Television
The Crocodile Hunter, which began on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year, and everything after it: Croc Files, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, New Breed Vets, Bindi the Jungle Girl, and Crikey! It's the Irwins. Note the dating here. Many individual episodes cannot be dated, so rather than guess a year in the middle of a run they are dated to the first year of the series with a note saying the episode year is not established.
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- - Steve Irwin saves some feisty Koalas | Irwin Family Adventures. Koala rescue footage from The Crocodile Hunter, revisited by the family. Koalas are the single largest patient group at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, which opened in 2004 and is dedicated to Steve's mother, Lyn Irwin.
- - Steve Irwin Makes a Special Connection with Orangutans | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Orangutans put the series in Southeast Asian rainforest, a long way from the Queensland rivers it started in. The Crocodile Hunter ran to 78 episodes between 1996 and 2007.
- - Steve Basks in the Sea | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Ocean episodes were a regular part of the series from early on. Steve was an accomplished diver and the marine material sits alongside the crocodile fieldwork rather than as a novelty.
- - Steve Searches For Camels | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Roadside rescues of injured animals were a recurring thread in the series and are the everyday work the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital was built to do at scale from 2004.
- - Steve Irwin’s Jaw-Dropping Encounter With Tiger Sharks | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Tiger sharks are among the largest predatory sharks in Australian waters. Sharks and marine work appear throughout The Crocodile Hunter, and Robert Irwin has since dived with great whites for Discovery.
- - Steve Irwin comes face to face with RATTLESNAKES! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Western diamondbacks took the series into the American southwest. Steve's snake handling started at home: Bob Irwin was an amateur herpetologist and the family park opened in 1970 as a reptile park.
- - Steve And The Komodo Dragon | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards and are found only on a handful of Indonesian islands. The series regularly worked outside Australia while keeping Beerwah as its base.
- - Steve and Terri Irwin Explore the Wildlife of Cape York! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Cape York is where the conservation legacy would settle. In 2007 the Australian Government bought about 330,000 acres of former cattle station on the peninsula and named it the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve.
- - How Steve and Terri Fell Madly in Love! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Terri Raines met Steve on 6 October 1991 at the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where she had come to watch a crocodile demonstration. She described the impression as an environmental Tarzan, a larger-than-life superhero guy.
- - Australia Zoo Tour with Steve Irwin. A tour of the zoo given by the man who built it. Steve took over the park from his parents in 1991, and it was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998, the year Bindi was born.
- - Steve Irwin's Wildest Snake Encounters | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Snakes came before crocodiles in this family. Bob Irwin was a plumber and amateur herpetologist, and the park he and Lyn opened at Beerwah in 1970 was a reptile park first.
- - Steve, Snakes, & Scorpions! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. African episodes took the series to snakes, spiders and scorpions well outside the Queensland material. The Crocodile Hunter reached North America in 1997 through Animal Planet and Discovery.
- - A Snake BITES Steve! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Snakebite and injury were an ordinary part of the work, not a rarity. He had been handling reptiles since childhood, taught by his father, and had caught his first crocodile at nine.
- - Steve Irwin Surfs with Snakes! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Wes Mannion is a lifelong friend and the director of Australia Zoo, and he appears throughout the series. He is one of the people who has consistently said the on-camera Steve was the off-camera Steve.
- - Steve Rehabilitates a Snakes | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Sri Lanka has among the highest snakebite death rates in the world, which made it a serious subject rather than a spectacle. The series covered venomous snakes as a public health matter more than once.
- - A Spitting Snake Spat on Steve! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Spitting cobras project venom several metres towards the eyes as a defence. Reptile handling was the skill Steve had longest, learned from his father before he had ever seen a camera.
- - Steve Encounters a Deadly Venomous Cobra! | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Black mambas and cobras took the series to Kenya. Reptiles are where the family story starts and they remained a permanent part of the collection at Beerwah.
- - Steve Irwin Becomes Target for Predators in Africa | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Namibia gave the series big cats and open country. Terri Irwin co-presented the show from the first episode, which came out of the crocodile-trapping trip they took in place of a honeymoon in 1992.
