Land of the Tiger

S04 E01 • Sunday, Sep 15, 1985 • Sep 15

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.

Namaqualand - Diary of a Desert Garden

S04 E02 • Sunday, Sep 22, 1985 • Sep 22 • 50m

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.

Horns of Dilemma

S04 E03 • Sunday, Sep 29, 1985 • Sep 29

Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.

On the Verge of Life

S04 E04 • Sunday, Oct 6, 1985 • Oct 6

Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.

The Man Who Loves Frogs

S04 E05 • Sunday, Oct 13, 1985 • Oct 13

Emas - The High Plains of Brazil

S04 E06 • Sunday, Oct 20, 1985 • Oct 20

The Flight of the Whooping Crane

S04 E07 • Sunday, Oct 27, 1985 • Oct 27

White Rock, Black Water

S04 E08 • Sunday, Nov 3, 1985 • Nov 3

Never Stay In One Place

S04 E09 • Sunday, Nov 10, 1985 • Nov 10

City of Coral

S04 E10 • Sunday, Nov 17, 1985 • Nov 17

Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Frozen Ocean

S04 E11 • Sunday, Nov 24, 1985 • Nov 24

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.

Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Land of Beyond

S04 E12 • Sunday, Dec 1, 1985 • Dec 1

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.

Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge

S04 E13 • Sunday, Dec 8, 1985 • Dec 8

Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.

Aspen - A Dance of Leaves

S04 E14 • Sunday, Dec 22, 1985 • Dec 22

The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.

The Plant Hunters

S04 E15 • Sunday, Dec 29, 1985 • Dec 29

Short Grass Country

S04 E16 • Sunday, Jan 5, 1986 • Jan 5

The Forgotten Garden

S04 E17 • Sunday, Jan 12, 1986 • Jan 12

Inside Stories

S04 E18 • Sunday, Jan 19, 1986 • Jan 19

Masked Monkeys

S04 E19 • Sunday, Jan 26, 1986 • Jan 26

Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.

Sky Hunters

S04 E20 • Sunday, Feb 2, 1986 • Feb 2