The Jeff Corwin Experience
The Jeff Corwin Experience is an American wildlife documentary television program that premiered on the Animal Planet cable channel in 2000. It was hosted by actor and conservationist Jeff Corwin, who previously hosted Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin.
| The Jeff Corwin Experience | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Nature documentary Travel documentary |
| Starring | Jeff Corwin |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 42 |
| Production | |
| Distributor | Popular Arts Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | Animal Planet |
| Original release | December 7, 2000 – December 3, 2003 |
Overview
In its initial season, the program included a cobra festival in India, jungles in Thailand, Borneo and the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador in South America. The following year, the program featured Guyana, Australia and Tanzania. In its third season in 2005, Mexico and Peru were included, as well as Kenya and Uganda in Africa. While the program includes some North American settings, segments have included all the other continents except Antarctica.
The program has educational value, but is produced to entertain as well, which would be suitable for science education in state schools. Jeff is often bitten or nearly bitten by the animals being described. Jeff also enjoys making numerous jokes and references to pop culture and movies.
Corwin was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in public education from Bridgewater State College. He has long been a proponent of rain forest preservation. Programs such as this and those of Steve Irwin and Terri Irwin (of The Crocodile Hunter) reflect a "human coexistence with wildlife approach" which is in sharp conflict with poachers and past practices in many parts of the world.
Episodes
Season 1 (2000–01)
- Episode 1 — Borneo: A Wild Man in Borneo
Animals: Asian elephant, macaque, orangutan, swiftlet, cat, Horseshoe bat, proboscis monkey, leech, harlequin tree frog
Original Air Date: December 7, 2000 - Episode 2 — India: Riding the Cobra Express
Original Air Date: December 10, 2000 - Episode 3 — Arizona: Land of the Serpent
Original Air Date: December 17, 2000 - Episode 4 — Alaska: Northern Exposure
Animals: Dall's porpoise, sea otter, Steller sea lion, Giant Pacific octopus, black bear, Sitka black-tailed deer, muskoxen, pika, red fox, dall sheep, grizzly bear, Alaskan moose
Original Air Date: January 21, 2001 - Episode 5 — Louisiana: Call of the Cajun Wild
Original Air Date: February 4, 2001 - Episode 6 — Thailand: The Royalty of Siam
Original Air Date: February 25, 2001 - Episode 7 — Indonesia: Six Days to the Dragon
Original Air Date: March 18, 2001 - Episode 8 — Ecuador: Into the Heart of Darkness
Animals: tapir, anaconda, giant river turtle, Leptodactylus pentadactylus, leafcutter ant, green vine snake, rusty tree frog, kinkajou, Corallus hortulanus, Black caiman
Original Air Date: March 26, 2001 - Episode 9 — Brazil: The River Wolf and the Isle of Serpents
Original Air Date: May 13, 2001 - Episode 10 — Namibia: Into Africa
Original Air Date: May 20, 2001 - Episode 11 — Madagascar: The Land That Time Forgot
Original Air Date: June 24, 2001 - Episode 12 — Panama: Bridge Between the Americas
Original Air Date: August 19, 2001 - Episode 13 — Galapagos: The Living Laboratory
Original Air Date: August 26, 2001 - Episode 14 — Extreme Encounters
Original Air Date: August 26, 2001 - Episode 15 — Snake-tacular
Original Air Date: September 2, 2001
Season 2 (2002)
- Episode 1 — Florida: Exploring Pascua de Florida
Animals: eastern indigo snake, manatee, skink, moccasin snake, Siren, apple snail, American alligator, cougar, eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Original Air Date: February 27, 2002 - Episode 2 — Guyana: Land of the Giants
Animals: giant river turtle, green vine snake, golden poison frog, cane toad, Crotalus durissus, giant otter, unknown rat
Original Air Date: March 24, 2002 - Episode 3 — California: The Wild One
Animals: great white shark, unidentified jellyfish, southern sea otter, seagull, black bear, southern Pacific rattlesnake, bobcat
Original Air Date: March 24, 2002 - Episode 4 — Costa Rica: The Arribiatta
Original Air Date: May 26, 2002 - Episode 5 — Amazon: Goin' Bananas
Animals: pirarucu, Bothrops atrox, squirrel monkey, monkey frog, bald uakari, mata mata, pale-throated sloth
Original Air Date: July 7, 2002 - Episode 6 — Australia: Out of Balance Down Under
Original Air Date: July 14, 2002 - Episode 7 — Tasmania: Sympathy for the Devil
Original Air Date: July 21, 2002 - Episode 8 — Zanzibar: Dr. Corwin I Presume
Species: coconut crab, Indian almond, Zanzibar red colobus monkey, street cat, weaver ant, hyrax, Aldabra tortoise, hippopotamus, painted dog, Acacia drepanolobium, ant, puff adder, baobab, arboreal gecko
Original Air Date: July 28, 2002 - Episode 9 — Tanzania: Bodies in Motion
Animals: wildebeest, cheetahs, Egyptian cobra
Original Air Date: July 28, 2002 - Episode 10 — India: Between the Tiger and the Lion
Animals: Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion,[1] Indian cobra, banyan tree, black faced langur, Indian antelope, beautia, spotted deer, sambar deer, spiny-tailed lizard, water buffalo, camel
Original Air Date: August 4, 2002 - Episode 11 — Nepal: Journey to Shangri-La
Original Air Date: August 11, 2002 - Episode 12 — Morocco: A Time Machine of Sand
Original Air Date: August 18, 2002 - Episode 13 — Spain: Americano Loco
Species: Barbary macaque, Iberian lynx, eucalyptus, Mediterranean chameleon, lesser kestrel, Moorish gecko, European pond turtle, European water snake, sacred scarab beetle, Ocellated lizard
Original Air Date: August 25, 2002 - Episode 14 —Caught in the Act
Original Air Date: December 2, 2002
Season 3 (2003)
- Episode 1 — Botswana: Exploring the Elephant Highway
Original Air Date: February 26, 2003 - Episode 2 — Uganda: It's a Croc Story
Original Air Date: March 5, 2003 - Episode 3 — Mexico: The Great Snake Hunt
Original Air Date: March 12, 2003 - Episode 4 — Peru: Bear Necessities
Original Air Date: March 19, 2003 - Episode 5 — Kenya: Hyena, Queen of the Beasts
Original Air Date: March 26, 2003 - Episode 6 — Queensland: Going Bats Down Under
Original Air Date: October 15, 2003 - Episode 7 — Cambodia: Snakes on the Menu
Original Air Date: October 22, 2003 - Episode 8 — Indonesia: The Orangutan Freedom Journey
Animals: Bornean orangutan, (possibly) gibbon, binturong, macaque, sun bear, cobra, (possibly) king cobra
Original Air Date: October 29, 2003 - Episode 9 — Texas/Colorado: The Big Bad Wolf?
Original Air Date: November 5, 2003 - Episode 10 — Brazil: Saving the Tamarin
Original Air Date: November 12, 2003 - Episode 11 — Venezuela: Operation Anaconda
Original Air Date: November 19, 2003 - Episode 12 — Where's Jeff?
Original Air Date: November 26, 2003 - Episode 13 — The Urban Show
Original Air Date: December 3, 2003
References
- Nowell, Kristin; Jackson, Peter (1996). Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (PDF). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. pp. 1–334. ISBN 2-8317-0045-0.