The World About Us
The World About Us was a BBC Two television documentary series on natural history which ran from 1967 to 1987.
Archives: Series
Life on Earth (1979)
Original air dates: 16th January – 10th April 1979 Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough is a British television natural history series
The Living Planet (1984)
Original air dates: 19 January – 12 April 1984 Following up the series Life on Earth is a difficult thing to ask. Luckily Attenborough does
The Trials of Life (1990)
Original air dates : 3 October – 19 December 1990 Having made two extremely successful series about natural history Attenborough’s team needed some new challenges.
The Private Life of Plants (1995)
Original air dates: 11 January – 15 February 1995 Introduction This series marks a turning point in the Life Collection: for the first time computer
The Life of Birds (1998)
Original air dates: 21 October – 23 December 1998 Introduction Birds are probably the most popular animal group of all. As Attenborough points out, there
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
Original air dates: 23 November – 21 December 2005 A series about the tiny animals in everyone’s back gardens. This series most importantly introduced macro
Life in Cold Blood (2008)
Original air dates: 4 February – 3 March 2008 This series is about reptiles and amphibians, the only vertebrates with cold blood. Obviously they had to
The Blue Planet (2001)
Original air dates for the main part of the series (first eight episodes): 12 September – 31 October 2001 The slightly off-topic episodes (9 and 10) first aired on
Planet Earth (2006)
This series was broadcast in two parts. The first broadcast days were 5 March – 2 April (first 5 episodes). The remaining episodes were aired
Life (2009)
Original air dates: 12 October – 14 December 2009 In some episodes the layout of the series was not as ‘explicit’ as it has usually
The Frozen Planet (2011)
Original air dates: 26 October – 7 December 2011 A highlight’s programme, The Epic Journey, aired on 28 December 2011
Blue Planet II (2017)
Original air dates for the original series: 29 October – 10 December 2017 A compilation “Oceans of Wonder” was broadcast on New Year’s day 2018.
Seven Worlds, One Planet (2019)
Terra Mater is a TV film series about nature, science and history.
A Perfect Planet (2021)
Original air dates: 3 – 31 January 2021 The title of this series is misleading: it has nothing to do with the planet being perfect (at least not
Dynasties II (2022)
Original air dates: 20 March – 10 April 2022 and a fifth programme as a Holiday’s special 30 December 2022
Our Planet (2019)
Original air date: 5 April 2019 Broadcast worldwide by Netflix By joining Netflix there were obvious benefits in more money being available for a time-consuming and therefore
Natural World
Original air dates: 20 May 1984 – 26 July 2019 Dates of programmes narrated (or presented) by Attenborough.
Wildlife on One
Original air dates: 6 January 1977 – 15 February 2005 The series actually started when Attenborough had just started freelancing after resigning his job at
Natural History Museum (2014)
Original air date: 1 January 2014 Full title is “David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D”
Conquest of the Skies (2015)
Original air dates: 1 – 15 January 2015 Full title is “David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3D”
The Day Earth —Changed (2021)
Original air date: 16 April 2021 Broadcast on Apple TV The list below gives a closer look into what is happening during those almost 50
Plants behaving badly (2013)
Original air date: 12 – 13 December 2013 Broadcaster Terra Mater
Factual
Stand-alone programmes about ‘harsh’ facts. No attempt to ‘sugar-coat’ anything.
Asia (2024)
Original air dates: 3 November – 15 December 2024 Clips from the series are easily accessible here
Planet Earth II (2016)
Original air dates: 6 November – 11 December 2016 A special compilation was broadcast 1 January 2017
Attenborough’s Rise of animals .. (2013)
Original air dates : 20 – 27 September 2013 The title above is only a short version meant to fit in the rigid system. The
First Life (2010)
Original air dates: 5 – 12 November 2010 A supplement for the Life Collection due to the rather inferior quality of computer graphics when the
60 Years in the Wild (2012)
Full title is: “Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild” Original air date : 16 – 30 November 2012