Bondi Vet | |
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Also known as |
* Dr. Chris: Pet Vet (United States)
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Genre | Factual |
Starring |
Chris Brown Lisa Chimes Tim Faulkner Andrew Marchevsky |
Narrated by | Steve Oemcke |
Opening theme | "Coming Home" by Alex Lloyd |
Composer(s) | Neil Sutherland |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 8 |
No. of episodes | 161 (as of 9 July 2016) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | David Williams |
Producer(s) |
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Running time | 43 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Network Ten |
Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 5 February 2009 | – present
Chronology | |
Related shows | Bondi Rescue |
External links | |
Website |
* Dr. Chris: Pet Vet (United States)
Bondi Vet is an Australian factual television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital (near Bondi Beach), and emergency veterinarian Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH), in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde.
Also featured on Bondi Vet are Andrew Marchevsky, a specialist surgeon at SASH, and Tim Faulkner of the Australian Reptile Park at Somersby on the New South Wales central coast.
The series first broadcast on 5 February 2009, with the first two full seasons averaging a rating of 0.93 million viewers in the five capital cities. Bondi Vet is now in its seventh season. The series airs on Network Ten on Saturday night from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Bondi Vet can also be seen on Network Ten on Wednesday morning from 11.00am to 12.00pm.
The series is broadcast in the United States, on CBS as part of their educational CBS Dream Team Saturday morning programming strand, under the title of Dr. Chris: Pet Vet. The series began broadcasting on 28 September 2013. In Canada the series is broadcast on CBC Television. In Czech Republic the series is broadcast on Animal Planet. In the Netherlands it is broadcast on TLC. In Spain the series is broadcast on BeMad TV.