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Attenborough Nature Companion
Introduction
Basic structure of the project
The importance of an outline
Filming locations
Thematic View
Life collection
Life on Earth (1979)
01- The Infinite Variety
02- Building Bodies
03- The First Forests
04- The Swarming Hordes
05- Conquest of the Waters
06- Invasion of the Land
07- Victors of the Dry Land
08- Lords of the Air
09- The Rise of the Mammals
10- Theme and Variations
11- The Hunters and Hunted
12- Life in the Trees
13- The Compulsive Communicators
Series in retrospect
The Living Planet (1984)
01- The Building of the Earth
02- The Frozen World
03- The Northern Forests
04- Jungle
05- Seas of Grass
06- The Baking Deserts
07- The Sky Above
08- Sweet Fresh Water
09- The Margins of the Land
10- Worlds Apart
11- The Open Ocean
12- New Worlds
The Trials of Life (1990)
01 – Arriving
02 – Growing Up
03 – Finding Food
04 – Hunting and Escaping
05 – Finding the Way
06 – Home Making
07 – Living Together
08 – Fighting
09 – Friends and Rivals
10 – Talking to Strangers
11 – Courting
12 – Continuing the Line
The Private Life of Plants (1995)
1- Travelling
2- Growing
3- Flowering
4- The Social Struggle
5- Living Together
6- Surviving
The Life of Birds (1998)
01- To Fly or Not to Fly?
02 – The Mastery of Flight
03- The Insatiable Appetite
04- Meat-Eaters
05- Fishing for a Living
06- Signals and Songs
07- Finding Partners
08 – The Demands of the Egg
09- The Problems of Parenthood
10- The Limits of Endurance
The Life of Mammals (2002)
01 -“A Winning Design”
02- Insect Hunters
03- Plant Predators
04- Chisellers
05- Meat Eaters
06- The Opportunists
07- Return to the Water
08- Life in the Trees
09- The Social Climbers
10- Food for Thought
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
1- Invasion of the Land
2- Taking to the Air
3- The Silk Spinners
4- Intimate Relations
5- Super Societies
Life in Cold Blood (2008)
1- The Cold Blooded Truth
2- Land Invaders
3- Dragons of the Dry
4- Sophisticated Serpents
5- Armoured Giants
Life Collection in retrospect
BBC blockbusters
The Planet Series
The Blue Planet (2001)
01 -“Introduction”
02- The Deep
03- Open Ocean
04- Frozen Seas
05- Seasonal Seas
06- Coral Seas
07- Tidal Seas
08- Coasts
09- Deep Trouble
10- Making Waves
Planet Earth (2006)
01- From Pole to Pole
02- Mountains
03- Fresh Water
04- Caves
05- Deserts
06- Ice Worlds
07- Great Plains
08- Jungles
09- Shallow Seas
10- Seasonal Forests
11- Ocean Deep
The Frozen Planet (2011)
1 – To the Ends of the Earth
2 – Spring
3 – Summer
4 – Autumn
5 – Winter
6 – The Last Frontier
7 – On Thin Ice
8 – The Epic Journey
Planet Earth II (2016)
1- Islands
2 – Mountains
3 – Jungles
4 – Deserts
5 – Grasslands
6 – Cities
7* – A world of wonder
Blue Planet II (2017)
1- One Ocean
2- The Deep
3- Coral Reefs
4- Big Blue
5- Green Seas
6- Coasts
7- Our Blue Planet
8- Oceans of Wonder
Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)
1 – “Antarctica”
2 – Asia
3 – South America
4 – Australia
5 – Europe
6 – North America
7 – Africa
A Perfect Planet (2021)
1- Volcano
2- The Sun
3- Weather
4- Oceans
5- Humans
The Green Planet (2022)
1 – Tropical Worlds
2 – Water Worlds
3 – Seasonal Worlds
4 – Desert Worlds
5 – Human World
Frozen Planet II (2022)
1 – Frozen Worlds
2 – Frozen Ocean
3 – Frozen Peaks
4 – Frozen South
5 – Frozen Lands
6 – Our Frozen Planet
The series in retrospect
Planet Earth III (2023)
1 – Coasts
2 – Ocean
3 – Deserts and grasslands
4 – Freshwater
5 – Forests
6 – Extremes
7 – Human
8 – Heroes
9 – Wonders of nature
Nature’s Great Events (2009)
1- The Great Melt – Arctic Summer
2- The Great Salmon Run – Grizzly Wilderness
3- The Great Migration – Surviving the Serengeti
4- The Great Tide – Army of Predators
5- The Great Flood – Kalahari Flood
6- The Great Feast – Pacific Feast
Life (2009)
01- Challenges of Life
02- Reptiles and Amphibians
03- Mammals
04- Fish
05- Birds
06- Insects
07- Hunters and Hunted
08- Creatures of the Deep
09- Plants
10- Primates
Africa (2013)
1- Kalahari
2- Savannah
3- Congo
4- Cape
5- Sahara
6- The Future
Life Story (2014)
1- First steps
2- Growing up
3- Home
4- Power
5- Courtship
6- Parenthood
7- The Full Circle
The Hunt (2015)
1- Hardest Challenge
2- In the Grip of the Seasons
3- Hide and Seek
4- Hunger at Sea
5- Nowhere to Hide
6- Race against Time
7- Living with Predators
Dynasties (2018)
1- Chimpanze
2- Emperor
