Planet Earth
Great Plains
TV Flash files “Great Plains” as hour 7 of 11 in the TV Flash guide — Planet Earth (2006) on BBC/Discovery, season 1, episode 7, aired 2006-11-12, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E07: listed hour 7 of 11 in the Planet Earth guide, hour 7 of 11 in season 1. It aired 2006-11-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Ice Worlds” (S01E06). Next is “Jungles” (S01E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The great plains are the vast open spaces of our planet. These immense wilderness areas are seemingly empty. But any feeling of emptiness is an illusion - the plains of our planet support the greatestgatherings of wildlife on earth: two million gazelles on the Mongolian steppes, three million caribou in North America and one and a half million wildebeest in East Africa. Close on their heels come an array of plains predators including eagles, wolves and lions. At the heart of all that happens here is a single living thing - grass. Flooded, burnt, baked and frozen - grass is almost indestructible, able to survive from the baking savannahs of Africa to the frozen tundra of the Arctic, from the floodplains of India to the high altitude steppes of the Tibetan plateau. Together, these hugely productive grassland plains encompass a quarter of the land on earth and bear witness to some of the most dramatic wildlife stories on our planet.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Great Plains sit in the Planet Earth guide?
S01E07 is listed hour 7 of 11 — hour 7 of 11 in season 1, season 1 episode 7.
When did Planet Earth S01E07 air?
Great Plains aired 2006-11-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
BBC or Discovery version?
BBC Natural History Unit masterpiece; U.S. version aired on Discovery. Attenborough whispering over HD biomes is the event.
In the series
Why this series still plays
David Attenborough whispers over high-definition footage that made Earth look extra-terrestrial in 2006. Planet Earth is natural-history spectacle as appointment awe — biomes as set pieces, how-did-they-film-that making-of lore, the production ceiling every later nature series still jumps for.
The group chat for Planet Earth is just people typing how did they film that until the making-of diaries become the second show, which they kind of are. Alastair Fothergill and the BBC Natural History Unit, David Attenborough whispering, U.S. version on Discovery in 2006: a landmark wildlife series spanning the planet's biomes in then-revolutionary high definition. Earth looking extra-terrestrial. Biomes as set pieces. Awe as a weekly appointment. Eleven episodes, one season, sequels including Planet Earth II.…
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- David Attenborough as Narrator
David Attenborough whispers Planet Earth into appointment awe — high-definition footage that made the globe look extra-terrestrial in 2006, biomes as set pieces, how-did-they-film-that lore. Natural-history spectacle as a 2000s production…