Episodes List

Ep.1 Realms of the Russian Bear: Green Jewel of the Caspian

Air Date: 1992-10-05

This miniseries starts off by exploring the abundance of wildlife around the Volga Delta in Russia’s Astrakhan region.

Ep.2 Realms of the Russian Bear: the Arctic Frontier

Air Date: 1992-10-05

An exploration of the wildlife of the Russian Arctic, and in particular Wrangle Island, featuring polar bears, musk oxen, Ross’s Gulls, reindeer, foxes, walruses, and the Red-breasted Goose.

Ep.3 Realms of the Russian Bear: the Red Deserts

Air Date: 1992-10-06

A focus on the wildlife of the Central Asian deserts.

Ep.4 Realms of the Russian Bear: the Celestial Mountains

Air Date: 1992-10-06

Between China and Central Asia is the Tian Shan mountain range, home to Marco Polo sheep, white-clawed bears, snow leopards, yaks, and the ibex.

Ep.5 Realms of the Russian Bear: Siberia, the Frozen Forest

Air Date: 1992-10-07

A look at the wildlife in the huge Siberia forest reveals bears, elk, wolves, and musk deer among many other creatures in this frozen expanse.

Ep.6 Realms of the Russian Bear: Born of Fire

Air Date: 1992-10-07

This last program in the miniseries explores Kamchatka Peninsula where the Russian Arctic meets Southeast Asia. Home to perhaps the highest concentration of volcanoes in the world, this remote region is teeming with life both on land and in the sea, from the Amur Tiger to the Giant Pacific Octopus.

Ep.7 Shadows in a Desert Sea

Air Date: 1992-10-18

Fish, bats, birds, whales, giant squids, sharks, dolphins, sea lions and more flourish in and around the Sea of Cortez.

Ep.8 The Tree of Music

Air Date: 1992-10-25

The African Blackwood is prized the world over for its wood in the making of musical instruments. Nature takes you on a journey through the history of this “tree of music” and into modern day efforts in Tanzania to save this ever dwindling resource.

Ep.9 Slaves to the Queen

Air Date: 1992-11-29

Get right inside the hives of bees and wasps to see the inner workings of these complex societies.

Ep.10 Ice Fox: Struggle for Survival

Air Date: 1993-01-10

A look at two separate families of arctic foxes. One living in the frozen, barren tundra of northern Russia, the other living in the slightly more comfortable surroundings of the Norwegian coastline.

Ep.11 Cheetahs in the Land of Lions

Air Date: 1993-01-24

A study of cheetah behavior follows a mother and her cubs on the Serengeti plains.

Ep.12 Gorilla: King of the Congo

Air Date: 1993-02-14

A gorilla orphanage and a proposed forest reserve may save the lowland gorilla.

Ep.13 American Trickster

Air Date: 1993-02-21

As its numbers increase and its natural range diminishes, the coyote moves into populated regions like Los Angeles.

Ep.14 Hebrides: the Secret Islands

Air Date: 1993-02-28

Ep.15 Echo of the Elephants

Air Date: 1993-03-14

In Kenya’s Amboseli National Park is a family of elephants led by its matriarch Echo. Elephant expert Cynthia Moss, takes us up-close and inside the lives of these magnificent animals.

Ep.16 The Ghosts of Ruby

Air Date: 1993-05-09

Ep.17 The Bandit and the Builder

Air Date: 1993-05-16

Raccoon and beaver lifestyles in the Canadian wilderness.

Ep.18 Spirit of the Sound

Air Date: 1993-05-23

Exploration of Puget Sound's ecosystem.