The Crocodile Hunter was a wildlife documentary television series hosted by Steve Irwin and his wife, Terri. The show became a popular franchise due to Irwin's unconventional approach to wildlife. It spawned a number of separate projects, including the feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and two television spinoffs: Croc Files and The Crocodile Hunter Diaries.

The Crocodile Hunter
Genre	Wildlife documentary/Travel documentary/Family
Created by	John Stainton Steve Irwin
Starring	Steve Irwin Terri Irwin Wes Mannion
Country of origin	Australia United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	78 (including pilot and 13 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	John Stainton Judi Bailey Carole Tomko Recka Steve Irwin
Running time	42–45 minutes
Production company	The Best Picture Show Company
Original release
Network	Animal Planet (regular series) Discovery Channel (specials) NBC[1] (Captured on Camera, Africa's Deadliest Snakes, Wildest Home Videos, Big Croc Diaries, Graham's Revenge)
Release	25 October 1996 (1996-10-25)[2] – 4 September 2007 (2007-09-04)[3]

The series was presented on Animal Planet, becoming the network's highest-rated series at the time, and was in international syndication on networks worldwide.^[4] The series aired 64 episodes during five seasons, from 1997 to 2004, two years before Irwin’s death, with a pilot episode in 1996 and 13 specials into 2007.

With a nearly 11-year run, the series is the second longest-running program of any Discovery Communications network, behind MythBusters.