Planet Earth
Seasonal Forests
TV Flash files “Seasonal Forests” as hour 10 of 11 in the TV Flash guide — Planet Earth (2006) on BBC/Discovery, season 1, episode 10, aired 2006-12-03, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 11 in the Planet Earth guide, hour 10 of 11 in season 1. It aired 2006-12-03 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Shallow Seas” (S01E09). Next is “Ocean Deep” (S01E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
David Attenborough's documentary series which celebrates our planet in all its eclectic wonder. He reveals the greatest woodlands on earth, from the evergreen forests of the frozen north to the deciduous dryforests of the equator. The Taiga forest is a silent world of stunted conifers cloaked in snow and ice. The trees form a belt that circles the globe, broken only by ocean, and contains a third of all trees on Earth. Here, animals are scarce, with just a few charismatic loners like the wolverine and lynx. By contrast, the broadleaf forests of North America and Europe bustle with life. The most startling illustration happens just once every seventeen years, when the nymphs of the periodical cicada burst from the soil in the biggest insect emergence on the planet. In California, witness the cameras fly up the tallest trees on Earth: giant redwoods over 100 metres high. See General Sherman, a giant sequoia, ten times the size of a blue whale, and the largest living thing on the planet. Close by are bristlecone pines, so old they pre-date the pyramids and were already 2,500 years old when Jesus Christ was born. The baobab forests of Madagascar are the strangest of all. The bizarre upside-down trees store water in their swollen trunks and harbour strange wildlife, such as the tiny mouse lemur, the world's smallest primate.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Seasonal Forests sit in the Planet Earth guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 11 — hour 10 of 11 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did Planet Earth S01E10 air?
Seasonal Forests aired 2006-12-03 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…