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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Natural World Season 1 Episode 1 - Save The Panda
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    #1 - Save The Panda

    S1:E1

    Follows the great land migration in Africa, one of the seven wonders of the natural world. Wildebeests, numbering in the millions, run for their lives on a-mile trek to find food and water, battling predators along the way.

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  2. Natural World Season 1 Episode 2 - From Aadvark To Zebra
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    #2 - From Aadvark To Zebra

    S1:E2

    Impalas move with the great migration on the Serengeti plains of Africa. A new fawn is on his way, but so is danger for the herds.

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  3. Natural World Season 1 Episode 3 - Programmed For Flight
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    #3 - Programmed For Flight

    S1:E3

    On an African river in the Serengeti, a mother crocodile defends her babies against predators in the sky and on the ground. Discover the secret way that crocodiles have survived for millions of years.

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  4. Natural World Season 1 Episode 4 - Jungle
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    #4 - Jungle

    S1:E4

    The animal kingdom in the Serengeti is in constant competition for resources. The essence of competition is for the hunt and those who can't cut it are left behind.

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  5. Natural World Season 1 Episode 5 - Secret Weapons
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    #5 - Secret Weapons

    S1:E5

    Two mother cheetahs, able to reach top speeds of nearly 70 miles per hour, are in a race to protect and feed their new cubs. Predators close in on the families, who must work to prevail on the Serengeti Plains of Africa.

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  6. Natural World Season 1 Episode 6 - Birds of Paradox
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    #6 - Birds of Paradox

    S1:E6

    Known to be aggressive and dangerous, hippos are also fiercely protective of their young. Watch as mother hippos in Africa risk everything to keep their newly born calves away from predators, both in and out of the water.

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  7. Natural World Season 1 Episode 7 - Jet Set Wildlife
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    #7 - Jet Set Wildlife

    S1:E7

    A newborn wildebeest befriends a fierce lioness, and a rare meeting between two river monsters, a hippopotamus and a Nile crocodile.

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  8. Natural World Season 1 Episode 8 - Pelican Delta
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    #8 - Pelican Delta

    S1:E8

    The wildlife of the Danube delta in the Black Sea, especially the white pelicans.

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  9. Natural World Season 1 Episode 9 - Winter Days
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    #9 - Winter Days

    S1:E9

    There are only two seasons in the Serengeti, dry and wet. As the long dry season ends, the clouds begin to darken as the rain signals new life on the Serengeti Plains.

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  10. Natural World Season 1 Episode 10 - God's Acre
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    #10 - God's Acre

    S1:E10

    The wildebeest path on their endless migration is impeded several times by rivers. The waterways have certain dangers that can can result in death for the wildebeest, mainly the Nile crocodile.

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  11. Natural World Season 2 Episode 1 - Plight of the Bumble-Bee
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    #11 - Plight of the Bumble-Bee

    S2:E1

    The programme is about bumble bees in the forests of New England. We follow a queen bumble bee as she emerges from hibernation to find a suitable nest site and establish a colony from the eggs she has carried over the winter. She duels with a rival queen. Honey bees, bee mites and wax moths also feature in her life story.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Natural World Season 2 Episode 2 - Salim Ali's India
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    #12 - Salim Ali's India

    S2:E2

    Documentary which tells the story of some of the discoveries made by Indian ornitholigist Salim Ali

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  13. Natural World Season 2 Episode 3 - The Kiwai - Dugong Hunters of Daru
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    #13 - The Kiwai - Dugong Hunters of Daru

    S2:E3

    In their hunt for the dugong, the Kiwai people of Papua New Guinea still use magic to bewitch it and to charm their boats, whether they are powered by sail or outboard motor. The dugong, or sea cow, is the gentle creature that gave rise to the legend of the mermaid. To the Kiwai it is an important food and a central feature of their livelihood and culture. Now it is being hunted to the extent that it is a rare and endangered species.

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  14. Natural World Season 2 Episode 4 - Commandos of Conservation
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    #14 - Commandos of Conservation

    S2:E4

    Greenpeace fights in the front line of the conservation battle, where the whales or the seals are being killed, the toxic waste is being dumped, the bombs are being exploded. Their policy is non-violent direct action. They break the law and make the headlines, and in a few years they've grown from a handful of west-coast idealists into a fashionable international movement. This is the story of how it happened, told through some of their most impudent and most daring campaigns.

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  15. Natural World Season 2 Episode 5 - Long Point
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    #15 - Long Point

    S2:E5

    Once a shooting reserve, now a rich wildlife preserve, Long Point on the north shore of Lake Erie is a testimony to the resilience of nature and to the benefits of the sport of wild fowling. In protecting their shooting, past wildfowlers also conserved the wildlife of Long Point. It is now a permanent home to rails, raccoons, toads and turtles and visited by migrating wildfowl.

