The Fascinating Story of the Lost Walking With Dinosaurs Episode (ft. Super Pish)

Walking With Dinosaurs is a well-known piece of dinosaur media that has a few mysteries to it. The one we're going to be exploring today is the lost pilot episode that was never fully released to the public.
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[@DinoDiego16]

Hey made a new discord server! Check it out here: discord.gg/T2Y9dJfTdT This video was a nightmare to render out. Had to do it a bunch of times, due to constant glitches within the video. I think for the most part, it's fixed, but if some parts look grainier and low quality than others, I apologize.

[@blind-rk6fl]

I think time would be better spent if the community attempted to have them rerelease the film either on Blu-ray or possibly 4K disc. This may sound like a stretch but Arrow Video, a UK based film restoration company, has been obtaining distribution rights and restoring classic films from Universal and other studios who don’t have that infrastructure. They’re literally a hop,skip and jump from these guys and I thing it would definitely be worth it. They’d have to update the CGI a bit but I think movie nuts would be all over it

[@iambeavis762]

Diegosaur

[@Mralexdenver]

Is the audio too low too? I could barely hear it and turning it up the ads blasted really loud

[@dinofanaticgojifan5760]

Hey, I was reasherching on deleted episodes/animals/scenes/ideas from Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts. I can't find much. Can anyone make a list of cut and deleted stuff from these 2 series?

[@w-james9277]

Even though it's not scientifically accurate as we once thought (due to new discoveries) it was a fantastic series because it treats Dinosaurs what they actually were... not monsters, but animals!

[@rutiacotheyuty3045]

Yeah! If you want to know one just like wwd but accurate (to today's standards), it's called amazing dino world

[@AltairBlue]

@@rutiacotheyuty3045 i mean, the pronated hands and the knucklewalking spino/underfeathered dromaeosaurs say otherwise, the most accurate dino documentary rn has to be dinosaur revolution, those dromaeosaurs are MMM

[@usmanya5110]

@@AltairBlue don't forget Pachyrinosaurus. With that big horn. But even with that. this documentary is better than Jurassic Fight Club.

[@AltairBlue]

@@usmanya5110 indeed

[@strongman5243]

@@AltairBlue they have expensive budget so can't put feathers on dromeosauras

[@nasuto6828]

I love that show as a kid I didn't know it has a lost episode

[@mikecampbell7950]

Dude same

[@superiorcustomer2.037]

Same

[@user-73a]

same

[@RickRaptor105]

To be fair, when do pilot episodes ever get released to the public? Their whole point is to be a proof of concept that the directors/writers can present to give the executives an idea of what the team has in mind. A pilot episode is just test footage, it's not supposed to be seen by outside people just like the first rough draft of a movie script is not supposed to be leaked.

[@DinoDiego16]

I guess I just figured over time, they'd release it as a way to give back to the fans. Shed a little light on their humble beginnings, but I suppose that's the whole point of the Trilogy of Life special.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

I mean, not necessarily. For example, the first episode of Stargate SG-1, Children of the Gods, is also the pilot episode.

[@FuckYoutubeCensorship]

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Showtime was treating it as a made for TV movie. It also had cursing and nudity that didn't make it past the first episode.

[@JerkyD]

@@DinoDiego16 Just 1 nit-pick: We saw the Cetiosaurus in "The Making of Walking With Dinosaurs" (See 27:18: www.dailymotion.com/video/x7788v7 ), long before "Trilogy of Life".

[@Raptorworld22]

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Same case as "The Cape", the first episode is the Pilot episode

[@oscarstainton]

What’s also curious is that they got Tim Curry himself to provide the narration for this 6 minute pilot episode, and while I think Kenneth Branagh was a perfect choice to narrate WWD it makes you wonder how good of a job Tim could have done if he narrated the series proper.

[@sm4carnageihope]

I think Tim could have done smashing job at being a wildlife presenter. I don't know why.....

[@velociraptor4you3291]

@@sm4carnageihope Nigel Thornberry, perhaps?

[@realceal9650]

#ReleasetheCurryCut

[@velociraptor4you3291]

@@realceal9650 LOL!

[@j-rcctrigga9731]

"Would ya' like an episode of walking with dinosaurs Georgie? . . . Narrated by your friend Pennywise the dancing Clown"

[@acropolismauve8496]

I remember every year the bbc would rerun the entire ‘walking with’ franchise and the specials. This is still one of my favourite franchises and the nostalgia is strong.

[@LandBeforeTime75]

Great video of the History of Walking with Dinosaurs. This is without a doubt one of the best dinosaur documentaries ever made and a huge part of my childhood and it still holds up. I really wish BBC could do a reboot of the Walking with Dinosaurs Series exist so we could see the accurate version of the dinosaurs we see in the show and to have a lot of Nostalgia to the Original Walking with Dinosaurs. Great video Dino Diego.

