NaN/100 votes#1 - Great White Shark: The True Story of Jaws
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/1995
The first title from the exciting series made up from the BBC's natural history output. Just the sight of a shark's fin breaking the surface spells terror, but is this Hollywood-delivered image fair? Underwater filming of these awesome, two ton, 19 foot fish in their natural unbaited environments exposes the Great White as a paradox: a shy and cautious creature existing within a highly structured social order, but also a terrific killing machine striking with total surprise and devatating speed from the murky depths.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - Polar Bear: The Arctic Warrior
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/26/1997
The great white bear of the arctic - includes a film first of polar bears hunting underwater and life inside their dens.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Crocodile: The Smiling Predator
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/3/1997
Only now, by exploring their complete world, above and below water, by day and night, can we fully appreciate how sophisticated crocodiles are.
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#4 - Leopard: The Agent of Darkness
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/10/1997
This episode ventures into the night, and follows the lives of two leopards in Zambia's Luangwa Valley, to reveal the night-time secrets of the cat that walks on its own.
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#5 - Eagle: The Master of the Skies
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/17/1997
Few birds have captured the human imagination as deeply as the eagle and in this remarkable film, aerial photography captures the dramatic life of eagles as never seen before.
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#6 - Humpback Whale: The Giant of the Oceans
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/24/1997
From the Arctic to the Antarctic, amazing underwater footage reveals for the first time the successful hunting and spectacular social behaviour of the world's largest predator.
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#7 - Wolf: The Legendary Outlaw
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/31/1997
The definitive story of this much-maligned animal - filmed in habitats ranging from the high Arctic to the hill farms of Europe and monsoon-sodden India.
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#8 - Tiger: The Elusive Princess
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/4/1999
After 25 years of the Project Tiger Scheme operating in the Madhya Pradesh, these magnificent animals have become more trusting, permitting an extraordinary intimate film which follows them from sunrise to sunset, in monsoon rains and in shimmering heat.
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#9 - Lions: Spy in the Den
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2000
Edited from more than 3000 hours of footage, this documentary uses a remote camera disguised as a rock to observe cubs growing up into adult lions. It features their futile attempts to climb trees, the mayhem caused when they surround a hippo, and various encounters with other animals such as cobras, buffalos and elephants.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - Grizzly: Face to Face
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/8/2001
Grizzly - a powerful predator and an animal to fear. But not for Jeff Turner, a Canadian photographer who has spent fifteen years getting face to face with bears. In this film he uses his unique skills to get closer than ever before, and uncovers the true nature of this magnificent beast. Few other people could stalk a hunting grizzly across the tundra of Alaska or film them underwater diving for fish. Jeff reveals an animal that is complex, intelligent and adaptable, one which is just as good at prizing barnacles from rocks and digging for clams, as it is pursuing elk and swimming for salmon.
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#11 - Gorillas: On the Trail of King Kong
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/2002
Over a century ago, the first explorers in the Congo forests sent back terrifying accounts of an aggressive ape, "half man, half beast," which inspired the myth of King Kong. Ever since then, we have had little contact with these lowland gorillas — they have remained a mystery to us. We have come to know the mountain gorillas of Rwanda intimately, but what are King Kong's wild lowland cousins really like? GORILLAS: ON THE TRAIL OF KING KONG follows Sir David Attenborough and intrepid cameraman Gavin Thurston on the trail deep into the heart of three gorilla sanctuaries in northern Congo: Ndoki, Odzala and Lossi, in search of the true nature of the lowland gorilla.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - Serpent: Through the Eyes of the Snake
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/2002
One of the most successful species on earth is also one of the least documented. Miniaturised cameras reveal the snakes' world for the first time from their point of view. Head-mounted cameras capture gripping images of the world's most dangerous snakes hunting and overcoming their prey. Using high-speed photography, x-ray imaging and state-of-the-art computer graphics, this is the most ambitious TV study of snakes yet attempted.
