Andrew Graham-Brown
Director
Natural World (1983)
Season 4
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Released Oct. 30, 1983
Episode 52 min
2+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.wildlife, tmdb.nature, tmdb.environment, tmdb.nature-documentary, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.wildlife, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray + 2 more, tmdb.animals, imdb.nature-documentary
Production Companies: BBC Natural History Unit, BBC, BBC Studios
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S4E1 - Land of the Tiger
Land of the Tiger looks at the protected species of the Kanha and Ranthambore National Parks, celebrating these elusive and endangered big cats and exploring the delicately balanced ecosystem they inhabit. Interweaving footage of monkeys, deer and the tiger’s main competitor, crocodiles, the couple’s impressive cinematography brings the private world of tigers to life, as these magnificent creatures swim, play, mate, suckle their young and stalk their prey.
Sept. 15, 1985, midnight
S4E2 - Namaqualand - Diary of a Desert Garden
In all Africa there is no stranger riddle than the flowering of the land of the Nama. Those bushmen were the first to see their desert land burgeon into a blaze of color. But this paradise was always short-lived; a spectacular bloom that quickly withered away, not to be seen again for many years. RODNEY BORLAND filmed the most recent of these stupendous and mystifying displays. To a landscape already weird with huge halfmens plants, elephant ears and baboons' fingers, suddenly came vast arrays of nodding daisies and wave upon wave of mesembryanthemums, wild geraniums, gladioli and amaryllis. The landscape was bathed in brilliant hues, a natural garden whose glory may not shine again before the end of this century.
Sept. 22, 1985, midnight
S4E3 - Horns of Dilemma
Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.
Sept. 29, 1985, midnight
S4E4 - On the Verge of Life
Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.
Oct. 6, 1985, midnight
S4E5 - The Man Who Loves Frogs
Oct. 13, 1985, midnight
S4E6 - Emas - The High Plains of Brazil
Oct. 20, 1985, midnight
S4E7 - The Flight of the Whooping Crane
Oct. 27, 1985, midnight
S4E8 - White Rock, Black Water
Nov. 3, 1985, midnight
S4E9 - Never Stay In One Place
Nov. 10, 1985, midnight
S4E10 - City of Coral
Nov. 17, 1985, midnight
S4E11 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Frozen Ocean
First in a three part series examining Arctic ecology, The Frozen Ocean focuses on the spring to summer months, providing an intimate portrayal of life in a land of relentless ice and intense cold.
Nov. 24, 1985, midnight
S4E12 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Land of Beyond
Hywel Bennett narrates the second of an award-winning trilogy of films about the Arctic. The winter is long and harsh, but for eight weeks of the year the midnight sun warms the frozen earth, nurturing lush vegetation and a rich variety of flowers, and transforming the barren wastelands into fecund breeding grounds so the life of the Arctic can renew itself.
Dec. 1, 1985, midnight
S4E13 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge
Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.
Dec. 8, 1985, midnight
S4E14 - Aspen - A Dance of Leaves
The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.
Dec. 22, 1985, midnight
S4E15 - The Plant Hunters
Dec. 29, 1985, midnight
S4E16 - Short Grass Country
Jan. 5, 1986, midnight
S4E17 - The Forgotten Garden
Jan. 12, 1986, midnight
S4E18 - Inside Stories
Jan. 19, 1986, midnight
S4E19 - Masked Monkeys
Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.
Jan. 26, 1986, midnight
S4E20 - Sky Hunters
Feb. 2, 1986, midnight
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BBC Two
52 min/ep
2781 min
Oct. 30, 1983
March 20, 2020, midnight
Returning Series
TV-G / 2+
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