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Ended · 1967–1971

The World About Us

Nature / History

The World About Us is a series of documentaries from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it.

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Season 1967 · 4 episodes
  1. S1967 E01 · Volcano
  2. S1967 E02 · 90' South
  3. S1967 E03 · Forest and Firebird
  4. S1967 E04 · Alaska
Season 1968 · 47 episodes
  1. S1968 E01 · Jivaro: A Sinister Society
  2. S1968 E02 · The Wild Places
  3. S1968 E03 · People Out of Time
  4. S1968 E04 · Isles of Wonder
  5. S1968 E05 · Beyond the Last Oasis
  6. S1968 E06 · Americans on Everest
  7. S1968 E07 · A Norwegian Year
  8. S1968 E08 · Yankee Sails Across Europe
  9. S1968 E09 · Discovering Galapagos
  10. S1968 E10 · One More Shift to Push
  11. S1968 E11 · The Hidden World
  12. S1968 E12 · The Other Russias
  13. S1968 E13 · Grizzly!
  14. S1968 E14 · The Distant Warriors of New Guinea
  15. S1968 E15 · Easter on Athos
  16. S1968 E16 · The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  17. S1968 E17 · Wild Jamaica: Part 1: Trapdoors, Tyrants, and Tadpoles
  18. S1968 E18 · Wild Jamaica: Part 2: Cays, Crabs, and Cucumbers
  19. S1968 E19 · The Forgotten Peninsula
  20. S1968 E20 · The Garden of the Gods
  21. S1968 E21 · Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
  22. S1968 E22 · Letter from Thimphu
  23. S1968 E23 · Three Men on the Exe
  24. S1968 E24 · The Living Sea
  25. S1968 E25 · The Blue-Veiled Man
  26. S1968 E26 · Savage Paradise
  27. S1968 E27 · The Freedom of the Hills
  28. S1968 E28 · The Naked Sea
  29. S1968 E29 · A Terrible Place
  30. S1968 E30 · River Nile
  31. S1968 E31 · Seabird Summer
  32. S1968 E32 · The Golden Isthmus
  33. S1968 E33 · The Lonely Dorymen
  34. S1968 E34 · Darwin
  35. S1968 E35 · Walk Into the Parlour
  36. S1968 E36 · The Empty Quarter
  37. S1968 E37 · Magic in the Hills
  38. S1968 E38 · Beauty and the Beasts
  39. S1968 E39 · Big D Ranch: 1: Hunting for Giants
  40. S1968 E40 · Big D Ranch: 2: Vampires, Piranhas and Giant Ant-bears
  41. S1968 E41 · The Last Great Journey on Earth: From Amazon to Orinoco by Hovercraft
  42. S1968 E42 · The Secret Bowers
  43. S1968 E43 · Dream of Two Cities
  44. S1968 E44 · The Two Faces of China
  45. S1968 E45 · Signals for Survival
  46. S1968 E46 · Forest Symphony
  47. S1968 E47 · Down to the Sea in Ships
Season 1969 · 23 episodes
  1. S1969 E01 · Avalanche
  2. S1969 E02 · Fabulous Storks
  3. S1969 E03 · River of Death
  4. S1969 E04 · Islands in the Clouds
  5. S1969 E05 · The Rare Ones
  6. S1969 E06 · The Golden State
  7. S1969 E07 · The Dogon
  8. S1969 E08 · Written in the Water
  9. S1969 E09 · International Balloon Race
  10. S1969 E10 · Voyage to the Sea of Ice
  11. S1969 E11 · Ghosts at the End of the World
  12. S1969 E12 · Annanacks
  13. S1969 E13 · The Perfect Traveller: Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico
  14. S1969 E14 · The Noble Savage
  15. S1969 E15 · Left-Over Raj
  16. S1969 E16 · A Home for the Wanderer
  17. S1969 E17 · Mzima: Portrait of a Spring
