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Natural World

Season 4 1985 - 1986
TV-G

  • 1985-09-15T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • 19h 50m (20 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Expeditions that take the viewer far away from the urban jungle to present the life of animals that live in the real jungle.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

1985-09-15T20:00:00Z

4x01 Land of the Tiger

Season Premiere

4x01 Land of the Tiger

  • 1985-09-15T20:00:00Z1h

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.

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.

1985-09-29T20:00:00Z

4x03 Horns of Dilemma

4x03 Horns of Dilemma

  • 1985-09-29T20:00:00Z1h

Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.

1985-10-06T20:00:00Z

4x04 On the Verge of Life

4x04 On the Verge of Life

  • 1985-10-06T20:00:00Z1h

Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.

1985-10-13T20:00:00Z

4x05 The Man Who Loves Frogs

4x05 The Man Who Loves Frogs

  • 1985-10-13T20:00:00Z1h

1985-11-03T21:00:00Z

4x08 White Rock, Black Water

4x08 White Rock, Black Water

  • 1985-11-03T21:00:00Z1h

1985-11-10T21:00:00Z

4x09 Never Stay In One Place

4x09 Never Stay In One Place

  • 1985-11-10T21:00:00Z1h

1985-11-17T21:00:00Z

4x10 City of Coral

4x10 City of Coral

  • 1985-11-17T21:00:00Z1h

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.

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.

Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.

1985-12-22T21:00:00Z

4x14 Aspen - A Dance of Leaves

The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.

1985-12-29T21:00:00Z

4x15 The Plant Hunters

4x15 The Plant Hunters

  • 1985-12-29T21:00:00Z1h

1986-01-05T21:00:00Z

4x16 Short Grass Country

4x16 Short Grass Country

  • 1986-01-05T21:00:00Z1h

1986-01-12T21:00:00Z

4x17 The Forgotten Garden

4x17 The Forgotten Garden

  • 1986-01-12T21:00:00Z1h

1986-01-19T21:00:00Z

4x18 Inside Stories

4x18 Inside Stories

  • 1986-01-19T21:00:00Z1h

1986-01-26T21:00:00Z

4x19 Masked Monkeys

4x19 Masked Monkeys

  • 1986-01-26T21:00:00Z1h

Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.

Season Finale

1986-02-02T21:00:00Z

4x20 Sky Hunters

Season Finale

4x20 Sky Hunters

  • 1986-02-02T21:00:00Z1h
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