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21 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 20, 1987 60 mins
Life along northwest Nevada's East Walker River, home for an array of wildlife. Blue herons, red-tailed hawks and great horned owls nest there because of a plentiful food supply, including pocket gophers, jack rabbits and snakes.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 27, 1987 60 mins
The destruction of Amazon rain forests to make room for farms and cattle ranches. Scientists study the habitats of forest creatures to decide how to preserve them. Included: monkeys, opossums, canopy beetles, birds, butterflies and leaf-cutter ants.
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 4, 1987 60 mins
Monkeylike lemurs, found on Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Included: the ring-tailed lemur, which forages for fruit pods, leaves and roots; the indri; the red-fronted; and the lesser mouse, with an average weight of 2 ounces.
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 18, 1987 60 mins
The making of cinematographer Dieter Plage's 1986 study of the Galapagos Islands. Included: the techniques used to film a marine iguana grazing on seaweed; the volcanic island Fernandina; and "surfing" sea lions. Host: George Page.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 15, 1987 60 mins
How animals survive in East Africa, where the rainy season lasts only a few weeks. Observed: snails, frogs and lungfish estivating in the mud; elephants digging wells; and grouse carrying water to their chicks in absorbent belly feathers.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 22, 1987 60 mins
Techniques used by lightning birds, or hammerkops, to build huge, sturdy nests that, when abandoned, are taken over by a host of other creatures including rats, Egyptian geese, kestrels, owls, and even pythons. Narrator: George Page.
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 29, 1987 60 mins
A 1987 program examining the work of Maurice and Katia Krafft, who studied and filmed volcanoes around the world before their deaths in a 1991 volcanic explosion. Scenes include a lake of molten lava in Central Africa; an eruption in Iceland; an evacuated school being devoured by Mount Etna.
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 6, 1987 60 mins
A tigress and her three cubs in India's Kanha National Park, a reserve where tigers are protected from humans---if not from nature. Included: a tiger killing a leopard; a mother abandoning her disabled cub; and a tigress chasing away her mate.
Episode 9
Sun, Jan 3, 1988 60 mins
"Land of the Kiwi" observes wildlife in New Zealand, including ground parrots, giant snails, glowworms and harriers. George Page is the series host.
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 10, 1988 60 mins
"Costa Rica: Paradise Reclaimed" follows Dan Janzen through Santa Rosa National Park, a 430 square-mile section of Central America's endangered tropical dry forest. Included: seed distribution; ants protecting an acacia tree from foraging insects.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 24, 1988 60 mins
"In Flight Movie" surveys birds in flight; and "Birds of the Sun God" studies the acrobatic hummingbirds. Included: gray lag geese; white storks; peregrine falcons; swordbill, sicklebill and giant hummingbirds.
Episode 12
Sun, Feb 14, 1988 60 mins
The volcanic activity that shaped Hawaii's spectacular terrain; legends of early Polynesian settlers. Also: animal species, including endangered monk seals; gray reef sharks.
Episode 13
Sun, Feb 21, 1988 60 mins
The first of a three-part survey of "Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari" describes how earthquakes diverted the Okavango River into Botswana's Kalahari Desert. Observed: elephants, zebras, buffaloes, vultures, ostriches, bush babies and bat-eared foxes.
Episode 14
Sun, Feb 28, 1988 60 mins
"The Living Jewel," Part 2 of "Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari," observes African skimmers, lily trotters, baboons, dwarf mouth-breeders, tiger fish and catfishlike squeakers. Host: George Page.
Episode 15
Sun, Mar 6, 1988 60 mins
"Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari" concludes with how Botswana is facing "A New Challenge" to preserve its delta wildlife despite development of diamond mining, cattle farming, tourism and hunting. Narrator: George Page.
Episode 16
Sun, Mar 20, 1988 60 mins
Examining the coexistence of humans and elephants in Bangalore, India, where the pachyderms are hunted by poachers and displaced by farmers. George Page narrates.
Episode 17
Sun, Mar 27, 1988 60 mins
Migrating sockeye salmon traveling a 6000-mile "life-or-death obstacle course" from British Columbia's Adams River to the Pacific Ocean and back.
Episode 18
Sun, Apr 24, 1988 60 mins
Central Venezuelan grasslands. Observed: caimans (cousins to the crocodile), capybaras (large rodents), howler monkeys, capuchins and wild horses. Also: conservation efforts by local ranchers.
Episode 19
Sun, May 1, 1988 60 mins
A journey down England's Avon River with Tom Williams, its caretaker of 28 years. Observed: pike, perch, salmon, ospreys, eels and colorful great-crested grebes.
Episode 20
Sun, May 8, 1988 60 mins
"The Elephant Challenge," filmed in Africa, observes the world's largest land mammals doing what they do best: eating massive amounts and taking mud baths. The hour also observes the problem of poaching for ivory tusks. Host: George Page.
Episode 21
Sun, Jun 12, 1988 60 mins
Destructive fishing practices in "The Coral Triangle" of the Philippines, Malaysia and New Guinea. Observed: coral spawning; banded sea snakes; clownfish; tritons; sea slugs; and giant clams.