Monkey Business
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Monkey Business

7.5 / 10
1997
9 seasons
108 episodes

Monkey Business is a long-running TV series about the exploits of various primates who reside at Monkey World, a rescue centre and sanctuary for primates in Dorset, United Kingdom. The series features Jim and Dr. Alison Cronin, directors of Monkey World, as they travel around the world rescuing primates from lives of abuse, and returning them to Monkey World. Their goal is to rehabilitate the rescued primates and allow them to live in as natural a habitat as possible, being part of a group and living with friends of their own kind.

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Monkey Business Intro - 1998 TV Series

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Seasons

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    10-08-199730m

    Documentary strand on a Dorset chimpanzee sanctuary. Chimp Charlie - which has been affected by a cocktail of drugs - throws a fit, causing chaos among the other apes.

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    TBA30m

    Charlie the reformed junkie chimp has his eyesight tested at the Dorset wildlife sanctuary, while a miserable capuchin monkey arrives unexpectedly, and keeper Mike is assigned to l...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    TBA30m

    The orang-utan love affair develops as two chimpanzee clans are prepared for their first meeting, and a lemur keeper hand-rears some rejected babies.

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    TBA30m

    There is trouble in store when the two chimpanzee clans are introduced. The respective leaders engage in a face off in the outside enclosure.

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    TBA30m

    Paddy is accepted as the chimpanzee group's leader. Meanwhile, all is not well with the orang-utan couple's relationship.

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    TBA30m

    Charlie befriends a rescued chimp from Spain, the two orang-utans make up and Jimmy starts a new relationship.

  • Episode 7

    7.Episode 7

    TBA30m

    Keeper Jeremy lavishes care and chocolate on chimpanzee Charlie following the amputation of his finger. Naughty Jimmy is put in the misfit group as punishment, where he gets a tast...

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