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| caption = Cover of the Australian 2008 DVD box set of the franchise
| creator = {{nowrap|[[Tim Haines]] & [[Jasper James]]{{efn|Tim Haines conceptualized both ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' and ''Walking with Beasts'' and is often referred to as the creator of the series.<ref name=":04">{{cite web |last1=Haines |first1=Tim |title=The Making of…Walking with Dinosaurs |url=http://www.dinosaurlive.com/about-the-show/the-making-of/ |access-date=10 April 2016 |archive-date=15 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115034402/http://www.dinosaurlive.com/about-the-show/the-making-of/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":11" /> Jasper James joined as producer during the development of ''Walking with Dinosaurs<ref name=":132">{{Cite web |title=Summary |url=http://walkingwithdinosaurs-theorigins.com/index.php |url-status=
| origin = ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]''
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*''[[Sea Monsters (TV series)|Sea Monsters]]'' (2003)
*''[[Walking with Monsters]]'' (2005)
*''[[Walking with Dinosaurs (2025 TV series)|Walking with Dinosaurs]]''
▲*''[[Walking with Dinosaurs (2025)|Walking with Dinosaurs]]''<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/walking-with-dinosaurs-returns</ref> (2025)}}
| tv_specials = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[The Ballad of Big Al]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Land of Giants / The Giant Claw|The Giant Claw]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Land of Giants / The Giant Claw|Land of Giants]]'' (2003)}}
| plays = ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular]]'' (2007-2019)
| films = ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs (film)]]'' (2013)
}}'''''Walking with...'''''{{efn|'''''Walking with...''''' is the conventional umbrella title for the franchise.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rawnsley |first1=Ming-Yeh T. |author1-link=Ming-Yeh Rawnsley |author2-link=Gary D. Rawnsley |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qb9aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT175 |title=Connecting Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts |last2=Rawnsley |first2=Gary D. |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-26894-3 |editor-last=Storm |editor-first=Carsten |language=en |chapter=Science communication in Taiwan}}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{Cite web |title=BBC - Worldwide Press Office - Walking with Spacemen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2003/03_march/wws.shtml |access-date=2 May 2022 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Other names sometimes used include '''''Walking with Prehistoric Life<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 March 2022 |title=11 Must-Watch Dinosaur Movies That Aren't 'Jurassic Park' |url=https://collider.com/dinosaur-movies-that-arent-jurassic-park/ |access-date=2 May 2022 |website=Collider |language=en-US}}</ref>''''' and '''''Prehistoric Earth'''''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calderaro |first=Marc |date=31 July 2008 |title=Prehistoric Earth: A Natural History, PopMatters |url=https://www.popmatters.com/prehistoric-earth-a-natural-history-2496135312.html |access-date=2 May 2022 |website=PopMatters |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' (1999), ''[[Walking with Beasts|Beasts]]'' (2001) and ''[[Walking with Monsters|Monsters]]'' (2005) have also been marketed together as the '''''Trilogy of Life'''''.<ref name=":5">''Walking with Monsters'' DVD - ''Trilogy of Life'' featurette</ref>}} is a [[Paleontology|palaeontology]] [[media franchise]] produced and broadcast by the [[BBC Studios Science Unit]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Støen |first=Michael |date=2022 |title=1999: The BBC simulates prehistoric wildlife |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09636625211068944 |journal=Public Understanding of Science |volume=31 |issue=4 |language=en |pages=524–529 |doi=10.1177/09636625211068944 |pmid=35062833 |s2cid=246165620 |issn=0963-6625|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The franchise began with the series ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' (1999), created by [[Tim Haines]]. By far the most watched science programme in British television during the 20th century,<ref name=":172" /> ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (1999) spawned companion material and
