The BEST Episodes of Crikey! It's the Irwins
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 15, 2021
Network: Animal Planet
The Irwins work thoughtfully and tirelessly to carry on Steve's mission to bring people closer to animals and ignite the connection that will ensure an abundance of wildlife for generations to come.
#1 - Steve’s Croc Mission Lives On
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 27, 2019
The family makes the annual trip to the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve to capture, study and release wild crocodiles, a mission started by Steve and Terri that provides research vital to the protection of Australia’s apex predators.
8.81 
#2 - It’s a Baby Giraffe!
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Dec 9, 2018
Rosie the giraffe is ready to give birth; Robert has a bloody encounter with a wild python that has entered an enclosure; Terri helps the keepers wrangle Chief the Tasmanian devil.
8.80 
#3 - Swimming With Manta Rays
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Jan 6, 2019
Robert travels to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to help conduct research on manta ray; the Zoo’s Rescue Unit, Wildlife Hospital and Volunteers team up to save a baby wallaby struggling to survive.
8.79 
#4 - Bindi & the Otters
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Dec 30, 2018
Wes and Robert remove eggs from the nest of saltwater crocodiles Terra and Bosco in a nerve-wracking but necessary venture; Bindi tends to the training of otters Percival and Daisy; Terri makes a zoo volunteer’s dream come true.
8.75 
#5 - Bindi's Wedding
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired Apr 18, 2020
Bindi and Chandler prepare for the happiest day of their lives. Weeks before their wedding day, the coronavirus pandemic causes them to make difficult and drastic changes to the wedding of their dreams, but in the end love prevails.
8.75 
#6 - Tortoise First Date
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Jan 20, 2019
Terri helps determine if Caballe the rhino is pregnant, while Robert hopes to get the zoo’s Aldabra giant tortoises to mate.
8.67 
#7 - Race to Save the Platypus
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Dec 23, 2018
Terri welcomes Mballa, a new cheetah cub from South Africa, to the Australia Zoo family; Robert sets out to save a stranded platypus and Bindi prepares to meet Bert the Koala Joey as he emerges from his mother’s pouch for the first time.
8.60 #8 - Life in Lockdown
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Jul 11, 2020
It's all Irwins on deck when the zoo closes due to the global pandemic. Terri must race to find funds to keep all the animals fed, while newlyweds Bindi and Chandler jump in, trading their honeymoon for work, and Robert faces a risky python rescue.
8.60 
#9 - Giraffe Road Trip
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 11, 2018
The family prepares Croc One, Steve Irwin’s research ship, for a mission to release an endangered sea turtle back to the wild; Scarlett the giraffe reunites with her grandmother; Grub the wild echidna is released from the Zoo’s Wildlife Hospital.
8.52 
#10 - Bindi’s Lemur Island
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Nov 25, 2018
The Australia Zoo’s alligator snapping turtles need a health check, and it’s Robert’s job to protect from their fierce bites; Terri and Bindi welcome seven new lemurs from the United States; the Rescue Unit must save possums caught in a chimney.
8.42 
#11 - Pawing Terri's Heart
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired Jan 13, 2019
Terri attends the exam of Charlie the tiger to determine if his tumors were successfully treated; Bindi and the Small Mammal Team help develop a vaccine for Eden the Tasmanian devil; Robert discovers the true genders of the zoo’s shingleback lizards.
8.38 
#12 - Steve’s Legacy Continues
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Oct 28, 2018
After months of croc wrangling training with Steve Irwin’s best friend Wes, Robert, Steve’s son, takes the final step in his journey to feed Graham, a huge crocodile at the zoo’s famous Crocoseum.
8.32 
#13 - Robert, King of Cobras
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Nov 18, 2018
Robert follows in Steve's steps wrangling Utah, a highly venomous 12-foot king cobra; Dr. Amber visits Tandora to care for wild koalas; back at the zoo, an old injury flares up for Bruce the brolga, a bird who's been in the Irwins' care for 26 years.
8.30 #14 - Bosco The Croc's Big Move
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Oct 5, 2019
Robert takes on the challenging task of relocating Bosco, the most aggressive croc at the zoo; Bindi must investigate Forest the giraffe's bad knee problem; Terri helps Harley the koala find love at the end of a difficult breeding season.
8.29 #15 - Road Trip Rescue
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Oct 19, 2019
Carrying three baby kangaroos and an emu, the Irwins caravan into the Australian Outback to release the animals on Mourachan, their giant wildlife conservation property; plans shift when they discover more animals in need of rescue along the way.
8.29 
#16 - Tiger Eyes
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Nov 4, 2018
It's a big day for Hunter the Sumatran Tiger. He is blind and must be sedated for his annual eye check, so Terri can get closer than usual. The keepers prepare the young giraffe Scarlett for a road trip to South Australia, reuniting her with family.
8.25 
#17 - Irwin African Adventure
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Dec 2, 2018
The Irwins travel to South Africa, where Terri helps release a wild leopard, Bindi learns from the all-female anti-poaching squad The Black Mambas and Robert attempts to photograph Africa’s big five game animals.
8.20 
#18 - Robert’s Baby Kangaroo
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Dec 16, 2018
Bindi and the keepers ready Sophie the Baby Giraffe for her first steps into her enclosure; Robert helps to hand-raise Melman the Kangaroo; Terri oversees a health check for Ravi the Red Panda.
8.14 #19 - Oscar the Grouchy Frogmouth
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Nov 9, 2019
Terri returns to her hometown in Oregon to help Brady, a cougar in need of a vital health check. At the zoo, Robert is on a mission to rescue Oscar, a small bird with a big attitude, and Bindi bathes an echidna with bad skin allergies.
8.09 #20 - Bindi Says Yes!
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired Dec 21, 2019
As Bindi celebrates her 21st birthday, she gets a surprise proposal from her boyfriend, Chandler. Meanwhile, things get dangerous as Robert wrangles gators in thick mud. Terri helps with the momentous birth of a baby white rhino.
8.08 #21 - Robert & The Rattlesnakes
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired Dec 21, 2019
Robert wrangles Western Diamondback rattlesnakes in Arizona for the first time, learning techniques passed down by his dad. Terri helps save some of the hospital's tiniest patients: three baby feathertail gliders. Bindi chats with Occa the cockatoo.
7.92 #22 - Big Day for Baby Rhino
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 26, 2019
Terri helps prepare the zoo's new baby rhino to receive a lifesaving vaccine; Robert is on a rescue mission to save two black swans in very bad shape; Bindi tries to determine if a cranky wombat named Poa might be pregnant.
7.90 #23 - Robert's Python Swim
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 12, 2019
Robert gets in the water with Gloria, a 12-foot reticulated python, to swim alongside her for the first time in the Crocoseum; Bindi welcomes home two orphaned kangaroo joeys; Terri helps release a rescued wedge-tailed eagle back into the wild.
7.68 #24 - Turtles Take Flight
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired Dec 14, 2019
Robert and Terri take to the skies to release three rescued sea turtles near the Great Barrier Reef. Bindi anxiously awaits the birth of the zoo's first tiger cub in years. Richie helps a baby wallaby in his struggle for survival.
7.63 #25 - Robert Trains a Dragon
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired Nov 23, 2019
Robert and Indah, a Komodo dragon, participate in an exciting research experiment. Terri tries to save a koala joey with a zero percent chance of survival. Bindi visits friends at childhood favorite spot Oregon Coast Aquarium.
7.55