Superquark: Season 18
Season 18 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Superquark Season 17.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 18 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Jun 16, 2011 · 120 min
The first episode of Superquark opens with a magnificent documentary from the USHUAIA series by Nicolas Hulot: a journey of contrasts between an extremely urbanized India and a Nep
Episode 2
Jun 23, 2011 · 120 min
In the second episode of Superquark a documentary from the new BBC series Human Planet: Rivers. The rivers of our planet provide many of the essentials for life: fresh water, natur
Episode 3
Jun 30, 2011
In the third episode of Superquark another documentary from the spectacular new BBC series Human Planet: Jungles. Tropical forests cover only 2% of the planet, but half of living s
Episode 4
Jul 7, 2011 · 120 min
For the opening documentary of the fourth episode of Superquark, of the BBC Human Planet series: Oceans. The oceans support most of the species on Earth, although humans are not am
Episode 5
Jul 14, 2011
We can survive weeks without food, but only a few days without water. The eternal struggle for water and the ingenious solutions adopted in the most desert areas of the planet, in
Episode 6
Jul 21, 2011
The weather in the mountains can change suddenly and go from sultry heat to arctic cold. The higher you go, the less oxygen you have available. Nonetheless, millions of people arou
Episode 7
Jul 28, 2011 · 120 min
It is one of the most extreme places on Earth: dark and frozen for months in the winter, without trees or edible plants in the summer. Yet 4 million people have learned to live the
Episode 8
Aug 4, 2011 · 120 min
Prairies feed the world. Over thousands of years, humans have learned to cultivate prairies and domesticate the animals that live there. The success of this operation has brought t
Episode 9
Aug 11, 2011
It is a story that lasts 500 million years and that features some of the most exotic and wonderful marine creatures on earth. Coral is nature's greatest architect and coral reefs h
Episode 10
Aug 17, 2011 · 120 min
In the tenth episode of Superquark a very curious and funny documentary from the BBC series Seeing the Invisible about Speed Limits. The human eye takes about fifty thousandths o
Episode 11
Aug 25, 2011
The documentary in this episode, Story of a Baboon, tells the story of a young baboon whose father, the dominant male of the group, is deposed following a bloody battle and replace
Episode 12
Sep 1, 2011
To close this year's Superquark series, a very special BBC documentary on the polar bear. Cameras hidden in icebergs, snowballs and more have spied on the life of bears in such a d