https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b1dca4cb-389d-4810-ad9b-d040bfd2b55f Planet Earth (1986) ★ "Lost" Emmy Award Winning Annenberg Media Series - 7 Original Lessons and Study Guide - As seen on PBS! . _ . Co-winner of the 1985-1986 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special! More series information page: https://web.archive.org/web/20101205031255/http://www.learner.org/resources/series49.html Planet Earth from the BBC aired in 2006 BBC Planet Earth II aired in 2016 BBC Planet Earth III aired in 2023 . ... If you like shows like this: you are highly encouraged to donate to your local PBS affiliate - now, more than ever, they need your help. " Urge Congress: Protect PBS Funding. The federal funding that supports Public Media is at risk of being eliminated. Your PBS viewing experience is in danger of going away. Now is a critical time to act. " (See, you CAN give back something ... ) . _ . Dynamic footage illustrates the foundation of Earth science in this video series for college and high school classrooms and adult learners. 7 one-hour video programs , CD-ROM , and coordinated books This series presents visually spectacular tours of the seven continents as it makes connections between our solar system and Earth’s oceans, climate, and mineral and energy sources. It unifies Earth science, astronomy, and comparative planetology into an integrated discipline that relies on common scientific methods. A flexible instructional resource, Planet Earth provides course material for nonscience students and science majors. ISBN: 1-89776-726-8 This Was a distinct warning, from 1986: about possible, future, human induced climate change .... well, that "Future" is NOW . They were right. Planet Earth is a seven-episode 1986 PBS television documentary series , with a study guide companion book: focusing on the Earth, narrated by Richard Kiley. Planet Earth explores geoscience and how discoveries of the early and mid-1980s were revolutionizing mankind's understanding of the Earth's past, present, and future. It also highlights scientific discoveries not yet fully understood and still under study in the mid-1980s. The series explores the Earth's origins, history, and structure; the forces that operate continually to alter its surface; its oceans; its climate; its natural resources; its biosphere and the effects of life on the physical world; its relationship to the Sun and other bodies in the Solar System; and its possible future in the face of pressures the growing human population places on the natural world. The BBC used the same title for its 2006 series, but the two series are completely unrelated and quite different in focus and content. Produced by WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in association with the National Academy of Sciences as the centerpiece for a college-credit telecourse, Planet Earth was filmed over a period of four years on all seven continents and from the ocean bottom to earth orbit. The Annenberg/CPB Project and IBM funded production of the series. It enjoyed success in its original run, airing weekly on Thursday evenings on PBS from January 22 to March 5, 1986. A companion book to the series written by Jonathan Weiner, also entitled Planet Earth , was published in 1986 by Bantam Books. Both the series and the companion book sometimes are marketed as Our Planet Earth in an attempt to avoid confusion with the 2006 BBC series Planet Earth. Some footage shot for Planet Earth later also was used in the 1992 PBS series Earth Revealed . Annenberg Media and WQED made this series in 1986 ... and as an older American: it is THIS Series I think of (fondly) when I hear the title "Planet Earth" ... and not either of the BBC Series. Planet Earth was the co-winner of the 1985-1986 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special, sharing it with Laurence Olivier - A Life , a multi-part biography of Laurence Olivier that aired on the PBS series Great Performances that season. On the earliest DVDs released there were two lessons marked as "Episode Five" - no lesson marked "Episode 6" existed. See this version, here, for an example of this: https://archive.org/download/PlanetEarth1986/Planet.Earth.S01E05.Gifts.from.the.Earth.1986.Planet.Earth.S01E06.The.Solar.Sea.19864.mp4 On this DVD "The Solar Sea" SHOULD have been numbered #6 ... a rare error, in a stellar series - still popular!! But, in the subsequent DVD releases, this error was fixed - these are the videos I'm showing today. This means there are some rare (error) copies of the Planet Earth DVDs out in the wild with TWO "Episode 5"'s on them and NO "Episode 6"! These are still some of my very favorite educational videos - and I revisit them regularly! Individual Episode Links: Planet Earth 1 The Living Machine Planet Earth 2 The Blue Planet Planet Earth 3 The Climate Puzzle Planet Earth 4 Tales From Other Worlds Planet