 | This article uses a non-standard episode table. |
Audubon Wildlife Theatre was a wildlife documentary television series broadcast from 1968 to 1973.
| This article uses a non-standard episode table. |
Audubon Wildlife Theatre was a wildlife documentary television series broadcast from 1968 to 1973.
39 episodes [1]
| Title | Broadcast date | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| "Land of the Loon" | April 13, 1968 | 1 |
Canadian Film Awards - best film for TV. Filmed in Ontario's Algonquin Park by Dan Gibson. [2] [3] [4] | ||
| "The Vanishing Sea" | April 20, 1968 | 2 |
The wildlife of Utah's Great basin [5] | ||
| "From the Mountains to the Sea" | April 27, 1968 | 3 |
| "River of Grass." | May 4, 1968 | 4 |
| "Wildlife Island" | May 11, 1968 | 5 |
| "Sea, Ice and Fire" | May 18, 1968 | 6 |
| "They Live by the Water" | May 25, 1968 | 7 |
| "Land of the Sea" | June 1, 1968 | 8 |
| "Scandinavian Saga" | June 8, 1968 | 9 |
| "Wildlife Sanctuaries of India" | June 15, 1968 | 10 |
The Gir Forest of India, filmed by Jack Carey. [19] | ||
| "Between the Tides" | June 22, 1968 | 11 |
The creatures of the sea and land filmed and narrated by Robert Hermes. [20] | ||
| "Adventure High Arctic" | June 29, 1968 | 12 |
Ed Jones documents the impact of the Arctic on wildlife and his family. [21] | ||
| "Venezuelan Prairie" | July 6, 1968 | 13 |
The wildlife of central Venezuela [22] | ||
| "These Things are Ours" | July 13, 1968 | 14 |
Animals and events that are common, but rarely noticed. [23] | ||
| "Alberta Outdoors" | October 26, 1969 | 16 |
| "Nature's Ways" | July 27, 1968 | 17 |
| "Kenya and Uganda" | August 3, 1968 | 18 |
Wildlife of Kenya and Uganda [25] | ||
| "New England Saga [26] " | August 10, 1968 | 19 |
New England's hills, valleys and sea coasts [27] | ||
| "The Living Wilderness" | August 17, 1968 | 20 |
| "Land of the Drowned River" | August 31, 1968 | 21 |
Maryland's Delmarva Peninsula [30] | ||
| "Delta of the Orinoco" | September 7, 1968 | 22 |
The virgin rain forest around Venezuela's Orinoco River [31] | ||
| "Red Deer Valley" | September 14, 1968 | 23 |
The wildlife of central Alberta [32] | ||
| "Northwest to Alaska" | September 21, 1968 | 24 |
Four Seasons in Alaska filmed by Walter Bertlett. [33] | ||
| "World of Bees" | September 28, 1968 | 25 |
| "Waterfowl Wilderness" | October 5, 1968 | 26 |
Life cycle of Mallard Duck is filmed by Dan Gibson. [36] | ||
| "Desert Life" | October 12, 1968 | 27 |
| "Hawaii" | November 2, 1968 | 28 |
Wildlife of the Hawaiian Islands filmed by Walter and Myrna Berlet [37] | ||
| "Queen of the Cascades" | June 21, 1969 | 29 |
Wildlife of Mount Rainier of the Cascades Range [38] | ||
| "This England" | June 28, 1969 | 30 |
England's game preserves [39] | ||
| "Promise of Spring" | July 5, 1969 | 31 |
Springtime in inland British Columbia filmed and narrated by Wilf Gray. [40] | ||
| "Down South Up the Nile" | July 12, 1969 | 32 |
| "Wild Lands, Our Hermitage" | July 19, 1969 | 33 |
Film maker Dan Gibson makes a special plea for Canadians to be conservationists. [41] | ||
| "Wildlife by Air" | July 26, 1969 | 34 |
A visit to the Bahamas with pilot and photographer Herman Kitchen. [42] | ||
| "Living Jungle" | August 2, 1969 | 35 |
| "Where Eagles Swim" | August 9, 1969 | 36 |
Bald Eagles of British Columbia's northern coast [43] | ||
| "Return to Pelican Island" | August 16, 1969 | 37 |
Pelicans nest and raise their young on islands off the U.S. Pacific Coast. Filmed and narrated by Robert Davidson. [44] | ||
