The following is a chronological list of television series and individual programmes where David Attenborough is credited as writer, presenter, narrator or producer. In a career spanning eight decades, Attenborough's name has become synonymous with the natural history programmes produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.
1950s[]
1952- Coelacanth[]
This short film, featuring biologist Julian Huxley discussing the rediscovery of the coelacanth, is Attenborough's first television credit.
1952- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?[]
A quiz show based on the game Twenty Questions, which ran until 1959, in which eminent scientists would try to guess the origin of specimens from museum and university collections.
1953- Song Hunter[]
Series on folk music, featuring performances by Alan Lomax
1953- The Pattern of Animals[]
Attenborough's first natural history series, on animal camouflage, warning signals and courtship displays, was studio-based and presented by Julian Huxley
1954- Zoo Quest[]
An animal-collecting expedition to Sierra Leone with London Zoo curator Jack Lester and cameraman Charles Lagus, in search of the elusive Picathartes gymnocephalus
1955- Zoo Quest to Guiana[]
For the second Zoo Quest expedition, Attenborough and Lagus introduced British television viewers to the natural history of South America
1955- The Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58[]
An occasional series following the progress of Vivian Fuchs and his Commonwealth expedition's successful overland crossing of Antarctica
1958-Zoo Quest for a Dragon[]
This Zoo Quest series features the first known footage of the Komodo dragon
1957- Quest for the Paradise Birds[]
Attenborough's first trip to the island of New Guinea in an attempt to film the courtship displays of the native birds of paradise
1959- Zoo Quest in Paraguay[]
For the fifth Zoo Quest, Attenborough and Lagus returned to South America and visited the grasslands and wetlands of Paraguay
1960s[]
1960- The People of Paradise[]
A series on the anthropology and natural history of the South Pacific
1960- Travellers' Tales[]
A long-running series made by Attenborough's BBC Travel and Exploration Unit, which also featured Armand and Michaela Denis's On Safari programmes
1961- Zoo Quest to Madagascar[]
An expedition to film and collect animals in Madagascar, including lemurs, at the time little-known in Europe
1961- Adventure[]
The BBC's flagship travel series from the early 1960s, for which Attenborough is credited as narrator or producer of over 30 programmes
1961- Japan[]
A series presented by Hugh Gibb on the history and culture of the Japanese people
1962- Destruction of the Indian[]
This short series looked at how contact with the modern world has affected remote Indian tribes of the South American rainforest
1963- Attenborough and Animals[]
Attenborough's first series for children, in which different species were compared
1963- Quest Under Capricorn[]
The final Zoo Quest series, filmed in the Northern Territory of Australia, was also Attenborough's final natural history series before moving into BBC management
1965- Zambezi[]
During a break from studying for an anthropology degree, Attenborough filmed a journey down the Zambezi
1967- Life: East Africa[]
A series of interviews with African conservationists, filmed during a sabbatical from management duties, for Desmond Morris's Life series on BBC Two
1969- The Miracle of Bali[]
Attenborough visited the Indonesian island of Bali to film the traditional music and culture
1969- The World About Us[]
Commissioned during his tenure as Controller of BBC Two, Attenborough narrated around 20 episodes of this long-running series between 1969 and 1982
1970s[]
1971- A Blank on the Map[]
A one-off programme charting an expedition to a remote part of New Guinea
1973- Eastwards with Attenborough[]
Attenborough's first natural history series after resigning as BBC Controller took him to South East Asia
1973- Natural Break[]
A series of short programmes based on archive footage, produced by John Sparks
1973- Royal Institution Christmas Lectures[]
Attenborough joined a list of distinguished names who have presented the annual science lectures aimed at children, on the subject of The Language of Animals
1975- The Explorers[]
A series of drama-documentaries recreating the voyages of famous explorers, at the time the most expensive series ever commissioned by the BBC
1975- Fabulous Animals[]
A series for children's television which featured Attenborough reading from books on mythological creatures
1975- The Tribal Eye[]
A series on tribal art, of which Attenborough is a keen collector
1976- The Discoverers[]
A series on pioneering explorers, discoverers and scientists in the field of natural history
1977- Wildlife on One[]
This series of half-hour natural history programmes for BBC One ran annually until 2005
1979- Life on Earth[]
Covering the history of life on Earth, this acclaimed series was three years in the making and notable for its groundbreaking footage
1980s[]
1980- The Spirit of Asia[]
The cultures and religions of the people of Asia
1981- The Ark in South Kensington[]
A one-off programme to celebrate the centenary of the Natural History Museum in London
1982- Videobook of British Garden Birds[]
Attenborough introduce over 70 species of birds found in British town and country gardens
