Spy in the Wild

Spy in the Wild

Documentary 2017

In this entertaining series are themed around a familiar aspect of our own lives - love, intelligence, friendship and mischief. Meet the elephant aunts who act as midwives, the hippos having pedicures, the monkeys getting drunk and disorderly and the chimp policemen laying down the law.

Documentary 2017

TV-PG

Starring David Tennant

EPISODE 1

Love

To discover just how like us animals really are, animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions.

44 min · Jan 15, 2019 TV-PG
EPISODE 2

Intelligence

The spy creatures go undercover to explore the world of animal intelligence and reveal their use of tools, self-medication, culture and subterfuge.

44 min · Jan 22, 2019 TV-PG
EPISODE 3

Friendship

The Spy Creatures are on another extraordinary mission as they discover how friendships are a vital part of animal societies.

44 min · May 20, 2017 TV-PG
EPISODE 4

Mischief

The Spy Creatures discover that mischief is rife in nature, but perhaps there are still rules that govern animals' lives.

43 min · Feb 5, 2019 TV-PG
EPISODE 5

Meet the Spies

[Season Finale] This companion piece to the Superspy series, Animals Like Us, goes behind the scenes with the fantastically lifelike robotic spy animals. It shows how they are made and what happens when they are deployed among their subjects.

49 min · Jun 3, 2017 TV-PG
EPISODE 1

The Tropics

Our Spy Creatures investigate the extraordinary wildlife that thrives in the tropics and the events and gatherings that happen across the year.

5 min · May 13, 2021 TV-PG

David Tennant

Self
John Downer

Director
John Downer

Producer
Philip Dalton

Producer
Rob Pilley

Producer

About

Spy in the Wild

DOCUMENTARY

In this entertaining series are themed around a familiar aspect of our own lives - love, intelligence, friendship and mischief. Meet the elephant aunts who act as midwives, the hippos having pedicures, the monkeys getting drunk and disorderly and the chimp policemen laying down the law.

Animatronic animals collect secret wildlife footage in docu.

Information

Studio: BBC1
Released: 2017
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English (United Kingdom), English, English (Australia)
Audio and Subtitles: English (AAC, CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.