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.<ref name=":92">{{Cite web |last=Naish |first=Darren |author-link=Darren Naish |title=Reminiscing About Walking With Dinosaurs, Part 2 |url=https://tetzoo.com/blog/2021/7/3/reminiscing-about-walking-with-dinosaurs-part-2 |access-date=30 April 2022 |website=Tetrapod Zoology |date=4 July 2021 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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]]'', [[Land of Giants / The Giant Claw|''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]]''. In 2013, [[Walking with Dinosaurs (film)|a movie]] based on ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', with the same name, was directed by [[Neil Nightingale]] and [[Barry Cook]].<ref>{{Citation |last1=Cook |first1=Barry |title=Walking with Dinosaurs 3D |date=19 December 2013 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1762399/ |type=Animation, Adventure, Comedy |publisher=Animal Logic, BBC Earth MD (WWD), BBC Earth |access-date=2 April 2022 |last2=Nightingale |first2=Neil}}</ref> In 2025, a new ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs (2025 TV series)|Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' series was produced by BBC and PBS, with Kirsty Wilson as the showrunner.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 19, 2025 |title=Walking With Dinosaurs - Everything you need to know about the new series |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/walking-with-dinosaurs-everything-you-need-to-know/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
== Development ==
[[File:Eustreptospondylus head.jpg|left|thumb|Puppet head of the dinosaur ''[[Eustreptospondylus]]'', used in ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'']]▼
=== Original 1999 series ===
{{Main article|Walking with Dinosaurs#Production}}
▲[[File:Eustreptospondylus head.jpg|left|thumb|Puppet head of the dinosaur ''[[Eustreptospondylus]]'', used in ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' (1999)]]
''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'' was devised by the then [[BBC]]-employed science television producer [[Tim Haines]] 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]]. 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, [[BBC Worldwide]] and the [[Discovery Channel]], alongside major investments from [[TV Asahi]] in Japan and [[ProSieben]] in Germany.''<ref name=":132" />'' 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.<ref name=":GUIN">{{Cite web |title=Most expensive television documentary series per minute |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-television-documentary-series-per-minute |access-date=30 April 2022 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-gb}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":92" />
The success of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' led to the rapid creation of ''Walking with...'' as a brand of documentary series.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Thussu |first=Daya Kishan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-5jny8sijsC |title=News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment |date=2008 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-4462-3331-3 |pages=36 |language=en}}</ref> In the aftermath of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'', Haines founded the production company [[Impossible Pictures]] together with [[Jasper James]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Impossible Pictures Appoints New Managing Director - UK Broadcast News {{!}} 23 November 2006 |url=https://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/57099/impossible_pictures_appoints_new_managing_director |access-date=3 May 2022 |website=www.4rfv.co.uk}}</ref> one of the producers on ''Walking with Dinosaurs''.''<ref name=":132" />''
=== 2000s ===
2000 saw the release of a special episode of ''Dinosaurs'', ''[[The Ballad of Big Al]]'', focusing on a single ''[[Allosaurus]]'' specimen.''<ref name="BBC One">{{Cite web |title=Walking with Dinosaurs |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sy534/episodes/guide |access-date=12 October 2020 |website=BBC One}}</ref>'' The first entire sequel series released in 2001: ''[[Walking with Beasts]]'', 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.<ref name=":11">{{cite video |title=Tim Haines Production Interview |date=2002 |people=Tim Haines |medium=''Walking with Beasts'' DVD featurette |publisher=BBC}}</ref> Haines served as executive producer on the series, with James and Nigel Paterson producing and directing.<ref name=":12">{{cite web |date=2001 |title=Making Of - TV Production |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/beasts/makingof/prod/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011223144053/http://www.bbc.co.uk/beasts/makingof/prod/index.shtml |archive-date=23 December 2001 |publisher=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> ''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.<ref name=":3" />
[[File:Walking with Spacemen book cover.png|thumb|Initial cover for the companion book of the 2004 BBC series ''[[Space Odyssey (TV series)|Space Odyssey]]'', initially intended to be part of the ''Walking with...'' franchise as "''Walking with Spacemen''"|upright=0.8]]
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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]] era, set before the dinosaurs. ''[[Walking with Monsters]]'', broadcast in 2005, utilized the most sophisticated effects of the entire franchise, owing to advancements in technology by the time of its production.<ref name=":4" />
Framestore and Crawley Creatures returned to do the computer graphics and animatronics, respectively, for every successor series
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{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+''Walking with...'' original series
