The WORST episodes of Nature
Every episode of Nature ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Nature!
Transport viewers to faraway places ranging from the steamy plains of Africa to the splendors of cold Antarctica. The main focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world.
#1 - The Volcano Watchers
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1987
Scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft seek to uncover the mystery of volcanoes by studying them on location as they erupt.
#2 - America's Wild Horses
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/15/1987
Following the wild mustangs of America’s West.
#3 - Holy Land: A Wilderness Like Eden
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/1987
An exploration of the Rift Valley that sweeps North from Kenya to Turkey, where prophets said their god first planted a garden.
#4 - Holy Land: Sweet Water, Bitter Sea
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/19/1987
The unusual life in the salty Dead Sea, where the desert plunges 1,200 feet below sea level.
#5 - The Forgotten Garden
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/26/1987
What happens when a finely maintained garden is abandoned.
#6 - Lords of Hokkaido
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/10/1987
A year on a Japanese island following a family of red foxes.
#7 - Amazonia: A Burning Question
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1987
Attempts to protect the unique animals and plants of Brazil threatened by development of the Amazon jungle.
#8 - Spirits of the Forest
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1987
The lemur, an agile nocturnal primate of Madagascar, so-named because of its secretive habits and haunting cries.
#9 - Perspectives of Paradise
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1987
The process of wildlife filmmaking as chronicled by a crew during their three-year study of the Galapagos Islands.
#10 - A Season in the Sun
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1987
The tremendous difference in animal lifestyle and in landscape during East Africa's dry season and its wet season.
#11 - The Legend of the Lightning Bird
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1987
The hammerhead stork, believed by East African tribesmen to have the power to call lightning from the sky.
#12 - In the Shadow of Fujisan: Long Live the Turtle
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/8/1987
Hunters and egg poachers threaten the existence of the giant loggerhead turtle.
#13 - Tiger!
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1987
International endeavors to protect the endangered Indian tiger are highlighted by scenes of a mother raising her cubs in the wild.
#14 - Land of the Kiwi
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/3/1988
Unusual wildlife inhabitants, beautiful terrain and natural wonders grace the Pacific islands comprising New Zealand.
#15 - Costa Rica: Paradise Reclaimed
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/1988
U.S. scientist Dan Janzen uses innovative conservation plans to create a national park amid a tropical forest.
#16 - Masked Monkeys
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/24/1987
Echoing hoots and trills, bandit masks, feathered tufts and orange noses distinguish African forest monkeys called quenons.
#17 - In-Flight Movie: Birds of the Sun God
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/24/1988
Close-up film captures birds in-flight; tiny hummingbirds draw nectar while hovering above flowers.
#18 - Okavango, Jewel of the Kalahari: The Search for the Jewel
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/1988
The first of a three-part survey of "Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari" describes how earthquakes diverted the Okavango River into Botswana's Kalahari Desert. Observed: elephants, zebras, buffaloes, vultures, ostriches, bush babies and bat-eared foxes.
#19 - Okavango, Jewel of the Kalahari: The Living Jewel
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/28/1988
Creatures of the air, trees and water brave the five-month floods through the Okavango delta. Part 2 of "Okavango: Jewel of the Kalahari," observes African skimmers, lily trotters, baboons, dwarf mouth-breeders, tiger fish and catfishlike squeakers.
#20 - Okavango, Jewel of the Kalahari: A New Challenge
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/1988
People of Botswana must balance wildlife protection with preservation of their precious water source.
#21 - Elephant: Lord of the Jungle
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/20/1988
The Asian elephant is shown to be a creature of both great strength and intelligence.
#22 - Miracle of the Scarlet Salmon
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/27/1988
After two years in the Pacific, the sockeye salmon battles rapids returning to its birthplace to spawn.
#24 - Kingdom of the Ice Bear: The Final Challenge
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/2/1986
A study of man’s relationship with the Arctic and its wildlife.
#25 - Saguaro: Sentinel of the Desert
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/9/1986
Wolfgang Bayer focuses on the native giant saguaro cactus of the southwestern United States.