3- Lion
4- Painted Wolf
5- Tiger
The Mating Game (2021)
1 – Grasslands: In Plain Sight
2 – Oceans: Out Of The Blue
3 – Jungles: In The Thick Of It
4 – Freshwater: Timing Is Everything
5 – Against All Odds
Dynasties II (2022)
1 – Puma
2 – Elephant
3 – Cheetah
4 – Hyena
5 – Macaque: Monkeys In The Mountains
Series in retrospect
Wild Isles (2023)
1 – Our Precious Isles
2 – Woodland
3 – Grasslands
4 – Freshwater
5 – Ocean
(6) – Saving our wild Isles
Mammals (2024)
1 – Dark
2 – The new wild
3 – Water
4 – Cold
5 – Heat
6 – Forest
Asia (2024)
1 – Beneath the waves
2 – Above the Clouds
3 – The Frozen North
4 – Tangled Worlds
5 – Crowded Continent
6 – The Arid Heart
7 – Saving Asia
Parenthood (2025)
1 – The greatest adventure
Parenthood (2025)
1 – The greatest adventure
2 – Ocean
3 – Grasslands
4 – Freshwater
5 – Jungles
Miscellaneous
As himself
The Ascent of man (1973)
Auntie – the Inside Story of the BBC (1997)
Parkinson – Billy Connolly and Sir David Attenborough (1998)
The Human Face (2001)
BBC’s Timeshift – Attenborough the Controller (2002)
Attenborough in Conversation with Mark Lawson (2002)
BBC’s William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)
The Selfish Green (2005)
Gorillas Revisited (2006)
100 Years of Wildlife Films (2007)
BBC’s “Favourite Attenborough Moments” (2007)
Friday night with Jonathan Ross s17e03 (2009)
Factual
Extinction, the Facts (2020)
Breaking Boundaries – The Science of our Planet (2021)
Stand-alone programmes
Life that Glows (2016)
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (2021)
Attenborough’s Wonder of Song (2022)
Dinosaurs – The Final Day with David Attenborough (2022)
Giant sea monster (2024)
First Life (2010)
Attenborough’s Rise of animals .. (2013)
Life in the freezer (1993)
1 – The Bountiful Sea
2 – The Ice Retreats
3 – The Race to Breed
4 – The Door Closes
5 – The Big Freeze
6 – Footsteps in the Snow
Wildlife on One
The Beetles, Record Breakers (1997)
Animal Crime Scene (2005)
1 – Outback Assassin
2 – Ocean Assassin
3 – Arctic Assassin
4 – African Assassin
5 – Amazon Assassin
Natural World
60 Years in the Wild (2012)
1 – Life on Camera
2 – Understanding the Natural World
3 – Our Fragile Planet
Life in colour (2021)
1 – Seeing in colour
2 – Hiding in colour
3 – Chasing colour
Outside Sources
Plants behaving badly (2013)
1 – Murder & Mayhem
2 – Sex & Lies
BSkyB
Flying Monsters (2010)
Kingdom of Plants (2012)
1 – Life in the Wet Zone
2 – Solving the Secrets
3 – Survival
The Penguin King (2012)
Galapagos (2013)
1 – Origin
2 – Adaptation
3 – Evolution
Micro monsters (2013)
1 – Conflict
2 – Predator
3 – Courtship
4 – Reproduction
5 – Family
6 – Colony
7 – Making of Micro monsters
Natural History Museum (2014)
Conquest of the Skies (2015)
1 – The First To Fly
2 – Rivals
3 – Triumph
Netflix
Our Planet (2019)
1 – One Planet
2 – Frozen worlds
3 – Jungles
4 – Coasts
5 – Deserts to Grasslands
6 – The High Seas
7 – Fresh Water
8 – Forests
National Geographic
Desert seas (2011)
Wild India (2012)
1 – Elephant Kingdom
2 – Tiger Jungles
3 – Desert Lions
AppleTV+
The Day Earth changed ep (2021)
Prehistoric Planet (2022)
1 – Coasts
2 – Deserts
3 – Freshwater
4 – Ice worlds
5 – Forests
Early years
Introduction
Basic structure of the project
The importance of an outline
Filming locations
Thematic View
Life collection
Life on Earth (1979)
01- The Infinite Variety
02- Building Bodies
03- The First Forests
04- The Swarming Hordes
05- Conquest of the Waters
06- Invasion of the Land
07- Victors of the Dry Land
08- Lords of the Air
09- The Rise of the Mammals
10- Theme and Variations
11- The Hunters and Hunted
12- Life in the Trees
13- The Compulsive Communicators
Series in retrospect
The Living Planet (1984)
01- The Building of the Earth
02- The Frozen World
03- The Northern Forests
04- Jungle
05- Seas of Grass
06- The Baking Deserts
07- The Sky Above
08- Sweet Fresh Water
09- The Margins of the Land
10- Worlds Apart
11- The Open Ocean
12- New Worlds
The Trials of Life (1990)
01 – Arriving
02 – Growing Up
03 – Finding Food
04 – Hunting and Escaping
05 – Finding the Way
06 – Home Making
07 – Living Together
08 – Fighting
09 – Friends and Rivals
10 – Talking to Strangers
11 – Courting
12 – Continuing the Line
The Private Life of Plants (1995)
1- Travelling
2- Growing
3- Flowering
4- The Social Struggle
5- Living Together
6- Surviving
The Life of Birds (1998)
01- To Fly or Not to Fly?
