Wild At Heart Series 3 Episode 5

[Orestes Hardy]

Thisis an episode list of the ITV television drama series Wild At Heart. It stars Stephen Tompkinson, Amanda Holden, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Deon Stewardson, Hayley Mills, Dawn Steele, Luke Ward-Wilkinson, Rafaella Hutchinson, Olivia Scott-Taylor, Mary-Ann Barlow, Robert Bathurst, and Jill Halfpenny.

Veterinarian Danny Trevanion, his wife Sarah, and their children: Rosie, Evan and Olivia, set out from Bristol, England for a holiday in Africa to rehabilitate a vervet monkey. Evan hasn't adjusted well to Sarah's divorce and is a victim of school bullying. Their short holiday looks like it could turn out quite differently when they arrive at Leopards Den and meet Anders Du Plessis and his housekeeper Nomsa.

Danny considers investing all their money by signing a binding business contract with Anders Du Plessis, whose family has owned Leopards Den for more than 100 years. Competition from Mara, a nearby luxury lodge and much larger reserve, could threaten their hoped-for livelihood. Evan and Du Plessis accidentally injure a cheetah, but all attention turns to Olivia when she is bitten by a deadly cobra.

Sarah is furious when her ex-husband Simon arrives unexpectedly with his girlfriend Ruby and threatens legal action if Sarah won't allow him to take Evan and Olivia back to England. On Rosie's first night working at a local bar, a drunken brawl breaks out but Alex Tate, owner of Mara Lodge, is watching out for her.

In the shocking series finale, amidst a raging wildfire, Sarah dies attempting to save the life of their pet cheetah Jana. The family is plunged into grief and mourning, and it's unclear what the future holds for them. As reconstruction on the animal hospital begins, they try to come to terms with their tragic loss.

Danny is put in charge of culling a large number of animals to bring an outbreak of rabies under control. A new vet, Alice Collins arrives from the city to help. When her young daughter Charlotte wanders off into the bush, a tragedy is narrowly averted. Meanwhile Evan returns to Africa after spending time at home in England with his father.

Danny confides in Dup about his intention to ask for Alice's hand in marriage, but the unexpected and turbulent arrival of his deeply troubled teenage stepdaughter Olivia threatens to derail his plans.

When Dup learns of Caroline's intention to buy them a retirement home he confesses to Olivia that he's given their savings away to help his son. Danny and Alice try to find a home for a rare aardwolf, but Vanessa's father, who has arrived to help save Mara from financial ruin, refuses to cooperate.

While on honeymoon in London Danny and Alice meet Danny's estranged father Robert, who returns with them to Leopards Den to help save the pride of lions from a deadly outbreak of canine distemper. Robert reveals he has brain cancer. How will Danny cope with the loss of both his father and his beloved pride of lions?

Dup learns he has a life-threatening heart condition. With relationship issues causing tension in the family and Danny unhappy about the forthcoming marriage of Rosie and her fianc Dylan, Dup grasps at the opportunity for one last adventure to heal the rifts. Against the backdrop of the wedding celebration, Danny pays tribute to Dup and to Leopards Den. Dup slips quietly away to the rocky outcrop where years earlier he made the decision to invite the Trevanions to live at Leopards Den. With tears of love Caroline explains, "He'll always be here." Framed by the setting sun, Dup removes his hat and closes his eyes.

Wild at Heart is a British television drama series created by Ashley Pharoah about a veterinary surgeon and his family, who emigrate from Bristol to South Africa, where they attempt to rehabilitate a game reserve for wild animals and establish a veterinary surgery and animal hospital. The show was broadcast on ITV for seven series beginning on 29 January 2006 and ending on 30 December 2012.

Wild at Heart began airing 29 January 2006 on ITV. It ran for seven series, concluding 30 December 2012 with a two-hour finale. It was filmed on location at the Glen Afric Country Lodge, a 1500-acre game reserve and sanctuary that is home to a host of African wildlife, including lions, giraffes, elephants and cheetahs. Glen Afric is located in Broederstroom, North West Province, South Africa. A large set called 'Leopards Den' was built on the property specifically for the production. Producer Ann Harrison-Baxter said: "We literally walked every inch of the reserve to find the best place to build the house, and then it was all created from scratch and aged to look like it had been there for more than a century in just 10 weeks!"[1] Leopards Den was significant as a symbolic character in its own right throughout the show's seven years. It served as the backdrop against which the family struggled to carve out a new life for themselves, and ultimately to survive and remain together.

Wild at Heart was immensely popular in the UK, with ratings peaking at approximately 10 million viewers and never averaging less than 7.5 million over any series (see below). However, the show faced strong competition during Series 7 and speculation appeared in British online newspaper articles in February 2012 that Wild at Heart would be axed after Series 7.[2] In April 2012, similar statements appeared, but ITV did not publish a formal press release confirming that the show was cancelled.

The two-hour finale special was filmed at Leopards Den in September 2012 and aired on 30 December 2012 on ITV. ITV's Head of Drama Series Steve November said: "Wild at Heart will end on a high thanks to the fantastic cast, crew and writing team who produce the drama. We couldn't wish for a better script to celebrate an immensely successful series for ITV."[3] The finale special was followed on 31 December 2012, by a one-hour documentary titled Wild at Heart: Filming With Animals (see below).

In a BBC Radio 2 interview with Simon Mayo on 24 October 2012, Stephen Tompkinson said, "We got back [from South Africa] about three weeks ago [after filming the finale special]. It was very sad to say 'goodbye'...We are ending it in a way that will let you know it's really the end. We're not sort-of loosely hanging on to go try and get a Christmas Special or a Valentine's Day Special out of it. This is it. It ends with a lovely wedding; I'm not going to say who." (Note: BBC Radio 2 makes their interviews available via iPlayer for only a brief period and this interview is no longer available.)

Wild at Heart aired as a simulcast on TV3 Ireland.[4] The pilot episode was remade for an American audience, with a predominantly American cast, different characters and a loosely similar plot line. It succeeded enough for a first full series to be commissioned with the title Life Is Wild. It aired on The CW Television Network in the US, the Hallmark Channel in the United Kingdom, Skai TV in Greece and Warner Channel in South Africa. However, ratings were low and the show was cancelled after Series 1.

The music for Wild at Heart was composed by Tristin Norwell and Nick Green. The soundtrack is available from iTunes as a download distributed by AWAL.[5] All profits from its sale are donated to Water Aid.

Sarah Trevanion was the second wife of Danny and the mother to two children, Olivia and Evan. She was a supply teacher when they lived in Bristol and it was her idea in the first place that they take the family to Africa.

When they first moved to Africa it was clear she had a strained relationship with her step-daughter Rosie, although they become closer as time passed. She caught anthrax in series one and it was believed she would die from the disease, caught from another animal. In the third series, whilst trying to protect and save the family's pet cheetah Jana from a wild bushfire, Sarah died.

Sarah was a headstrong character. After letting slip to her mother, Caroline, at her fathers' funeral in England, to Sarah's dismay Caroline decides to take a visit over to Africa. At first Sarah is very much unhappy about having her mother in Africa but soon after they make-up and Caroline also moves into Leopards Den .

One day, a bush fire hit Leopard's Den and a cheetah ran into the smoke and Sarah followed. Danny and Dup went into the smoke to save her. Sarah got lost in the smoke. As she reached some trees, she was suddenly surrounded by a circle of fire and trapped. She was last seen screaming Danny's name. It was later revealed that Sarah had sadly passed away in the fire.

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