The Blue Planet

The Blue Planet is a BBC (in conjunction with The Discovery Channel) television series subtitled "a natural history of the oceans"; of eight episodes, presented by David Attenborough, originally transmitted in September/ October 2001.

The soundtrack was by George Fenton.

The individual episodes are:

1. The Blue Planet
2. The Deep
3. Open Ocean
4. Frozen Seas
5. Seasonal Seas
6. Coral Seas
7. Tidal Seas
8. Coasts

Each episode was just under 50 minutes long, recorded in 19:9 widescreen aspect ratio with stereo sound.

There was an accompanying book, and the series is available as a three- disc DVD set, including three additional programmes:

• Making Waves (the making of The Blue Planet; ~50 mins)
• Deep Trouble (ecological documentary; ~50 mins)
• Blue (a five- minute theatrical short)

plus interviews with the prduction team and a photo gallery.