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Genre Documentary television Theme music composer Terry Oldfield Country of origin England Final episode date 14 May 1989 Number of seasons 1 Executive producer Mike Salisbury | 8.5/10 IMDb 5/5 ABC Shop Written by David Attenborough Composer(s) Terry Oldfield First episode date 23 April 1989 Presented by David Attenborough Number of episodes 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Also known as 'Kadonneen elämän jäljillä (Finland) Similar First Life, The Trials of Life, The First Eden, The Living Planet, Walking with Monsters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives is a four-part BBC documentary series concerning the discovery of fossils. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, produced by Mike Salisbury, and was originally broadcast in April 1989. It was made in between the second and third instalments of Attenborough's "Life" series: The Living Planet and The Trials of Life, respectively. The study of rocks and their ancient secrets was something of a boyhood passion for David Attenborough. In these programmes, his enthusiasm for the subject is undiminished. With the help of expert palaeontologists, fossil hunters and (for the time) modern animation techniques, Attenborough attempts to show how life evolved in Earth's distant past. To do so, he travels the globe to visit the world's most famous fossil sites.
Release
2 Entertain published the series on DVD (catalog number BBCDVD1466) on 27 September 2004.