[HD] Lost Media: BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) full pilot episode

The lost media of BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs! I was hesitant to make this public, but, screw it! Watch and enjoy! We, WWD fans, deserve it!‼️
#walkingwithdinosaurs #prehistoricplanet #bbcearth #bbc #education #media #documentary #paleo #prehistoric

[@Pale-z2m]

Incredible how such small projects develop into the most successful prehistoric documentaries in television history. Thank you so much for uploading, this personally means a lot to me and other people who grew up watching the original series.

[@BenSimulator117]

You’re so welcome buddy!

[@SorenAlba54]

I concur and the fact that was originally narrated by Tony Jay before it was Kenneth Branagh says a lot about that man. He will be missed.

[@Evil-La-Poopa]

and nowadays they have all possibilitys but present us ugly CGI all around, bad sound effects and funny sounding narrators and many logic holes

[@Mikailodon]

This feels surreal watching it finally that the thing has been found. Thank you.

[@BenSimulator117]

No problemo man!😇

[@maxl5423]

It’s captivating I can see how they got the approval of the massive budget required for this.

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

So who's hear after hearing about BBC making a revival of the walking with series?

[@mydude8731]

Its a rumor

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

@@mydude8731 it a rumor i choose to believe so sush it.

[@BenSimulator117]

Um, it’s not a rumor, it’s as legitimate as it gets…. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bbc-pbs-walking-with-dinosaurs-return-1235914470/

[@okay__.]

​@@mydude8731It was literally an announcement with a release date

[@Alexandre_Lopes1954]

They'll even show Spinosaurus

[@oscarstainton]

Thank you for uploading this! Its an important piece of paleomedia history and should be seen by all fans of WWD. I wonder who this narrator is?

[@BenSimulator117]

Not sure who the narrator is…. But I’m glad you appreciate it!🤗 This should have been released for the longest while now…..

[@hiattgrey9161]

@@BenSimulator117 My best guess is Tim Curry.

[@CinemaSans]

I wish someone could make a cut of the pilot including the pilot scenes from the Trilogy of Life which strangely aren't present here

[@BenSimulator117]

I’ll see what I can do. I’m not sure if I can do anything about it though!😂 But hey! Never lose hope!

[@phytosurusgiganteus3461]

I found out late about the existence of a lost media (I learned about the existence of the pilot in 2021) of this program that marked my childhood, it is gratifying to finally see in full what started this great BBC saga

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Finally we can watch it. Thank you.

[@BenSimulator117]

No problem bro 😎…..

[@tm43977]

That was the pilot also that Eustreptospondylus look like vintage Dinosaur toy with pterosaur scaphognathus and a Sauropod Cetiosaurus was cut and Cryptoclidus and Liopluerodon on the hunt part and i love this pilot

[@BenSimulator117]

I know, Thanks for watching!

[@otodus2802]

2:08 Damn, this part is so well-made and still looks extremely good. This pilot has the same vibe and magic as the final product, the music at the end is beautiful. Truly the best media featuring prehistoric animals, i hope that they will capture the same feeling with WWD 2025.

[@Felipe-zf8kk]

Can't thank you enough for sharing 😊 lovely series, the serene feel and naturalism are unmatched and unseen in any other dinosaurs documentary of it's kind since, i only got that atmophere from older 70s and 80s wildlife docs also by BBC.

[@BenSimulator117]

You’re so welcome friend!😌

[@MakairodonX9434]

Thank you for uploading this! The pilot to my all-time favorite paleo-documentary series, which to me looks like an early version of “Cruel Sea”, makes me so happy to watch as someone who grew up with Walking with Dinosaurs and its sequels/spinoffs as a little kid.

[@guiltystress509]

i kinda like the Eustreptospondylus design better here than in the actual show, in they show they gave it and allosaurus that weird short snout for some reason

[@tomcross3000]

I think it has to do with the puppetry they had, already made for Allosaurus which they didn't use so rather than make another from scratch for Strepto, they just repainted it and used it for that.

[@VadimOzaki]

Ironically, the Allosaurus design from "Time of the Titans" suits the Eustreptospondylus better since the last had a more triangular-like snout. Since childhood, I was also surprised by the curved neck of Allosaurus from WWD. Designers likely mistook the back of the head for part of the neck. Anyway, Allosaurus is still my favourite theropod of all described, including birds.

