About this season
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.
Episodes (14)
1. Ice Pack
Aired 18 September 1988
Documentary on the wolf packs of Arctic Canada.
2. Beyond Timbuktu
Aired 25 September 1988
Documentary on European migrant birds as they winter on the flood plain of the River Niger in Mali.
3. Nighthunters
Aired 2 October 1988
4. Twilight Of The Dreamtime
Aired 9 October 1988
Documentary about the Kakadu, the last remnant of aboriginal culture in Northern Australia.
5. Search For The Yeti
Aired 16 October 1988
6. A Passion For Grouse
Aired 23 October 1988
7. Nuts In Brazil
Aired 30 October 1988
Documentary on the journey made by Anthony Smith and his friends as they travel done the 3,000 kilometres of the Rio Araguaia to the Amazon in a home-made steam powere catamaran.
8. Kingdom Of The Thunder Dragon
Aired 6 November 1988
Documentary on the culture and wildlife of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
9. The Journey Of Gerald Through Wales
Aired 13 November 1988
10. Coral Triangle
Aired 27 November 1988
11. Wild Waterfalls: The Natural History of Cascades
Aired 1 January 1989
12. Atlantic Realm: Island Arks
Aired 8 January 1989
13. Atlantic Realm: Ocean Of Light
Aired 15 January 1989
14. Atlantic Realm: Into The Abyss
Aired 22 January 1989