- - Steve Irwin Interacts With Razorbacks! | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Feral pigs are a serious pest across northern Australia and the series took them seriously as an ecological subject rather than a curiosity.
- - Uncovering the Legacy of Steve Irwin's Parents | Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Bob Irwin, born 8 June 1939, was a plumber and amateur herpetologist; Lyn Irwin was a maternity nurse who rehabilitated orphaned marsupials. They opened the Beerwah Reptile Park on 3 June 1970 and Steve took it over in 1991.
- - Steve's Favorite Wild Creatures of SEASON 3 | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Season three ranged across snakes, Komodo dragons and crocodiles. The Crocodile Hunter ran to 78 episodes, and the separate behind-the-scenes series, The Crocodile Hunter Diaries, ran to 96 more.
- - Steve's Favorite Creatures of SEASON 4 | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Season four moved between crocodiles, camels, lemurs and snakes. The programme's range is the reason it travelled: it reached more than 100 countries at its peak.
- - Just Like Dad! Steve Irwin’s Influence on His Family ❤️🐊 🐍 Animal Planet. Both of Steve's children have made careers in the same work: Bindi is chief executive of Australia Zoo, and Robert is on the management team and a Wildlife Warriors board director as well as an award-winning wildlife photographer.
- - Steve Irwin Comes Face to Face with Deadly Snakes | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Venomous snake handling was the first skill he learned, taught by his father at Beerwah. The park opened in 1970 as a reptile park and reptiles remain a large part of the collection.
- - Steve vs. Birds & Beasts! 🐦 The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Emus and cockatoos are the ordinary Australian wildlife the series covered as readily as its dangerous animals. That breadth is what carried the programme through 78 episodes.
- - Best Moments from Early Seasons | The Crocodile Hunter | Animal Planet. Early seasons were shot largely around the family park, then still called the Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park. It was renamed Australia Zoo in 1998, seven years after Steve took it over.
- - Bear Grylls vs. Steve Irwin - Rap Battle!. Twenty years after his death he is still a fixture of internet culture, from tribute animation to fan-made comedy. He is also one of the most heavily fabricated figures online, which is why this archive quotes him only from footage, journalism or his own books.
- - Bear Grylls vs. Steve Irwin - Behind the Greens. The persona travelled far beyond wildlife television and is still being reinterpreted by people who never watched the original broadcasts. Terri, Bob and John Stainton have all said consistently that the on-camera enthusiasm was not a character.
- - "Crocodile Hunter" - Gabriel Iglesias (from Hot & Fluffy comedy special). The accent, the khaki and the crikey became standup material within his lifetime. His colleagues have consistently said the enthusiasm was genuine and that the only calculated part was aiming it at conservation.
- - Steve Irwin “The Crocodile Hunter” Owns Australia Zoo!. Steve took over the family park from Bob and Lyn Irwin in 1991 and renamed it Australia Zoo in 1998. Terri Irwin has owned it since 2006, with Bindi as chief executive.
- - Terri Irwin during a TV show at the Zoo. Filming at Australia Zoo in 2000. The Crocodile Hunter began on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year.
- - Terri Irwin during a TV show at the Zoo. Filming at Australia Zoo in 2000. The Crocodile Hunter began on Australian television in 1996 and reached North America the following year.
- - The Irwins’ Most Unforgettable Animal Care Stories | Crikey! It's The Irwins S1| Animal Planet India. Crikey! It's the Irwins was carried internationally, including in India. It ran four seasons on Animal Planet from 2018 to 2022 with Terri, Bindi and Robert.
- - Irwin's & Team Greatest Animal Moments in the Wild! | Crikey! Its The Irwins S2 | Animal Planet. Animal rescue is the series' actual subject, and most of the cases come through the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, which opened in 2004 and is dedicated to Lyn Irwin.
- - Irwin's Greatest Wildlife Adventures! | Crikey! It's the Irwins S3 | Animal Planet India. By its third season Crikey! It's the Irwins was following the family across Queensland field trips as well as the zoo grounds. Bindi Irwin was co-star and co-producer throughout.
