, the rescue of a baby moose and to see the sandhill cranes.

  4. 4The Philmont Trail

    08 Nov 1964 · 24 min

    Marlin and Jim make a fascinating climb up the Philmont Trail with a troop of Explorer Scouts at the famous Boy Scout ranch near Cimarron in northern New Mexico.

  5. 5Spotted Ghost - Part 1

    15 Nov 1964 · 24 min

    In the Kalahari region of southern Africa, Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler study the life and habits of the graceful and cunning leopard by establishing a camp near a hidden leopard den.

  6. 6Spotted Ghost - Part 2

    22 Nov 1964 · 24 min

    Marlin and Jim continue their investigation into the home life of the leopard.

  7. 7Valley of the Eagles

    06 Dec 1964 · 24 min

    A valley in the mountain country of the western United States is the territory of the Golden Eagle, America's largest and most powerful bird of prey. Marlin and Jim locate an eyrie (nest) of this magnificent bird, and build a blind high on a rocky cliff so they can photograph its nesting habits.

  8. 8Miracle of Motion

    20 Dec 1964 · 24 min

    Oddities of animal motion include mammals that fly, birds that climb with their shoulders, lizards that dive and snakes that travel sideways.

  9. 9Sahara South

    27 Dec 1964 · 24 min

    Join Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler as they explore Africa's Sahara and see how its inhabitants, ranging from warthogs to lions, interact with their environment, both nature-made and man-made.

  10. 10Monarchs of the Wild

    03 Jan 1965 · 24 min

    In the wild kingdom each animal owns a territory...and one animal rules every habitat. A visit to each domain reveals why each is called a Monarch of the Wild.

  11. 11Tusker Territory

    17 Jan 1965 · 24 min

    Of all the behemoths that once roamed the earth, only the elephant is left for us to marvel about. And marvel we should for here's an animal that weights 10 tons, yet leaves an imprint only a half-inch deep when walking on soft sand...can eat 200 pounds of hay a day, drink 50 gallons of water at one go, grow to be 13 feet tall at the shoulder, yet can use its trunk so delicately it can pick a flower off the ground without crushing it. But many questions about this animal remain unanswered. By literally living with a family of elephants in Bechuanaland, Africa, we observe their fascinating life.

  12. 12People that Time Forgot

    31 Jan 1965 · 24 min

    Marlin journeys to the far side of the earth, as he visits the people that time forgot -- the aborigines of Australia.

  13. 13Mastermind of the Sea

    14 Feb 1965 · 24 min

    Marlin and Jim with experts from the Seaquarium in Miami set out to capture a porpoise and study its mysterious progress of learning -- the hop-skip around the world to see porpoises in far away places as Port Elizabeth, in South Africa; Coolangatta in Australia; and Whaler's Cove, in Hawaii.

  14. 14Animals that Time Forgot

    28 Feb 1965 · 24 min

    In remote corners of the wild kingdom remaining untouched by forces of change there also remain animals that span the bridge of time back into prehistoric eras... like the Komodo Dragons off the coast of Java; marsupials that are rare and birds that appear as if they just flew out of the still streaming marshlands of the Mesozoic era.

  15. 15Winter Comes to Yellowstone

    14 Mar 1965 · 24 min

    All roads are closed, but by helicopter and snow plane Marlin and Jim travel though the park to uncover a fascinating story of animal life in winter.

  16. 16Strangest of All

    28 Mar 1965 · 24 min

    A few of the many bizarre and strange animal behaviors that abound in the wild kingdom -- the strangest of all are revealed in this episode.

  17. 17Against the Clock

    11 Apr 1965 · 24 min

    Man loves speed and this episode answers some of the most pertinent inquiries as to what animals hold the records.