Thylacine Documentaries and Television Programs
According to Nick Mooney there have been at least 40 documentaries and television shows on the thylacine, of which he has featured in at least 15 of them1. If you can add to the meagre list below please let me know.
Documentaries and Television Programs
Year | Details | Link |
1973 | The Big Country, series? episode? "Tiger Country" (features Jeremy Griffiths, James Malley, Eric Guiler etc.) | Free to watch |
1973 | Tasmanian Wild Life, c.25 min duration, only archival film footage, produced for the Hydro Electric Commission Tasmania | Free to watch |
1973-93 | Find the Tiger - Tasmanian Tiger Sightings, produced by Nine Network, year unknown (between 1973 and 1993), duration unknown | LINC item |
1975 | On the Track of Unknown Animals, 53 mins, Gordon Glenn (producer/director) | |
197X | The Search for the Tasmanian Tiger, Ned Terry and Alec le Fevre | |
197X-198X | Ask the Leyland Brothers, episode 8, | Available on YouTube |
1984? | Rex & Heather Gilroy, filmed June 1984, aired 1984? A Big Country episode? source: Gilroy, Rex. (1985). Trailing a Tiger. Australasian Post, 31 January. | |
1987 | Animals of Australia in Close Up, narrated by Dr. Michael Archer, 52 mins | |
1989 | Tiga, a film by Lucinda Clutterbuck ; animated by Lucinda Clutterbuck & Elsa Argemio. ["Various people recount their feelings when they saw, or thought they saw, a Tasmanian tiger"] | |
1994 | ABC Video (1994). Clash of The Carnivores. Natural History Unit. | |
1994 | Mysterious Universe, season 1?, episode?, On the Trail of the Big Cats | Available on YouTube |
1995/96 | Lost Animals, episode? "Thylacine", David Day | Free to watch |
1996 | Kratt's Creatures, season 1, episode 5, In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger, originally aired 7 June 1996, 27 mins | Available on YouTube |
1996 | Wild South - Tasmania the Last Refuge, 46:05 mins https://ngataonga.org.nz/collections/catalogue/catalogue-item?record_id=490360 | |
1996 | Wellington, Craig. (1996). The Tasmanian Tiger. The Definitive Documentary, (videotape). Hobart: Winning Post Productions. | Available on YouTube |
1997 | Animal X, series 1, episode 11, "Yeti, hypnotising dog, Thylacine [Russian Bigfoot, Hypno Dog, Thylacine]", Storyteller Productions | Free to watch |
1997 | The Thylacine | |
1998 | The Crocodile Hunter, season 2, episode 7, "Where Devils Run Wild" | |
1998 | The X Creatures, season 1, episode 6, "Beyond the Jaws of Extinction", Chris Packham (host), originally aired 30 September 1998 | |
2001 | Extinct, season 1, episode 6, The Tasmanian Tiger, originally aired 30 October 2001 (UK), 30 mins | |
2002 | O‘Neill, Patrick. (Producer/Director/Writer). (2002). End of Extinction: Cloning of the Tasmanian Tiger. Silver Spring, MD: Discovery Channel/TLC. | |
2002 | Animal X, season 2, episode 7, "Incredible dog journeys, thylacine, Swedish lake monster", Storyteller Productions/Discovery Channel | Free to watch |
2003 | Killer Instinct with Rob Bredl, season 4, episode 17: "Devil's Island" aired 25 August | |
2004 | Animal X: Natural Mystery Unit, episode 3, "The Mystery of the Thylacine", Storyteller Productions/Discovery Channel | Free to watch |
2005 | Phenomena Magazine. Secrets of Science - The Resurrection of the Tasmanian Tiger (Documentary, F 2005) | |
2009 | MonsterQuest, season 3, episode 13, Isle of the Lost Tiger, originally aired 13 May, 2008 on History Channel | Available on YouTube |
2011 | Stranger Than Nature, season 2, episode 9, "Tasmanian Tiger Terror", featuring Murray McAllister, c.15 minutes | Available on YouTube |
2012 | Wild Case Files, season 2, episode 7, Tasmanian Tiger Terror, Tigress Productions, originally aired 7 September 2012 (USA), IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4734120/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 | |
2013 | Ray Mears' Close Encounters, episode 2 of 2, Tasmanian Devil, originally aired on ITV, Wednesday 24 July, 60 minutes | |
2013 | "Timid Devils and Ghost Tigers" | Available on YouTube |
2015 | Boogeymen. (aired 16 November 2015). Season 2, Episode 9: Beast of Buderim. "A strange creature believed to be related to the Tasmanian Tiger is spotlighted". source: https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/boogeymen/episodes/685615/ | |
2015 | Hunt for the Tasmanian Tiger, 2 part special, originally aired Monday 14 & Tuesday 15 December at 9:30pm on Animal Planet. | |
2016 | Extinct or Alive: Tasmanian Tiger, produced by Hot Snakes Media, originally aired 31 May 2016, 42 mins | |
2016 | Strange World - episode 7, Tasmanian Tiger presented by Alex Hannaford | |
2017 | Expedition Unknown, season 3, episode 12, Tracking Tasmania's Tiger, originally aired 25 January 2017 (USA), 42 mins, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6470232/?ref_=ttep_ep12 | |
2017/18 | LIVING: The Thylacine Dream, produced by John Maguire and Neil Waters, approx. 80 mins | Free to watch |
2017/18 | Thylacine Road Trip, 12 web episodes, produced by Truly Wild Films. | Free to watch |
Fictional Shows, Programs, Telemovies etc.
Year | Details | Link |
2000 | The Legend of Dogwoman, telemovie, produced by Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier, approx. 98 minutes, originally aired Channel Nine (Australia), Sunday July 302 | |
2014 | Wild Kratts, season 3, episode 26, Back in Creature Time, Part 2: Tasmanian Tiger, 7 July 2014 | Free to watch |
2016 | Out of the Shadows, web series, 8 episodes | Free to watch |
Notes
1 I asked him this question as part of a special Q&A organised by members of 'The Thylacine Open Discussion and Debate Page' Facebook Group. The group is private, so that you will need to be accepted before being able to see the questions and answers. However, Chris Rehberg has kindly reproduced them on his Where Light Meets Dark website for all to see.
2 Overview: https://www.australiantelevision.net/dogwoman/the-legend-of-dogwoman.html