The Time Travellers
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1998
Aubrey Manning finds out how old our planet is and what it looked like when it was newly formed.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1998
Aubrey Manning finds out how old our planet is and what it looked like when it was newly formed.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1998
Aubrey Manning follows a submarine dive to the world's longest mountain range, a mile underwater, to see how volcanoes shape the continents.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1998
Billions of years ago Earth was covered by a single ocean. Today nearly a third of the land is dry. Aubrey Manning follows a trail of clues from Bolivia to Alaska and New Zealand to find out how the change came about.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1998
Among the active volcanos of Hawaii and Iceland, Aubrey Manning uncovers events deep within the planet that have reshaped the surface. What drives the Earth's restless volcanic activity?
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1998
Mountains are among the most spectacular features of our planet. Aubrey Manning looks at an extraordinary theory about how they rise and fall.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1998
Aubrey Manning traces the history of the Ice Age. The tranquillity of Switzerland conceals a violent past - 12,000 years ago the Alps were buried under three kilometres of ice.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1998
Aubrey Manning travels to the jungles of Indonesia, the Rocky Mountains in Canada, the gorges of Western Australia and the African plains to illustrate that geology has a direct impact on evolution.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1998
Why is Earth a living planet when Mars is a deep freeze and Venus an inferno? The answer to this question reveals the intimate links between Earth and life itself.