Season 8

1. The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

1989-10-08 · 53m

The area's evolutionary roots opens this look at the African valley.

2. The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

1989-10-15 · 53m

The wildlife that lives on the Great Rift's ash plains.

3. The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

1989-10-22 · 53m

Examines the Red Sea, the island of Madagascar and East Africa.

4. Under the Ice

1989-10-29 · 53m

Soft coral, sponges, tubeworms, anemones and giant cod adapt to life in Antarctica's subzero waters.

5. Land of Dragons

1989-11-12 · 53m

Profiles the wildlife living within the British crown colony of Hong Kong

6. The Great Wood of Caledon

1989-11-19 · 53m

An exploration of the Caledonian forest in Scotland, Britain's largest remaining area of ancient woodland.

7. Gorillas

1989-12-10 · 53m

A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

8. Forest of Fear

1989-12-17 · 53m

A look at the maneating tigers of the Sundarbans delta in India.

9. Gran Paradiso

1990-01-07 · 53m

Resource management in Italy's alpine Gran Paradiso National Park has consequences beyond the parks boundaries.

10. Cranes of the Grey Wind

1990-01-21 · 53m

Scientists study sandhill cranes on Nebraskan plains, Alaskan and Siberian coasts and in the Northwest Territories.

11. King Solomon's Mountains

1990-02-04 · 53m

The forests and waters of Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, may one day renew the country's depleted landscape.

12. Hunters of the Sky

1990-02-11 · 53m

A look at how Europe's birds of prey have adapted.

13. A Wolf in the Fold

1990-02-18 · 53m

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.

14. The Colorado

1990-03-04 · 53m

Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

15. The Emerald Isle

1990-03-11 · 53m

Thousands of years of human settlement provide the backdrop by which to discover the wildlife of Ireland.

16. Giant Otters

1990-03-18 · 53m

The fur trade continues to threaten the South American otter with extinction, despite its status as an endangered species.

17. The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

1990-03-25 · 53m

Profiles the Haida Indians who live on British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Island.

18. Presque Isle: Land in Motion

1990-04-01 · 53m

An exploration of the environmental impact of man's attempts to halt the erosion of Presque Isle beaches.

19. Yellowstone on Fire

1990-04-08 · 53m

The effect of the 1988 fire on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park.

20. Serpents

1990-04-15 · 53m

A natural history of the snake includes its significance to man as a symbol of fertility, immortality and death.