[@idle_speculation]

@@VadimOzakiActually, based on skulls from relatives like Dubreuillosaurus, it’s likely that Eustreptospondylus would’ve had a longer skull.

[@TYKZY.BRANX._TEEK.SEE.BRANCH.]

TO GUiLTYSTRESS509 iT'Z A LiTTLE MORE DiSTiNCT HERE THAN iN THE SHOW BUT i COULD DO WiTH ANOTHER MORE ACCURATE DESiGN ALTOGETHER YOUR USERNAME PiCTURE THOUGH, i KNOW WHERE THAT'Z FROM U LiTTLE SCOUNDREL, NiCE VASECTOMiEZ 4 ALL ! ESPECiALLY US HUMANZ ! [NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]

[@govardhanposina17]

Thanks for posting this for us fans, was lowkey jealous of Dino Diego when he made his video on this and didn't share it (understandable though)

[@BenSimulator117]

I found him really annoying when he did that, so I took it upon myself to find and post it. Lol! It took me a really long time, but it’s here now!😅

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@BenSimulator117 Yeah, after 2 decades (25 years more precisely) and the fact the original series isn't even used anymore by BBC itself, I think it okay to post it and that people have the right to watch it. (don't think at this point the company care a lot about it too). + there still credits you made in the descriptive text of the video under it, and even onscreen very clearly to everyone eyes, so things are fines. It 100% clean to use something from someone else if you credits this someone else and precise what you show and used isn't your creation and the rights go to its original creator. That the golden rule to respect and it's respected here. + You don't even do that for money or monetization not activated, just for other people interested to whatch this important media. So, even here there no problems.

[@BenSimulator117]

@@dudotolivier6363 Exactly 100%!

[@tyrannicalsaur]

This was absolutely incredible. I can see some of the things in this plot that were incorporated into cruel sea. Especially with a Liopleurdon getting beached and dying and becoming food for the Eustreptospondylus

[@VadimOzaki]

2:00 This short scene was also shown in the 7th behind-the-scenes episode of WWD.

[@dudotolivier6363]

Amazing ! Just Amazing ! AND almost 1 year coincidentaly apart before the return of the franchise in 2025 ! This piece of media should have been released since the initial broadcast of the 1999 series. It's really weird and mysterious why BBC did not even let people watch it. Because it's an extremely important paleomedia, give it's the roots themselves of one of the greatiestad most important paleomedia in Human History ! I don't know how even you managed to get you hands on, but man ! glad you was able to and let it finally be public for anyone interested to see it ! Especially any WWD fans ! Thank you very much.

[@BenSimulator117]

You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it buddy! I think we both feel the same way lol. 2025 couldn’t come faster XD. I’m not sure if I can, but I’m thinking about trying to upscale it.

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@BenSimulator117 I think the way how things are is already enough and good. If people want to see the additionnals scenes of the Pilot cut from it, the "Making Of" videos in which they are shown are easily found online and on KZbin.

[@BenSimulator117]

I get what you mean XD, that’s true. I’ll still try and play around to see if I can get a 4K resolution upscale though.

[@markcochrane9523]

The WHAT of the franchise in 2025?

[@BenSimulator117]

What do you mean?

[@cretaceousthehunted9669]

It’s beautiful. If I had seen this at age 13, I would have been so happy because that’s when I started searching for this pilot.

[@levliv4664]

We’re is MY CETIOSAUR

[@dudotolivier6363]

Like Dino Diego explain it in his videos about the Pilot. The scenes of Cetiosaurus with some more of Eustropondylus were filmed att he same time than the rest of the Pilot. But were never merged with it when the Pilot was presented to the people which will greenlighted the project, and these additionnal cut scenes being put and used in the Trilogy's of Life and Making Off of the show instead after the WWD series have been entirely broadcast.

[@BenSimulator117]

Oh yeah! That’s correct XD

[@jurassicroom7673]

​@@dudotolivier6363Are they viewable on YT?

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@jurassicroom7673 Yes, mostly by searching on the search bar videos of the making of of the doc or for the pilot.