- - Robert Irwin Continues His Father's Legacy | Crikey! It's the Irwins | Animal Planet. Robert Irwin was born on 1 December 2003 and was two when his father died. He now presents the crocodile work on camera, sits on the zoo's management team and is a board director of Wildlife Warriors.
- - Irwin's Australia Zoo Unforgettable Wildlife Moments | Crikey! It's the Irwins S3 | Animal Planet. Rescue and treatment cases carry Crikey! It's the Irwins, and most of them run through the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that it treats up to 10,000 animals a year.
- - Robert Irwin's Craziest Adventures of SEASON 4 | Crikey! It's the Irwins | Animal Planet. By the fourth season of Crikey! It's the Irwins, Robert was leading crocodile feeds and breeding work on camera. The series ran on Animal Planet from 2018 to 2022.
- - Wildlife Rescue, Research And Conservation With The Irwins | Crikey! It's the Irwins S1. Three strands run through the family operation: the wildlife hospital at Beerwah, the crocodile tracking on the Wenlock River, and the land holdings that now exceed 450,000 acres by the family's own accounting.
- - Steve Irwin's Anaconda Dream Becomes Reality At Australia Zoo! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Green anacondas were a long-held ambition of Steve's for the zoo. A green anaconda named Angelina was photographed with Terri, Bindi and Robert at his Hollywood Walk of Fame dedication in April 2018.
- - Terri Irwin Carries on Her Late Husband Steve Irwin’s Legacy. Terri Irwin has owned and run Australia Zoo since 2006 and has said repeatedly that she does not intend to remarry. She was a naturalist and cougar-rescue operator in Oregon before she ever met Steve, and she co-hosted the series throughout.
- - Meet Dexter The Cuddly Koala! | Wild Times. Koalas are the largest single patient group at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, which is named for Lyn Irwin, Steve's mother, who died in a car accident in February 2000.
- - Bindi And Terri Introduce Us To Ravi the Red Panda! | Wild Times. Red pandas and Sumatran tigers belong to the international side of the collection. The Tiger Temple is one of the zoo's named precincts, alongside Africa, Bindi's Island and Roo Heaven.
- - Bindi Irwin Is Living The Dream At Australia Zoo! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Bindi Irwin grew up at Australia Zoo and now runs it as chief executive, appointed during the COVID-19 period. She had won a Logie and a Daytime Emmy for her own children's series before she was a teenager.
- - Mischievous Meerkats And An Amazing White Python! | Wild Times. Meerkats and pythons sit alongside the Australian collection at a zoo that started with reptiles alone. Bob and Lyn Irwin opened it as the Beerwah Reptile Park on 3 June 1970.
- - The Irwins Play A Tricky Game Of Pictionary! | Wild Times. Chandler Powell married Bindi Irwin at Australia Zoo on 25 March 2020. Crikey! It's the Irwins ran for four seasons on Animal Planet with Bindi as co-star and co-producer.
- - Kangaroos and Alligators, Oh My! | Wild Times. Kangaroos and alligators in the same segment is the range the zoo actually holds: an Australian collection built out from a 1970 reptile park, with international species added over decades.
- - Bindi Releases Little Grub The Echidna Back Into The Wild! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Treat, rehabilitate, release is the whole cycle at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, opened in 2004 and dedicated to Lyn Irwin. Australian Geographic reported in 2026 that it now handles up to 10,000 animals a year.
- - Two Feisty Alligator Snapping Turtles Get Pedicures! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Alligator snapping turtles are part of the reptile collection that the park was originally built around. Reptile husbandry is where the Irwin family story starts, with Bob Irwin's own collection in the 1960s.
- - Meet The Majestic Blue And Gold Macaw | Wild Times. Wild Times was a short-form companion to Crikey! It's the Irwins, which ran on Animal Planet from 2018 to 2022 with Bindi as co-star and co-producer.
- - A New Baby Giraffe Arrives At Australia Zoo! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Giraffes are part of the zoo's Africa precinct. Australia Zoo has grown from the two acres Bob and Lyn Irwin opened at Beerwah in 1970 to roughly 700 acres today.
