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Trials of Life: The series took over three-and-a-half years to film, during which time Attenborough travelled almost a quarter of a million miles. The production team sought to further push the boundaries of natural history filmmaking, following on from the advances made in The Living Planet, and were provided with several new challenges.

The sequence of chimpanzees hunting colobus monkeys was only possible through the efforts of Hedwige and Christophe Boesch, who had spent five years studying the apes in the Ivory Coast forests of West Africa.

Meanwhile, a bivouac of army ants in Panama was able to be filmed internally with the aid of a medical endoscope. Furthermore, a new type of camera lens enabled tree ants to be filmed in enlarged close-up just in front of Attenborough — with both subjects in sharp focus. This gave the illusion that the insects were much larger than their actual size.

Filming critical moments in the life of a herd of elephants necessitated the expertise of Cynthia Moss, who had devoted 25 years to researching the animals in Kenya. She was able to advise the production team on the right moments to film specific events.

The camera team had only one chance to film a 60,000-strong flock of waders flying over David Attenborough’s head in Norfolk, and the RSPB was enlisted to predict their flightpath. By contrast, the Florida scrub jays couldn’t have been more co-operative: since the particular group being filmed had been studied closely and were used to humans, a bird could land on Attenborough’s hand right on cue.

The inside of a termite mound proved especially challenging for Attenborough: it was so cramped that he could only face in one direction. He therefore had to slowly crawl backwards out of shot when performing re-takes.

Behaviour seen for the first time included the sequence that was eventually selected to illustrate the series’ DVD cover: that of a killer whale pouncing on a colony of sea lions on a Patagonian beach and ‘playing’ with its young prey before consuming it. This meant some risks being taken by the cameramen, as they placed themselves in the water just feet away from the creatures in order to obtain close-ups of an attack run.

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The Little Mermaid is an animated Walt Disney Television Animation television series based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney Television series to have spun-off from a major film. Some of the voice actors of the film reprise their roles in the series, among them Jodi Benson as Ariel, Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian and Kenneth Mars as King Triton.

The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called “A Whale of a Tale,” then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994. Currently, reruns are seen daily on Disney Channel in it’s early morning cartoon block. It is also seen on weekends during Toon Disney’s animation block.

Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring original songs written for the series. The opening theme to the show is a combination of the songs “Part of Your World”, “Under the Sea”, and “Kiss the Girl”. The overture for the stage musical of The Little Mermaid is similar to this.

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The Little Mermaid is an animated Walt Disney Television Animation television series based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney Television series to have spun-off from a major film. Some of the voice actors of the film reprise their roles in the series, among them Jodi Benson as Ariel, Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian and Kenneth Mars as King Triton.

The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called “A Whale of a Tale,” then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994. Currently, reruns are seen daily on Disney Channel in it’s early morning cartoon block. It is also seen on weekends during Toon Disney’s animation block.

Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring original songs written for the series. The opening theme to the show is a combination of the songs “Part of Your World”, “Under the Sea”, and “Kiss the Girl”. The overture for the stage musical of The Little Mermaid is similar to this.

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The Little Mermaid is an animated Walt Disney Television Animation television series based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney Television series to have spun-off from a major film. Some of the voice actors of the film reprise their roles in the series, among them Jodi Benson as Ariel, Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian and Kenneth Mars as King Triton.

The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called “A Whale of a Tale,” then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994. Currently, reruns are seen daily on Disney Channel in it’s early morning cartoon block. It is also seen on weekends during Toon Disney’s animation block.

Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring original songs written for the series. The opening theme to the show is a combination of the songs “Part of Your World”, “Under the Sea”, and “Kiss the Girl”. The overture for the stage musical of The Little Mermaid is similar to this.

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Talespin: Gaining its first run between 1990 and 1991, TaleSpin takes some of the most well known characters from The Jungle Book and places them in a 1930’s pacific setting.

Baloo pilots a yellow amphibious cargo plane, but his laid back attitude to life causes his company, “Baloo’s Air Service”, to be taken over by Rebecca Cunningham following several missed loan repayments. Rebecca is a shrewd businesswoman and had been searching for a failing business to take over for some time. She sets to work immediately and starts by re-naming the company “Higher for Hire”. Baloo is distraught at having lost his beloved plane, “The Sea Duck”, but when Rebecca offers him a job as her pilot, he reluctantly accepts as it being the only way to continue flying his “baby”.

Rebecca quickly manages to turn a profit, but soon discovers that transporting cargo in and out of Cape Suzette is not as easy as it first sounds especially where the air pirates are concerned. Fortunately, Baloo’s ace flying skills nearly always help him to evade capture and the goods are always delivered.

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