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Broadcast date

1989-10-08 • 20 episodes

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Episodes of this season

1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

event 1989-10-08 • schedule 53m

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

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2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

event 1989-10-15 • schedule 53m

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

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3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

event 1989-10-22 • schedule 53m

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

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4. Under the Ice

event 1989-10-29 • schedule 53m

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

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5. Land of Dragons

event 1989-11-12 • schedule 53m

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

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6. The Great Wood of Caledon

event 1989-11-19 • schedule 53m

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

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7. Gorillas

event 1989-12-10 • schedule 53m

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

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8. Forest of Fear

event 1989-12-17 • schedule 53m

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

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9. Gran Paradiso

event 1990-01-07 • schedule 53m

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

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10. Cranes of the Grey Wind

event 1990-01-21 • schedule 53m

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

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11. King Solomon's Mountains

event 1990-02-04 • schedule 53m

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

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12. Hunters of the Sky

event 1990-02-11 • schedule 53m

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

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13. A Wolf in the Fold

event 1990-02-18 • schedule 53m

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.

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14. The Colorado

event 1990-03-04 • schedule 53m

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

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15. The Emerald Isle

event 1990-03-11 • schedule 53m

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

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16. Giant Otters

event 1990-03-18 • schedule 53m

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

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17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

event 1990-03-25 • schedule 53m

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

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18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion

event 1990-04-01 • schedule 53m

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

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19. Yellowstone on Fire

event 1990-04-08 • schedule 53m

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

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20. Serpents

End of season • event 1990-04-15 • schedule 53m

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

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This season's cast

George Page

Narrator (voice), Host

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