A Peaceable Kingdom (1989)

Recently widowed Rebecca Cafferty accepts a job as managing director of the Los Angeles County Zoo. She and her three children, Dean, Courtney, and Sam, move into a house on the zoo grounds. Rebecca's brother, Dr. Jed McFadden, also works at the zoo. The kids try to adjust to their unorthodox surroundings while Rebecca deals with the demands of running the zoo and single parenthood.