Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
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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.
Sep 22, 1985 · 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.
Sep 29, 1985
Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.
Oct 6, 1985
Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.
Oct 13, 1985
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Nov 17, 1985
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.
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.
Dec 8, 1985
Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.
Dec 22, 1985
The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.
Dec 29, 1985
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Jan 26, 1986
Documentary on Guenons, a species of African forest monkey, and their place in the evolutionary hierarchy.
Feb 2, 1986
Quick answers about this season's release timeline and episode lineup.
Natural World Season 4 premiered on September 15, 1985.
Natural World Season 4 has 20 episodes.
The season opens with Season 4 Episode 1, "Land of the Tiger". It aired on September 15, 1985.
Go to Season 4 Episode 1