Seth Margolin
Director
Call of the Wildman (2011)
Season 1
Call of the Wildman is an American reality television following the exploits of Kentucky woodsman Ernie Brown, Jr., nicknamed "The Turtleman". Aided by his friend, Neal James, and his dog, Lolly, Brown operates a nuisance animal removal business, catching the animals without harming them and releasing them back into the wild. The series is primarily filmed near Brown's Lebanon, Kentucky, home.
Released Nov. 6, 2011
Episode 30 min
9+
Genres: Action, Documentary, Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: imdb.pun-in-title, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.dog, imdb.kentucky, imdb.four-word-title, imdb.wild-animal
Production Companies: Sharp Entertainment
Network: Animal Planet
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Dirty Jobs
In the series premiere, a farmers cows are getting attacked in a nearby cooling pond and emerge with missing udders; the culprits: snapping turtles. Ernie is happy to jump in but the pond is overflowing with manure.
Nov. 6, 2011, midnight
S1E2 - Groundhog Day
The turtle man meets his match against his bare hand tactics- a skunk. Hiding under layers upon layers of clothes is his only defense.
Nov. 6, 2011, midnight
S1E3 - Possum Poltergeist
When a local radio host challenges Turtleman to venture deep into the haunted woods of Kentucky and evict a school of venomous reptiles and rabid rodents, he is sent on a wild adventure to protect his Blue Grass name and legend.
Nov. 13, 2011, midnight
S1E4 - The Turtles of Alcatraz Pond
Turtleman receives news that one of his top rescue ponds is scheduled to be bulldozed in a matter of hours. But this isn't just any rescue pond. Nicknamed "Alcatraz," it's where he has released the 12 most ferocious snapping turtles he's ever encountered.
Nov. 13, 2011, midnight
S1E5 - Fort Rattlesnake
Turtleman spots a vicious raccoon at an old trading post and must remove the creature without damaging the historic structure. It's man vs. beast and whoever makes the first mistake will decide the future of one of the last standing stores of its kind.
Nov. 20, 2011, midnight
S1E6 - Turtle Boot Camp
A farmer's hens are mysteriously disappearing from his chicken coop, and Turtleman's called in to catch the mysterious predator.
Nov. 20, 2011, midnight
S1E7 - Trapped Underground
Turtleman races against the clock to save a calf that's fallen down a deep sinkhole and is in distress. Something is lurking in the Wilkins family pond — an animal so big, it broke the line Mrs. Wilkins set to trap it.
Nov. 27, 2011, midnight
S1E8 - The Snake Pit
Turtleman hears of a job in North Carolina — a man's duck pond is being terrorized by turtles. Just a routine job until he finds out this call has come from David Ragan, one of the biggest stars of Turtleman's favorite sport: NASCAR.
Dec. 4, 2011, midnight
S1E9 - Nightmare at Poachers Pond
Turtleman and his crew stage a daring night rescue to save turtles threatened by a band of poachers. Things don't get much brighter when a nuisance call requires Turtleman to descend 30 feet into an underground spring to remove a mysterious animal.
Dec. 11, 2011, midnight
S1E10 - The Bayou Beast
Backwoods meets the bayou when Turtleman and Neal take a road trip down to Louisiana to investigate a mysterious predator locals call the "Beast of the Bayou." Armadillos burrows are destroying the foundation of a family's home.
Dec. 18, 2011, midnight
S1E11 - Danger in the Distillery
A family of possums invades a historic Kentucky bourbon distillery and Ernie might be in danger. Later, turkeys create chaos in a corn maze by attacking kids.
Dec. 25, 2011, midnight
S1E12 - Dilapidated Death Trap
Ernie and his team are asked to clear a wide variety of critters out of an abandon house; a families house is overrun with more rats then they thought.
Dec. 25, 2011, midnight
Network: Animal Planet
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 2070 min.
Released: Nov. 6, 2011
Last Air Date: Aug. 24, 2014, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG
Common sense age: 9+
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