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Planet Earth on PBS

1986, TV Show

Episode Detail: The Living Machine - Planet Earth

Part 1 of 2. A look at Earth's crust and how it is made up of 20 moving, jagged-edged plates that sometimes collide, causing dramatic changes in the landscape. Also: San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, caused by a shift of the Pacific plate. Richard Kiley is the narrator.

Episodes: The Living Machine - Planet Earth - 18 total Episodes

5/16/2007: The Blue Planet
5/9/2007: The Living Machine
5/2/2007: The Living Machine
4/25/2007: Fate of the Earth
4/18/2007: Fate of the Earth
3/21/2007: Gifts From the Earth
3/14/2007: Tales From Other Worlds
4/1/2004: The Solar Sea
2/12/2004: The Blue Planet
The Living Machine
The Blue Planet
Fate of the Earth
Tales From Other Worlds
The Living Machine
Planet Earth
Gifts From the Earth
The Climate Puzzle
The Solar Sea

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Premiered: January 22, 1986, on PBS

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Premise: A seven-part science series examining forces that have shaped `our ever-changing planet,' as narrator Richard Kiley put it. Produced in association with the National Academy of Sciences, `Earth' covered areas ranging from earthquakes to `nuclear winter,' and compared Earth with the other planets in the solar system. The series shared 1986's Best Informational Series Emmy with a multipart `Great Performances' biography of Laurence Olivier.

Planet Earth Cast