Episode 1
Alyeska: The Great Land
1986-10-19 • 53 min
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
TV season
1986-10-19
Episode 1
1986-10-19 • 53 min
Examines how the plants and animals of Alaska’s Alyeska wilderness have adapted to the regions harsh climate.
Episode 2
1986-10-26 • 53 min
An examination of the plants and animals that make their home in a shallow lagoon found on the Western coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
Episode 3
1986-11-02 • 53 min
This exploration of the Galapagos Islands, located in the Pacific Ocean West of Ecuador, examines theories explaining the arrival of wildlife to the archipelago.
Episode 4
1986-11-09 • 53 min
Marine iguanas, cormorants, green turtles, sea lions, and sperm whales are among the animals that thrive in the cold waters surrounding the equatorially located Galapagos Islands.
Episode 5
1986-11-16 • 53 min
A look at the Galapagos Islands’ many birds, include the waved albatross, blue-footed booby, frigate bird and the ground finch; also, man’s relationship with the islands’ changing environment.
Episode 6
1986-11-23 • 53 min
A look at how the Pantanal's wildlife species cope with the annual cycle of flood and drought which transforms the marshy prairie from a dry savannah into the world's largest freshwater wetland – a 36,000 square-mile area that encompasses Southwestern Brazil and parts of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Episode 7
1986-12-07 • 53 min
An examination of the behavior of man’s feline friends.
Episode 8
1986-12-14 • 53 min
The activities of an elusive female leopard are traced over a two-day period on the hot plains of Africa.
Episode 9
1987-01-18 • 53 min
A look at the survival of the African elephants, as ivory and foraging land became more valuable.
Episode 10
1987-02-08 • 53 min
A freshwater lake in Tunisia that turns salty every summer.
Episode 11
1987-02-22 • 53 min
The Japanese take efforts to save an indigenous monkey.
Episode 12
1987-03-01 • 53 min
A look at the crane, Japanese symbol of longevity, true love and happiness.
Episode 13
1987-03-08 • 53 min
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
Episode 14
1987-03-15 • 53 min
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
Episode 15
1987-04-12 • 53 min
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
Episode 16
1987-04-19 • 53 min
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
Episode 17
1987-04-26 • 53 min
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
Episode 18
1987-05-10 • 53 min
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
Episode 19
1987-05-17 • 53 min
The tunnelers, thatchers, weavers, dam builders, sculptors, potters and spinners of the animal kingdom.
Episode 20
1987-05-24 • 55 min
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.