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All Episodes of Round Planet

This is natural history, but not as you know it. Narrated by off-kilter natural history doyen 'Armstrong Wedgewood' – played by the inimitable Matt Lucas...
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Season 1

  • Arctic
    7.7/1022 votes

    Arctic

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/16/2016

    Artic creatures aren't bothered by the cold. Rather, they fear the warmth caused by human activity that is setting the 'Earth's freezer' to 'defrost'.

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  • Yellowstone
    6.8/1015 votes

    Yellowstone

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2016

    Serene as it seems, Yellowstone National Park is more unpredictable than an atom of Radium-226, thanks to the active super volcano below it.

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  • Oceans
    6.5/1010 votes

    Oceans

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/22/2016

    Most of Earth's animals live in the sea, where they form a "living soup" or a "massive death chowder" in which it's eat or be eaten.

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  • Wildebeest
    6.6/1011 votes

    Wildebeest

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/23/2016

    The wildebeest, one of the many species of ungulates and "cud munchers" that populate the Serengeti, take part in a grand migration every year.

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  • Madagascar
    6.9/108 votes

    Madagascar

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/24/2016

    Many of the flora and fauna of Madagascar are found nowhere else on Earth, which is why the island isn't called "Normal-a-gascar."

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  • Penguins
    7.2/1011 votes

    Penguins

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/27/2016

    Penguins, "the natural world's answer to Charlie Chaplin," only have to waddle about to make children -- and Amstrong Wedgewood -- smile.

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  • Islands
    6.7/1010 votes

    Islands

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/28/2016

    Life on islands evolves in isolation from the wider world, and in a manner that is "absolutely potty." Much of this life is weird and wonderful.

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  • Great Apes
    7.0/108 votes

    Great Apes

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/29/2016

    The great apes, not to be confused with monkeys, have opposable thumbs, complex social politics and other "phenomenally humanlike" qualities.

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  • Forests
    6.9/107 votes

    Forests

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/30/2016

    In forests, the perfect combination of sunlight and rain "makes trees grow like billy-o." Among these trees, an entire world springs into being.

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  • Bears
    7.3/108 votes

    Bears

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/1/2016

    Armstrong narrates a focus on bears, the largest land predators on Earth which, surprisingly, forage for some of the smallest meals available.

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