Nature (1982)
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
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Episode 1 - The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Release Date: 1989-10-08The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
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Episode 2 - The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Release Date: 1989-10-15The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
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Episode 3 - The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Release Date: 1989-10-22Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
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Episode 4 - Under the Ice
Release Date: 1989-10-29Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
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Episode 5 - Land of Dragons
Release Date: 1989-11-12Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
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Episode 6 - The Great Wood of Caledon
Release Date: 1989-11-19An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
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Episode 7 - Gorillas
Release Date: 1989-12-10A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
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Episode 8 - Forest of Fear
Release Date: 1989-12-17A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
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Episode 9 - Gran Paradiso
Release Date: 1990-01-07Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
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Episode 10 - Cranes of the Grey Wind
Release Date: 1990-01-21Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
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Episode 11 - King Solomon's Mountains
Release Date: 1990-02-04The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
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Episode 12 - Hunters of the Sky
Release Date: 1990-02-11A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
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Episode 13 - A Wolf in the Fold
Release Date: 1990-02-18The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
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Episode 14 - The Colorado
Release Date: 1990-03-04Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
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Episode 15 - The Emerald Isle
Release Date: 1990-03-11Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
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Episode 16 - Giant Otters
Release Date: 1990-03-18The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
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Episode 17 - The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Release Date: 1990-03-25Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
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Episode 18 - Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Release Date: 1990-04-01An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
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Episode 19 - Yellowstone on Fire
Release Date: 1990-04-08The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
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Episode 20 - Serpents
Release Date: 1990-04-15A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.