Natural World
Season 4
198520 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Land 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.
- E2
Namaqualand - Diary of a Desert Garden
1985-09-22 · 50m
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.
- E3
Horns of Dilemma
1985-09-29
Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.
- E4
On the Verge of Life
1985-10-06
Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.
- E5
The Man Who Loves Frogs
1985-10-13
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E6
Emas - The High Plains of Brazil
1985-10-20
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E7
The Flight of the Whooping Crane
1985-10-27
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E8
White Rock, Black Water
1985-11-03
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
Never Stay In One Place
1985-11-10
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E10
City of Coral
1985-11-17
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
Kingdom 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.
- E12
Kingdom 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.
- E13
Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge
1985-12-08
Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.
- E14
Aspen - A Dance of Leaves
1985-12-22
The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.
- E15
The Plant Hunters
1985-12-29
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
Short Grass Country
1986-01-05
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E17
The Forgotten Garden
1986-01-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E18
Inside Stories
1986-01-19
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E19
Masked Monkeys
1986-01-26
Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.
- E20
Sky Hunters
1986-02-02
No episode synopsis available yet.