Seasons & episodes
S4 · E1Land of the Tiger 1985-09-15
Land of the Tiger looks at the protected species of the Kanha and Ranthambore National Parks, celebrating these elusive and endangered big cats and exploring the delicately balanced ecosystem they inhabit. Interweaving footage of monkeys, deer and the tiger’s main competitor, crocodiles, the couple’s impressive cinematography brings the private world of tigers to life, as these magnificent creatures swim, play, mate, suckle their young and stalk their prey.
S4 · E2Namaqualand - Diary of a Desert Garden 1985-09-22 · 50 min
In all Africa there is no stranger riddle than the flowering of the land of the Nama. Those bushmen were the first to see their desert land burgeon into a blaze of color. But this paradise was always short-lived; a spectacular bloom that quickly withered away, not to be seen again for many years. RODNEY BORLAND filmed the most recent of these stupendous and mystifying displays. To a landscape already weird with huge halfmens plants, elephant ears and baboons' fingers, suddenly came vast arrays of nodding daisies and wave upon wave of mesembryanthemums, wild geraniums, gladioli and amaryllis. The landscape was bathed in brilliant hues, a natural garden whose glory may not shine again before the end of this century.
S4 · E3Horns of Dilemma 1985-09-29
Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.
S4 · E4On the Verge of Life 1985-10-06
Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.
S4 · E5The Man Who Loves Frogs 1985-10-13
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S4 · E6Emas - The High Plains of Brazil 1985-10-20
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S4 · E7The Flight of the Whooping Crane 1985-10-27
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S4 · E8White Rock, Black Water 1985-11-03
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S4 · E9Never Stay In One Place 1985-11-10
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S4 · E10City of Coral 1985-11-17
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S4 · E11Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Frozen Ocean 1985-11-24
First in a three part series examining Arctic ecology, The Frozen Ocean focuses on the spring to summer months, providing an intimate portrayal of life in a land of relentless ice and intense cold.
S4 · E12Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Land of Beyond 1985-12-01
Hywel Bennett narrates the second of an award-winning trilogy of films about the Arctic. The winter is long and harsh, but for eight weeks of the year the midnight sun warms the frozen earth, nurturing lush vegetation and a rich variety of flowers, and transforming the barren wastelands into fecund breeding grounds so the life of the Arctic can renew itself.
S4 · E13Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge 1985-12-08
Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.
S4 · E14Aspen - A Dance of Leaves 1985-12-22
The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.
S4 · E15The Plant Hunters 1985-12-29
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S4 · E16Short Grass Country 1986-01-05
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S4 · E17The Forgotten Garden 1986-01-12
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S4 · E18Inside Stories 1986-01-19
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S4 · E19Masked Monkeys 1986-01-26
Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.
S4 · E20Sky Hunters 1986-02-02
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