02 – The Mastery of Flight
03- The Insatiable Appetite
04- Meat-Eaters
05- Fishing for a Living
06- Signals and Songs
07- Finding Partners
08 – The Demands of the Egg
09- The Problems of Parenthood
10- The Limits of Endurance
The Life of Mammals (2002)
01 -“A Winning Design”
02- Insect Hunters
03- Plant Predators
04- Chisellers
05- Meat Eaters
06- The Opportunists
07- Return to the Water
08- Life in the Trees
09- The Social Climbers
10- Food for Thought
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
1- Invasion of the Land
2- Taking to the Air
3- The Silk Spinners
4- Intimate Relations
5- Super Societies
Life in Cold Blood (2008)
1- The Cold Blooded Truth
2- Land Invaders
3- Dragons of the Dry
4- Sophisticated Serpents
5- Armoured Giants
Life Collection in retrospect
BBC blockbusters
The Planet Series
The Blue Planet (2001)
01 -“Introduction”
02- The Deep
03- Open Ocean
04- Frozen Seas
05- Seasonal Seas
06- Coral Seas
07- Tidal Seas
08- Coasts
09- Deep Trouble
10- Making Waves
Planet Earth (2006)
01- From Pole to Pole
02- Mountains
03- Fresh Water
04- Caves
05- Deserts
06- Ice Worlds
07- Great Plains
08- Jungles
09- Shallow Seas
10- Seasonal Forests
11- Ocean Deep
The Frozen Planet (2011)
1 – To the Ends of the Earth
2 – Spring
3 – Summer
4 – Autumn
5 – Winter
6 – The Last Frontier
7 – On Thin Ice
8 – The Epic Journey
Planet Earth II (2016)
1- Islands
2 – Mountains
3 – Jungles
4 – Deserts
5 – Grasslands
6 – Cities
7* – A world of wonder
Blue Planet II (2017)
1- One Ocean
2- The Deep
3- Coral Reefs
4- Big Blue
5- Green Seas
6- Coasts
7- Our Blue Planet
8- Oceans of Wonder
Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)
1 – “Antarctica”
2 – Asia
3 – South America
4 – Australia
5 – Europe
6 – North America
7 – Africa
A Perfect Planet (2021)
1- Volcano
2- The Sun
3- Weather
4- Oceans
5- Humans
The Green Planet (2022)
1 – Tropical Worlds
2 – Water Worlds
3 – Seasonal Worlds
4 – Desert Worlds
5 – Human World
Frozen Planet II (2022)
1 – Frozen Worlds
2 – Frozen Ocean
3 – Frozen Peaks
4 – Frozen South
5 – Frozen Lands
6 – Our Frozen Planet
The series in retrospect
Planet Earth III (2023)
1 – Coasts
2 – Ocean
3 – Deserts and grasslands
4 – Freshwater
5 – Forests
6 – Extremes
7 – Human
8 – Heroes
9 – Wonders of nature
Nature’s Great Events (2009)
1- The Great Melt – Arctic Summer
2- The Great Salmon Run – Grizzly Wilderness
3- The Great Migration – Surviving the Serengeti
4- The Great Tide – Army of Predators
5- The Great Flood – Kalahari Flood
6- The Great Feast – Pacific Feast
Life (2009)
01- Challenges of Life
02- Reptiles and Amphibians
03- Mammals
04- Fish
05- Birds
06- Insects
07- Hunters and Hunted
08- Creatures of the Deep
09- Plants
10- Primates
Africa (2013)
1- Kalahari
2- Savannah
3- Congo
4- Cape
5- Sahara
6- The Future
Life Story (2014)
1- First steps
2- Growing up
3- Home
4- Power
5- Courtship
6- Parenthood
7- The Full Circle
The Hunt (2015)
1- Hardest Challenge
2- In the Grip of the Seasons
3- Hide and Seek
4- Hunger at Sea
5- Nowhere to Hide
6- Race against Time
7- Living with Predators
Dynasties (2018)
1- Chimpanze
2- Emperor
3- Lion
4- Painted Wolf
5- Tiger
The Mating Game (2021)
1 – Grasslands: In Plain Sight
2 – Oceans: Out Of The Blue
3 – Jungles: In The Thick Of It
4 – Freshwater: Timing Is Everything
