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The Best Episodes of The Green Planet

Every episode of The Green Planet ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Green Planet!

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This documentary series about plants is the first immersive portrayal of an unseen, inter-connected world, full of remarkable new behaviour, emotional stories and surprising heroes in the plant world. Planet Earth from the perspective of

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Green Planet Season 1 Episode 2 - Water Worlds
    9.1/10(331 votes)

    #1 - Water Worlds

    S1:E2

    Water plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as plants create the atmosphere itself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Green Planet Season 1 Episode 1 - Tropical Worlds
    9.0/10(373 votes)

    #2 - Tropical Worlds

    S1:E1

    Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective and on their timescale.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Green Planet Season 1 Episode 3 - Seasonal Worlds
    8.9/10(284 votes)

    #3 - Seasonal Worlds

    S1:E3

    Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Green Planet Season 1 Episode 4 - Desert Worlds
    8.9/10(267 votes)

    #4 - Desert Worlds

    S1:E4

    Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage and surprising alliances with animals.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Green Planet Season 1 Episode 5 - Human Worlds
    8.8/10(247 votes)

    #5 - Human Worlds

    S1:E5

    Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a little greener and a little wilder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Water Worlds" is the best rated episode of "The Green Planet". It scored 9.1/10 based on 331 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/16/2022. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Tropical Worlds".