[@VadimOzaki]

Even here we can't see any animal from the Early Jurassic epoch((((

[@VadimOzaki]

Wow, thanks! It turns out that I had already seen the scene with the swimming Liopleurodon in episode 7, where the making of the series was shown. Well, Heines showed us an enormous Liopleurodon ferox as early as in 1996 so it is actually the Aramberri Monster which was identified as L. ferox back then. The time period is the very end of the Tithonian age of the Jurassic which is also close to the time when the Aramberri Monster existed. However, the Mexican pliosaur probably lived in the Early Cretaceous. As we can see on the stratigraphic chart of 1996, the beginning of the Cretaceous had been calculating as 130 Ma then. It is noteworthy that marine crocodiles are mentioned here, that is, we could have seen a Metriorhynchus as early as in 1999. I also like the shots with the footprints. It's a shame we didn't see them in the final version.

[@james-min8013]

0:28 the music here was beautiful. It’s a shame that the music never made it to the actual show

[@gabethedinosaur95]

Finally . I’ve been looking for this for years.

[@NicTheMonsterMan2901-i7d]

I saw this animatronic at Oxford Museum. It's a lot smaller than they make out in this pilot

[@BenSimulator117]

Cool!😎

[@RandomCrapIUpload]

The Postosuchus animatronic from New Blood is the same

[@VadimOzaki]

As far as I know, the only full-size models were for the Ophthalmosaurus and small animals like Didelphodon.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

I appreciate you finding this

[@BenSimulator117]

No problem bro 😎

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

The music for this series is seriously underappreciated, it sells EVERY emotional beat needed, it makes all the difference from watching some animal, and caring about an animal and his journey

[@elsakristina2689]

Amazing how far the quality and format and animation came within just three years of this. Do you know who the narrator is here? I like his narration but no one can ever surpass Kenneth Branagh's narration. I'm not British so WWD is how I first heard of him (I've been watching the "Walking With" series since I was seven).

[@dinoxels]

Nice to see this posted!!

[@BenSimulator117]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@koboldgeorge2140]

really cool that the iconic "beached liopleurodon" scene goes basically all the way back to the conception of the series

[@배숭직]

Episode 03: The Cruel Sea

[@fermintenava5911]

You can see the corners they cut for this pilot, but it was worth it. The final product is some of the best Dinosaur media out there.

[@TylerRakstis]

I wonder if they had that same closeup animatronic for the Liopleurodon used in the final show, but with a different color scheme.

[@daliborjovanovic510]

They do look the same. They most likely repainted it to save money.

[@TylerRakstis]

@@daliborjovanovic510 It's not too possible.

[@waldofabian1202]

This just morphed into episode 3

[@Cyberraptor14]

The CGI is really good for its time

[@BenSimulator117]

For real!

[@lochness5524]

found this less then half a day after i saw the big news. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS IS COMING BACK

[@razvanbelu1702]

I hope one day we`ll also get Walking with cavemen Nigel Marven`s version

[@otodus2802]

0:41 These rhamphorhynchus sounds just like Ridley in the GBA Metroid games, probably the same stock SFX.

[@universodolucas6023]

I can rest now

[@archievii]

Is Tim Curry narrating? If so…AWESOME! Nigel Thornberry doing Dinosaurs! Yes!🤩🤩🤩

[@Paleopal66]

This looks great...though it was a shame that the Cetiosaurus and Eustreptospondylus didn't enough screen time to shine like the marine reptiles did.

[@YAgamer1995]

I remember (barely) seeing one mention in a forum like 10 years ago about there being a lost pilot episode for WWD. I never believed it and thought that even if it did exist, it'd look terrible. I'm astounded at the effort they put into a simple pilot for a show that they didn't even know whether or not they'd be able to fully produce. I've always loved WWD and was extremely happy when I saw they're remaking it in 2025. I'm impressed you managed to find this. If you don't mind me asking, how did you find it? I'm chronically online and as I said earlier I've only seen 1 mention of it 10 years ago.

[@VadimOzaki]

On Reddit, a user writes that this episode can now be downloaded from Discord.

[@guiltystress509]

lol i knew i wasn't dreaming i think saw this one as a child and forgot

[@BugsandBiology]

Is it just me, or is that opening soundtrack from The Private Life of Plants?

[@BenSimulator117]

OMG! I see what you mean XD

[@TheKingOfCryptids]

I didn't imagine the pilot episode was a lost media

[@BenSimulator117]

It is XD

[@blueraptorgaming064]

Oh my god, this is beautiful!

[@jean-pierremartin7149]

Do you know if the soundtrack for the new WWD will be make by Ben Bartlett ? I really hope

[@VadimOzaki]

Me too. The music, especially in the Brachiosaurus scene, is great!

