Walking with Dinosaurs (UK)

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Season 1 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 6
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

	1x01 New Blood It is the mid-Traissic period, an the sun is setting on the age of reptiles. Once the most dominant lifeform on the planet, reptiles are now represented by only a few species. But as ...	Oct. 04, 1999
	1x02 Time of the Titans It is the late Jurassic, and dinosaurs rule the land. At the height of this reign, sauropods are the dominate herbivore on Earth. We follow the life of one sauropod, a Diplodocus, from ...	Oct. 11, 1999
	1x03 Cruel Sea Dinosaurs may rule the land, but it's a different story in the oceans. Marine reptiles dominate the seas. A school of female Opthalmasaurus are moving into the reefs around the northern ...	Oct. 18, 1999
	1x04 Giant of the Skies Reptiles not only rule the seas, but the skies as well. This is the time of the pterosaurs, flying reptiles that dominate the Cretaceous skies. And at this point, none is as large as ...	Oct. 25, 1999
	1x05 Spirits of the Ice Forest In the mid-Cretaceous, Australia, Antarctica, and South America are still connected in one super continent. This is a time when the South Pole is a huge polar forest, where for five ...	Nov. 01, 1999
	1x06 Death of a Dynasty The year is 65.5 million BC, and the time is 11:59pm for the dinosaurs. Volcanic activity has begun to choke the land, and dinosaurs are suffering. Few eggs are hatching, poisoned by ...	Nov. 08, 1999

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	Season 1 / Episode 1: - New Blood Narrator: [about the mammal-like reptiles] One day in the future, this strategy of investing in their young will pay off for their mammalian descendants. But as mammals evolve over the next one hundred sixty million years, they will only survive as a few small species, clinging on at the edge of a world dominated by dinosaurs.
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - Spirits of the Ice Forest Narrator: Life on the Poles is a remarkable evolutionary achievement for the dinosaurs. But eventually, a slight cooling in the world's climates will spell the end of these lush forests. And without them, these unique dinosaurs will also disappear.

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Episode 05 - Goof (continuity error): After the Allosaurus had killed the Leaellynasaura and dropped it on the ground, the carcass is positioned in the opposite direction during the following shots.
Episode 02 - Featured creatures in this episode: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Anurognathus, Ornitholestes, Dryosaurus (small bipeds seen throughout episode). The book also features the small Ornitholestes-like predator Coelurus.
Episode 04 - Featured creatures: Ornithocheirus, Tapejara, Iguanodon, Polacanthus, Utahraptor, Iberomesornis (the birds), Saurophtirus (the louse-like insect seen parasitizing the Ornithocheirus). According to the BBC website, the Liopleurodon-like pliosaur seen in one shot (recycled from the previous episode) is a Plesiopleur
Episode 05 - Goof (revealing mistake): As the lost Muttaburrasaurus pair moves about in the forest, watch their tails: near the end of the shot, they move very choppily, like a stop-motion animation. They move fluidly in all other shots.
Episode 03 - Goof (factual errors): The narrator states that Liopleurodon can grow up to 25 m long. In reality, no Liopleurodon larger than 10 m has ever been found.

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Walking with Dinosaurs (UK) Season 1 (1999)