The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.
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Air Date: 1979-01-16
The first ever episode of the landmark natural history series Life on Earth. David Attenborough explores the wildlife...
Air Date: 1979-01-23
Bright blue starfish, crimson feather stars, shell-less snails in designs as extravagant as any Paris fashion show, s...
Air Date: 1979-01-30
For most of Earth's history there was no life on land. But over 400 million years ago some tiny plants began an invas...
Air Date: 1979-02-06
David Attenborough looks at the role of a few of the millions of insect species, some of which have developed extreme...
Air Date: 1979-02-13
Fish occur in populations of billions and there are over 30,000 species, more than in any other group of backboned an...
Air Date: 1979-02-20
Some 350 million years ago, evolution reached one of its most crucial stages when fish crawled from the water onto th...
Air Date: 1979-02-27
David Attenborough looks at the history of reptiles, the first back-boned creatures to solve the problems of living h...
Air Date: 1979-03-06
The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us. David Attenborou...
Air Date: 1979-03-13
Mammals have proved to be one of the most adaptable products of evolution. David Attenborough looks at their evolutio...
Air Date: 1979-03-20
A little furry animal from the jungles of South East Asia, called a tree shrew, has attracted great interest from sci...
Air Date: 1979-03-27
David Attenborough explores the eternal duel between the hunters and the hunted - one of the driving forces of evolut...
Air Date: 1979-04-03
David Attenborough's now-legendary encounter with young gorillas is featured in this episode as he looks at the histo...
Air Date: 1979-04-10
David Attenborough looks for crucial clues that help to explain how and why we have come to dominate life on earth. ...