The World About Us (1967)
- Genre: Documentary
- First Air Date: 1967-12-03
- Last Air Date: 1980-01-22
- Total Seasons: 3
- Total Episodes: 5
- Status: Returning Series
- Episode Runtime: 50 min.
- Network: BBC Two
A series of films from all over the world about our astonishing planet and the creatures that live on it. Combining natural history with an element of adventure, the series featured well-known naturalists such as Jane Goodall and Gerald Durrell, and the oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Succeeded by The Natural World.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1967 | Episode 1 | Volcano | 1967-12-03 | 50 min |
| Season 1967 | Episode 2 | 90' South | 1967-12-10 | 50 min |
| Season 1967 | Episode 3 | Forest and Firebird | 1967-12-17 | 50 min |
| Season 1967 | Episode 4 | Alaska | 1967-12-31 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 1 | Jivaro: A Sinister Society | 1968-01-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 2 | The Wild Places | 1968-01-14 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 3 | People Out of Time | 1968-01-21 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 4 | Isles of Wonder | 1968-01-28 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 5 | Beyond the Last Oasis | 1968-02-04 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 6 | Americans on Everest | 1968-02-11 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 7 | A Norwegian Year | 1968-02-18 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 8 | Yankee Sails Across Europe | 1968-02-25 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 9 | Discovering Galapagos | 1968-03-03 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 10 | One More Shift to Push | 1968-03-10 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 11 | The Hidden World | 1968-03-17 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 12 | The Other Russias | 1968-03-24 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 13 | Grizzly! | 1968-03-31 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 14 | The Distant Warriors of New Guinea | 1968-04-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 15 | Easter on Athos | 1968-04-14 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 16 | The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau | 1968-04-21 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 17 | Wild Jamaica: Part 1: Trapdoors, Tyrants, and Tadpoles | 1968-04-28 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 18 | Wild Jamaica: Part 2: Cays, Crabs, and Cucumbers | 1968-05-05 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 19 | The Forgotten Peninsula | 1968-05-12 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 20 | The Garden of the Gods | 1968-05-19 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 21 | Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees | 1968-05-26 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 22 | Letter from Thimphu | 1968-06-02 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 23 | Three Men on the Exe | 1968-06-09 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 24 | The Living Sea | 1968-06-23 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 25 | The Blue-Veiled Man | 1968-06-30 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 26 | Savage Paradise | 1968-07-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 27 | The Freedom of the Hills | 1968-07-14 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 28 | The Naked Sea | 1968-07-21 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 29 | A Terrible Place | 1968-07-28 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 30 | River Nile | 1968-08-04 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 31 | Seabird Summer | 1968-08-11 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 32 | The Golden Isthmus | 1968-08-18 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 33 | The Lonely Dorymen | 1968-08-25 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 34 | Darwin | 1968-09-01 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 35 | Walk Into the Parlour | 1968-09-08 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 36 | The Empty Quarter | 1968-09-15 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 37 | Magic in the Hills | 1968-09-22 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 38 | Beauty and the Beasts | 1968-09-29 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 39 | Big D Ranch: 1: Hunting for Giants | 1968-10-06 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 40 | Big D Ranch: 2: Vampires, Piranhas and Giant Ant-bears | 1968-10-13 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 41 | The Last Great Journey on Earth: From Amazon to Orinoco by Hovercraft | 1968-10-20 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 42 | The Secret Bowers | 1968-10-27 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 43 | Dream of Two Cities | 1968-11-10 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 44 | The Two Faces of China | 1968-11-17 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 45 | Signals for Survival | 1968-12-08 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 46 | Forest Symphony | 1968-12-15 | 50 min |