  18. S1969 E18 · Amazon
  19. S1969 E19 · Flyway
  20. S1969 E20 · The Silk Spinners
  21. S1969 E21 · Heirs of the Head-Hunters
  22. S1969 E22 · The Green Island
  23. S1969 E23 · The Last of the Lapps
Season 1970 · 32 episodes
  1. S1970 E01 · The Incredible Hummingbirds
  2. S1970 E02 · Train to Calcutta
  3. S1970 E03 · A Dream of Old Iceland
  4. S1970 E04 · Majorca Observed
  5. S1970 E05 · In Search of Paradise
  6. S1970 E06 · Gozo: the Barren Enchantress
  7. S1970 E07 · The Unsuspected Isles
  8. S1970 E08 · The Great Unknown
  9. S1970 E09 · The Golden Isthmus
  10. S1970 E10 · The Way of a River
  11. S1970 E11 · Trans-African Hovercraft: Part 1: Ten Days to Bamako
  12. S1970 E12 · Trans-African Hovercraft: Part 2: Beyond Timbuctoo
  13. S1970 E13 · Trans-African Hovercraft: Part 3: Land of Tchad
  14. S1970 E14 · The Conquest of Annapurna
  15. S1970 E15 · The Stone Age Circus
  16. S1970 E16 · American Samoa - Paradise Lost?
  17. S1970 E17 · A Park in Peru...
  18. S1970 E18 · The Journals of Lewis and Clark
  19. S1970 E19 · The Lost River of Gaping Gill
  20. S1970 E20 · The Sherpas of Everest
  21. S1970 E21 · Where Two Worlds Meet
  22. S1970 E22 · Baobab
  23. S1970 E23 · A Bite of the Sea
  24. S1970 E24 · Close to Heaven and Earth
  25. S1970 E25 · Kingdom of Coral
  26. S1970 E26 · The Fury of Orinoco
  27. S1970 E27 · Roof of Japan
  28. S1970 E28 · Save Our Suffolk
  29. S1970 E29 · Rockets are for Peace
  30. S1970 E30 · Sahara
  31. S1970 E31 · Three Men in a Balloon
  32. S1970 E32 · The Living Forest
Season 1971 · 36 episodes
  1. S1971 E01 · An Expedition into the Stone Age
  2. S1971 E02 · The World of Heinz Sielmann
  3. S1971 E03 · The Lollipop Tree
  4. S1971 E04 · Animals in Action
  5. S1971 E05 · Mzima - Portrait of an African Oasis
  6. S1971 E06 · No Welcome on the Map
  7. S1971 E07 · The Water Web
  8. S1971 E08 · The Uninhibited Islands
  9. S1971 E09 · Operation Seashore
  10. S1971 E10 · There are Monkeys at the Bottom of the Garden
  11. S1971 E11 · The Road to Mandalay
  12. S1971 E12 · Thor Heyerdahl's Ra Expeditions: 1: Pyramids and Papyrus
  13. S1971 E13 · Thor Heyerdahl's Ra Expeditions: 2: By Papyrus Boat across the Atlantic
  14. S1971 E14 · The Man Who Loves Giants
  15. S1971 E15 · Siberia: The Endless Horizon
  16. S1971 E16 · Coral Calypso
  17. S1971 E17 · Operation Musk Ox
  18. S1971 E18 · Chimpanzee!
  19. S1971 E19 · The Conquered Dream
  20. S1971 E20 · The Journals of Lewis and Clark
  21. S1971 E21 · The Last Frontier
  22. S1971 E22 · Countdown for the Everglades
  23. S1971 E23 · Ganga Mayya (Mother Ganges)
  24. S1971 E24 · Saga
  25. S1971 E25 · Kingdom of Coral
  26. S1971 E26 · A Cold Wind on the Heath
  27. S1971 E27 · Penguin City
  28. S1971 E28 · Ways of the Middle Kingdom
  29. S1971 E29 · Song of the Sirens
  30. S1971 E30 · Enchanted Lagoon
  31. S1971 E31 · Kifaru
  32. S1971 E32 · Under London Expedition
  33. S1971 E33 · The Living Sea
  34. S1971 E34 · The Forbidden Route
  35. S1971 E35 · The Great Mojave Desert
  36. S1971 E36 · Behind the Veil

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