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The Great Rift: Footprints in the Valley

Episode number: 1

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

The Great Rift: Out of the Ashes

Episode number: 2

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

The Great Rift: Breaking the Continent

Episode number: 3

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

Under the Ice

Episode number: 4

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

Land of Dragons

Episode number: 5

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

The Great Wood of Caledon

Episode number: 6

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

Gorillas

Episode number: 7

Overview: A portrait of the endangered mountain gorilla in equatorial Africa.

Forest of Fear

Episode number: 8

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

Gran Paradiso

Episode number: 9

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

Cranes of the Grey Wind

Episode number: 10

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

King Solomon's Mountains

Episode number: 11

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

Hunters of the Sky

Episode number: 12

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

A Wolf in the Fold

Episode number: 13

Overview: 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.

The Colorado

Episode number: 14

Overview: Tracing the course of the Colorado River.

The Emerald Isle

Episode number: 15

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

Giant Otters

Episode number: 16

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

The Haida Gwai: Islands of the People

Episode number: 17

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

Presque Isle: Land in Motion

Episode number: 18

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

Yellowstone on Fire

Episode number: 19

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

Serpents

Episode number: 20

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