[@ExtratoneRegeneration]

A ha, someone asking the important question! I really really hope so too. Walking With Beasts had such a beautiful soundtrack too.

[@IndriidaeNT]

I hear Walking with Dinosaurs is getting a second season from the 1999 series in 2025. I can't wait!

[@BenSimulator117]

YES‼️

[@hidicproductions4849]

So that's how a proof of concept should look like. 🤔 I see. Well, time to get to the drawing board.

[@rendersaurus2]

thank you

[@BenSimulator117]

Welcome!

[@setheldiosdelcaos4609]

Nunca imagine que tuviera un piloto y fuera lost media como fan de cambiando con dinosaurios es fascinante verlo y el diseño de los dinosaurios es algo raro para mi no se porque

[@internetduck1520]

holy shit how did no one tell me this was released

[@BenSimulator117]

@@internetduck1520 More people need to see it for real! XD

[@jurassicroom7673]

Is that Tony Jay narrating?

[@Zach-gr4gh]

Was there also footage of cetiosaurs and a eustreptospondylus stalking the woods?

[@BenSimulator117]

So apparently the scenes featuring Cetiosaurus and additional footage of Eustreptospondylus were filmed simultaneously with the rest of the pilot. But those scenes were not included when the pilot was presented to the executives for approval. Instead, the additional cut scenes were later incorporated into the Trilogy of Life documentary after the entire Walking with Dinosaurs series had been broadcast….

[@Zach-gr4gh]

@@BenSimulator117 damn, and here I was thinking a whole 20 min caper was done- based purely off the clips we saw in the documentary on walking with monsters

[@BenSimulator117]

Lol! I thought the same thing when I first saw the Walking with Monsters documentary too XD

[@Sawrattan]

Is the narrator Michael Buerk?

[@Sean_Last1995]

Amazing to compare what was to what it became.

[@K-Boogie7999]

This is a dream come true !

[@BenSimulator117]

Yes! I’m so excited! XD

[@BenSimulator117]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@canonbehenna612]

Can you do prehistoric planet season 2

[@BenSimulator117]

I’m not sure what you mean

[@canonbehenna612]

@@BenSimulator117 the discovery kids version not the new one

[@BenSimulator117]

Oh! I see! Nah, I’m not a fan of that version

[@milesjolly6173]

Thank you ❤

[@horaciomonroy9076]

IS THAT JEREMY CLARKSON VOICE?

[@BenSimulator117]

Not sure!

[@72acemon4]

I say it’s Tim Curry!

[@tomcross3000]

Strepto looks like a 70s invicta megalosaurus with the neck and head. I think i approve

[@hieratics]

What a pleasant surprise

[@BenSimulator117]

IKR!

[@chissstardestroyer]

His weight alone would be 150 tons: thee-hundred-thousand-pounds; nothing, not even a blue whale, has such body-mass, and his length was at least *85 feet long*, thus guy's *huge*, but also, in that environment, completely defenseless as he's fully out of his environment, since he cannot move, he cannot escape nor feasibly defend himself against aggression, and since animals are basically atheistic: anybody who *can* take material advantage of him is sure to do just exactly that. His skull alone was also 16 feet long!

[@Blue-Flame-Dragon]

I love all the old walking with dinosaur is so good is amazing love the work 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌🍻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🦖🦕❤️❤️❤️❤️🍻😎

[@BenSimulator117]

Literally! Nothing else has topped them since‼️😎

[@CameronKiesser]

Nuts that I'm watching this.

[@BenSimulator117]

Lol!😂

[@izael7000]

This is a canceled episode, if I'm not mistaken it was replaced by episode three that we know. I wouldn't delete it, I would make a special episode with more content. In fact, if it were up to me, the trilogy of life wouldn't be a trilogy, it would be a single documentary that would have many episodes, and most of it would take place before the Phanerozoic

[@VadimOzaki]

Before the Phanerozoic? Then it would be about history of Earth, not about life on it.

[@nickthetrex]

I wish we could watch this without the text on top of the video.

[@Cdr2002]

Does anyone know the name of the track at the beginning?

[@jean-pierremartin7149]

Wait ? It was really a walking with dinosaurs clip ? Or just a fan rearrangement ? Someone can explain please, I am confused ?

