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| style="text-align:center" | 5 November 2005{{efn|''Walking with Monsters'' first aired as aan [[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

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=== Viewership ===

''Walking with Dinosaurs'' was broadcast to record audiences in 1999<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last1=Haines |first1=Tim |title=[[The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life]] |last2=Chambers |first2=Paul |publisher=Firefly Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-55407-181-4 |___location=Richmond Hill, Ontario |chapter=Introduction |orig-date=2005}}</ref> and is sometimes considered the biggest science documentary series ever created.<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last=Benton |first=Michael J. |author-link=Michael Benton |date=2001 |title=The Science of ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' |url=https://cpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/5/537/files/2019/08/2003scienceWWD.pdf |journal=Teaching Earth Sciences |volume=24 |pages=371–400}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":172"/> Viewership figuersfigures 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.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=10 May 2006 |title=Planet Earth sees off CGI |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/10/broadcasting.bbc1 |access-date=25 April 2022 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

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.