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Milly and Molly are best friends of ethnically diverse backgrounds who live in a small unnamed town in the countryside. Each day the girls and all their friends experience new adventures that teach them valuable life-lessons.

Documentary/Historical retrospective of the Gay Rights movement from the 1969 Stonewall riots to the present.

Episode 9 - "Guardians of the Deep" Once a lair for pirates and sailors, the islands of Cocos are a mid-ocean oasis that stand alone in the Eastern Pacific. Luxuriant, interwoven rainforest makes for a breathtaking kaleidoscope of green. Spectacular waterfalls crash and tumble into an aqua ocean - this is the landscape that inspired the film 'Jurassic Park'. This lonely outpost is the largest uninhabited island on earth and is home to an extraordinary abundance of marine creatures that some say is unrivalled on earth. The Quest was drawn to Cocos not by the rumoured riches of buried treasure, but for the islands natural, aquatic treasures. Massive schools of Hammerhead Sharks are Cocos' formidable guardians and these hammerheads host a bizarre dinner party - and willingly place themselves on the menu. They allow themselves to be 'cleaned' or fed upon by smaller feeder fish. This symbiotic relationship helps the hammerheads rid themselves of parasites and provides the smaller fish with a ready meal. Scientists here are studying the island and its sharks to see if the burgeoning tourism industry is having an adverse affect on the schooling behaviour of these guardians of the deep.

Episode 4 - "Predator Island" Across from Miami, Florida lies Bimini Lagoon where a unique shark nursery provides the charismatic and eccentric Dr. Sam Gruber with an ideal environment to study the behavior of immature Lemon Sharks. Dr. Gruber's methods are somewhat unorthodox as he hosts the annual Lemon Shark tagging program. Although more like a shark rodeo-round-up, it afforded both scientists and the Quest team plenty of action in the pursuit of science. Other species of the shark family (elasmobranch - sharks, skates and rays) were also studied at close quarters here and enabled the Quest team to get up close and personal with some very feisty and dangerous Eagle Rays. The Bimini backdrop also permitted the "Shark Doc" to introduce his students to his very practical, hands-on way of teaching; the entire class went shark diving without a cage!

Episode 1 - "Swimming With Giants" Every year hundreds of Humpback Whales migrate south from the North Atlantic Ocean to spend winter in the warmer waters of Silver Bank, just to the north-east of the Dominican Republic. At the Silver Bank Marine Preserve, the Quest team have recorded courtship behaviour, parenting and territorial battles of Humpbacks gathered there for the calving season. Silver Bank presented a rare opportunity for the Quest team and scientists to interact at close range with these Humpback communities, revealing a spectacular array of unique behaviour. In this episode we have also documented the intimate bond between mother and calf and witnessed other rarely seen underwater behaviour.

Episode 7 - "Jungle Cats" The magnificent jungle cats of Costa Rica are constantly under threat from poachers who snatch them from the wild to be sold as exotic pets. On route to the Galapagos Islands the Quest team assists two feline biologists with one big rescue mission. They have 25 confiscated jungle cats (15 Ocelots, 9 Margays and 1 Jagarundi) that are surviving at their temporary field station near Dominicalito on the west coast of Costa Rica. Their previous station was obliterated by a cyclone, so a philanthropic Danish businessman has built a new facility on Nicoya Peninsula, 250 miles further north. The Quest team's mission was to rescue these cats and transport them to their new home with a minimum of trauma. There is plenty of high-jinx and drama as the Quest sails across the equator towards the Galapagos Islands on yet another rescue mission; this time to save a species of Giant Tortoise from extinction. Utilising the Quest's helicopter, the team has brought new hope to a seriously endangered species.

The Quest team take the director of Costa Rican Parks to search for the un-filmed Costa Rican spinner dolphins, to inspire Costa Ricans to protect these waters from nets. Guided by a local diver and naturalist, the team finds and swims with a spinner dolphin super-pod in the deep blue offshore pelagic ecosystem and sees a lot more marine life that needs protecting.

Episode 5 - "Visiting the Vampire" The jungles of Belize harbor one of the greatest diversities of bat species in the Americas. Belize is also home to the infamous, blood-sucking Vampire Bat. While the rest of the Quest crew were investigating the local dolphin population offshore, one of the cabin crew was given the opportunity of a lifetime, to confront her greatest fear - Bats! While Mayan ruins, howler monkeys and a thick jungle canopy made tracking the Vampire Bats a challenge, the ingenuity of the Quest team came to the fore and their helicopter was deployed to help decipher the mystery of the Belizean Vampire Bats.

Episode 2 - "Reptiles and Relics" In this episode, Andrew Wight and the Quest team entered the domain of the American Crocodile; growing up to 23 feet long, it is a fearsome predator. Using the Quest's helicopter the team airlifted a boat to a remote lake in the Dominican Republic on the boarder with Haiti. Using their small vessel they helped capture, tag and monitor several crocs. During a night-time capture, Andrew Wight is bitten and the Quest's rubber boat is punctured by a croc - all in the adventurous pursuit of science. The Quest team also explored an underwater cave system in search of ancient Taino Indian artifacts. As they dived deeper into what was once a sacred cave, they were rewarded with archaeological finds such as sacrificial bowls, baskets and pottery, all perfectly preserved underwater for perhaps the past 1,000 years.

Episode 8 - "Dragons & Giants" The Galapagos Marine Iguana is endemic to the Galapagos Islands and is the only iguana in the world that has fully adapted to a marine habitat. Dr. Martin Wikelski is studying a fascinating phenomenon whereby the iguanas instinctively shrink in body size during adverse environmental conditions; not just in body weight, but bone size and density. By studying these iguanas, Dr. Wikelski hopes that he may discover a future cure for osteoporosis in humans. Along with the abundance of unique wildlife in the Galapagos Archipelago there are also many creatures here on the verge of extinction. Perhaps the most famous resident of these Islands is "Lonesome George". Listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the loneliest animal in the world, "Lonesome George" is in fact the only known survivor of his species - the Pinta Island Giant Tortoise. Using the latest, military infrared camera technology, the Quest's helicopter and a very willing scientist embarked upon a mission to save George and continue this pre-historic species.