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produced and broadcast by the
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. The franchise began with the series ''
Walking with Dinosaurs ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. ...
'' (1999), created by
Tim Haines Tim Haines is a screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director, director who is best known for his work on the BBC popular science shows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Beasts'', and ''Walking with Monsters''. He is co-creat ...
. By far the most watched science programme in British television during the 20th century, ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (1999) spawned companion material and five sequel series: ''
Walking with Beasts ''Walking with Beasts'', marketed as ''Walking with Prehistoric Beasts'' in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, Pr ...
'' (2001), '' Walking with Cavemen'' (2003), ''
Sea Monsters A sea monster is a mythical sea creature. Sea Monsters may refer to: Film * ''Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure'', a 2007 National Geographic 3D film Literature * ''Sea Monsters'', a 2019 novel by Chloe Aridjis Television Episodes * "Chapter ...
'' (2003), ''
Walking with Monsters ''Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs'', marketed as ''Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters'' in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by ...
'' (2005), and ''
Walking with Dinosaurs ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. ...
'' (2025). Series in the franchise typically use a combination of
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and
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, incorporated with
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footage shot at various locations, to portray prehistoric animals in the style of a traditional
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. The ''Walking with...'' programmes were praised for their special effects and for their science communication. Though largely praised by scientists for the effort to adhere to science and for portraying prehistoric life as animals rather than movie monsters, some academic criticism has been leveled at the series for not making clear through their narration what is speculative and what is based in fact. In addition to the five main series, the success of ''Walking with...'' also led to the production of the ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' special episodes '' The Ballad of Big Al'', ''The Giant Claw'' and ''Land of Giants''. The franchise has also been accompanied by several books, merchandise, video games and the live theatrical show ''
Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular ''Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular'' was a live adaptation of the award-winning television series ''Walking with Dinosaurs''. Like the TV series, ''The Arena Spectacular'' has to recreate dinosaurs to the point of the viewers accep ...
''. In 2013, a movie based on ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', with the same name, was directed by
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and
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. In 2025, a new ''
Walking with Dinosaurs ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. ...
'' series was produced by BBC and PBS, with Kirsty Wilson as the showrunner.


Development


Original 1999 series

''
Walking with Dinosaurs ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. ...
'' was devised by the then
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-employed science television producer
Tim Haines Tim Haines is a screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director, director who is best known for his work on the BBC popular science shows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Beasts'', and ''Walking with Monsters''. He is co-creat ...
in 1996. Inspired by the 1993 film ''Jurassic Park'', Haines envisioned a more science-based documentary programme using the same techniques as ''Jurassic Park'' to bring dinosaurs to life. Though such a series was initially feared to be far too expensive to produce, particularly considering the production costs of ''Jurassic Park'', Haines managed to bring down the costs through working with the award-winning UK-based graphics company
Framestore Framestore is a British visual effects and computer animation studio based on Chancery Lane in London, England. The company was founded in 1986. Framestore specializes in visual effects for film and prestige TV, advertising, rides, and immers ...
. It was only after the production of a six-minute pilot episode in 1997 that Haines managed to secure funding for the series; ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was funded by the BBC,
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and the
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, alongside major investments from
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in Japan and
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in Germany.'''' At a cost of £6.1 million ($9.9 million), ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' cost over £37,654 ($61,112) per minute to produce, making it the most expensive documentary series per minute ever made. The visual effects of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' were done by Framestore and the puppets and animatronics were done by the special effects company Crawley Creatures. The success of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' led to the rapid creation of ''Walking with...'' as a brand of documentary series. In the aftermath of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', Haines founded the production company Impossible Pictures together with Jasper James, one of the producers on ''Walking with Dinosaurs''.''''