[@BenSimulator117]

It’s the pilot episode the BBC never released publicly. It’s the concept episode that was made before the 1999 series was greenlit XD

[@jean-pierremartin7149]

@@BenSimulator117 oh ok Thanks !

[@AndyBluebear-fi9om]

Who was the narrator for this pilot?

[@Tidal_Terror]

never understood how fossils of a 20 foot reptile translated into a 60 foot Liopleurodon. Not only that, but the idea that it was the largest carnivore ever, despite being dwarfed by megalodon. which was a known species at the time.

[@simbiotesnus1013]

That was in 1999, bro.

[@daliborjovanovic510]

​@@simbiotesnus1013 Great non-answer, bro. FYI, they were wrong even then, as this was a very niche interpretation.

[@daliborjovanovic510]

@Tidal_Terror The short answer is, the main advisor for the series (Dr. David Martill) has a history of bloated size estimates based on highly fragmentary material. In 1996, he wrote a brief abstract (never a full, peer-reviewed paper) about a pliosaur vertebra from Oxford Clay supposedly belonging to a specimen around 17-20 meters in length. In "Cruel Sea", they added another 5 meters by making the main Liopleurodon an exceptionally large specimen. Now that we have studied pliosaur anatomy much more thoroughly and gathered more specimens, we know giant pliosaurs likely didn't surpass 12 meters, and the aforementioned vertebra was re-examined in 2009 and determined to come from a specimen in the range of 11-14 meters, though others say the vertebra belongs to a sauropod.

[@dinosaurus1143]

WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS??!!!!

[@BenSimulator117]

🤫

[@P.O.D_Animator]

Wha wi what, how, how did you find this!

[@BenSimulator117]

That’s my little secret 🤫….

[@P.O.D_Animator]

@bensimulator2540 it's a good secret

[@BenSimulator117]

@From_me_to_You1999 Lol! Indeed!

[@Spinofaarus_boi]

He found it at the black market-

[@BenSimulator117]

Hahahaha!😂😎

[@shadowthehedhgog1867]

NOW I WISH SOMEONE FIND THE LATIN SPANISH DUBS FROM THE SAGA,THEY ARE LOST

[@kernowpictures2002]

I forgot what species of pterosaur was in it considering they don’t mention them by name

[@kylecollier7569]

The pterosaur shown in the pilot is Scaphognathus.

[@kernowpictures2002]

@@kylecollier7569 Thanks mate!

[@kylecollier7569]

@@kernowpictures2002 No problem 👍

[@VadimOzaki]

Scaphognathus, originally described as a species of Pterodactylus. It would be great to see a Pterodactylus in the 2025 remake along with Archaeopteryx.

[@sergioestuardocontrerasova4577]

I appreciate that.

[@kernowpictures2002]

So this was from 1996?

[@flamealisk1584]

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS IS GETTING A REMAKE!

[@BenSimulator117]

Yes I know XD😍

[@Yaroosss]

Reboot*

[@symonepassalacqua754]

Where do you find it?

[@ЭльвираОрозбаева]

OLD LIOPLEURODON 😢😢😢

[@clone9856]

Без Дроздова не то)

[@rolloxra670]

How you found it? 😮

[@BenSimulator117]

🤫😂

[@loopwoop]

2025 here we go babyyyyyy

[@BenSimulator117]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@patrickjohnson1649]

Tim Curry?

[@christianbell8347]

Thanks for this upload! I'm a guy but will you marry me?

[@BenSimulator117]

LMAO🤣😂 Girls are my thing!😂

[@fantastizoo]

Spanish subtitles plss

[@BenSimulator117]

I’m sorry buddy, not too sure about that TBH

[@fantastizoo]

@@BenSimulator117 active automatic youtube subtitles plss!

[@GumDumb]

NO FUCKING WAY

[@anomalotheriataurus8806]

„Jurassic Park“ Got The Velociraptor Wrong, „Walking With Dinosaurs“ Has The Liopleurodon For That

[@VadimOzaki]

Ankylosaurus is also too strange. I still don't understand why it is so convex in the series.

[@anomalotheriataurus8806]

@@VadimOzaki Iˋm Afraid I Can’t Help You With That One

[@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0]

Real!?!?

[@BenSimulator117]

100%!😎

[@extraordinarytv5451]

The search is over🫡

[@BenSimulator117]

Yes! Finally XD