The BEST episodes of Wild at Heart

Every episode of Wild at Heart ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wild at Heart!

A vet and his family travel to South Africa from England to a game reserve. The trip was to initially release a wild animal back into the wild, but then the vet falls in love with the animals and South Africa and decides to stay and buy into a partnership with Anders Du Plessis - the game reserve owner. The family have their struggles and triumphs in running the game reserve.

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Episode 6
star
8.50
6 votes

#1 - Episode 6

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/5/2006

Danny is concerned that poachers may be in the area and when he finds one of his zebras has been killed, he and Du Plessis stake out the grazing area. They find more dead animals, but these were not killed by poachers. Tests reveal anthrax is the cause and Danny imposes a quarantine on Leopards Den. Sarah is upset by her friend Izzy and goes looking for a missing lion cub, but she collapses. The family must wait to see whether Sarah has anthrax or is just allergic to the vaccine.

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Episode 4
star
8.33
3 votes

#2 - Episode 4

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2012

Danny and Ed release two cheetah brothers into the wild as their new partnership begins. Not all the members of the family are happy about the partnership though. Caroline is not happy with Danny’s having betrayed Du Plessis, and is completely against the idea of working with Ed. Caroline turns to Rosie for help, hoping that she’ll be able to talk some sense into her father. Danny and Du Plessis are still hiding the dark secret that Peeters’ body is buried on Leopard’s Den. Danny is pleased to see his daughter again, but she is upset at all the tension in the family. Rosie soon starts to believe though that Ed isn't as bad as Caroline thinks he is. Things end up getting worse when Du Plessis discovers a hyena digging at the grave site, and Ed thinks that it’d be the ideal place for their new quarantine pens.

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Episode 8
star
8.33
3 votes

#3 - Episode 8

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/26/2012

Danny and Ed are getting ready for a review with JLW, the pharmaceutical company that funded their Endangered Species Project. Ed and Rosie find two dead wildebeest calves and Ed wants Rosie to perform a post mortem on them. Fatani is frustrated by the fact that but Liv insists that they have to keep their relationship a secret. The review ends up being a success and their funding will continue and JLW even want to hold a PR event to hand over the next cheque. Ed is not happy after he discovers that Rosie’s made a huge mistake on the post mortem. Fiona Lynch shows up up and is revealed to be Ed’s wife. Ed explains to everyone that they separated after Fiona cheated on him. Fiona begins to think that Ed is seeing Rosie and shares her suspicions with Caroline.

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Episode 5
star
8.14
7 votes

#4 - Episode 5

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/26/2006

Sarah is forced to ask Tate for help when the first paying guests arrive early at a chaotic Leopard's Den, but a string of unfortunate misunderstandings at the rival reserve convinces Rosie her stepmother is having an affair. A rampaging group of rogue male elephants are damaging the land, so Danny introduces an older female animal to keep them in line.

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Episode 5
star
8.00
3 votes

#5 - Episode 5

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2012

The family are still at odds and seperated after Caroline’s decision to move back to the old Clearwater house with Du Plessis. Rosie is determined to get everyone back together and plans a dinner party as a first step towards reconciliation. Du Plessis’ is shocked after he sees Peeters in town when he looks again though he has vanished. Du Plessis hopes that it is just his mind playing tricks on him, but after he sees Peeters again in the bar, he begins to think he’s being haunted and decides to go talk with Danny.

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Episode 6
star
8.00
1 votes

#6 - Episode 6

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2012

With Danny in prison, accused of murdering Peeters, Du Plessis is determined to prove his innocence anyway he he can. After Du Plessis quizzes Ed about what he was doing the night of the murder, Ed says he was fast asleep and Du Plessis knows he’s lying. Fatani ends up finding evidence against Ed which is a letter of termination from the Big Five, signed by Peeters himself. Rosie is left to manage everything herself, to her increasing frustration. Caroline manages to secure an emergency hearing for Danny and he is granted bail. Du Plessis and Ed find Rosie following her disappearance and she has lost a lot of blood and is in a bad way. Danny hurries home to his injured daughter. Fatani discoverers cash and a flight ticket, which seems to confirm their suspicions of Ed. Du Plessis attempts to outline their theory to Danny, but he doesn’t want to hear it.

