The Crocodile Hunter

*The Crocodile Hunter*
The Crocodile Hunter
Genre	Wildlife documentary/Travel documentary/Family
Created by	John Stainton; Steve Irwin
Starring	Steve Irwin; Terri Irwin; Wes Mannion
Country of origin	Australia; United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	78 (including pilot and 13 specials); (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	John Stainton; Judi Bailey; Carole Tomko Recka; Steve Irwin
Running time	42–45 minutes
Production company	The Best Picture Show Company
Original release
Network	Animal Planet
Release	25 October 1996 –; 18 June 2004
Network	Discovery Channel
Release	1 January 1997 –; 4 September 2007

The Crocodile Hunter is a wildlife documentary television series hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife, Terri. The show became a popular franchise due to Irwin's unconventional approach to wildlife. It spawned a number of separate projects, including the feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and two television spinoffs: Croc Files and The Crocodile Hunter Diaries.

The series was presented on Animal Planet, becoming the network's highest-rated series at the time, and was in international syndication on networks worldwide.^[3] The series aired 64 episodes during five seasons, from 1997 to 2004, two years before Irwin's death, with a pilot episode in 1996 and 13 specials into 2007.

With a nearly 11-year run, the series is the second longest-running program of any Discovery Communications network, behind MythBusters.

Episodes

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
Season	Episodes	First aired	Last aired
Pilot	1	October 25, 1996 (1996-10-25)
1	8	April 5, 1997 (1997-04-05)	May 24, 1997 (1997-05-24)
2	10	March 8, 1998 (1998-03-08)	November 22, 1998 (1998-11-22)
3	16	September 4, 1999 (1999-09-04)	June 24, 2000 (2000-06-24)
4	18	November 19, 2000 (2000-11-19)	August 10, 2002 (2002-08-10)
5	12	November 20, 2002 (2002-11-20)	June 18, 2004 (2004-06-18)
Specials	13	January 1, 1997 (1997-01-01)	September 4, 2007 (2007-09-04)