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Supersense

1988

~30 min / ep

1 season

6 episodes

Documentary

Supersense is a six-part nature documentary television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1988.

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Andrew Sachs

Seasons

Ep 1
1.Sixth Sense
05-12-198830 min
How do birds find their way? How does an electric fish perceive its surroundings? What's it like to see images formed from body heat? Supersense uses a new filming style to travel...
Ep 2
2.Seeing Sense
12-12-198830 min
How do other animals see the world? How do we appear to a gorilla? Why does a woodcock have 360 degree vision? What's it like to be a dragonfly? Through animal eyes, the world is f...
Ep 3
3.Sound Sense
19-12-198830 min
How does a church service sound to a bat? What does your cat really hear? Enter unfamiliar sound worlds to discover elephant conversations pitched below our hearing, birds that nav...
Ep 4
4.Super Scents
09-01-198930 min
Salmon smell their way to their spawning grounds, fulmars and petrels use tube noses to find food and pigeons navigate by smell. Impalas and wasps show alarm with scent and skunks...
Ep 5
5.Sense Of Timing
16-01-198930 min
How does time appear to a bird, a shrew or even an elephant? Enter unfamiliar time-worlds where flies outwit humans in slow motion, birds slice through time to catch their prey and...
Ep 6
6.Making Sense
23-01-198930 min
How do animals make sense of the world? This journey starts inside a swan's egg, joins a wildebeest on migration and flies with a house martin from Africa to England. Discover why...

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