[@bruh949]

The walking with “era” from 1991-2007 with all the walking with shows in the unofficially know as ‘Prehistoric Earth’ saga is amazing, especially Nigel Marvins documentaries in that too. A True age of paleo discovery, advancement and popularisation. Without Walking With Dinosaur’s there would be 0 Prehistory or Dino docs today. Without a doubt.

[@SuperKingGhidorah]

Pish knows Age of Dinosaurs is a god tier film there's no debate about that. I do wish walking with Dinosaurs could continue in some shape or form

[@DinoDiego16]

I agree that Age of Dinosaurs is god tier

[@UserRedZero]

I can’t be the only one who remembers this “Walking with Prehistoric Beasts” trailer: Kid is, I think, playing with some dinosaur toys and turns to his dad and asks “what happened after the dinosaurs” “Well they went extinct.” “Yeah but what happened after that?” Or something like that then you hard cut to the cool critters in the trailer. Blew my freakin’ mind back then because I never even CONSIDERED post Cretaceous life until that very moment and trailer.

[@schmourt]

I love that there is a KZbin mystery and commentary community surrounding dinosaurs specifically. that caters so directly to me it hurts

[@RudiW1510]

We're incredibly lucky to have this series. I don't care how outdated it is. The presentation is spot on. I'll never forget the first time I saw the march of the Muttaburrasaurus', with that majestic score playing. Gives me goosebumps every time. Especially with the german narrators voice. As much as I like Kenneth Branagh's calm and collected tone, Otto Clemens' ice cold, booming, thunder-like voice will always blow me away. That voice really emphaSIZEs the power of sound. Whenever he says Diplodocus, it sends shivers down my spine.

[@riamus7258]

A PaleoMedia channel?? That's an instant subscribe.

[@phanerozoiceon2904]

Oh god... didn’t expect to see you here.

[@morrisdenny394]

What you doing here😂😀

[@solidified-spinosaurus]

And a livestreamer

[@riamus7258]

Why WOULDN'T I be here? 😳

[@superpish9527]

@@riamus7258 Fair point. Thanks for stopping by nonetheless, it's cool to know that you've watched this

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Really good video! Even today, the Walking with Series is still continuing to remain popular. :)

[@Gasmaskmax]

Its been like 15 years and im still wondering why the walking with monsters OST still hasnt been released yet. Where is it, BBC?

[@DinoDiego16]

probably locked in the same vault as this lost episode

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

@@DinoDiego16 We need to work on a heist!

[@TweekerMcCormick]

This is so cool, I never even knew this was a thing!! I wasn't as big on the sequel series, so I didn't even really watch them until years later, and never owned them on DVD. So fun to learn new things about this series, which was honestly a cornerstone of my childhood.

[@giotakatraki9210]

So much memories watching that show as a kid!!! I had discovered the lost episode randomly in the internet.

[@jaketheb8916]

The deinotherium used to give me nightmares

[@TheRoadrunnerFromHell]

4:21 Holy crap, I made that page! Glad you found it

[@kianmills4170]

I cannot believe it! This series started EXACTLY 5 years before I was born.... and I am basically obsessed with prehistoric life. I’m pretty sure that this got me into it.. but that is insane!

[@invisiblejaguar1]

I remember seeing the brief footage of those sauropods from the making of Walking With Dinosaurs. It puzzled me for so long on what was up with that footage and now I know. Solving childhood mysteries yo!

[@REYTRACER]

I had the same thought. I always wondered where they were from. Now we know.

[@robinliesens7983]

Same, I always thought those were simply from an older docu.

[@garyspaziani1699]

I still love it and I’m 55 and dinos till I die

[@epicbeanguyorsomething3110]

This was my favorite show as a kid.

[@rjsouthworth5246]

That shot of the feeding Cetiosaurus briefly appeared in the Making of Walking with Dinosaurs documentary that accompanied the original series, when talking about how Diplodocus didn't hold their necks upright like that. I did wonder where that clip came from!

[@TheNOBODY2810]

I loved these! I watched these so many times! My childhood

[@REVOisMYname]

A “Walking with Dinosaurs 2” would be awesome and likely do well with the new Jurassic world resurgence

[@thomasrichardholtz9031]

Just saw this today. I haven't seen the Pilot since the workshop in the late 1990s when we brainstormed about the project. It isn't fair to call it an "episode"; it was really just a "proof of concept" to show how to integrate CG & puppet dinosaurs/pterosaurs/plesiosaurs into a natural environment. As you can see from the clips, the models were really early drafts of what happened later. One aspect I do remember which was clearly different was in the discussion of the (alleged) differential smelling ability of Liopleurodon, they did a freeze frame and a digital cut away to show the internal anatomy. The production team decided they didn't like this approach, and it was canned. (That said, some other documentaries like "Clash of the Dinosaurs" used this technique).

