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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.

A children-oriented reversion of this series was released in America under the title Prehistoric Planet for the Discovery Kids Saturday morning line-up by on NBC, with new naration read by Ben Stiller and Christian Slater, but keeping the same impressive graphics.

The settings of some of the 6 episodes were changed between when the book was written and when the television series came out, and some of their names were changed: in the book they are:-

New Blood, set at Ghost Ranch.
Time of the Titans.
Cruel Sea, set at or near Solnhofen in Germany near what then were the .
Giant of the Skies.
Spirits of the Ice Forest.
Death of a Dynasty.

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. The Guinness Book of World Records reports that the series was the most expensive documentary series per minute .

In 2000 series was supplemented by a special episode Allosaurus: a Walking with Dinosaurs' Special which takes place in the Jurassic period. In the same vein, a follow-up to the series was Walking with Beasts, set in the Cenozoic era. This series featured extinct mammals and birds like Indricotherium and Gastornis. The third installment was Walking with Cavemen
, a documentary about our ancestors. In 2005 Walking with Monsters: Life Before Dinosaurs was produced. 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 Marven travelling back in time to the world's seven deadliest seas.

Episodes

"New Blood"

The first episode filmed and broadcast. 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. The episode mainly focuses on the Coelophysis and the fight for suvrvival during the dry season. The Postosuchus is beaten out of her territory by a male Postosuchus and then dies from hunger and a flesh wound. The Cynodont's home is invaded by Coelophysis and they have to eat their own young, to deprive the Coelophysis of their prey, before fleeing to find a new home. The Placerias are slowly dying out due to droughts and the remainder wander off into the desert and into extinction. :Coelophysis (theropod) :Peteinosaurus (pterosaur) :Placerias (dicynodont) :Plateosaurus (prosauropod) :Postosuchus (basal archosaur) :Cynodont (cynodont) :lungfish :dragonfly (live-acted) :phytosaur (mentioned in companion book) : metoposaur (in book)

"Time of the Titans"

The second episode to be filmed and broadcast. 152 Million Years Ago - Upper Jurassic — Colorado

:Filming locations: Redwood National Park, Chile, Tasmania, New Zealand :Conditions: warm with mixture of forest and fern-prairies. This episode focuses on a female Diplodocus and her siblings as they grow throughout the years. But some are eaten by predators, and burned by a forest fire, and speared by a Stegosaurus's tail-spikes. By the end of the episode, only the female Diplodocus and one of her brothers remain and they join a herd of adult Diplodocus. The episode ends with the female Diplodocus mating and breeding. :Allosaurus (theropod) :Anurognathus (pterosaur) :Brachiosaurus
(sauropod) :Othnielia (ornithopod) (shown but not identified) :Diplodocus (sauropod) :Ornitholestes (theropod) :Stegosaurus
(stegosaur) :Coelurus(theropod) (present in companion book)

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Movies - Walking with Dinosaurs

Episodes

"New Blood"

"Time of the Titans"

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