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Episode 10
star
8.00
2 votes

#7 - Episode 10

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/11/2012

There are some odd things going on at Leopard’s Den after the family awake to discover frogs everywhere. The giraffe also refuses to move from the front gate and the cheetah is off its food. Fatani believes that the animals don’t want Danny to leave and Du Plessis has promised Caroline that he’ll hide his true feelings from his friend, so as not to make the situation any more tough than it already is. After a request for help comes from the National Park, Danny enjoys the chance for one last adventure. After an elephant found in the kitchen, the mystery of the animals’ odd behavior is solved after Fatani admits that he arranged all these stunts to stop Danny leaving, because he feared that Liv would go with him.

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Episode 7
star
7.97
31 votes

#8 - Episode 7

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2012

With Danny not around and Du Plessis doing his community service, Ed is left in charge of running the Endangered Species Project. Kim wants Ed to go for a drink with her, but after feeling flustered, he turns her down, immediately regretting his decision. Ed gets a second chance after Kim returns, worried about her lioness. Fatani tries to help Liv and Thabo with the animal census. Du Plessis and Ed end up discovering thst Kim is an animal smuggler.

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Episode 4
star
7.86
7 votes

#9 - Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/19/2006

Evan and Olivia run away after a series of rows, leaving Sarah to search for her children alone while Danny and Du Plessis go looking for a half-drugged lioness. While tracking the animal, they crash the truck - putting the warden in need of an emergency operation.

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Episode 9
star
7.83
6 votes

#10 - Episode 9

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/2007

Du Plessis's birthday celebrations don't go according to plan. He's been told he has angina and doesn't feel like celebrating.

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Episode 10
star
7.75
4 votes

#11 - Episode 10

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/2007

The residents at Leopard’s Den are reeling from the lion attack. Danny has been given the all-clear to go home but Du Plessis is still unconscious. Will he pull through?

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Episode 6
star
7.75
4 votes

#12 - Episode 6

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2008

Danny is busier than ever due to a drought affecting the region. But he has to turn away some locals with sick animals to attend to an abandoned baby hippo. Frustrated by his relentless workload, Sarah decides to restart the animal hospital initiative. Without Kriel’s knowledge, Amy helps Sarah organise a fundraiser. They hope to persuade Jordan, a rich businessman staying at Mara, to invest in the hospital. Caroline’s sister, Judith, comes to visit the family. She immediately perceives the stalemate between Caroline and Du Plessis and resolves to make Caroline realise how much she cares for him. Meanwhile Max surprises Rosie with a huge diamond engagement ring. To him, it symbolises their future together, but when he outlines his idea of the future to Rosie, she begins to have doubts. At the fundraiser Du Plessis is being auctioned off. The two sisters engage in a bidding war but Judith is triumphant. And Max realises that Rosie hasn’t told Danny and Sarah about their engagement and leaves, upset.

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Episode 2
star
7.67
6 votes

#13 - Episode 2

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/2008

On completing his annual animal census, Danny makes the alarming discovery that there are no male cheetah on the reserve. Meanwhile tension between Sarah and Caroline is at an all time high and in a fit of pique, Sarah fires her own mother. Vet students Glenn and Caitlin are at Leopard’s Den for a work placement, after which Danny will choose which one will be his vet assistant for a year. This annoys Rosie who has started to enjoy assisting her dad. And she doesn’t appreciate Caitlin flirting with her boyfriend, Max. When Danny bawls her out for being late for a game drive, Rosie quits. Sarah is astonished to discover Caroline is the new deputy manager of Mara. But Du Plessis is fed up with all the upheaval at Leopard’s Den and hatches a plan to get everything to go back to normal. Enlisting Caroline’s help, he “borrows” a cheetah from Mara and hints to Rosie that there still may be one male cheetah at Leopard’s Den. Rosie is delighted when she finds the animal. Episode one

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Episode 4
star
7.60
5 votes

#14 - Episode 4

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/10/2008

Danny is shocked when Elaine, his old flame from veterinary college, turns up with a tranquilised lioness which she claims to have found in the bush. Sarah is unhappy when she sees the way Danny reacts to seeing Elaine again. It soon becomes clear that Elaine has not told the whole truth when a man from Catabele, a nearby game park, reveals that one of his lionesses, destined to be shot in a hunt, has been stolen. Danny confronts Elaine who denies taking the lioness, but Sarah’s suspicions are raised. After some internet lessons from Evan, Du Plessis secretly goes on a dating website but Caroline knows he’s up to something. Danny is oblivious to the fact that Elaine still has feelings for him, but Sarah is starting to worry. Sarah is furious with Danny when Mr Castle returns to demand his lioness back. Danny promises to sort it out, but Elaine has already released the lioness. How will Danny sort this one out?

