The WORST episodes of Natural World

#1 - Jungle

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/20/1983

#2 - Fragments of Eden

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/1984

#3 - Bearwalker of the Northwoods

Season 29 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2009

Wildlife documentary. In the forests of northern Minnesota, biologist Lynn Rogers uses food to gain the trust of wild black bears, a controversial technique developed over his own forty-year journey from fear to fascination. Following the fortunes of mother bear June and her three cubs over a year, the film reveals an intimate portrait of the lives of black bears.

#4 - A Highland Haven

Season 29 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/2009

This stunningly beautiful film reveals the unique wildlife of the Scottish Highlands, seen through the eyes of filmmaker Fergus Beeley. Based for a year at Loch Maree and the surrounding hills in Scotland's far North West, Beeley presents his personal view of the shy animals whose lives are ruled by the rains. He follows the fortunes of rare black-throated divers and white-tailed sea eagles, which both breed there, while capturing the red deer and salmon whose lives also revolve around the loch.

#5 - Black Mamba, White Witch

Season 29 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/2009

In the small African kingdom of Swaziland, the black mamba is a snake both feared and revered. During summer, these elegant yet lethal snakes turn up everywhere - in homes, schools and cars - and people are bitten every week. Enter Thea Litschka-Koen, a mum and hotel manager who has become known affectionately as the white witch. She and her husband are on call 24 hours a day to rescue and release black mambas when they get too close for comfort. But what everyone wants to know is will they come back again? We follow Thea and her team as they set up a pioneering new scientific project: to track the black mambas they release back into the wild, and find out just how these deadly snakes spend their lives.

#6 - Radio Gibbon

Season 29 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/10/2009

In deepest Borneo, a remarkable young Frenchman called Chanee is combining his love of music and his passion for gibbons. These magical singing apes of the rainforest are in danger of extinction and to help save them, Chanee has set up a rescue centre, and become the world expert at matchmaking gibbons. Only when a pair has successfully bonded can they be released back into the wild. To increase awareness of the gibbons' plight, Chanee has created his own radio station, Radio Kalaweit, named after the local word for gibbon. Its music and message has now made it the most successful radio station in Borneo.

#7 - A Question Of Space

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/1984

#8 - Land Of Ice And Fire

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1984

#9 - Water - A Fresh Look

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1985

Documentary about the world of fresh water, filmed by the German businessman, Walter Sigl in several continents. Includes the Orinoco River in Venezuela, lakes in Germany and the Florida Springs.

#10 - Land of the Tiger

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1985

Land of the Tiger looks at the protected species of the Kanha and Ranthambore National Parks, celebrating these elusive and endangered big cats and exploring the delicately balanced ecosystem they inhabit. Interweaving footage of monkeys, deer and the tiger’s main competitor, crocodiles, the couple’s impressive cinematography brings the private world of tigers to life, as these magnificent creatures swim, play, mate, suckle their young and stalk their prey.

#11 - Namaqualand, Diary of a Desert Garden

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1985

#12 - Horns of Dilemma

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1985

Documentary on the illicit trade in Rhino horns, which is threatening the five kinds of rhinoceros with extinction.

#13 - On the Verge of Life

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1985

Documentary about wildlife which lives around Britain's motorways.

#14 - The Man Who Loves Frogs

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1985

#15 - Emas, The High Plains of Brazil

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1985

#16 - The Flight of the Whooping Crane

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1985

#17 - White Rock, Black Water

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1985

#18 - Never Stay In One Place

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1985

#19 - City of Coral

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1985

#20 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear - The Frozen Ocean

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1985

First in a three part series examining Arctic ecology, The Frozen Ocean focuses on the spring to summer months, providing an intimate portrayal of life in a land of relentless ice and intense cold.

#21 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear - The Land of Beyond

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1985

Hywel Bennett narrates the second of an award-winning trilogy of films about the Arctic. The winter is long and harsh, but for eight weeks of the year the midnight sun warms the frozen earth, nurturing lush vegetation and a rich variety of flowers, and transforming the barren wastelands into fecund breeding grounds so the life of the Arctic can renew itself.

#22 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear - The Final Challenge

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/8/1985

Documentary series about the Arctic and its inhabitants.

#23 - Aspen, A Dance of Leaves

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1985

The wild life of the prairies of Canada during the winter months.

#24 - The Planet Hunters

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1985

#25 - Short Grass Country

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1986