Meerkat Manor (2005)

Name: Meerkat Manor
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Bill Nighy, Stockard Channing, Sean Astin

Documentary

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008. Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats. The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts. The fourth series, subtitled The Next Generation, saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing.

IMDb rating: 8.3 (1,395 votes)
Seasons: 4
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Wonder Project Amazon Channel · The Roku Channel · Tubi TV
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Season 1 (2005)

8.25 avg 13 episodes 8.8 → 8.6 20 min avg

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Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Family Affair	8.8	44
2	Love Thy Neighbour	8.3	33
3	Some Like It Hot	8.4	27
4	Revolution	8.3	26
5	Childhood's End	8.3	20
6	Boys Will Be Boys	8.1	18
7	Divided Loyalties	7.9	14
8	The Good, the Bad, the Desperate	8.0	14
9	Daisy's Choice	8.2	15
10	Flower Power	8.3	15
11	An Awfully Big Adventure	7.8	13
12	The Calm Before the Storm	8.2	15
13	Moving On	8.6	16

Season 2 (2006)

8.81 avg 13 episodes 9.1 → 7.5 20 min avg

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Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Cold Comfort	9.1	13
2	The Three Amigos	8.4	8
3	Young Blood	8.6	11
4	The Iron Lady	8.5	9
5	No Place Like Home	8.8	11
6	When Flower Met Hannibal	8.9	11
7	United We Stand	9.0	9
8	The Enemy Within	9.0	10
9	The Art of Leadership	9.1	12
10	Balance of Power	9.3	8
11	Growing Pains	9.3	8
12	The Godmother	9.0	9
13	The Killing Fields	7.5	7

Season 3 (2007)

8.34 avg 13 episodes 8.8 → 7.2 20 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	On Dangerous Ground	8.8	13
2	The Mission	8.2	10
3	Sister Act	8.4	10
4	The Death of Romance	8.1	12
5	The Tale of Len & Squiggy	8.9	14
6	Sibling Rivalry	8.2	11
7	Heavy the Crown	9.3	15
8	Journey's End	9.7	21
9	A New Day	7.9	12
10	Farewell, My Lovely	8.0	11
11	Three Degrees of Separation	7.8	10
12	The Graduate	7.9	12
13	A Family at War	7.2	8

Season 4 (2008)

8.65 avg 12 episodes 9.0 → 8.5 23 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	To Have and to Have Not	9.0	9
2	All Manor of Love	8.1	8
3	Rising Star	9.1	8
4	The Family Way	8.4	8
5	The Mark of Zorro	8.1	8
6	Great Expectations	9.2	7
7	The Bodyguard	7.7	15
8	Divided We Fall	9.3	7
9	To the Manor Born	7.5	15
11	The Rovers Return	9.3	7
12	Home Alone	9.6	9
13	The Darkest Day	8.5	10

Meerkat Manor (2005)

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