Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies — Season 1, Episode 6: The Play's the Thing; Sam Spades of the Savannah

Episode synopsis

Mama shows Bo, Karla, and Max how important their favorite games really are. Mama and the kids go on the case in search of Bo's missing feather.

About Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

Using live-action wildlife films from the National Geographic and the BBC archives, this animated PBS series tells the warmhearted story of an elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels the world filming wildlife movies that she shares with her family and friends back home in the African savanna, including her son Max, Bo the cheetah, a zebra named Karla and three monkey brothers -- Kip, Flip, and Chip.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Elephant Walk; Sounds of the Savannah
• E2A Little Help from My Friends; Baby of a Different Stripe
• E3Hide and Seek; Tell Me About It
• E4To Sleep with Wombats; All Creatures Great and Small
• E5Anybody Home?; Healthy Habits
• E7Gourmet Grazing; Kings & Queens of the Savannah
• E8I Spy; Eyes, Ears, Nose & Trunks
• E9What's in a Tail?; Footprints In The Sand
• E10Here Today, Gone Tomorrow; Nobody's Perfect
• E11Things That Go Yip, Howl And Screech In The Night; Cracking The Code
• E12The Boy Can Blow; I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes
• E13A Savanna Kwanzaa; You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby