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First Aired: October 10th, 1982

Network: PBS

Summary: Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.

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Season 11

Episode 1: Realms of the Russian Bear: Green Jewel of the Caspian

Air Date: October 5th, 1992

Summary: This miniseries starts off by exploring the abundance of wildlife around the Volga Delta in Russia’s Astrakhan region.

Episode 2: Realms of the Russian Bear: the Arctic Frontier

Air Date: October 5th, 1992

Summary: An exploration of the wildlife of the Russian Arctic, and in particular Wrangle Island, featuring polar bears, musk oxen, Ross’s Gulls, reindeer, foxes, walruses, and the Red-breasted Goose.

Episode 3: Realms of the Russian Bear: the Red Deserts

Air Date: October 6th, 1992

Summary: A focus on the wildlife of the Central Asian deserts.

Episode 4: Realms of the Russian Bear: the Celestial Mountains

Air Date: October 6th, 1992

Summary: Between China and Central Asia is the Tian Shan mountain range, home to Marco Polo sheep, white-clawed bears, snow leopards, yaks, and the ibex.

Episode 5: Realms of the Russian Bear: Siberia, the Frozen Forest

Air Date: October 7th, 1992

Summary: A look at the wildlife in the huge Siberia forest reveals bears, elk, wolves, and musk deer among many other creatures in this frozen expanse.

Episode 6: Realms of the Russian Bear: Born of Fire

Air Date: October 7th, 1992

Summary: This last program in the miniseries explores Kamchatka Peninsula where the Russian Arctic meets Southeast Asia. Home to perhaps the highest concentration of volcanoes in the world, this remote region is teeming with life both on land and in the sea, from the Amur Tiger to the Giant Pacific Octopus.

Episode 7: Shadows in a Desert Sea

Air Date: October 18th, 1992

Summary: Fish, bats, birds, whales, giant squids, sharks, dolphins, sea lions and more flourish in and around the Sea of Cortez.

Episode 8: The Tree of Music

Air Date: October 25th, 1992

Summary: The African Blackwood is prized the world over for its wood in the making of musical instruments. Nature takes you on a journey through the history of this “tree of music” and into modern day efforts in Tanzania to save this ever dwindling resource.

Episode 9: Slaves to the Queen

Air Date: November 29th, 1992

Summary: Get right inside the hives of bees and wasps to see the inner workings of these complex societies.

Episode 10: Ice Fox: Struggle for Survival

Air Date: January 10th, 1993

Summary: A look at two separate families of arctic foxes. One living in the frozen, barren tundra of northern Russia, the other living in the slightly more comfortable surroundings of the Norwegian coastline.

Episode 11: Cheetahs in the Land of Lions

Air Date: January 24th, 1993

Summary: A study of cheetah behavior follows a mother and her cubs on the Serengeti plains.

Episode 12: Gorilla: King of the Congo

Air Date: February 14th, 1993

Summary: A gorilla orphanage and a proposed forest reserve may save the lowland gorilla.

Episode 13: American Trickster

Air Date: February 21st, 1993

Summary: As its numbers increase and its natural range diminishes, the coyote moves into populated regions like Los Angeles.

Episode 14: Hebrides: the Secret Islands

Air Date: February 28th, 1993

Episode 15: Echo of the Elephants

Air Date: March 14th, 1993

Summary: In Kenya’s Amboseli National Park is a family of elephants led by its matriarch Echo. Elephant expert Cynthia Moss, takes us up-close and inside the lives of these magnificent animals.

Episode 16: The Ghosts of Ruby

Air Date: May 9th, 1993

Episode 17: The Bandit and the Builder

Air Date: May 16th, 1993

Summary: Raccoon and beaver lifestyles in the Canadian wilderness.

Episode 18: Spirit of the Sound

Air Date: May 23rd, 1993

Summary: Exploration of Puget Sound's ecosystem.

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