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| style="text-align:center" | 25 December 2000
| Kate Bartlett
| [[Mick Kaczorowski]], Tim Haines & Joshua C. Berkley
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | ''[[Walking with Beasts]]''
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| style="text-align:center" | 30 December 2002 – 1 January 2003
| Tim Haines & Jasper James
| Tim Haines, Gaynelle Evans, Adam Kemp & Jasper James
| 2
| [[Nigel Marven]]{{efn|Also presenter in the series}}
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | ''[[Walking with Cavemen]]''
| style="text-align:center" | 27 March – 23 April 2003
| Richard Dale
| Richard Dale, Peter Georgi, Nick Green, Mark Hedgecoe & [[Peter Oxley]]
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| [[Robert Winston]]{{efn|Also presenter in the series}}
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| Tim Haines, Adam Kemp & Jasper James
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| [[Karen Hayley]]{{efn|
|rowspan=2|Ben Bartlett
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | ''[[Walking with Monsters]]''
| style="text-align:center" | 5 November 2005{{efn|''Walking with Monsters'' first aired as an [[omnibus (broadcast)|omnibus]] version, cut together into a single 90-minute instalment, on 5 November 2005. The series as divided into three episodes first aired a month later, 8–19 December 2005.}}
| [[Chloe Leland]]
| Tim Haines & Chloe Leland
| 3
| Kenneth Branagh
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! scope="row" style="text-align:left;" | ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs (2025 TV series)|Walking with Dinosaurs]]''
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| Kirsty Wilson
| Tom Hewitson, Stephen Cooter, & Owen Gower
| 6
| [[Bertie Carvel]]
| Ty Unwin
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| 1999 = '''''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]'''''▼
▲| 2000 = ''[[The Ballad of Big Al]]''
▲| 2002 = ''[[Land of Giants / The Giant Claw|The Giant Claw]]''
| 2025 = '''''[[Walking with Dinosaurs (2025)]]'''''▼
=== ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (1999) ===
{{Main|Walking with Dinosaurs}}Envisioned as the first "Natural History of Dinosaurs" and a series that would provide viewers with "a window into a lost world",<ref name=":172">{{Cite journal |last1=Scott |first1=Karen D. |last2=White |first2=Anne M. |date=2003 |title=Unnatural History? Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs Phenomenon |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0163443703025003002 |journal=Media, Culture & Society |language=en |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=315–332 |doi=10.1177/0163443703025003002 |s2cid=143566889 |issn=0163-4437|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' explores life in the [[Mesozoic]] era, particularly [[dinosaur]]s, in the format of a traditional [[nature documentary]].
{{Main|The Ballad of Big Al
=== ''Walking with Beasts'' (2001) ===
{{Main|Walking with Beasts}}''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 [[mammal]]s to dominance, in the [[Cenozoic]] era. The series also gives some insight into human evolution, with an episode devoted to ''[[Australopithecus]]'' and appearances by both [[Neanderthal]]s and [[anatomically modern humans]].
=== ''The Giant Claw / Land of Giants'' (2002–2003) ===
{{Main|Land of Giants / The Giant Claw}}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) ===
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=== ''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.
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| refs = <ref name="barb">{{Cite web|title=Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 – Sept 2018) | BARB|url=https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/|access-date=5 January 2023|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name="barb2025">{{cite web |url=https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/most-viewed-programmes/ |title=Weekly Top 50 Programmes |work=[[Barb Audiences]] |access-date=2 June 2025 }} (No permanent link available. Search for relevant dates.)</ref>
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* ''Walking with Cavemen: Stand Eye-to-Eye with your Ancestors'' (2003), by John Lynch and Louise Barrett<ref name=":62" />
* ''Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep'' (2003), by Nigel Marven and Jasper James<ref name="proquest">{{Cite journal |last=Sellers |first=LaRue |year=2004 |title=Chased by Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/4d66f455d6851fa88373ee5ec04029b0/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=40590 |journal=The Science Teacher |volume=71 |issue=7 |pages=85}}</ref>
* ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (2025), by Andrew Cohen, Helen Thomas, and Kirsty Wilson<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Walking With Dinosaurs |url=https://www.dk.com/uk/book/9780241761533-walking-with-dinosaurs/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=dkbooks |language=en}}</ref>
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