2000s

2000 saw the release of a special episode of ''Dinosaurs'', '' The Ballad of Big Al'', focusing on a single ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' ( ) is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic period ( Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian ages). The first fossil remains that could definitively be ascribed to th ...
'' specimen.'''' The first entire sequel series released in 2001: ''
Walking with Beasts ''Walking with Beasts'', marketed as ''Walking with Prehistoric Beasts'' in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, Pr ...
'', which explored the life of the Cenozoic, after the age of the dinosaurs. Like ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' before it, ''Beasts'' was the idea of Haines. Haines wished to introduce the general public to the assortment of animals of the Cenozoic, typically less represented in popular culture than the dinosaurs. Haines served as executive producer on the series, with James and Nigel Paterson producing and directing. ''Beasts'' was in terms of effects more challenging to produce than ''Dinosaurs'', owing to mammals having features such as fur, whiskers, eyebrows and various floppy parts absent in dinosaurs, and to audiences being more familiar with how mammals move and act and thus better at spotting mistakes. In late 2002 and early 2003, further special episodes of ''Dinosaurs'' were broadcast: '' Land of Giants'' and ''
The Giant Claw ''The Giant Claw'' is a 1957 American monster film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Sam Katzman, directed by Fred F. Sears, that stars Jeff Morrow and Mara Corday. Both Sears and Katzman were well known as low-budget B movie, B film genre fil ...
''. These specials starred wildlife presenter
Nigel Marven Nigel Alan Marven (born 27 November 1960) is a British wildlife TV presenter, naturalist, conservationist, author, and television producer. He is best known as presenter of the BBC miniseries '' Chased by Dinosaurs'', its sequel, ''Sea Monsters' ...
as a "time-traveling zoologist". Marven's inclusion was mainly so that audiences would have a better understanding of the scale of the animals shown. While Haines, James and Impossible Pictures worked on ''Land of Giants'' and ''The Giant Claw'', the BBC produced a further series without their involvement: '' Walking with Cavemen'', also broadcast in 2003. ''Cavemen'' acted as a sequel to ''Beasts'', exploring
human evolution ''Homo sapiens'' is a distinct species of the hominid family of primates, which also includes all the great apes. Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as Human skeletal changes due to bipedalism, bipedalism, de ...
. The series was created by Richard Dale and Peter Georgi, both of whom had previously worked together on documentaries such as '' The Human Body'', and starred
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as a presenter.''Walking with Cavemen'' - BBC One Press Pack
(3 March 2003)
The success of ''Land of Giants'' and ''The Giant Claw'' led to the creation of ''
Sea Monsters A sea monster is a mythical sea creature. Sea Monsters may refer to: Film * ''Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure'', a 2007 National Geographic 3D film Literature * ''Sea Monsters'', a 2019 novel by Chloe Aridjis Television Episodes * "Chapter ...
'', broadcast in 2003, a miniseries exploring the "seven deadliest seas of all time", once again starring Marven. The series ''
Space Odyssey ''Space Odyssey'' is a science fiction media franchise created by writer Arthur C. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, consisting of two films and four novels. The first novel was developed concurrently with Kubrick's film version and publish ...
'' (2004), produced by Haines and James at Impossible Pictures together with BBC Worldwide, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben, was originally going to be titled ''Walking with Spacemen''. Both executives of the BBC and ProSieben heralded ''Walking with Spacemen'' as the logical next step in the series, following on from the journey began with ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Beasts'' and ''Cavemen''. ''Space Odyssey'' used special effects and techniques from the ''Walking with...'' documentaries to speculate how astronauts may explore the various planets in the
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on crewed missions. Despite the title change, ''Space Odyssey'' has at times been referred to as ''Walking with Spacemen'' also after its release and the old title was used in some of the companion material, including as the title of the earliest editions of the companion book, co-authored by Haines and
Christopher Riley Christopher Riley (born 1967) is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science. He has a PhD from Imperial College, University of London where he pioneered the use of digital elevation models in the study ...
. Instead of a futuristic series, Haines and Impossible Pictures decided to round off the ''Walking with...'' series by making a programme on the before then largely underutilized
Paleozoic The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three Era (geology), geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma a ...
era, set before the dinosaurs. ''
Walking with Monsters ''Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs'', marketed as ''Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters'' in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by ...
'', broadcast in 2005, utilized the most sophisticated effects of the entire franchise, owing to advancements in technology by the time of its production. Framestore and Crawley Creatures returned to do the computer graphics and animatronics, respectively, for every successor series produced by Impossible Pictures. ''Walking with Cavemen'' which involved Framestore but not Crawley Creatures. Practical effects of ''Walking with Cavemen'' were done by several companies, including Altered States FX, Animated Extras and BGFX. After the release of ''Monsters'', Impossible Pictures, Framestore and the others involved were effectively forced to move on from documentary filmmaking and produce other series like '' Primeval'' (2007–2011) due to companies and executives losing interest in funding fact-based documentaries on prehistoric life.