- - Cheetah Cubs Introduced To Each Other For The First Time! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Cheetahs are part of the Africa precinct, the savannah section of the zoo with rhinos, giraffes and zebras. Australia Zoo says it holds over 1,200 animals across about 700 acres.
- - The Irwins Are Carrying On Steve's Croc Conservation Legacy | Crikey! It's The Irwins. The annual crocodile trip to the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve is real science. Professor Craig Franklin of the University of Queensland has run the tracking programme on the Wenlock River since 2007, following 296 crocodiles and gathering over 10 million data recordings by the end of the 2024 field season.
- - Terri Irwin Visits A Wildlife Sanctuary Very Close To Her Heart | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Terri Irwin grew up in Eugene, Oregon, where she ran a cougar rescue operation before she ever came to Australia. She was a working naturalist first and has owned Australia Zoo since 2006.
- - Wild Adult Emus Gang Up On Newly Released Baby | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Releasing rehabilitated animals is the end point of the work at the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, which Australian Geographic reported in 2026 now treats up to 10,000 animals a year.
- - Robert Irwin Wrangles His First Ever Wild Rattlesnake | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Wes Mannion was Steve's best mate and is the director of Australia Zoo, and he has taught Robert Irwin much of the handling his father would have. Robert is now on the zoo's management team.
- - Bindi Swims With A Whale Shark And Names Him After Her Dad! | Crikey! It's The Irwins. Whale shark population tracking is real field research, and photo identification is how individual animals are catalogued. Bindi Irwin is chief executive of Australia Zoo and a Wildlife Warriors principal.
- - Terri Irwin Helps Raise an Orphaned Wallaby Joey | Crikey! It's the Irwins. Lyn Irwin was a maternity nurse who became a wildlife rehabilitator, best known for raising orphaned marsupials. Hand-raising a joey is the work she did before there was ever a zoo around it.
- - Bindi Irwin and Australia Zoo Team Save Poisoned Corellas | Crikey! It's the Irwins. Mass bird poisonings are among the emergency cases the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital handles. Bindi Irwin is the zoo's chief executive and has worked its rescue cases since childhood.
- - Robert Irwin Swims With Great White Sharks For The First Time! | Crikey! It's Shark Week. Robert Irwin's first great white dive follows his father's long record of marine work on The Crocodile Hunter. Robert is an award-winning wildlife photographer as well as a presenter.
- - Relocating Ten Massive Alligators! | Crikey! It's the Irwins. Relocating ten large alligators at once is the same logistical problem Steve solved in the field, where the goal was always to move an animal alive rather than destroy it.
- - Breeding Komodo Dragons at Australia Zoo | Crikey! It's the Irwins. Breeding programmes are the quieter half of a modern zoo's work. Komodo dragons, which Steve filmed in Indonesia in the 1990s, are now bred at Australia Zoo.
- - Bindi Irwin Raises a Possum Joey! | Crikey! It's the Irwins. Hand-raising orphaned marsupials was Lyn Irwin's speciality before the park ever had a hospital. The Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, opened in 2004, carries her name.
- - The Irwins Reunite Scarlet The Giraffe With Her Grandparents! | Crikey! It’s the Irwins!. Moving a giraffe between Australian collections is a multi-day road operation. The Africa precinct at Australia Zoo houses giraffes, rhinos and zebras alongside the Australian animals the park began with.
- - Chandler's best bloopers | Australia Zoo Life. Chandler Powell is a retired American wakeboarder who married Bindi Irwin at Australia Zoo in March 2020 and now works at the zoo. The family produce most of this material themselves.
- - What The Australia Zoo is REALLY LIKE! | Ep. 67. Australia Zoo runs about 700 acres in total with roughly 110 open to visitors, and the daily Crocoseum show is its centrepiece. Steve designed that 5,500-seat arena himself.
- - Irwin Family Adventures in our Backyard! | Australia Zoo. Grace Warrior Irwin Powell was born on 25 March 2021, the first wedding anniversary of Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell. Her middle name is for the Wildlife Warriors, the organisation Steve and Terri founded in 2002.