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NaN/100 votes#13 - Killer Whale
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/9/2003
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NaN/100 votes#14 - Elephants: Spy in the Herd
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/20/2003
Elephants: Spy In The Herd provides the most intimate portrayal of the everyday life of an elephant herd. Narrated by David Attenborough and filmed over a year, throughout the program the elephant herd exhibits many human similarities: their life span, social structure, wisdom of age and emotional bonds. The idea of using "character-cameras" is developed even further and the spy-cams help unravel the elephants' intimate story. Three different types of cameras were created: "Dungcam", "Poopcam" and "Plopcam"! By using radical techniques, the disguised cameras capture each dramatic moment of elephant life from extraordinary proximity. Witness two males clashing over territory, the birth and slow development of a calf and jealous rivalries between herd members. A real sense of these animals' incredible flexibility and intimacy is shown as they bathe in mineral salts, mud and dust, while their astonishing sensory perceptions are also revealed.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - Smart Sharks: Swimming With Roboshark
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 8/3/2003
Attempts at charting shark behaviour using a 6ft, lifelike animatronic robot, complete with on-board camera and pre-programmed swimming patterns. In the waters around Bikini Atoll the creation is able to mingle safely with man-eating reef sharks, while in the Philippines it spies on deep-sea threshers and joins great whites as they hunt seals. Narrated by David Attenborough.
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#16 - Bears: Spy in the Woods
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/30/2004
Sir David Attenborough narrates this look at bears from across the globe through the use of spycams, camoflaged in a variety of disguises from logs, boulders, fish and dustbins.
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#17 - Trek: Spy on the Wildebeest part 1
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/2007
"The Journey" - A wildebeest calf makes spectacular year-long journey, an arduous 3,000km round trip across Tanzania's Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara. Filmed using Dungcam, Bouldercam, Croccam, Skullcam, Tortoisecam and other spycams. (Part one of a two-part documentary.
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#18 - Trek: Spy on the Wildebeest part 2
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/2007
"The Crossing" - A wildebeest calf makes spectacular year-long journey, an arduous 3,000km round trip across Tanzania's Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara. In part two, the migration reaches the Masai Mara where, for the calf, the river presents his greatest challenge yet.
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#19 - Tiger: Spy in the Jungle part 1
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/2008
Elephants carrying Trunkcam, Tuskcam and other spy cameras tell the story of four cubs growing up in the Indian jungle. In the first programme, the elephants come upon the four 10-day-old tiger cubs. This is their mother's first litter and she has her paws full.
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#20 - Tiger: Spy in the Jungle part 2
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/2008
The cubs are now half-grown and very playful, learning the skills they'll need as adults.
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#21 - Tiger: Spy in the Jungle part 3
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/2008
The cubs are now a year-and-a-half old and learning to hunt for themselves.
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#22 - Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice part 1
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/29/2010
Part 1 of this fantastic documentary. Spycams sneak within a paw’s swipe of the world’s largest land predators – Polar bears. Polar Bear Spy on the Ice gets closer than ever before to these charismatic bears and reveals their astonishing intelligence and curiosity.
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#23 - Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice part 2
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/29/2010
Part 2 of this fantastic documentary. Spycams sneak within a paw’s swipe of the world’s largest land predators – Polar bears. Polar Bear Spy on the Ice gets closer than ever before to these charismatic bears and reveals their astonishing intelligence and curiosity.
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#24 - Penguins: Spy in the Huddle part 1
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/11/2013
"The Journey" - Emperor penguins cross a treacherous frozen sea to reach their breeding grounds.
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#25 - Penguins: Spy in the Huddle part 2
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 2/18/2013
"First Steps" - Newborn penguins are caught taking their first unsteady steps.
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The Best Episodes of Wildlife Specials Season 1
Every episode of Wildlife Specials Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Wildlife Specials Season 1!
The BBC Wildlife Specials are a series of nature documentary programmes commissioned by BBC Television. The Wildlife Specials began with a pilot episode in 1995....
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Network:BBC One
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Great White Shark: The True Story of Jaws" is the best rated episode of "Wildlife Specials" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/14/1995. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Polar Bear: The Arctic Warrior".