| Season 1968 | Episode 47 | Down to the Sea in Ships | 1968-12-22 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 1 | Avalanche | 1969-01-05 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 2 | Fabulous Storks | 1969-01-12 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 3 | River of Death | 1969-01-19 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 4 | Islands in the Clouds | 1969-02-02 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 5 | The Rare Ones | 1969-02-09 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 6 | The Golden State | 1969-06-29 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 7 | The Dogon | 1969-07-06 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 8 | Written in the Water | 1969-08-03 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 9 | International Balloon Race | 1969-08-17 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 10 | Voyage to the Sea of Ice | 1969-08-24 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 11 | Ghosts at the End of the World | 1969-08-31 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 12 | Annanacks | 1969-09-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 13 | The Perfect Traveller: Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico | 1969-09-14 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 14 | The Noble Savage | 1969-09-28 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 15 | Left-Over Raj | 1969-10-12 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 16 | A Home for the Wanderer | 1969-10-19 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 17 | Mzima: Portrait of a Spring | 1969-11-02 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 18 | Amazon | 1969-11-09 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 19 | Flyway | 1969-11-16 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 20 | The Silk Spinners | 1969-11-23 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 21 | Heirs of the Head-Hunters | 1969-12-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 22 | The Green Island | 1969-12-14 | 50 min |
| Season 1969 | Episode 23 | The Last of the Lapps | 1969-12-21 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 1 | The Incredible Hummingbirds | 1970-01-04 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 2 | Train to Calcutta | 1970-01-11 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 3 | A Dream of Old Iceland | 1970-01-18 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 4 | Majorca Observed | 1970-02-15 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 5 | In Search of Paradise | 1970-02-22 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 6 | Gozo: the Barren Enchantress | 1970-03-08 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 7 | The Unsuspected Isles | 1970-03-15 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 8 | The Great Unknown | 1970-04-12 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 9 | The Golden Isthmus | 1970-04-26 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 10 | The Way of a River | 1970-05-03 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 11 | Trans-African Hovercraft: Part 1: Ten Days to Bamako | 1970-07-12 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 12 | Trans-African Hovercraft: Part 2: Beyond Timbuctoo | 1970-07-19 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 13 | Trans-African Hovercraft: Part 3: Land of Tchad | 1970-07-26 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 14 | The Conquest of Annapurna | 1970-08-02 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 15 | The Stone Age Circus | 1970-08-09 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 16 | American Samoa - Paradise Lost? | 1970-08-16 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 17 | A Park in Peru... | 1970-08-23 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 18 | The Journals of Lewis and Clark | 1970-09-06 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 19 | The Lost River of Gaping Gill | 1970-09-13 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 20 | The Sherpas of Everest | 1970-09-20 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 21 | Where Two Worlds Meet | 1970-09-27 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 22 | Baobab | 1970-10-11 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 23 | A Bite of the Sea | 1970-10-18 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 24 | Close to Heaven and Earth | 1970-10-25 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 25 | Kingdom of Coral | 1970-11-01 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 26 | The Fury of Orinoco | 1970-11-08 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 27 | Roof of Japan | 1970-11-15 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 28 | Save Our Suffolk | 1970-11-22 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 29 | Rockets are for Peace | 1970-11-29 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 30 | Sahara | 1970-12-06 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 31 | Three Men in a Balloon | 1970-12-13 | 50 min |
| Season 1970 | Episode 32 | The Living Forest | 1970-12-20 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 1 | An Expedition into the Stone Age | 1971-01-03 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 2 | The World of Heinz Sielmann | 1971-01-10 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 3 | The Lollipop Tree | 1971-01-24 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 4 | Animals in Action | 1971-01-31 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 5 | Mzima - Portrait of an African Oasis | 1971-02-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 6 | No Welcome on the Map | 1971-02-14 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 7 | The Water Web | 1971-02-21 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 8 | The Uninhibited Islands | 1971-03-07 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 9 | Operation Seashore | 1971-03-21 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 10 | There are Monkeys at the Bottom of the Garden | 1971-04-04 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 11 | The Road to Mandalay | 1971-04-25 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 12 | Thor Heyerdahl's Ra Expeditions: 1: Pyramids and Papyrus | 1971-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 13 | Thor Heyerdahl's Ra Expeditions: 2: By Papyrus Boat across the Atlantic | 1971-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 14 | The Man Who Loves Giants | 1971-05-09 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 15 | Siberia: The Endless Horizon | 1971-05-16 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 16 | Coral Calypso | 1971-05-23 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 17 | Operation Musk Ox | 1971-06-13 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 18 | Chimpanzee! | 1971-06-20 | 50 min |
| Season 1971 | Episode 19 | The Conquered Dream | 1971-06-27 | 50 min |
