S08 Episode 1

The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley (1)

The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

53 mins · Sun, 8 Oct 1989

S08 Episode 2

The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes (2)

The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

53 mins · Sun, 15 Oct 1989

S08 Episode 3

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent (3)

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

53 mins · Sun, 22 Oct 1989

S08 Episode 4

Under the Ice

Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

53 mins · Sun, 29 Oct 1989

S08 Episode 5

Land of Dragons

Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

53 mins · Sun, 12 Nov 1989

S08 Episode 6

The Great Wood of Caledon

An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

53 mins · Sun, 19 Nov 1989

S08 Episode 7

Gorillas

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

53 mins · Sun, 10 Dec 1989

S08 Episode 8

Forest of Fear

A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

53 mins · Sun, 17 Dec 1989

S08 Episode 9

Gran Paradiso

Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

53 mins · Sun, 7 Jan 1990

S08 Episode 10

Cranes of the Grey Wind

Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

53 mins · Sun, 21 Jan 1990

S08 Episode 11

King Solomon's Mountains

The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

53 mins · Sun, 4 Feb 1990

S08 Episode 12

Hunters of the Sky

A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

53 mins · Sun, 11 Feb 1990

S08 Episode 13

A Wolf in the Fold

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.

53 mins · Sun, 18 Feb 1990

S08 Episode 14

The Colorado

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

53 mins · Sun, 4 Mar 1990

S08 Episode 15

The Emerald Isle

Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

53 mins · Sun, 11 Mar 1990

S08 Episode 16

Giant Otters

The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

53 mins · Sun, 18 Mar 1990

S08 Episode 17

The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

53 mins · Sun, 25 Mar 1990

S08 Episode 18

Presque Isle: Land in Motion

An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

53 mins · Sun, 1 Apr 1990

S08 Episode 19

The Great Yellowstone Fire

The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

53 mins · Sun, 8 Apr 1990

S08 Episode 20

Serpents

A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

53 mins · Sun, 15 Apr 1990

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