About this season
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.
Episodes (17)
1. Miner Threat
Aired 3 June 2012 • 30 min
Turtleman's got a date with a country critter that's got a taste for chewing the wooden support beams of a rural coalmine. Then, Turtleman must save the day after a tornado tears through the countryside, releasing lethal chemicals into a turtle pond.
2. Killer at Shaker Village
Aired 3 June 2012 • 30 min
Kentucky's Shaker Village is home to a bird sanctuary, but this church has got a new mystery member, and it's practicing blood sacrifice! Then, signs of a home invasion are becoming too much for one family to ignore, and Turtleman is their only hope.
3. Santa Claws
Aired 10 June 2012 • 30 min
A hedgehog at a local petting zoo turns up dead, with only a pair of tooth marks left as evidence. Then, local realtors are planning an open house for a historic Kentucky mansion when a critter with a taste for pastries undermines their selling attempts.
4. Beehive Massacre
Aired 10 June 2012 • 30 min
A bachelor auction has a treat for its bidders when Turtleman shows up as the prize of the party. Three ladies pool their money to win a date with the Turtleman, and he meets them for a date at one of his favorite haunts: a pond full of snapping turtles!
5. Speedway Demons
Aired 17 June 2012 • 30 min
Turtleman and his team go to Kentucky's Ponderosa Speedway, where they round up raccoons, groundhogs and an opossum. Later, an escaped boa constrictor requires Turtleman's immediate attention.
6. Hell Hog
Aired 24 June 2012 • 30 min
Turtleman's back in New Orleans and teaming up with John "Hogman" Schmidt. Wild hogs are posing a direct threat to a real estate developer's property. Then, shrimper Big Sexy's livelihood is at stake when a pack of muskrats prevent him from setting sail.
7. French Quarter Coyote
Aired 1 July 2012 • 30 min
Turtleman heads south to New Orleans to help innocent civilians in danger where a coyote is on the loose. He's then out to stop an invasive species destroying the Louisiana swampland in Baton Rouge.
8. Baby Mama Drama
Aired 8 July 2012 • 30 min
Turtleman must capture a critter he's never seen before! At a community pool, unwanted swimmers are keeping kids from cooling off on a hot summer day, and it's up to Turtleman to snatch these slithering swimmers!
9. Jaws of Hell
Aired 15 July 2012 • 30 min
The Turtle Team is going back to college to clean up a host of gnarly critters that have moved into a frat house. A snapping turtle attacks a local preacher's congregants during a baptism in a pond, and the ceremony can't resume without Turtleman's help.
10. Trailer Park Stink Bomb
Aired 22 July 2012 • 30 min
A beaver dam threatens erosion and flooding to a farm, while a pesky beaver drags the Turtle team through the mud. Local trailer park residents flee after a putrid odor persists for several days. The source is the vermin Turtleman hates most -- a skunk!
11. Night of the Digging Dead
Aired 29 July 2012 • 30 min
A local cemetery is being disrespected by a canine whose cunning is matched only by its beauty. An emu farmer has lost one of his prized birds and despite no experience with these exotic animals, Turtleman agrees to find it.
12. Sawmill Slasher
Aired 5 August 2012 • 30 min
Turtle Team Jake's wood-supplier is forced to shut down after a mysterious critter chews through the sawmill's wiring. Turtleman makes a last-ditch effort to clear the studio of snakes before a Kentucky bluegrass legend arrives for his instrument.
13. Tee'd Off Turtles
Aired 19 August 2012 • 30 min
A winery needs Turtleman's help with invasive pests before its business withers on the vine; menacing snapping turtles are keeping golfers from retrieving their balls from a pond.
14. Pig Wallow Predator
Aired 26 August 2012 • 30 min
Turtleman shows some Kentucky pride when he's called to rescue a stable of horses from a potentially venomous snake. At a local swine farmer's watering hole, a drift of hogs and a pair of snapping turtles are careening on a mutual path toward destruction.
15. Killer in the Cavern
Aired 3 September 2012 • 30 min
Rabbits are being killed on a farm by a nocturnal predator; a drive-in theater is threatened by an unidentified animal.
16. Fairground Fiasco
Aired 3 September 2012 • 30 min
A carnival's infestation problems could jeopardize the traveling show; an unseen critter is digging up a family's yard, not far from a children's playground.
17. Holler Day Cheer
Aired 16 December 2012 • 30 min