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  16. Natural World Season 2 Episode 6 - Beneath The Keel
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    #16 - Beneath The Keel

    S2:E6

    This film looks at marine life off the Devon coast, as viewed by filmmakers Jeff Goodman & Laurie Emberson, who like to get close to and interact with these creatures. Sparkling jewel anemones, exotic cup corals, massed spider crabs and rare red band fish are just a few of the unusual animals that make their homes beneath the waves of our coastal waters.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Natural World Season 2 Episode 7 - Treasures of the Gulf
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    #17 - Treasures of the Gulf

    S2:E7

    Pearls once brought wealth to the Arabian Gulf. Today it comes from oil that gushes from beneath the sea. The gulf's bounty of wildlife is a part of its natural riches too. Migrating birds flock to its shores and its waters conceal a stunning array of creatures: sea snakes, batfish, corals, huge shoals of jacks and blooms of jellyfish that stretch to the horizon. But for how long can these priceless treasures survive the onslaught of modern development or, worse still, the war which now threatens its shores?

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  18. Natural World Season 2 Episode 8 - Fragments of Eden
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    #18 - Fragments of Eden

    S2:E8

    Islands which time passed by, the Seychelles appeared out of the mists of legend only 300 years ago. These tiny granite islands are fragments of a long-lost continent, and even today they retain an air of mystery and fable, for they are home to birds, trees and flowers that are found nowhere else on earth. On a palm-fringed isle giant tortoises amble in the company of rare magpie robins.... and on another, black parrots, tiger chameleons and blue pigeons live in a forest so primeval that General Gordon of Khartoum believed he had found a lost Eden.

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  19. Natural World Season 3 Episode 1 - Among The Wild Chimpanzees
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    #19 - Among The Wild Chimpanzees

    S3:E1

    As a child Jane Goodall dreamt of going to Africa and living with the animals. In 1960 her dream became reality: she began a study of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park. Today, more than two decades later, her work still continues, and it has given us a remarkable portrait of the animal most like man. Spanning three generations of chimps, it shows them in all their moods.... playful infants, turbulent adolescents and adults whose behavior ranges from tender motherhood to hunting and even murder.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Natural World Season 3 Episode 2 - One Man's Island
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    #20 - One Man's Island

    S3:E2

    Documentary programme on Keith Brockle who spent twelve months painting and drawing the bird life on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth.

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  21. Natural World Season 3 Episode 3 - Invaders Of The Truk Lagoon
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    #21 - Invaders Of The Truk Lagoon

    S3:E3

    Truk Lagoon in the western Pacific is a peaceful tropical atoll. In 1944 its tranquillity was shattered when the US Navy surprised and sank a fleet of 60 Japanese ships. Within 40 years a dazzling array of corals and colorful fish have transformed this sunken arsenal into the world's largest artificial reef.

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  22. Natural World Season 3 Episode 4 - The Desire Of The Moth
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    #22 - The Desire Of The Moth

    S3:E4

    The largest known moth in the world has wings the size of a dove, the smallest lives inside a leaf. Although they are creatures of darkness, the bizarre designs and garish colors of moths rival those of butterflies in the hide-and-seek game of life. Among the stories of their double lives are tales of heroes that rescued Queensland from the prickly pear, blizzards of bogongs that were a summer feast for the first Australians, and the story of that irresistible desire that draws the moth to the flame and sudden death.

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  23. Natural World Season 3 Episode 5 - A Question Of Space
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    #23 - A Question Of Space

    S3:E5

    Five hundred miles above the parched African landscape a satellite seeks clues to the problem of space on the ground. In Kenya, fueled by a rapidly rising population, the competition for land is threatening one of the wildlife wonders of the world. But the tools to tackle the problem are at hand - ranging from low-tech charcoal-burning stoves to the latest in high-tech space technology. Can solutions be found before the land race gets out of control? Or will the elephant, rhino and zebra lose out in this earthbound battle for space?

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  24. Natural World Season 3 Episode 6 - Peacocks, Parasites And The Puzzle Of Sex
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    #24 - Peacocks, Parasites And The Puzzle Of Sex

    S3:E6

    What's the purpose of sex? To protect us from disease! Brian Leith unravels the intricate puzzle of sex and finds that: Males seem to be a waste of time and energy - many of the successful plants and animals (like the weeds in your garden) do without them altogether! Big animals - from polar bears to human beings - always have males as well as females - for a very good reason! The vital clue to the mystery lies in parasitism and infection. Out of the puzzle emerges a sparkling new theory of sex that looks set to keep biologists buzzing for years.

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  25. Natural World Season 3 Episode 7 - Land Of Ice And Fire
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    #25 - Land Of Ice And Fire

    S3:E7

    The first explorers to penetrate beyond the headwaters of the Missouri brought back tales of a strange land. They spoke of valleys that seemed to smoke and burn perpetually, and of a river that never froze, even in the hardest winter. That land is Yellowstone, America's oldest national park. Two-and-a-half million visitors flock there each summer, but in winter the park takes on another face that most people never see. Bison huddle in the warmth of the hot springs and the steam vents and geysers attain a new beauty in the frozen air.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Save The Panda" is the worst rated episode of "Natural World". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/30/1983. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "From Aadvark To Zebra".