| "Soliloquy for a River" | August 23, 1969 | 38 |
The interdependence of wildlife and a Midwestern river. Filmed by Robert Davidson. [45] | ||
| "Wildfowl Sanctuary" | August 30, 1969 | 39 |
The Kortright Waterfowl Park in Guelph. Filmed and narrated by William H. Carrack. [46] | ||
A 12-week series [47]
| Title | Broadcast date | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| "Land of Oriskany" | January 3, 1971 | 1 |
| "Spring Marsh" | January 10, 1971 | 2 |
| "Mexico, Land of Contrast" | January 17, 1971 | 3 |
The lives, crafts and celebrations of the people of Mexico. [50] | ||
| "Insect World" | January 24, 1971 | 4 |
| "Living Mountains" | January 31, 1971 | 5 |
Living Mountains [52] | ||
| "Beaver Pond" | February 7, 1971 | 6 |
| "Costa Rica" | February 14, 1971 | 7 |
| "Enduring Wilderness" | February 21, 1971 | 8 |
Baja California area of Mexico filmed by Chess Lyons [55] | ||
| "Sounds of Nature" | February 28, 1971 | 9 |
The sounds of wildlife, including birds, bears and beavers. [56] | ||
| "Awareness for Tomorrow" | March 7, 1971 | 10 |
Toronto Island Natural Science School [57] | ||
| "River Run" | March 14, 1971 | 11 |
Rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. [58] | ||
| "Coral World of Bermuda" | March 21, 1971 | 12 |
| "Small World" | April 4, 1971 | 13 |
Insects [60] | ||
| "Mule Deer Country" | April 18, 1971 | 14 |
| "Around the Bay" | April 25, 1971 | 15 |
Wildlife of Delaware Bay [62] | ||
| "Ants and Aphids" | May 2, 1971 | 16 |
| "Africa's Curious Naturalists" | May 9, 1971 | 17 |
| "Rattlesnake King" | May 23, 1971 | 18 |
Frank Young, the Rattlesnake King of New Hampshire [66] | ||
| "High Country" | May 30, 1971 | 15 |
Alberta from the Rockies to the Prairies filmed by Chess Lyons. [67] | ||
| "Color It Living" | June 5, 1971 | 19 |
Portrait of artist Glen Loates, painter of North American wildlife [68] | ||
| "Land of the Totem Pole" | June 13, 1971 | 20 |
Wildlife of British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands filmed by renowned ecologist J. Bristol Foster. [69] | ||
| "Africa, Cornerstone for Survival" | June 27, 1971 | 21 |
Ecologist Bristol Foster, Ph. D on the need for wildlife to adapt to a changing world. [70] | ||
| Title | Broadcast date | Episode |
|---|---|---|
| "Kangaroos and Koalas" | January 2, 1972 | 1 |
| "Wapiti" | January 9, 1972 | 2 |
| "Lands of Two Oceans" | January 30, 1972 | 3 |
Differences between the Pacific Rim and Gaspé region. [72] | ||
| "Water Birds of Australia" | February 6, 1972 | 4 |
| "Land of Igloolik" | February 13, 1972 | 5 |
| "Lobster Country" | February 20, 1972 | 6 |
East coast of North America [75] | ||
| "Micronesia" | February 27, 1972 | 7 |
| "Quebec Spring" | March 5, 1972 | 8 |
| "West Side Journey" | March 12, 1972 | 9 |
| "New England Wilderness" | March 19, 1972 | 10 |
| "Quebec-Iran Adventure" | April 2, 1972 | 11 |
| "Reptiles - A Misunderstood Species" | April 16, 1972 | 12 |
| "Wanderings of a Naturalist" | April 23, 1972 | 13 |
Gerald Pollock films wildlife in Australia and New Zealand, including Kiwi, Emu, Eyre Bird, Bower Bird and Compass Termites. [81] | ||
| "Family in the Wilderness" | April 30, 1972 | 14 |
| "Nesting Time in Southern Ontario" | May 7, 1972 | 15 |
| "Coyote Country" | May 14, 1972 | 16 |
| "Day In The Desert" | August 27, 1972 | TBA |
| "Untamed Olympics" | September 10, 1972 | TBA |
| "Bermuda; Land and Sea" | January 3, 1973 | TBA |