1982- Omnibus[]
Series 16, Episode 6. Attenborough interviews Lucie Rie about her studio pottery
1983- Natural World[]
BBC Two series still on air, for which Attenborough has narrated or presented over 50 episodes
1984- The Living Planet[]
The follow-up to Life on Earth was another ambitious global series looking at the variety of habitats on the planet
1985- The Million Pound Bird Book[]
Attenborough presents a programme on the American naturalist John James Audubon, whose book of life-size bird paintings had recently fetched £1 million at auction
1986- The Queen's Christmas Message[]
The Queen's annual Christmas Day address to the nation, televised since 1957, which Attenborough produced between 1986 and 1991
1986- World Safari[]
A live television event featuring broadcasts from across the world, with contributors including The Duke of Edinburgh and Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
1987- The First Eden[]
A series on the Mediterranean, examining the natural history of the region and the impact that successive human civilisations have had on the environment
1989- Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives[]
A series on fossils, a passion that Attenborough has had since childhood
1990s[]
1990- The Trials of Life[]
The final part of the original Trilogy of Life deals with the animal behaviour, with each episode focussing on a particular stage of animals' lives
1993- Life in the Freezer[]
A collaboration with Alastair Fothergill, this was the first series devoted to the natural history of Antarctica
1993- Wildlife 100[]
To mark the 100th episode of Wildlife on One, Attenborough selected his favourite episodes from past series for this special
1994- Heart of a Nomad[]
Attenborough interviews the British explorer and writer Wilfred Thesiger for a Channel 4 documentary
1995- The Private Life of Plants[]
In the first of his more specialised Life series, Attenborough brought the world of plants to life using innovations such as timelapse photography
1996- Winners and Losers[]
A look at how the subjects of early wildlife filmmaker Eugene Schumacher's 1960s documentary The Rare Ones have fared in the intervening years
1996- Q.E.D. "The Secret Life of Seahorses"[]
Attenborough lends his voice to an episode of BBC One's regular half-hour science series, featuring seahorses
1996- Attenborough in Paradise[]
Attenborough fulfils a lifelong ambition in New Guinea, where he finally witnesses several birds of paradise species displaying
1997- BBC Wildlife Specials[]
After a pilot episode on the great white shark in 1995, the Wildlife Special format was developed into a six-part series to mark the Natural History Unit's 40th anniversary in 1997. Further programmes followed on an occasional basis over the following decade
1998- The Life of Birds[]
For this series, infrared cameras were employed for the first time to film nocturnal birds such as kiwis and shearwaters
1998- The Origin of Species: An Illustrated Guide[]
Broadcast as part of a BBC season on evolution, this programme used library footage to help explain Charles Darwin's theory
1999- Sharks- The Truth[]
A programme which seeks to dispel some of the received wisdom surrounding shark behaviour, broadcast as part of BBC One's Shark Summer season
1999- They Said It Couldn't Be Done[]
On the eve of the millennium, Attenborough interviews a series of leading wildlife film-makers in front of an audience at the Royal Geographical Society to discover the secrets behind some of their most famous programmes
2000s[]
2000- The State of the Planet[]
Attenborough's first overtly environmental series examines the detrimental impact that modern man is having on the natural world
2000- Living with Dinosaurs[]
A profile of crocodiles, turtles and other modern reptiles whose ancestry can be traced back to the dinosaurs
2000- The Song of the Earth[]
A scientific look at the musicality of animals, including the songs of birds, whales and gibbons
2000- The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth[]
A Christmas special in which Attenborough travels to some of the world's wildlife hotspots to view spectacular natural events
2000- The Lost Gods of Easter Island[]
Attenborough traces the provenance of a small wooden carving in his possession back to Easter Island, and recounts the island's troubled past
2000- Bowerbirds: The Art of Seduction[]
A look at how different species of the male Bowerbirds attract a mate
2001- The Blue Planet[]
A landmark series on the natural history of the world's oceans, executive-produced by Alastair Fothergill
2002- Life on Air[]
Michael Palin interviews Attenborough at his home and looks back at highlights from his 50-year television career
2002- The Life of Mammals[]
To follow up The Life of Birds, Attenborough turned his attention to the mammals, the most successful group of modern animals
2002- Great Natural Wonders of the World[]
A sequel to The Greatest Wildlife Show on Earth, this programme featured natural wonders such as the Grand Canyon and was again screened at Christmas time
2004- The Amber Time Machine[]
Attenborough investigates the stories behind the insects captured in Amber millions of years ago
2004- Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden[]
Documentary about how the local residents of a village in 'Satoyama' live in harmony with nature.
