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Nature : Season 8
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Air date: 08 Oct '89 - 20 episodesConsistently 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.
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List of Episodes (20)
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Nature (1982)
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1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley (1)
08 Oct '89The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
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2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes (2)
15 Oct '89The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
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3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent (3)
22 Oct '89Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
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4. Under the Ice
29 Oct '89Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
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5. Land of Dragons
12 Nov '89Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
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6. The Great Wood of Caledon
19 Nov '89An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
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7. Gorillas
10 Dec '89A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
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8. Forest of Fear
17 Dec '89A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
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9. Gran Paradiso
07 Jan '90Resource 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
21 Jan '90Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
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11. King Solomon's Mountains
04 Feb '90The 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
11 Feb '90A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
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13. A Wolf in the Fold
18 Feb '90The 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
04 Mar '90Tracing the course of the Colorado River.
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15. The Emerald Isle
11 Mar '90Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
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16. Giant Otters
18 Mar '90The 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
25 Mar '90Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
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18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion
01 Apr '90An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
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19. The Great Yellowstone Fire
08 Apr '90The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
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20. Serpents
15 Apr '90A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.
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