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.
The story begins
A family affair
Love thy neighbor
Some like it hot
Revolution
Childhood's end
Boys will be boys
Divided loyalties
The good, the bad and the desperate
Daisy's choice
Flower power
An awfully big adventure
The calm before the storm
Moving on
Cold comfort
The three amigos
Young blood
Iron lady
No place like home
When flower met hannibal
United we stand
The enemy within
The art of leadership
Balance of power
Growing pains
The godmother
The quiet fields
On dangerous ground
The mission
Sister act
The death of romance
The tale of len and squiggy
Sibling rivalry
Heavy is the crown
Journey's end
A new day
Farewell, my lovely
Three degrees of separation
The graduate
A family at war
To have and to have not
All manor of love
Rising star
The family way
The mask of zorro
Great expectations
The bodyguard
Divided we fall
To the manor born
The birds
The rovers return
Home alone
The darkest day
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