Supernatural: Unseen Power of Animals is a six-part British nature documentary

Nature documentary

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on film taken in their natural habitat...

 television miniseries

Miniseries

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 that was produced by John Downer Productions and commissioned by the BBC Natural History Unit

BBC Natural History Unit

The BBC Natural History Unit is a department of the BBC dedicated to making television and radio programmes with a natural history or wildlife theme, especially nature documentaries...

, the same team behind the earlier successful shows Supersense

Supersense

Supersense is a six-part nature documentary television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, originally broadcast in the UK on BBC1 in 1988. The series producer was John Downer and the narrator Andrew Sachs. It used groundbreaking effects and filming techniques to show how animals...

and Lifesense. The program was narrated by Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs is a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated, and Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.-Early life:Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina , a...

 and originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1999

1999 in television

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. The theme of the series was "the unseen power of animals."

Episode list

• Extrasensory Perception
• Outer Limits
• Hidden Forces (directed by James Honeyborne
  James Honeyborne
  James Honeyborne is the director of The Meerkats feature film and the producer and director of many award-winning BBC wildlife documentaries.Honeyborne attended Ampleforth College and studied biology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
  
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• Time Warp
• Paranormal
• Close Encounters

Awards

Supernatural won two awards at the Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...

 Programme Awards in 1999, for innovation and graphic design.

Merchandise

A Region 2

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DVD (BBCDVD1990) featuring all six 30-minute episodes was released on 21 August 2006.