[@TJ-tu5xc]

Did you ever watch the Dinosaur! documentary from 1991 with Walter Cronkite? That's the documentary I grew up with until Walking With Dinosaurs came out and it's still my absolute favourite dino documentary.

[@mrx4022]

They should really do an entire remake of this series with updated information and dinosaur models

[@marcomarenghi1744]

That was a nice trip down memory lane - thank you!

[@smugumin3448]

I've still got my walking with dinosaurs and walking with beasts dvd's, though I do think I'm missing a few after all this time I did not know about walking with monsters, I've got to try and watch it now

[@redwarriorstudios6077]

They need to remake/remastered this series, a lot of the stuff in this series is very dated. Like lioplurodon was not 80 feet long.

[@MrXanderson]

It was actually a quadrilogy.. Walking With Dinosaurs, Walking With Beasts, Walking With Cavemen, and then Walking With Monsters which came way later down the road.. 🦋

[@keepcalmlovedinosaurs8934]

Thanks for uploading this! 👍🏻I didn't know there was that much lost pilot footage, I only saw snippets during the making of walking with dinosaurs 21 years ago.

[@reshi606]

It still IS the best paleo documentary. I yearn for a modern walking with dinosaurs series.

[@megaladonman2568]

They released planet dinosaur, but it does not give the same feeling and its not as good

[@dinomation]

I’ve always love hearing about scrapped media, especially when it relates to movies and shows.

[@juanyusee8197]

I recall the Cetiosaurus footage was briefly re-used in The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs when they discussed about sauropod necks.

[@johnlime1469]

I swear I remember seeing a footage of the pterosaurs from the lost pilot in one of the Walking with Dinosaurs making of episodes.

[@RaptorJesus]

6 minutes in late 1990s CGI is *fucking forever* , so I would argue that it is entirely possible the entirety of that was just touched up to be the actual Cruel Seas episode.

[@TheZeroNeonix]

4:40 - It's the magical liopleurodon, Charlie!

[@luisvelez1952]

I’ve wish that the series had more than 6 episodes it would be awesome 😎 like 12-18

[@Acridotheresfuscus]

It was already really expensive so that would be hard to make

[@RexyofJurassicPark]

I have an unhealthy love of dinosaurs

[@michaelproductions1045]

I remember watching and loving all three of these series as a child, but time has not been kind to the cgi

[@synderthmc]

Prehistoric park is the greatest piece of dinosaur media, you cant fight me

[@parkersaurus2205]

Wow another interesting peice of lost paleo-media!

[@1986tessie]

I like the your fucking dead to me line at the end. I laughed then liked and subd.

[@colk5373]

imagine a walking with dinosaur lost episode creepypasta no

[@starlinger2714]

This is the best dinosaur series, even 22 years later

[@stevenhale2935]

Any brits here remember an ad for walking with beasts set to Labbi Siffre's 'something inside so strong'? With all the beasts running through the streets? I'm sure I didn't imagine it but can't seem to find it!

[@solidified-spinosaurus]

Walking with diego, we neeeeeeeed it

[@elvisthepelvis447]

Well my unhealthy obsession for dinosaurs is main cause for me going to college this year and relieve a bachelors in Geology and Paleontology.

[@fs-ks7fm]

Lost episode? Yes please!

[@EliteKnight97]

Damn, I remember having these on vhs as a kid

[@nickolimckenzie]

First Dr who missing episodes and now walking with dinosaurs footage. I'm sensing a pattern with the BBC.

[@kodyaaroncardwell386]

Yeah I remember watching this as a kid probably why I always love Dinosaurs til this Day I also remember that when I was 6 I would run out of my bedroom and hide behind my door and let the intro go then watch the Episode Why because I was so Terrified of the Intro at the Beginning of every Episode I really don’t know why I was so scared at the intro but since then I always have watched it probably at least 5 or 7 times Yeah Dinosaurs are my Favorites I also love the other series too❤️

[@supergodzillaxvlogs3044]

Walking With Dinosaurs 🦖 Awesome🙏🥰Series Best Dinosaur Series🙀Ever Made🙏

[@6661313]

thought something was wrong with my speakers, but no, tis video is just like 50% lower volume than any other video i click on

[@marcopohl4875]

I understand the phrases "unhealthy obsession" and "obsession with dinosaurs" but when you put them together they stop making sense

[@tyrannotherium7873]

Wwd is the best dinosaur documentary

[@magtegi2]

im happy they expanded their scope to include other prehistoric eras when they could have easily just kept on milking the dinosaurs good to see other eras get representation.

[@darklight6013]

I'm pretty sure BBC never did nothing so expensive, before or after.