2005- Animal Crime Scene[]
A series which combined the traditional wildlife documentary format with that of a crime drama
2005- Life in the Undergrowth[]
Developments in macro and close-up film technology enabled the world of invertebrates to be brought to the screen for the first time
2006- Planet Earth[]
Billed as "the ultimate portrait of our planet" by the BBC, this is the most expensive documentary series ever made
2006- The Truth About Climate Change[]
Attenborough is convinced by the evidence for man-made global warming, and uses archive footage from his previous series along with contemporary film to show how climate change is affecting the world
2006- Gorillas Revisited[]
The story of Rwanda's mountain gorillas reunites Attenborough with the crew who filmed his famous encounter in Life on Earth
2007- Climate Change: Britain Under Threat[]
Following his recent documentary on the global issue of climate change, Attenborough fronted this programme on the implications for Britain
2007- Trek: Spy in the Wildebeest[]
A BBC One series which used camouflaged mobile cameras to bring new insight to the Serengeti wildebeest migration
2007- Tom Harrisson: The Barefoot Anthropologist[]
Part of a season on anthropologists screened on BBC Four, this programme profiled Tom Harrisson, famous for discovering early human remains in Borneo
2007- Sharing Planet Earth[]
This programme launched the BBC's Saving Planet Earth season, culminating in a live telethon from Kew Gardens to raise funds for endangered species conservation
2007- Attenborough Explores... Our Fragile World[]
Broadcast on digital channel UKTV Documentary, this specially commissioned programme saw Attenborough again tackle the global environmental crisis
2008- Life in Cold Blood[]
Attenborough concluded his globetrotting documentaries with the final part of the specialised Life series, featuring reptiles and amphibians
2008- Tiger: Spy in the Jungle[]
Series following a mother tiger and her three cubs in India, filmed using cameras hidden in the jungle and others carried by elephants
2008- Humpbacks: From Fire to Ice[]
A documentary made for Australian television on the humpback whale
2009- Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life[]
Attenborough presents a personal study of the theory of evolution
2009- Nature's Great Events[]
The film techniques of Planet Earth are deployed to dramatise some of the greatest annual wildlife events on the planet
2009- Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link[]
A special documentary to coincide with the announcement of a 47 million-year-old primate fossil
2009- Life[]
A landmark series documenting some of the more unusual survival strategies that animals and plants around the globe have evolved
2009- Horizon Special: "How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?"[]
A special episode of BBC Two's science strand looking at the issue of global population growth
2010s[]
2010- Genius of Britain[]
A Channel 4 series celebrating the achievements of British scientists. Attenborough contributed pieces on Christopher Wren and Joseph Banks
2010- Horizon: "The Death of the Oceans"[]
An edition of Horizon revealing the first findings of the Census of Marine Life
2010- Attenborough's Journey[]
Attenborough tells anecdotes from his broadcasting career as the cameras follow him filming First Life
2010- David Attenborough's First Life []
BBC Two series on the earliest-known complex organisms, referencing the latest fossil evidence
2010- Flying Monsters 3D[]
Attenborough's first collaboration with Sky, a 3D film about pterosaurs
2011- Madagascar[]
The natural history of Madagascar
2011- Attenborough and the Giant Egg[]
The story of aepyornis and its implications for the modern-day conservation efforts
2011- Desert Seas[]
Wildlife filmmakers are given unprecedented access to the coastal seas off Saudi Arabia
2011- Frozen Planet[]
A look at the polar regions and their natural history
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