The World About Us
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The World About Uswas aBBC Twotelevision documentaryseries onnatural historywhich ran from 3 December 1967 to 20 July 1986.[1]The show was created byDavid Attenborough.[1]
The French marine scientist and photographerJacques Cousteaumade a documentary for the series,[1]starting in 1968 withThe Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
The series also featuredJane Goodall,again in 1968 and was narrated byDesmond Morris.While Goodall was noted for her work with chimpanzees, the series also featured her work with wild African dogs in a 1973 episode. Morris's work "Manwatching" was the subject of an episode in 1977.
An episode narrated byWilfred Thesigerabout his journey through, and his love for, the "Empty Quarter" desert won several awards in 1968 (Trento International Film Festival 1967,Melbourne Film Festival1968, International Addis Ababa Film Festival 1968).
The 400th edition was broadcast on 29 August 1976 and the series continued into the late 1980s.
The series marked the evolution of natural-history broadcasting "to the point at which constantly improving photographic techniques, allied to a seemingly inexhaustible supply of subject matter," make recurring series possible.[1]
The series is considered a precursor toLife on Earth(1979), a highly acclaimed BBC natural-history documentary series also presented by Attenborough.[1]
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[edit]- The World About Uswebsite fromBBC Two
- BBC Genome Project - The World About Uswebsite fromBBC
- The World About UsatIMDb
- 1967 British television series debuts
- 1986 British television series endings
- 1960s British documentary television series
- 1970s British documentary television series
- 1980s British documentary television series
- BBC television documentaries
- Discovery Channel original programming
- Documentary films about nature
- British English-language television shows
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