[@kernowpictures2002]

3:10 in other European countries it was more successful than dinosaurs such as Italy 🇮🇹 Russia 🇷🇺 and Germany 🇩🇪

[@Zain_production]

super pish message : i like the age of the dinosaur me: me too dino diego: E

[@theblazingredcomet1954]

I love how you edit your videos, instant sub

[@purplehaze2358]

Why would I fight Pish over him saying _Walking With Dinosaurs_ is the best paleomentary when it’s an objective fact?

[@peateargryphon]

We had an American version of this narrated by Ben Stiller called Prehistoric Planet.

[@bernardbillchee9476]

This explains why walking with dinosaurs are real jurassic park

[@vrana8827]

That's the first video I, seeing from you, but I saw that you make videos about dinosaur games aswell. You don't have anything related to 'The Isle' so I would be interested if that game is just a no no for you or If you just don't know it. I really enjoy playing it.

[@superakman14]

Wasn't there another series about the evolution of humans?

[@vassa1972]

Loved that dvd

[@TaterChip91]

Oh. My. God. I've told people I have an unhealthy obsession with dinosaurs multiple times. Word for word exactly how you said it. Fucking crazy. As I went to hit subscribe, you dropped a fuck bomb and now I think a better description would be i donkey punched that subscribe button. Like I didn't know where it was going, but I was ramming it in anyway. 👍👏👏👏👍

[@AnEnemySpy456]

Unhealthy obsession with dinosaurs? No such thing.

[@legokiller3579]

You should talk about the show Prehistoric Planet

[@mikibednarczyk3439]

Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts both have book forms,and Walking with Dinosaurs has a computer game, for some reason Walking with Monsters doesn't have a book form.

[@burge_0497]

I grew up watching this on Netflix bro

[@RLSTUD1OS]

We need a more up to date series

[@horse14t]

So where does Walking With Cavemen fit into the Walking With series? :P

[@Blueheartsnroses]

There more stories in walking with dinosaurs? The only story I know is "the ballad of big al" and i watched it thanks to yt....

[@trexboy269]

Can you make walking with dinosaurs iceberg video

[@Plasmid13]

You forgot to mention Prehistoric Planet from Discovery Kids

[@CyberneticStreetrunner]

Duuuuuude I loved this show so much,how the hell did I never hear about a lost episode!?

[@blankblank3975]

Is it just me that that remembers that the BBC technically rebooted it with planet dinosaurs a couple years ago?

[@mrbyzantine0528]

wait what

[@YoungRin-ms]

Have they found herbivores together in the dinosaurs fossil record

[@zackerylamb1045]

Bruh me and my best friend as kids fuckin loved primevil

[@forrestburnz]

I have no prob with calling myself obsessed w/ dinos

[@Kogasengaha_Hishoshi]

Just want to say even though this is entirely not true, Thats why we had Dinosaur Planet for those plotlines XD 5:30 Whitetails Journey is the best one out of all of em tbh.

[@JoelTConnors]

I emailed Impossible Pictures asking if they could release it for the 20th anniversary. Sadly, I never got a response, and apparently Impossible Pictures has folded.

[@bruh949]

Wow I never New this existed and I watched this since I was 3; that’s not a joke btw

[@Kyle-vg2io]

Some people just have this unhealthy apathy about dinosaurs. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with those people.

[@Ezullof]

So basically, they wanted to make a Jurassic Park-like documentary, someone accepted, and the pilot was convincing. That's... really not fascinating. Sure there's a lot of money involved, but this is also completely regular.

[@dinosaurbros8908]

You have my attention.

[@mihailpopa6051]

It really is fascinating

[@DinoDiego16]

gracias senor

[@porneliushubertsthaicuisin1316]

is super pish the same one that made the funland ii minecraft map

[@DinoDiego16]

No, this is a different Super Pish

[@superpish9527]

The Endless Rant yeah, coincidence. Pretty sure I revealed the origin of my name on one of Diego's streams but I can't remember which.

[@andythegoatman694]

In some places wwd looks date in somplaces it holds up today with the effects all ik is I love it and want the lost episode

[@barron204]

Is the Walking with Dinosaurs movie of 2013 related to the tv series?

[@armhand97]

Only in branding, everything else about it is very different

[@ceejaydead5]

If theres a walkingwith humans i would be happy

[@jam5533]

I think there is?

[@Adasaur250]

There's a _Walking with Cavemen_ that came out in 2003; definitely the most overlooked of the _Walking with..._ series.

[@dinglemcspringlefairy9050]

walking with remake?

[@ShawnBean]

1 subscriber closer! Go, Diego!

[@simonglazebrook1354]

Started watching this with my 6yr old daughter, then you start swearing........cheers for that!

[@DinoDiego16]

Cool. Next time, watch the video before watching with your kids, that way you know whether its appropriate or not.

[@narottamcecil1803]

Welcome to the Dino Fandom.