Natural World — Season 4

01 Land of the Tiger

Sep 15, 1985

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.

02 Namaqualand - Diary of a Desert Garden

Sep 22, 198550m

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.

03 Horns of Dilemma

Sep 29, 1985

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

04 On the Verge of Life

Oct 6, 1985

Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.

05 The Man Who Loves Frogs

Oct 13, 1985

06 Emas - The High Plains of Brazil

Oct 20, 1985

07 The Flight of the Whooping Crane

Oct 27, 1985

08 White Rock, Black Water

Nov 3, 1985

09 Never Stay In One Place

Nov 10, 1985

10 City of Coral

Nov 17, 1985

11 Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Frozen Ocean

Nov 24, 1985

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.

12 Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Land of Beyond

Dec 1, 1985

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.

13 Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge

Dec 8, 1985

Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.

14 Aspen - A Dance of Leaves

Dec 22, 1985

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

15 The Plant Hunters

Dec 29, 1985

16 Short Grass Country

Jan 5, 1986

17 The Forgotten Garden

Jan 12, 1986

18 Inside Stories

Jan 19, 1986

19 Masked Monkeys

Jan 26, 1986

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

20 Sky Hunters

Feb 2, 1986