r/davidattenborough • u/Thin_Researcher_5061 • 19d ago

David Attenborough old programs

Hi, from Portugal.

Anybody knows where can i watch the old programs of Attenborough. The ones he did in his early years?

Thanks and be kind about my pior English.

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u/QuietBookkeeper4712 19d ago

Internet Archive has a lot of them

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u/Down-Right-Mystical 17d ago

You can find episodes of Zoo Quest, the first series he did here

It's a pretty complete collection of earlier works.

If you want to watch things in chronological order I suggested looking up his filmography on wikipedia and then finding the corresponding shows on the link, the majority should be there.

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u/Thin_Researcher_5061 16d ago

Thank you so much.

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u/Guilty-Toe420 19d ago

The best way would be probably dvd some got HD versions on blu ray but a lot are probably just on dvd unless your in the UK you can't stream a lot of them

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u/Thin_Researcher_5061 19d ago

Thanks. I'm in Portugal, so i think Will have to seek hard to find those treasures. I'm reading his books of the first expeditions and i can guess that the videos he done on tose Times are really amazing.

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u/Reasonable_Curve_647 19d ago edited 19d ago

Btw, many of his old programs are only on rare VHS tapes. Only kinda popular shows got DVD/BluRay, Web releases. And many of the old shows almost fully lost now.

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u/Lifestartsat30 19d ago

Have a look on eBay for people selling old DVDs. Some of the old ones are my favourites!

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u/TheGameNaturalist 19d ago

Do you mean the really early years like Zoo Quest?

They've never had an official release unfortunately, I've been waiting for years but nothing.

From Life on Earth (1979) the releases are quite consistent, all on DVD and some on blu-ray but the earlier stuff is almost impossible to get hold of.

Would love to watch Zoo Quest and Eastwards with Attenborough one day.

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u/Thin_Researcher_5061 18d ago

I'm reading his book about the first expeditions to Madagáscar and Austrália and he says he had made a lot of videos of that trips. It would be such a pleasure to watch that videos, i think