Earth 5 Gifts From The Earth Planet Earth 6 The Solar Sea Planet Earth 7 The Fate of the Earth There are source DVDs on Archive.org at RatterFatVideo - as ISO Images - but these DVDs have some damage. My thanks to RatterFat Video for the original videos!! The video I have now is from a different source: without the same damage. On Groundhog's Day of 2024 ... ALL New - Better - files were uploaded: and the series download file size went up from 2.2 GB to 2.9 GB! By request from iparker681998 ... last year ... I wanted to see it again, also - and I'll bet a LOT of you fondly remembered this series from 1986. For those of you who weren't around in 1986 ... it is " New TO YOU " ... and old folks like me were LUCKY to see this kind of stuff, on PBS, when we were growing up!!! It made a lot of us want to grow up to be scientists - inspired us for life. You young whipper-snappers better Enjoy this beloved Emmy Award winning series ... yeah, it was before your time - But: Still Good! Perhaps another generation is now ready to be so inspired? The study guide is still available to borrow or buy : https://archive.org/details/planetearth00jona https://www.betterworldbooks.com/search/results?q=Planet%20Earth%20Jonathan%20Weiner I bought a hardbound copy of this huge 380+ page book for myself: it is very big and heavy! These are the best copies of this series on the internet. Please download them if you can. That way you'll always have these videos, to refer to, if needed. You may download ★ The Entire Series ★ at once, HERE (2.9 GB): https://archive.org/compress/planet.earth/formats=MPEG4&file=/planet.earth.zip Perhaps you may be interested in one of these Other Astronomy or Geology Educational Series? Astronomy For You ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's https://archive.org/details/astronomy-for-you Astronomy: Observations And Theories ★ "Lost" Telecourse https://archive.org/details/astronomy-observations-and-theories-01-the-study-of-the-universe The Planets by PBS ★ Solar System Studies https://archive.org/details/the_planets_pbs The Planets ★ 1999 BBC Series https://archive.org/details/the_planets_bbc Hyperspace - with Sam Neill ★ 2001 BBC Series https://archive.org/details/hyperspace-bbc Space Age ★ Complete PBS Mini-Series (1992) https://archive.org/details/space_age The Astronomers ★ Complete PBS Series on Astronomy https://archive.org/details/the-astronomers-1991 Planet Earth ★ The "Lost" PBS Series https://archive.org/details/planet.earth <---- You Are Here. Earth Revealed ★ The "Lost" Annenberg Series https://archive.org/details/earth-revealed-22-wind-dust-and-deserts The Habitable Planet ★ The "Lost" Annenberg Series https://archive.org/details/the-habitable-planet-01-many-planets-one-earth ______________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. This series has been discontinued due to rights expiration. ☠️ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Episode list "The Living Machine" (aired January 22, 1986) – The episode discusses plate tectonics and geologic time, highlighting the work of James Hutton, Alfred Wegener, Harry Hess, Allan V. Cox, Brent Dalrymple, Frederick Vine, and Drummond Matthews, and discussing how geologists study layers of rock to read billions of years of the Earth's history. Topics covered include radiometric dating, seafloor spreading, magnetic field reversals, earthquakes, volcanism, subduction, and hotspots, how continents grow through accretion, how geophysicists study the interior of the Earth and what they have discovered, the theory of "microplate tectonics," how computer simulations have recreated the effects of continental drift on the world's geography over time from the prehistoric supercontinent Pangaea to the world of today, and how plate tectonics may have shaped the migratory behaviors of some animals. In addition to showing scientists studying the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii and using the research submarine Alvin to explore the Atlantic Ocean's Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the episode visits the Grand Canyon; Scotland's Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags, and Siccar Point; California's Owens Valley and San Andreas Fault; New Madrid, Missouri; and Ascension Island. "The Blue Planet" (aired January 29, 1986) – The episode discusses major new revelations about the oceans. Topics covered include the movement of water in the ocean, such as ocean currents and eddy fields, and the effect of newly discovered ocean water dynamics on human activities such as yacht racing; the causes and effects of upwellin... Date: 1986-01-22 Mirrored from Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/planet.earth Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:50:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/b1dca4cb-389d-4810-ad9b-d040bfd2b55f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.