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Life on Earth

1979BBC TwoDocumentary

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The series that invented the modern natural history film, and the template for everything Attenborough made afterwards.

Life on Earth opens with a main title sequence of 34 seconds.

It arrived on BBC Two in 1979, when The Old Grey Whistle Test, The Morecambe & Wise Show and The Goodies were also on the network.

1 sequence104th most looked up of 151 in the 1970sIMDb ↗
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The opening titles

Season 1

34s

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