Weekly Penguin

Weekly Penguin 978

In 2005 to 2006, there was a TV series called Natural Killers – Predators Close Up. It was a nature documentary series narrated by Michael Richard. Each 50 minute episode focused on a different sturdy animal each week, with the documentary portion followed by a trivia on how well you took in all the info.

Later the series was turned into a 'collectible TV series' kind of thing – as in, not sold as a box set in retail, but often as a subscription mailed to you. Yeah, it was a thing at one point. It's not as bad as it sounds, as obviously unlike 'modern subscriptions', you naturally got to keep the DVDs if you didn't renew them.

Anyway, this is the series' episode on penguins, as the Finnish DVD release. The original episode is called Penguins Under Siege, translated here as "Pingviinien ahdinko". It focuses on the African Penguin, following two growing penguin chicks and cover everything from species info to their modern struggles with humans. Delightfully it even covers ways to help the little waddlers.

I do not have the whole set, only the one penguin episode.

Added: 2026-05-19