George Page
Director
Nature (1982)
Season 8
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
Released Oct. 10, 1982
Episode 52 min
7+
Genres: Documentary, Family
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Watch Providers: PBS, PBS, Hoopla, YouTube TV, KQED + 2 more, WETA+, WETA+
Production Companies: Thirteen, Coneflower Films Studios, Trebitsch Produktion International GmbH, Rubin Tarrant Productions
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S8E1 - The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
Oct. 8, 1989, midnight
S8E2 - The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
Oct. 15, 1989, midnight
S8E3 - The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
Oct. 22, 1989, midnight
S8E4 - Under the Ice
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
Oct. 29, 1989, midnight
S8E5 - Land of Dragons
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
Nov. 12, 1989, midnight
S8E6 - The Great Wood of Caledon
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
Nov. 19, 1989, midnight
S8E7 - Gorillas
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
Dec. 10, 1989, midnight
S8E8 - Forest of Fear
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
Dec. 17, 1989, midnight
S8E9 - Gran Paradiso
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
Jan. 7, 1990, midnight
S8E10 - Cranes of the Grey Wind
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
Jan. 21, 1990, midnight
S8E11 - King Solomon's Mountains
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
Feb. 4, 1990, midnight
S8E12 - Hunters of the Sky
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
Feb. 11, 1990, midnight
S8E13 - 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.
Feb. 18, 1990, midnight
S8E14 - The Colorado
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
March 4, 1990, midnight
S8E15 - The Emerald Isle
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
March 11, 1990, midnight
S8E16 - Giant Otters
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
March 18, 1990, midnight
S8E17 - The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
March 25, 1990, midnight
S8E18 - Presque Isle: Land in Motion
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
April 1, 1990, midnight
S8E19 - Yellowstone on Fire
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
April 8, 1990, midnight
S8E20 - Serpents
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
April 15, 1990, midnight
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52 min/ep
35880 min
Oct. 10, 1982
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Returning Series
TV-G
7+
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