Episodes List
Ep.1 The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Air Date: 1989-10-08
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
Ep.2 The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Air Date: 1989-10-15
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
Ep.3 The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Air Date: 1989-10-22
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
Ep.4 Under the Ice
Air Date: 1989-10-29
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
Ep.5 Land of Dragons
Air Date: 1989-11-12
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
Ep.6 The Great Wood of Caledon
Air Date: 1989-11-19
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
Ep.7 Gorillas
Air Date: 1989-12-10
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
Ep.8 Forest of Fear
Air Date: 1989-12-17
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
Ep.9 Gran Paradiso
Air Date: 1990-01-07
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
Ep.10 Cranes of the Grey Wind
Air Date: 1990-01-21
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
Ep.11 King Solomon's Mountains
Air Date: 1990-02-04
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
Ep.12 Hunters of the Sky
Air Date: 1990-02-11
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
Ep.13 A Wolf in the Fold
Air Date: 1990-02-18
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.
Ep.14 The Colorado
Air Date: 1990-03-04
Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
Ep.15 The Emerald Isle
Air Date: 1990-03-11
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
Ep.16 Giant Otters
Air Date: 1990-03-18
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
Ep.17 The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Air Date: 1990-03-25
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
Ep.18 Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Air Date: 1990-04-01
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
Ep.19 Yellowstone on Fire
Air Date: 1990-04-08
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
Ep.20 Serpents
Air Date: 1990-04-15
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
