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Long-running travel programme

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Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 26, 1963
Network: BBC One

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9 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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David Attenborough

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Adventure

19632 Seasons30m episodes

Documentary

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Runtime: 30m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Long-running travel programme

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E1 · Airs Apr 26, 1963 · 30m
Desert Gods
First transmitted in 1963, this is the first in a series of six programmes by David Attenborough on the Northern Territory of Australia. David Attenborough, cameraman Eugene Carr and sound recordist Bob Saunders spent four months in the Northern Territory of Australia. Hoping to capture the essence of this vast territory they meet its people and explore its unique landscape and animals. Their journey starts in the south among the Aborigines of the desert, many of whom have abandoned their nomadic way of live, now living in mission stations and government settlements. But the desert holds an irresistible pull, and groups suddenly vanish to visit sacred water holes and mountains that have been the gods of the aborigines since time immemorial.
E2 · Airs May 3, 1963 · 30m
Hermits of Borroloola
David Attenborough reaches the middle of the Northern Territory of Australia and visits three people in the otherwise deserted area of Borroloola who have chosen to cut themselves off from the civilised world.
E3 · Airs May 10, 1963 · 30m
Buffalo, Geese and Men
David Attenborough continues his journey through Australia's Northern Territory. He looks at the hunting of local wildlife such as magpie geese and water buffalo. David Attenborough interviews Yorky Billy, an Australian whose family were originally from Yorkshire. Having lived all his life in the bush, Yorky Billy is an expert on the wild buffalo of the Northern Territory and imparts some useful advice on how to avoid annoying them. Back amongst an Aboriginal community David Attenborough explores burial traditions and witnesses a traditional dance that re-enacts a kangaroo hunt.
E4 · Airs May 17, 1963 · 30m
The Artists of Arnhem Land
David Attenborough looks at the aboriginal artists of Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory. He discovers why they paint and in doing so, gets some insight into the very origins of art.
E5 · Airs May 24, 1963 · 30m
Bush Walkabout
David Attenborough ventures into the bush to discover the unique wild animals that inhabit the Northern Territory of Australia. The bush walk reveals a wealth of wildlife including bee eaters, radjah shelduck, rose crested cockatoos, termites, kangaroos, wallabies, possums, an Australian crane and several lizards including the goanna, the thorny devil and the frilled lizard. Attenborough also closely observes the extraordinary behaviour of a bowerbird, which collects a treasury of white objects to display to its mate during courtship.
E6 · Airs May 31, 1963 · 30m
The First Australians
David Attenborough joins the Gunavidji people on the coast of the Northern Territory to obtain a better understanding of their traditional way of life. He examines the efforts of the Australian government to move Aboriginal communities away from their nomadic tradition by building welfare settlements and training schools. This programme offers a unique insight into a difficult and complex period in Aboriginal history.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 26, 1963
Network: BBC One

Time to finish

5 hrs

9 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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