Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Born Free' from 1970-1982:
- Diana Muldaur as Joy Adamson (1974)
- Gary Collins as George Adamson (1974)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Born Free':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Hesper Anderson D: Gary Nelson
With Peter Lawford (John Forbes).
New series based on the Joy Adamson books of a game warden and his wife, filmed entirely on location in Kenya. In the first episode, Elsa is wounded when poachers attack, and the Adamsons attempt to track down the criminals while nursing Elsa back to health.
Season 1, episode 2
D: Gary Nelson
With Hari Rhodes, James Vickery (Ken Warren).
Elsa the lion is ordered to be killed by the District Agricultural Officer, who accuses her of destroying crops and attacking villagers, and the Adamsons set out to find her.
Season 1, episode 3
D: Jack Couffer
With Susan Dey.
Elsa aids a young flyer who crashes while flying her private plane in drought-plagued Kenya.
Season 1, episode 4
D: Leonard Horn
With Dan O'Herlihy (Archie Gordon), Joseph De Craft (Joe Kanini), Hal Frederick (Makedde), Peter Lukoye (Nuru).
The Adamsons set out to find poachers when they discover an illegal shipment of ivory.
Season 1, episode 5
With Dawn Lyn (Regan Mallory), John De Villiers (Rob Mallory).
An 11-year-old girl finds an infant in the bush, and learns she has violated an ancient Boran tribal rite.
Season 1, episode 6
D: Leonard Horn
A young Masai warrior has trouble with his own identity when he is confronted by both traditional and new ways of Africa -- a prospect that is complicated by the arrival of a white hunter.
Season 1, episode 7
With Juliet Mills (Dr. Claire Hanley), Freddie Achiang (Lorio), Tommy Eytle (Mzee), Lucita Lijertwood (Medicine Woman), Michael Woods, Marlene Dogherty.
A doctor is forced into competition with a local medicine woman when she attempts to bring modern medicine to the outlying regions of Kenya.
Season 1, episode 8
With Alex Cord (Paul Morgan), Joseph De Craft (Joe Kanini), Hal Frederick (Makedde), Peter Lukoye (Nuru).
Dr. Paul Morgan, a veterinarian, comes to Kenya to assist the Adamsons while they help a Masai tribe bring their cattle home after a drought.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Gary Collins, Sy Salkowitz D: Paul Krasny
With James Vickery (Ken Warren).
A veteran hunter is unable to track down and kill man-eating lions, and the Adamsons are asked to take over the dangerous search.
Season 1, episode 10
D: Russ Mayberry
With Mary Ann Mobley (Cynthia Cunningham), Dawn Lyn (Regan Mallory), John De Villiers (Rob Mallory).
A 10-year-old girl's mother arrives in Africa to find her daughter after an eight-year absence, and the meeting turns out to be traumatic for both of them.
Season 1, episode 11
D: Barry Crane
With George Sewell (Sam Willis), Dawn Lyn (Regan Mallory), John De Villiers (Rob Mallory).
Threatened by the loss of his land to the government, a man teams up with a hunter to try and sell his animals at a huge profit.
Season 1, episode 12
D: Russ Mayberry
When cattle raiders strike, they leave behind a young man whose father was killed in the raid.
Season 1, episode 13
D: Gary Nelson
With Barbara Parkins (Kim Travers).
An anthropologist is provoking various tribes to return to their ancestral ways, which involves a killer leopard on the loose. (Last show of the series.)