Wild at Heart
Season 3
TV-PG
A veterinarian and his family travel from England to South Africa to set up a game reserve. Initially the trip is to release a wild animal back into the wild, but the vet falls in love with the animals and South Africa, so he decides to stay and buy into a partnership with Andres Du Plessis, the game-reserve owner. The show is about the family's struggles and triumphs in running the game reserve.
8 Episodes
- Episode 1
E1Episode 1Business at Leopard’s Den isn’t flourishing. Sarah decides that new luxury accommodation which will attract wealthy guests is the answer to their financial problems. Danny is finding it tough to juggle mending the fences, his veterinary practice and the health of his animals. A zebra dies unexpectedly, and he needs to stop whatever killed it spreading to other animals. Sarah is on a shopping trip with her mother Caroline (Hayley), purchasing soft furnishings for the new accommodation, when there is a problem with Sarah’s card. The bank has frozen her credit as they are constantly overdrawn. Zebras slip through the damaged fencing into the neighbouring reserve, Mara, angering the manager, Fatani. As Danny tries to smooth things over, he finds two tiger cubs in Fatani’s “zoo for endangered species” and is outraged. Later, the cubs go missing and Fatani immediately accuses Danny of taking them. Danny knows nothing about it but in retaliation, Fatani lures away workers from Leopard’s Den with the promise of instant cash. Things go from bad to worse when Danny learns that his lab bills are still outstanding. Will the Trevanions be able to turn their luck around? And will they unmask the true tiger cub thief? - Episode 2
E2Episode 2Family feuds when new students turn up to train with Danny, and Sarah fires her own mother. Caroline goes to work for Mara, Rosie quits and Danny can't cope. On a game drive Caroline is attacked by lions which brings her back into the family fold, and Danny realises that Rosie has better instincts for the post of his assistant than any student. - Episode 3
E3Episode 3Elephant numbers are outgrowing Leopard's Den but the new owner of Mara encourages Danny to think big. He wants the two parks to merge. Du Plessis discovers that his family is growing but spreading wings. Another birth at Leopard's Den tests Danny's skills and a cache of city bankers find the wildlife a little too threatening. - Episode 4
E4Episode 4Danny's past catches up with him when another vet makes him tow the animal activist line. Caroline and Du Plessis go off to the bushvelt festival to replenish the wildebeest stocks, but Caroline finds camping not her style. Du Plessis goes on a blind date while Caroline buys ostrich to feed to the lions, and Sarah realises why she left the teaching profession. - Episode 5
E5Episode 5A mythical white lion comes to Leopard's Den and Amy Kriel brings a little Essex to Africa. The White Lion is captured by poachers and Caroline is suspected of unwittingly helping by showing it to a journalist. Rosie thinks she's a failure as a vet, but is very interested in answering a question from Max. The White Lion is saved but the neighbours are not all they appeared. - Episode 6
E6Episode 6Rosie can't tell Danny or Sarah what she and Max are up to, and the drought is affecting everyone except Caroline's sister who causes trouble for the family. Danny's hospital plans falter and he decides to sell animals to pay for drilling equipment to find water for everyone since so many animals are dying in the drought. The whole town repays the Trevanians. - Episode 7
E7Episode 7Max's parents are from old South Africa and don't approve of the wedding and the omens are bad when Max sees the bride before the wedding. The drought continues and a fire threatens the marriage, the hospital and the house. Max is the hero and Kriel the coward while Max's father proves that a leopard can change it's spots. - Episode 8
E8Episode 8The hospital is lost in the fire, but the animals are now in danger of being trapped in the flames, so the Trevanions rush to help them. Disaster strikes and the family has to decide what it can do in the face of such tragedy. Africa has been their saviour and now could be their undoing.
