Season 1 · Episode 1
There's an unusual rescue as a stag gets a life buoy entangled in its antlers. Meanwhile, cats are living in terrible squalor and a spider strikes a note of fear in one inspector.
There is an unlikely call to a big bird loose in the Sussex countryside. Vets treat a german shepherd suffering from too much exercise, and inspector Keith Hogben checks out a seal on the Welsh coast.
Inspector Clare Dew fights to save a sick kitten dumped outside a pet shop, a pony is found in need of serious grooming, and a gannet is bashed by terrible storms.
The RSPCA and police crack down on the illegal puppy trade. Plus the pair of porkers causing havoc in a back yard, and a cat which is injured by its own collar.
A kitten trapped in a garage turns into a big job for one RSPCA inspector. A muntjac deer is hit by a car, and cameras follow the remarkable rescue of 200 horses abandoned in a field in Wales.
Over two hundred ducks need rescuing from a life-threatening oil spill. A german shepherd makes a dramatic escape, and a cat is locked in after its owner gets locked up.
The remarkable recovery of Grace, a dog dumped and left to die. Inspector Jayne Bashford rescues 26 cats from appalling conditions and the water rescue team reunite two love-struck swans.
A tricky mare gives Inspector Chris Shaw the runaround. Thirteen owls are being kept in a suburban back yard and a flat is overrun with cats.
Inspector Vicki MacDonald is surprised to find a bearded dragon in a Bolton back yard. A dog with terrible fur loss gets the treatment it needs, plus an operation to stop illegal hunting.
48 rabbits in a back garden, the growing problem of Britain's fat dogs and a couple's love of cats that is getting out of control.
Filmed across five years in a single spectacular location, the lives and fates of our four families - leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and lions - are inextricably linked as they strive for a foothold in a remote and fertile river valley in Zambia.
2025
Three-part series that looks at a year in Alaska, revealing the stories of pioneering Alaskans, both animal and human, as they battle the elements and reap the benefits of nature's seasonal gold rush.
2015
The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.
2014
Stories from the perspective of some of the world's oldest living creatures - trees. Each tree is located in a completely unique habitat around the world, and hosts, feeds and shelters an array of animals in its embrace.
2018
Best friends come in all shapes, sizes, and species, from America to Australia, and from Britain to Zimbabwe. This six-part series looks at the cutest, funniest, and least expected animal relationships in the world, featuring animals that shouldn't get along but, for whatever reason, make their special bonds work. Join us as we travel the globe to meet an orphaned rhino calf and her dog and sheep companions, an orphaned baby kangaroo and a wombat, a zebra-donkey hybrid and two camels, and many more unusual but amazing friendships.
2020
David Attenborough embarks on a remarkable 500 million-year journey revealing the extraordinary group of animals that dominate our world, and how their evolution defines our human bodies.
2013
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2019
The first months of an animal's life are crucial - if they lose their mothers, they'll need help. Meet the wild orphans getting a second chance, and those devoted to saving them.
Biologist Patrick Aryee and physicist Helen Czerski go beyond the limits of human perception to explore the extraordinary and surprising world of animal senses.
Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the Ice Age. This was the last time that giants like mammoths, woolly rhinos, and sabre-tooth cats ruled the Earth and Alice attempts to reconstruct their lives in incredible detail.
Penguins on a Plane: Great Animal Moves follows the expert handlers entrusted with transporting some of the world's most precious and challenging cargo safely to their destinations.
Africa is a land sculpted by time where animals have evolved complex weapons to arm them in the battle to live another day. An elephant's tusks can defend, or attack. An octopus uses camouflage to find food, or hide from an enemy. A Cape Fur Seal's speed and agility are valuable tools to catch a penguin, but ineffectual against a Great White Shark. A single hippopotamus holds a pride of twelve lions at bay with his sheer bulk, but backs down when faced with the piercing teeth of another hippo. With lethal weapons wielded by fearsome predators and prey, animals walk a precarious path, here among Africa's Deadliest.
2011
Chris Packham travels the world to uncover the secrets of the animal mind.
Chris Packham uses groundbreaking science and brand-new behaviour to delve deep beneath the skin and discover the unique features that have made certain animal groups successful.
Bill Pullman introduces and narrates this four-part documentary on the world's first national park, Yellowstone.