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  1. Life on Earth
    Life on Earth1979 · TV Show · 1 season
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    End year1979
    GenreDocumentary
    Production companyBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) · Reiner Moritz Productions
    Filming techniques

    Several special filming techniques were devised to obtain some of the footage of rare and elusive animals. One cameraman spent hundreds of hours waiting for the fleeting moment when a Darwin's frog, which incu… See more

    Gorilla encounter

    The best remembered sequence occurs in the twelfth episode, when Attenborough encounters a group of mountain gorillas in Dian Fossey's sanctuary in Rwanda. The primates had become used to humans through ye… See more

    Critical and commercial reception

    The series attracted a weighted average of 15 million viewers in the UK, an exceptionally high figure for a BBC documentary back in the late 1970s. It was also a major international success, being sold to ove… See more

    1997 revision

    A shortened series, using the footage and commentary from the original, was aired in 1997, edited down to three episodes: early life forms, plants, insects, and amphibians in the first; fish, birds and reptiles in the second; an… See more

    DVD, Blu-ray and book

    The series is available in the UK for Regions 2 and 4 as a four-disc DVD set (BBCDVD1233, released 1 September 2003) and as part of The Life Collection. In 2012 the series was released as a four-disc Blu-ray set … See more

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