Original television series


''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (1999)

Envisioned as the first "Natural History of Dinosaurs" and a series that would provide viewers with "a window into a lost world", ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' explores life in the
Mesozoic The Mesozoic Era is the Era (geology), era of Earth's Geologic time scale, geological history, lasting from about , comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Period (geology), Periods. It is characterized by the dominance of archosaurian r ...
era, particularly
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s, in the format of a traditional
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.


''The Ballad of Big Al'' (2000)

The first special episode of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' to be released was ''The Ballad of Big Al'' (2000). ''Big Al'' follows a single ''Allosaurus'' specimen nicknamed "Big Al" whose life story has been reconstructed based on a well-preserved fossil of the same name.


''Walking with Beasts'' (2001)

''Walking with Beasts'' follows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' in showcasing prehistoric life in a nature documentary style. ''Beasts'' tracks animal life, particularly the rise of the
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s to dominance, in the
Cenozoic The Cenozoic Era ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterized by the dominance of mammals, insects, birds and angiosperms (flowering plants). It is the latest of three g ...
era. The series also gives some insight into human evolution, with an episode devoted to ''
Australopithecus ''Australopithecus'' (, ; or (, ) is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. The genera ''Homo'' (which includes modern humans), ''Paranthropus'', and ''Kenyanthropus'' evolved from some ''Aus ...
'' and appearances by both
Neanderthal Neanderthals ( ; ''Homo neanderthalensis'' or sometimes ''H. sapiens neanderthalensis'') are an extinction, extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle Pleistocene, Middle to Late Plei ...
s and
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.


''The Giant Claw / Land of Giants'' (2002–2003)

The two later specials, ''The Giant Claw'' (2002) and ''Land of Giants'' (2003), star "time-travelling zoologist" Nigel Marven as he travels back in time to encounter and interact with prehistoric life.


''Walking with Cavemen'' (2003)

''Walking with Cavemen'' follows ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts'' in adopting the same nature documentary style, though this time involving presenter
Robert Winston Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour peer. Early life Robert Winston was born in London to Laurence Winston and Ruth Winston-Fox, ...
. ''Cavemen'' follows the story of human evolution through exploring key developments on the path from ''Australopithecus afarensis'' to modern humans. The programme often focuses on particular characters and their relationships to each other in order to be more accessible to viewers.


''Sea Monsters'' (2003)

''Sea Monsters'' once again stars Nigel Marven as a "time-traveling zoologist" who this time travels to seven different periods of time in prehistory, diving in the "seven deadliest seas of all time" and encountering and interacting with the prehistoric creatures who inhabit them.


''Walking with Monsters'' (2005)

Serving as a prequel series to ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', ''Walking with Monsters'' explores the prehistoric life of the
Paleozoic The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three Era (geology), geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma a ...
era. The series focuses on "the struggle for the survival of the fittest", using stories of individual animals to cast the Palaeozoic as a long "war" between various animal groups for dominance, some of which are described within the context of the series as being distantly related to humans.


''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (2025)

A revival of the franchise, the 2025 series recounts the stories of six individual dinosaurs. Each episode is divided between prehistoric segments of CGI animals set in live action landscapes, and modern day segments involving paleontologist activities at the dig sites where each dinosaur was discovered.


