The BEST episodes of The Green Planet

Every episode of The Green Planet ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Green Planet!

Dive into a world where a single life can last a thousand years, with David Attenborough. See things no eye has ever seen, and discover the dramatic, beautiful plant life of Earth.

Last Updated: 6/18/2025Network: BBC OneStatus: Ended

8.52

202 votes

#1 - Tropical Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2022

Tropical rainforests are plant battlegrounds. New filming techniques allow us to enter the world of plants to see it from their perspective and on their timescale.

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8.43

164 votes

#2 - Water Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2022

Water plants create beautiful, bizarre worlds. Flowers smother rivers and lakes. Plants fight and hunt. A river bubbles like champagne as plants create the atmosphere itself.

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8.39

132 votes

#3 - Seasonal Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2022

Plants of the seasonal world face constant change. They use use strategy, deception and feats of engineering to survive. Most importantly, they must get their timing right.

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8.36

118 votes

#4 - Desert Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/2022

Desert plants spend decades in suspended animation waiting for rain, or they travel to find it. They survive using weapons, camouflage and surprising alliances with animals.

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8.35

109 votes

#5 - Human Worlds

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/2022

Two out of five wild plants are threatened with extinction. Today people are finding remarkable ways to help them, and so make our world a little greener and a little wilder.

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