Zoo Family - Season 1 Episode 15 Reptiles Can't Cry
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.
Year: 1986
Country: Australia
Studio: Nine Network
Director: Alison Nisselle
Cast: Peter Curtin, Rebecca Gibney, Kate Gorman, Steven Jacobson, Robert Summers, John Orcsik
Crew: Rob Hansford (Key Grip), Ian Crawford (Executive Producer), Gwenda Marsh (Producer), Luke Hura (Animal Coordinator), Simone North (Production Coordinator), Terry Stapleton (Executive Producer)
First Air Date: Jul 28, 1985
Last Air date: Jan 19, 1986
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 26 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 10.786
Language: English
Season
Season 1
Episode
Zoo Family
A Bird in the Hand
Seal Song
The Last Cheetah
Short Waves, Tall Stories
Going Home
Diamonds Are Forever
Penguin Parade
Ride for Your Life
Trust Me
Elephants and Runaways
Watson of the Jungle
Love, Romance, Elephants
All in a Day's Holiday
Reptiles Can't Cry
Rotters and Otters
Tote That Bale
Star Attraction
Me and Jane
Mavis of the Apes
Yvonne the Terrible
The Good, the Bad and Martin
Monkey Business
A Bunch of Emigrants
Dangers of the Job
The Way of the Bison