Reception


Accolades


Viewership

''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was broadcast to record audiences in 1999 and is sometimes considered the biggest science documentary series ever created. With 15 million viewers viewing the first episode on 4 October 1999 and another 3.91 million viewing it on its repeat the Sunday afterwards, ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is by far the most watched science programme in British television history. Viewership figures steadily declined for later series; the first airing of the first episode of ''Walking with Beasts'' in 2001 had around 8 million viewers and the first airing of the first episode of ''Walking with Monsters'' in 2005 attracted 4.57 million viewers. The ratings shown below are 7-day data, including both the original airings of the episodes and their repeats some days later. There is only data for the top 30 programmes in terms of viewers; episodes labeled N/A failed to reach the top 30 programmes during their airings.


''Prehistoric Planet''

''Prehistoric Planet'' is a revision of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts'', done by
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and
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for the
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network in 2002–2003. Though the producers kept most of the original animation, David Bock and Peter Sherman wrote new text for a younger target audience, narrated by
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(in Season 1) and
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(in Season 2), and interspersed the scenes with occasional quizzes to act as bumpers around the commercial breaks. New
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was incorporated as well. Most marketing and advertising for the series focused on the dinosaur episodes. In addition, the final episode, ''Prehistoric Planet Top 10'', focused solely on the creatures from ''Walking with Dinosaurs''.


Books


Companion books

The first four ''Walking with...'' series were accompanied with companion books. These books were
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s exploring the settings from each series in detail, with scientific information, facts and narratives similar to those shown on screen. All of the books were lavishly illustrated with stills from the episodes. All of the ''Walking with...'' companion books were well received. * ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' (1999), by Tim Haines * ''Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari'' (2001), by Tim Haines * ''Walking with Cavemen: Stand Eye-to-Eye with your Ancestors'' (2003), by John Lynch and Louise Barrett * ''Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep'' (2003), by Nigel Marven and Jasper James * ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (2025), by Andrew Cohen, Helen Thomas, and Kirsty Wilson


Other books

''Walking with Monsters'' was not accompanied by a companion book, instead the series was in 2006 accompanied by the book '' The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life'', an encyclopedia and reference work with images from the entire franchise, co-authored by Haines and Paul Chambers. In addition to the companion books and ''The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life'', several other books have been released to accompany the different series. ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was in addition to its companion book also accompanied by ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'' (2000) by David Martill and
Darren Naish Darren William Naish (born 26 September 1975) is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator. As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including ...
and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Facts'' (2000) by
Michael Benton Michael James Benton (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate paleontology, vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on ...
, both books serving to corroborate the science behind the series. Among the various children's books that have been released alongside the ''Walking with...'' documentaries is a children's book adaptation of ''The Ballad of Big Al'' by Stephen Cole, titled ''Allosaurus! The Life and Death of Big Al'', as well as 3D albums,
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s and photo journals for both ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts''.


Electronic media

With the exception of ''Walking with Monsters'', all of the ''Walking with...'' series launched with accompanying websites. The original 1999 ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' website was considered innovative for the time and included scientific information, fact files, glossaries, as well as games and puzzles. The content of the websites of following series was similar, offering both accompanying scientific information and games. In addition to the games on the website, full ''Walking with...'' games have also been developed. The first such game was the
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video game ''Dinosaur World'', developed by Asylum Entertainment and published by the BBC Imagineering in June 2001. ''Dinosaur World'' is an adaptation of ''The Ballad of Big Al'' where players try to find various animals and plants. The game was never finished but could be downloaded from the BBC website in its
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form. There was also a video game adaptation of ''Walking with Beasts'', ''Walking with Beasts: Operation Salvage'', developed by Absolute Studios and published by BBC Worldwide Ltd. in 2001. ''Operation Salvage'' is a
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where players travel back in time to observe animals and fight time-traveling enemies. Another ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' game was released in 2013, titled simply ''
Walking with Dinosaurs ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. ...
'', to accompany the film adaptation of the series released that year. ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is an
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game developed by
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in collaboration with the BBC.


Notes


References

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