8.2/1091 votesLoading...#1 - New Giants
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2011
This episode focuses on the new giants, the heavyweights of the dinosaur world. It is only in recent years that experts have unearthed the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived.
Director: Nigel Paterson
Writer: N/A
8.1/1086 votesLoading...#2 - Fight for Life
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2011
This episode of the documentary series focuses on the Jurassic period, a time when the first giant killers stalked the Earth and lurked in the seas.
Director: Nigel Paterson
Writer: N/A
8.0/1092 votesLoading...#3 - Last Killers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2011
A look at the last of the killer dinosaurs - carnivores that took killing to a new level. By the end of the Cretaceous period - 75 million years ago - these gigantic and specialised hunter-killers had spread throughout the globe. In the southern continents, it was the powerful and muscular abelisaurids that reigned supreme, but it was the famous tyrannosaurids (or tyrant dinosaurs) that dominated in the north.
Director: Nigel Paterson
Writer: N/A
8.0/1082 votesLoading...#4 - The Great Survivors
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/2011
The final episode explores dinosaurs' extraordinary ability to survive.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1096 votesLoading...#5 - Feathered Dragons
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2011
A look at bizarre and extraordinary feathered dinosaurs, many of which have only just been discovered. These feathered beasts are revolutionising our understanding of life on Earth as they blur the boundaries between what we know of dinosaurs and birds.
Director: Nigel Paterson
Writer: N/A
7.8/10118 votesLoading...#6 - Lost World
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/2011
In prehistoric North Africa, the carcharodontosaurus, a lizard-like carnivore with shark-like teeth more than six inches long, and the spinosaurus - at four metres, one of the biggest killers to walk the planet - once battled for supremacy.
Director: Nigel Paterson
Writer: N/A
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The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC One
Best Episodes Summary
"New Giants" is the best rated episode of "Planet Dinosaur". It scored 8.2/10 based on 91 votes. Directed by Nigel Paterson and written by N/A, it aired on 10/12/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Fight for Life".