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Episode 1
star
7.55
20 votes

#15 - Episode 1

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/2006

Danny and Sarah set out to build a new life for themselves and their children amid the teeming wildlife of the African plains.

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Episode 3
star
7.50
8 votes

#16 - Episode 3

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/2007

Evan and Du Plessis keep running away from the work of Leopard's Den to look after Togo, an orphaned elephant. Rosie finds Du Plessis' son Kirk on a game drive but Du Plessis attempts to shoot down the idea of him being a father. Sarah also finds out her father has died in hospital.

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Episode 3
star
7.50
4 votes

#17 - Episode 3

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/2008

This week Danny has an elephant problem: there’s not enough space for their growing numbers at Leopard’s Den. The elephants have eaten all the available foliage and are beginning to fight over food, and injure each other. If Danny can’t solve this problem, Du Plessis tells him, the only humane thing to do will be to cull some of the elephants. Sarah has her work cut out with the first guests in the new luxury lodge - a hen party of excitable young women - while Du Plessis’s son, Kirk, arrives with his girlfriend, Neema, and Du Plessis is thrilled to discover he is going to be a granddad. Fatani is nervous because Mara’s new owner is arriving. But Elliot Kriel turns out to be a really good guy. One of the first things he does is invite the Trevanions over for a meal so he can get to know his neighbours. It turns out he may have a solution for Danny’s elephant problem too. But it’s not just elephants on the agenda. Rosie calls Danny away to investigate a giraffe problem near the fence with Mara. It seems the new electric fence Fatani has installed is hurting the giraffes…

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Episode 5
star
7.43
7 votes

#18 - Episode 5

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/2007

Everyone’s excited about the arrival of Danny’s old tutor and Rosie’s godfather, Bash but he appears to be suffering from memory loss.

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Episode 3
star
7.38
8 votes

#19 - Episode 3

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/12/2006

The arrival of Evan and Olivia's father throws the family into turmoil. He is determined to take his kids back to England with him and threatens to go to court to get custody. Sarah is furious - he wasn't thinking of them when he left her for his secretary. Rosie can't hide her delight that they might all be going home, but when a drunken fight breaks out in a bar, she is rescued by Tate.

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Episode 3
star
7.33
6 votes

#20 - Episode 3

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2009

Danny is called to help with a rabies outbreak. Danny finds it hard working with a vet called Alice who has been sent to help him.

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Episode 6
star
7.33
3 votes

#21 - Episode 6

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/2010

Danny's attempts to help Alice settle into her new job at Mara backfire when a hyena goes on the rampage. With the life of an animal in the balance, Danny realises he must pull out all the stops if he is to salvage his relationship with Alice. Meanwhile, Alice discovers that Rowan and Vanessa have been seeing each other in secret. And a honeymooning couple face a charging wildebeest.

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Episode 8
star
7.33
3 votes

#22 - Episode 8

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/2010

Leopard’s Den’s residents go to an auction to purchase a giraffe after lions kill their own. However when Danny and Alice argue over a suitable replacement Danny falls into the arms of Vanessa. Meanwhile, a storm is approaching Leopard’s Den, so for safety reasons the family have to release some of the animals. When the storm hits, Charlotte and Danny come off the worst.

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Episode 10
star
7.33
3 votes

#23 - Episode 10

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/2010

When Du Plessis hears about Caroline's intention of buying them a retirement home he confesses to Olivia that he has given away all of their savings to his son. Will they be able to resolve the situation before the family find out? Danny and Alice's plan to give a home to a rare aardwolf backfires when they meet Vanessa's father - who refuses to take in charity cases. He goes on to make himself even more unpopular by buying Ekotto's land with the intention of turning it into a golf course.

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Episode 10
star
7.33
3 votes

#24 - Episode 10

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/2011

While Du Plessis digs himself deep in trouble trying to sort out his finances and keep Caroline happy, Danny is busy making plans for his and Alice's future.

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Episode 8
star
7.25
4 votes

#25 - Episode 8

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/2007

A plane crashes at Leopards Den bring with it an unwanted virus.

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