Seasons & episodes
S8 · E1The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley 1989-10-08 · 53 min
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
S8 · E2The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes 1989-10-15 · 53 min
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
S8 · E3The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent 1989-10-22 · 53 min
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
S8 · E4Under the Ice 1989-10-29 · 53 min
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
S8 · E5Land of Dragons 1989-11-12 · 53 min
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
S8 · E6The Great Wood of Caledon 1989-11-19 · 53 min
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
S8 · E7Gorillas 1989-12-10 · 53 min
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
S8 · E8Forest of Fear 1989-12-17 · 53 min
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
S8 · E9Gran Paradiso 1990-01-07 · 53 min
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
S8 · E10Cranes of the Grey Wind 1990-01-21 · 53 min
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
S8 · E11King Solomon's Mountains 1990-02-04 · 53 min
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
S8 · E12Hunters of the Sky 1990-02-11 · 53 min
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
S8 · E13A Wolf in the Fold 1990-02-18 · 53 min
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
S8 · E14The Colorado 1990-03-04 · 53 min
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
S8 · E15The Emerald Isle 1990-03-11 · 53 min
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
S8 · E16Giant Otters 1990-03-18 · 53 min
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
S8 · E17The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People 1990-03-25 · 53 min
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
S8 · E18Presque Isle: Land in Motion 1990-04-01 · 53 min
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
S8 · E19Yellowstone on Fire 1990-04-08 · 53 min
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
S8 · E20Serpents 1990-04-15 · 53 min
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.