Bondi Vet

Bondi Vet
Also known as
  • Dr. Chris: Pet Vet (United States)
  • Ветеринар Бондай Бич (Russia)
  • Veterinario al rescate (Spain)
  • Veterinář z Bondi beach (Czech Republic)
  • Weterynarz z Antypodów (Poland)
  • Le Vet de Bondi (Quebec)
  • De Dierenkliniek Down Under (Netherlands)
  • Veterinären på Bondi Beach (Sweden)
GenreFactual
StarringChris Brown
Lisa Chimes
Tim Faulkner
Andrew Marchevsky
Narrated bySteve Oemcke (Australia)
Alex Rain (United States)
Opening theme"Coming Home"
by Alex Lloyd
ComposerNeil Sutherland
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons8
No. of episodes161
Production
Executive producerDavid Williams
Producers
  • Jane Caswell
  • Anne-Maree Sparkman
  • Phillip Tanner
  • Mark Hooper
CinematographyJeff Lawson, Mark Hooper
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time43 minutes
Production companyWTFN Entertainment
Original release
NetworkNetwork Ten
Release5 February 2009 (2009-02-05) –
9 July 2016 (2016-07-09)
Related
Bondi Rescue
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Bondi Vet is an Australian factual television series. It follows the lives of veterinary surgeon Chris Brown at the Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital[1][2][3] (near Bondi Beach), and emergency veterinarian Lisa Chimes at the Small Animal Specialist Hospital (SASH),[4] in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde.[5]

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 screened for seven seasons on Network Ten.[6]

From 28 September 2013 to 25 May 2019, the show had been seen on Saturday mornings in the United States on Ten's sister network, CBS, under the title of Dr. Chris: Pet Vet, both as the Bondi community is unfamiliar to most American audiences, and to clarify Dr. Chris Brown as not the similarly named American musical artist. The program was slightly re-edited by American distributor Litton Entertainment to comply with American requirements regarding educational children's programming.

  1. ^ Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital. "Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital". Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  2. ^ Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital. "The Bondi Vet with Chris Brown". Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  3. ^ Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital. "Bondi Junction Veterinary Hospital staff". Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  4. ^ "SASH vets". Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  5. ^ "SASH vet hospital". Archived from the original on 27 November 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  6. ^ Network Ten. "Bondi Vet – Ten Network website". TenPlay – Bondi Vet. Retrieved 23 March 2015.