Human Planet
The BBC natural-history unit turning its cameras on people, one habitat per episode.
One opening sequence is catalogued for Human Planet, covering season 1.
It arrived on BBC One in 2011, when A Question of Sport, Postman Pat and Crimewatch were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
No clean upload of the opening is listed here. The one that was turned out to be a student's assignment, assembled out of real BBC footage, which is why only the uploader's own words caught it.
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