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Game thieves, diamond smugglers and big game hunters endanger the animals in the African bush. But Dr. Tracy and his daughter Paula defy the constant danger.

The adventures in the Florida Everglades of game warden Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, their son Mark, and Mark's tame bear Ben.

Rodeo champion Jim Sinclair is hired by Commander Hayes to introduce modern methods to his game ranch in Kenya. His Navajo blood brother John Henry helps. Ten-year-old orphan Samson adopts them.

Jim asks Samson to memorize a poem and he doesn't really have much of a desire to do so. John Henry does his best to explain it's meaning, but Samson really doesn't understand. Then when Commander Hayes and Jim have to travel to the city, some kidnappers arrive. Samson and John Henry must come up with a plan to save a very important man they have kidnapped, and warn Jim and Commander Hayes that they are waiting for the plane...without letting on to the kidnappers that they are aware of the truth!

Two gauchos arrive at the ranch planning to force Jim into a rodeo so they can earn enough money to go back to South America. When JIm refuses them, they decide to turn Samson against him, thinking that will do the trick. Samson has been practicing his roping, trying to make Jim proud but when the gauchos put the doubts in his head, Samson begins to wonder if Jim really is a champion cowboy.

John Henry and Jim both say yes to competing in the rodeo, but Jim knows there is more than meets the eye. The Gauchos have already decided they will win, and Jim will have to perform with a watchful eye to make sure the competition stays honest.

When Sampson witnesses a gang of outlaws kidnap Commander Hayes and John Henry, he and Jim set off to find them before it's too late.

Jim is outraged by the methods used by big game hunter Ryan Crose and vows to get him to change. This causes conflict with Hayes, an old friend of Croses's, but also a rupture between Ryan and his sensitive son Dan.

While rounding up some wild horses, Jim and the gang are taken hostage by a tribe of Native Africans who intend on forcing them to catch and train the horses before killing them. Samson, told to stay home, sneaks in the truck, then works to get back into Jim's good graces. He meets a boy and they work on lassoing their own wild game. Jim does his best to protect him from the truth.

John Henry is going through some growing pains. He's taking classes at the University, asking Jim not to call him Indian anymore, snapping at everyone, and suddenly decides to turn the worst piece of land into a farm.

When two women show up and scare a rhino, the rhino runs into a snare and can no longer eat or drink. It is up to Jim and the clan to catch the rhino and free him of the snare before the game control does it for them.

Jacob, has worked very hard to please Mageela's father; but when he asks Mageela's father for her hand in marriage, he turns Jacob down. Jim gets involved in a mess when Jacob decides to take Mageela and marry her anyway. They encounter all sorts of trouble on the trail when Jim helps them get to Jacob's tribe. Unfortunatly, Magella's tribe threatened Jacob's tribe so Jacob and Mageela cannot stay there. They set out to find a place for the couple to live. Meanwhile, Samson tries to understand the reason for love and marriage.

After Jim yells at Samson for falling down on the job, Samson takes out into the rain forest to take his "Manhood" test. But when he leaves, he takes some poison meat with him and he doesn't realize it. It is a race against time to get to Samson before he eats the meat, and boy is Jim worried!

Anne Baxter guests as the pitiless owner of a ranch oasis, who refuses to offer the natives relief from a drought.

When Samson catches a freakish fish, a local tribe believes he is possessed by an evil spirit. It becomes a race against time for Jim to get to the bottom of things so he can save Samson from a certain death.

Jim finds a lone lion cub in the bush and believing it an orphan gives it as a gift to Samson. The mother lioness is actually alive and brings terror to the area looking for her missing cub.

John Henry is in love with the cautious Ellen who lessens his self confidence because of her attitude. When he and Jim head out to rope some buffalo it creates a life threatening situation for the unsure John Henry.

The gang is having a lion problem near the ranch and need to find a way to get rid of them; but they also have another problem: two scientists are digging for artifacts and their workers are growing scared of the lions. Their solution is to kill the lions, and Jim and the gang argue for them not to do that. Meanwhile, Samson learns a hard lesson about families. It's a lesson that took about ten years off Jim's life!

Behind a veneer of charm and good fellowship, adventurer Brian Hilliard plans to exploit Hayes for his most valuable asset: an irreplaceable, scientifically bred eland antelope.

John Henry and Jim Sinclair arrive in West Africa to help Commander Hayes start his experiment to domisticate wild game, but a rancher stands in their way. A little boy named Samson may give Jim more reason to stay.

A tribesman by the name of Hemera forces the government to put the ranch under quarantine, but a doctor examines the animals and declares them healthy. Hemera decides, however, that every one of the ranch animals will die. The situation is so bad that Commander Hayes sends Samson away and the three men stand guard twenty-four hours a day.

Jim feels threatened when a man from Sampson's tribe threatens to take Sampson with him so he can get a "proper" education. Jim fights with everything he has to keep Samson with him, but it starts to look like a losing battle.