The BEST episodes of Daktari season 2
Every episode of Daktari season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Daktari season 2!
Daktari (Swahili for "doctor") was a television series that aired on CBS from 1966 to 1969, featuring Marshall Thompson as Dr. Marsh Tracy, a veterinarian at the fictional Wameru Study Center for Animal Behavior in East Africa. The show followed the work of Dr. Tracy, his daughter Paula (Cheryl Miller), and his staff, who were frequently forced to protect animals from poachers and local officials. Tracy's pets, a cross-eyed lion named Clarence and chimpanzee Judy, were also popular characters. Daktari was based upon the 1965 film Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, which also starred Thompson as Dr. Tracy.
#1 - Judy and the Gorilla
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1967
Two hunters raid the Wameru reserve to steal some very valuable animals, kidnapping Judy the chimp in the process. Dr. Tracy has to stop them.
#2 - Little Miss Nightingale
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1967
While Mike is riding in his jeep with Judy the chimp and Clarence the lion, the jeep overturns, pinning Mike underneath it. Mike's survival depends on Judy fending off predatory wild animals and Clarence carrying an emergency message back to the study center.
#3 - A Cub Called Danger
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/11/1967
Paula discovers a lioness is not feeding her cub. Despite her father's warnings not to interfere with nature, Paula and Judy the chimp decide to "rescue" the cub, endangering the lives of Paula, the cub, and Clarence the lion.
#4 - Judy and the Vulture
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1967
Judy the chimp and Clarence the lion "adopt" a vulture as their new friend and playmate, but they don't know that the bird is carrying a lethal virus that makes Clarence very ill.
#5 - The Long Hunt
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1967
The nephew of an Indian sultan visits the compound, but his real objective is the revenge killing of a tiger previously donated by his uncle. Only Judy the chimp realizes his plan, and saves the tiger several times until Dr. Tracy catches on to the plot.
#6 - King Clarence
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1967
A valuable royal lion cub needs a blood transfusion, and Clarence the lion has the type of blood needed, but he seems to have disappeared. Dr. Tracy and his friends fan out to find him and save the cub's life.
#7 - Operation Springtime
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1967
The coming of spring at the Wameru reserve finds Jack and Mike attempting to hatch abandoned ostrich eggs, with help from Judy the chimp and Clarence the lion.
#8 - Goodbye, Mike Makula
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1967
Mike is attracted to a beautiful visitor to the compound, who offers him an important job back in the U.S. with a foundation she is setting up. But Mike's friends find evidence that the job offer isn't what it appears to be, and try to stop him from leaving.
#9 - Undercover Judy
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1967
Hedley accompanies an officer and his Nazi prisoner on a mission to locate microfilm evidence against the Nazi and his cohorts that is supposedly buried on the reserve. However, the officer and prisoner are actually two former German soldiers looking for a cache of buried diamonds. Their plan goes awry when Hedley gives the package of diamonds to Judy the chimp, who hides them.
#10 - A Bullet for Hedley
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1967
A vicious jewel thief threatens to murder Hedley unless Dr. Tracy gives him a pouch of stolen diamonds that, unknown to him, were taken by Judy the chimp.
#11 - Judy and the Baby Elephant
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1967
A baby elephant is attacked by a leopard and needs medical care, but the adult wild elephants won't let anyone near the injured baby. Dr. Tracy and Judy the chimp must find a way to help the baby elephant before it's too late.
#12 - Countdown for Paula
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1967
Paula and Dr. Tracy work to remove wildlife from an area soon to be flooded when hydraulic engineers dynamite a levee. An impatient engineer, not knowing that Paula is in the area and annoyed over the time lost saving animals, sets off the dynamite ahead of schedule, releasing a wall of floodwater and endangering Paula's life.
#13 - Terror in the Bush
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1967
A jeep accident out in the bush results in Dr. Tracy being seriously injured. Paula and Judy the chimp are the only ones with him and have to find a way to get him safely back through the wild to where he can get medical attention.
#14 - House of Lions
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1967
An injured and potentially dangerous lioness escapes from Dr. Tracy's compound. Clarence the lion tries to stop her, but ends up injured by a spear from a native's trap and stranded in a hut with a family of wild lions. Dr. Tracy, Paula and Jack attempt to rescue Clarence.
#15 - Judy the Poacher
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1967
Dr. Tracy and Jack ask Hedley to investigate the disappearance of several baby animals from the compound. Hedley soon finds the one responsible for the thefts: it's Judy the chimp.
#16 - The Return of Clarence
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1966
Clarence the lion, normally a gentle soul, starts acting oddly after receiving a blow to the head in a jeep accident, becoming edgy, hard to control and growling at everybody. Dr. Tracy suspects that the blow has given Clarence amnesia, a diagnosis seemingly confirmed when Clarence suddenly takes a nasty swipe at Paula.
#17 - The Chimp Who Cried Wolf
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1966
A TV comedian visits Dr. Tracy's compound to record the sounds made by animals, but his bumbling disrupts the compound and endangers the lives of Paula, Clarence the lion, and Judy the chimp.
#18 - Clarence the Killer
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1966
A hunter plots to close the Wameru reserve by turning loose a killer lion against Dr. Tracy and then blaming Clarence the lion for the doctor's death.
#19 - Cry for Help
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1966
Dr. Tracy goes looking for a self-styled tribal "healer" he ran out of the area when he finds that the man has the antidote for the venom of a deadly spider that has just bitten Paula.
#20 - Shoot to Kill
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1966
A sick circus bear escapes into the bush, and Dr. Tracy tries to find it before worried local ranchers kill it, fearful that it will contaminate their water supply.
#21 - Revenge of the Leopard
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1966
Dr. Tracy agrees to escort a wealthy, beautiful woman on a filming safari. Unbeknownst to him, the woman's real objective is to find, track and kill a legendary leopard that killed her father years before.
#22 - Death in the African Sun
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1966
Jack is out driving his jeep in the bush with Judy the chimp when the vehicle stalls out. With no water, they're forced to leave the jeep and try to make their way back through the drought-stricken jungle. Jack decides to follow a herd of giraffes, hoping that the animals will lead them to water.
#23 - The Trial
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1966
Dr. Tracy serves as defense counsel for his trained elephant, who is being put on trial by the locals for going on a rampage in a local village and injuring the chief.
#24 - Born to Die
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1966
A pregnant black leopard with a history of killing her previous cubs and attacking her trainer is brought to the center in hopes that Dr. Tracy can change her behavior. However, Judy the chimp fails to lock the leopard's cage and she escapes. Paula is forced to play midwife when she finds the leopard in the bush about to give birth.
#25 - The Test
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1966
Mike searches in the jungle for a tribal chief's son, who has fled into the bush in an attempt to prove to everyone that he's not a coward.