• Premiered: Oct 1982
  • Episodes: 673
  • Followers: 65
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Season 8
8x1
The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 1989
The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.
8x2
The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 1989
The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.
8x3
The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 1989
Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.
8x4
Under the Ice
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 1989
Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.
8x5
Land of Dragons
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 12, 1989
Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong
8x6
The Great Wood of Caledon
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 1989
An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.
8x7
Gorillas
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 10, 1989
A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.
8x8
Forest of Fear
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 1989
A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.
8x9
Gran Paradiso
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 07, 1990
Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.
8x10
Cranes of the Grey Wind
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 21, 1990
Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.
8x11
King Solomon's Mountains
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 04, 1990
The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.
8x12
Hunters of the Sky
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 11, 1990
A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.
8x13
A Wolf in the Fold
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 18, 1990
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.
8x14
The Colorado
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 04, 1990
A wildlife survey of "The Colorado," the 1700-mile river that originates in the Rockies.
8x15
The Emerald Isle
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 11, 1990
Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.
8x16
Giant Otters
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 18, 1990
The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.
8x17
The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 25, 1990
Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.
8x18
Presque Isle: Land in Motion
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 01, 1990
An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.
8x19
Yellowstone on Fire
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 08, 1990
The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.
8x20 Season finale
Serpents
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 15, 1990
A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.

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