Walking with Dinosaurs
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Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part television series produced by the BBC and narrated by Kenneth Branagh (UK version, BBC) and Avery Brooks (US version, Discovery Channel). The series used computer-generated imagery and animatronics to recreate the life in the Mesozoic, and showed dinosaurs in a way that was only shown before in Jurassic Park, six years earlier. The series was a commercial and scientific success. Dinosaur paleontologists, like Peter Dodson, Peter Larson and James Farlow were scientific advisors. Their influence in the filming process is shown in Walking with Dinosaurs - The Making Of.
In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted on by industry professionals, Walking With Dinosaurs was placed 72nd.
In the same vein, a follow-up to the series was Walking with Beasts, set in the Cenozoic period. This series featured extinct mammals and birds like Indricotherium and Gastornis. The third installment was Walking with Cavemen, a documentary about our ancestors. When Dinosaurs Roamed America (produced by Discovery Channel) is yet another dinosaur CGI documentary.
Also in the same vein, a spin-off three-part series was made, known as "Sea Monsters", in which it revolves around Nigel Marvin travelling back in time to the world's seven deadly seas.
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Episodes
"New Blood"
220 Million Years Ago - Upper Triassic — Arizona
- Filming location: New Caledonia
- Conditions: semi-desert with short rainy season. In the year of the episode, the rains are late.
- Coelophysis (theropod)
- Peteinosaurus (pterosaur)
- Placerias (dicynodont)
- Plateosaurus (prosauropod)
- Postosuchus (basal archosaur)
- Thrinaxodon (cynodont)
"Time of the Titans"
152 Million Years Ago - Upper Jurassic — Colorado
- Filming locations: Redwood National Park, Chile, Tasmania, New Zealand
- Conditions: warm with mixture of forest and grassland.
- Allosaurus (theropod)
- Anurognathus (pterosaur)
- Brachiosaurus (sauropod)
- Diplodocus (sauropod)
- Ornitholestes (theropod)
- Stegosaurus (ornithischian)
"Cruel Sea"
149 Million Years Ago - Upper Jurassic — Oxfordshire
- Filming locations: Bahamas, New Caledonia
- Conditions: shallow tropical sea with small islands.
- Cryptoclidus (plesiosaur)
- Eustreptospondylus (theropod)
- Hybodus (shark)
- Liopleurodon (pliosaur)
- Ophthalmosaurus (ichthyosaur)
- Rhamphorhynchus (pterosaur)
"Giant of the Skies"
127 MIllion Years Ago - Lower Cretaceous — Young Atlantic Ocean (Brazil, Cantabria)
- Filming locations: New Zealand, Tasmania
- Conditions: Sea and coastlands.
- Iberomesornis (primitive bird)
- Iguanodon (ornithischian)
- Ornithocheirus (pterosaur)
- Polacanthus (ornithischian)
- Tapejara (pterosaur)
- Utahraptor (theropod)
"Spirits of the Ice Forest"
106 Million Years Ago - Lower Cretaceous — "Antarctica" (Antarctica, South America and Australia)
- Conditions: Forest dominated by Nothofagus and podocarps, very near South Pole (the sun did not rise for 5 months in the winter).
- Filming location: New Zealand
- Allosaurus
- Koolasuchus (temnospondyl amphibian)
- Leaellynasaura (ornithischian)
- Muttaburrasaurus (ornithischian)
- Steropodon (monotreme)
"Death of a Dynasty"
65 Million Years Ago - Upper Cretaceous — Montana
- Conditions: Grassland and forest, affected by volcanism. The episode shows some effects of the end-of-Cretaceous asteroid impact.
- Filming locations: Chile, New Zealand
- Anatotitan (ornithischian)
- Ankylosaurus (ornithischian)
- Didelphodon (marsupial)
- Dromaeosaurus (theropod)
- Quetzalcoatlus (pterosaur)
- Torosaurus (ornithischian)
- Tyrannosaurus (theropod)
