Episode guide
Planet Earth: Specials
24 episodes · premiered Mar 5, 2006
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- Episode 1: Diaries - Eye in the Sky Mar 5, 2006 · 10m Using the unique overhead heli-gimble camera the crew set out to film a pack of African wild dogs hunting in the Okavango Delta. It came down to the final hour of the final day of filming…
- Episode 2: Diaries - Snow Leopard Quest Mar 12, 2006 · 10m Over the course of three years the Planet Earth team tried to film the elusive Snow Leopard deep in the mountains of Pakistan. Their patience was eventually rewarded with the world's first…
- Episode 3: Diaries - Diving with Piranhas Mar 19, 2006 · 10m Cameraman Peter Scoones is on a mission to film Piranha in the wetlands of Brazil. They are considered the most dangerous freshwater fish, but prove difficult to track down, until Peter…
- Episode 4: Diaries - Into the Abyss Mar 26, 2006 · 10m The team spend a month amongst an enormous mound of bat guano in Gomantong Cave as they film the hundreds of thousands of cockroaches and other inhabitants that live there. The amazing…
- Episode 5: Diaries - Wild Camel Chase Apr 2, 2006 · 10m The Gobi desert is home to the last truly wild Bactrian camels and their fear of humans makes them extremely difficult to capture on film. After weeks of trying the crew were becoming…
- Episode 6: Diaries - Alive in the Freezer Nov 5, 2006 · 10m Cameraman Wade Fairley braved temperatures of minus 50C and near hurricane force winds as he filmed a breeding colony of 20,000 emperor penguins in the Antarctic. At the other end of the…
- Episode 7: Diaries - Shot in the Dark Nov 12, 2006 · 10m Lions hunting elephants has only ever been seen by a handful of people, so the crew were up against it when trying to film this rare behaviour. Using infrared technology they were able to…
- Episode 8: Diaries - Trouble in Paradise Nov 19, 2006 · 10m It took the Planet Earth team over eight weeks in the field to film less than 15 minutes of footage of the beautiful but seldom seen Birds of Paradise in the highlands of Papua New Guinea…
- Episode 9: Diaries - Shark Quest Nov 26, 2006 · 10m Great white sharks capture their slippery seal prey by rocketing out of the depths and delivering a massive hit at the surface. To record a breach like this in ultra slow motion, which in…
- Episode 10: Diaries - Forest Fliers Dec 3, 2006 · 10m
- Episode 11: Diaries - Ocean Wanderers Dec 10, 2006 · 10m The camera team of Doug Anderson and Rick Rosenthal were determined to film oceanic whitetip sharks without a cage, relying only on observation, nerves and experience to dictate how long…
- Episode 12: The Future: Saving Species Nov 26, 2006 · 1h Many of the animals featured in the Planet Earth series are endangered so do we face an extinction crisis? Saving Species asks the experts if there really is a problem, looks at the…
- Episode 13: The Future: Into the Wilderness Dec 3, 2006 · 1h Pollution, climate change and a growing human population are all putting pressure on Earth's wildernesses including the Bialowieza forest, the Gobi Desert and the Arctic tundra. So how…
- Episode 14: The Future: Living Together Dec 10, 2006 · 1h This history of conservation throws up some interesting ideas as we look to the future of an ever more populated planet. How can conservation fit into this new world driven by economics…
- Episode 15: The Making of Planet Earth Oct 11, 2006 · 1h The making of the sprawling, ambitious series is documented.
- Episode 16: Interview with Alastair Fothergill 1h
- Episode 17: Desert Lions May 30, 2007 · 1h Originally aired under BBC Natural World Collection. Many years ago lions thrived in the deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast, until they were exterminated by man. Six years ago maverick…
- Episode 18: Snow Leopard: Beyond the Myth Jan 4, 2008 · 1h Originally aired under BBC Natural World Collection. The BBC Natural History Unit explores a secret cave deep in the mountains of Pakistan where generations of snow leopards return each…
- Episode 19: Great Planet Earth Moments 1h The Planet Earth team reveal their most memorable moments from the making of the series. We'll discover their high points, and their not so high points. And they'll tell us which sequences…
- Episode 20: Secrets of the Maya Underworld Feb 9, 2005 · 1h The freshwater pools that dot Mexico's Yucatan peninsula were believed by the Mayans to be portals to the underworld. For the first time ever, the BBC Natural History Unit explores this…
- Episode 21: Elephant Nomads of the Namib Desert Mar 26, 2008 · 1h Follow the struggle for survival of two female elephants trying to raise their young in one of the harshest climates on Earth.
- Episode 22: Diaries Part I 1h
- Episode 23: Diaries Part II 1h
- Episode 24: To the Ends of the Earth 12m