5 – Against All Odds
Dynasties II (2022)
1 – Puma
2 – Elephant
3 – Cheetah
4 – Hyena
5 – Macaque: Monkeys In The Mountains
Series in retrospect
Wild Isles (2023)
1 – Our Precious Isles
2 – Woodland
3 – Grasslands
4 – Freshwater
5 – Ocean
(6) – Saving our wild Isles
Mammals (2024)
1 – Dark
2 – The new wild
3 – Water
4 – Cold
5 – Heat
6 – Forest
Asia (2024)
1 – Beneath the waves
2 – Above the Clouds
3 – The Frozen North
4 – Tangled Worlds
5 – Crowded Continent
6 – The Arid Heart
7 – Saving Asia
Parenthood (2025)
1 – The greatest adventure
Parenthood (2025)
1 – The greatest adventure
2 – Ocean
3 – Grasslands
4 – Freshwater
5 – Jungles
Miscellaneous
As himself
The Ascent of man (1973)
Auntie – the Inside Story of the BBC (1997)
Parkinson – Billy Connolly and Sir David Attenborough (1998)
The Human Face (2001)
BBC’s Timeshift – Attenborough the Controller (2002)
Attenborough in Conversation with Mark Lawson (2002)
BBC’s William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)
The Selfish Green (2005)
Gorillas Revisited (2006)
100 Years of Wildlife Films (2007)
BBC’s “Favourite Attenborough Moments” (2007)
Friday night with Jonathan Ross s17e03 (2009)
Factual
Extinction, the Facts (2020)
Breaking Boundaries – The Science of our Planet (2021)
Stand-alone programmes
Life that Glows (2016)
Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard (2021)
Attenborough’s Wonder of Song (2022)
Dinosaurs – The Final Day with David Attenborough (2022)
Giant sea monster (2024)
First Life (2010)
Attenborough’s Rise of animals .. (2013)
Life in the freezer (1993)
1 – The Bountiful Sea
2 – The Ice Retreats
3 – The Race to Breed
4 – The Door Closes
5 – The Big Freeze
6 – Footsteps in the Snow
Wildlife on One
The Beetles, Record Breakers (1997)
Animal Crime Scene (2005)
1 – Outback Assassin
2 – Ocean Assassin
3 – Arctic Assassin
4 – African Assassin
5 – Amazon Assassin
Natural World
60 Years in the Wild (2012)
1 – Life on Camera
2 – Understanding the Natural World
3 – Our Fragile Planet
Life in colour (2021)
1 – Seeing in colour
2 – Hiding in colour
3 – Chasing colour
Outside Sources
Plants behaving badly (2013)
1 – Murder & Mayhem
2 – Sex & Lies
BSkyB
Flying Monsters (2010)
Kingdom of Plants (2012)
1 – Life in the Wet Zone
2 – Solving the Secrets
3 – Survival
The Penguin King (2012)
Galapagos (2013)
1 – Origin
2 – Adaptation
3 – Evolution
Micro monsters (2013)
1 – Conflict
2 – Predator
3 – Courtship
4 – Reproduction
5 – Family
6 – Colony
7 – Making of Micro monsters
Natural History Museum (2014)
Conquest of the Skies (2015)
1 – The First To Fly
2 – Rivals
3 – Triumph
Netflix
Our Planet (2019)
1 – One Planet
2 – Frozen worlds
3 – Jungles
4 – Coasts
5 – Deserts to Grasslands
6 – The High Seas
7 – Fresh Water
8 – Forests
National Geographic
Desert seas (2011)
Wild India (2012)
1 – Elephant Kingdom
2 – Tiger Jungles
3 – Desert Lions
AppleTV+
The Day Earth changed ep (2021)
Prehistoric Planet (2022)
1 – Coasts
2 – Deserts
3 – Freshwater
4 – Ice worlds
5 – Forests
Early years
BBC blockbusters
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Dynasties II (2022)
2 – Elephant
Original air date: 27 March 2022
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More episodes
1 - Puma
3 - Cheetah
4 - Hyena
5 - Macaque: Monkeys In The Mountains
Series in retrospect
