Episode 1
The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
1989-10-08 • 53 min
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
TV season
1989-10-08
Episode 1
1989-10-08 • 53 min
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
Episode 2
1989-10-15 • 53 min
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
Episode 3
1989-10-22 • 53 min
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
Episode 4
1989-10-29 • 53 min
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
Episode 5
1989-11-12 • 53 min
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
Episode 6
1989-11-19 • 53 min
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
Episode 7
1989-12-10 • 53 min
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
Episode 8
1989-12-17 • 53 min
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
Episode 9
1990-01-07 • 53 min
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
Episode 10
1990-01-21 • 53 min
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
Episode 11
1990-02-04 • 53 min
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
Episode 12
1990-02-11 • 53 min
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
Episode 13
1990-02-18 • 53 min
The relationship between working sheepdogs and flocks of sheep. Selective breeding yields a sheepdog with outstanding abilities to tend the creature other canines prey upon.
Episode 14
1990-03-04 • 53 min
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
Episode 15
1990-03-11 • 53 min
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
Episode 16
1990-03-18 • 53 min
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
Episode 17
1990-03-25 • 53 min
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
Episode 18
1990-04-01 • 53 min
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
Episode 19
1990-04-08 • 53 min
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
Episode 20
1990-04-15 • 53 min
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.