Call of the Wildman

6.3

2011•30m

Call of the Wildman is an American reality television following the exploits of Kentucky woodsman Ernie Brown, Jr., nicknamed "The Turtleman". Aided by his friend, Neal James, and his dog, Lolly, Brown operates a nuisance animal removal business, catching the animals without harming them and releasing them back into the wild. The series is primarily filmed near Brown's Lebanon, Kentucky, home.

Production

Seasons

12 Episodes • Premiered 2011

1. Dirty Jobs

In the series premiere, a farmers cows are getting attacked in a nearby cooling pond and emerge with missing udders; the culprits: snapping turtles. Ernie is happy to jump in but the pond is overflowing with manure.

2. Groundhog Day

The turtle man meets his match against his bare hand tactics- a skunk. Hiding under layers upon layers of clothes is his only defense.

3. Possum Poltergeist

When a local radio host challenges Turtleman to venture deep into the haunted woods of Kentucky and evict a school of venomous reptiles and rabid rodents, he is sent on a wild adventure to protect his Blue Grass name and legend.

4. The Turtles of Alcatraz Pond

Turtleman receives news that one of his top rescue ponds is scheduled to be bulldozed in a matter of hours. But this isn't just any rescue pond. Nicknamed "Alcatraz," it's where he has released the 12 most ferocious snapping turtles he's ever encountered.

5. Fort Rattlesnake

Turtleman spots a vicious raccoon at an old trading post and must remove the creature without damaging the historic structure. It's man vs. beast and whoever makes the first mistake will decide the future of one of the last standing stores of its kind.

6. Turtle Boot Camp

A farmer's hens are mysteriously disappearing from his chicken coop, and Turtleman's called in to catch the mysterious predator.

7. Trapped Underground

Turtleman races against the clock to save a calf that's fallen down a deep sinkhole and is in distress. Something is lurking in the Wilkins family pond — an animal so big, it broke the line Mrs. Wilkins set to trap it.

8. The Snake Pit

Turtleman hears of a job in North Carolina — a man's duck pond is being terrorized by turtles. Just a routine job until he finds out this call has come from David Ragan, one of the biggest stars of Turtleman's favorite sport: NASCAR.

9. Nightmare at Poachers Pond

Turtleman and his crew stage a daring night rescue to save turtles threatened by a band of poachers. Things don't get much brighter when a nuisance call requires Turtleman to descend 30 feet into an underground spring to remove a mysterious animal.

10. The Bayou Beast

Backwoods meets the bayou when Turtleman and Neal take a road trip down to Louisiana to investigate a mysterious predator locals call the "Beast of the Bayou." Armadillos burrows are destroying the foundation of a family's home.

11. Danger in the Distillery

A family of possums invades a historic Kentucky bourbon distillery and Ernie might be in danger. Later, turkeys create chaos in a corn maze by attacking kids.

12. Dilapidated Death Trap

Ernie and his team are asked to clear a wide variety of critters out of an abandon house; a families house is overrun with more rats then they thought.