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Masters of Inner Space

Television (Full Length) – 1992

They enter the fishes, eels as aliens dependent on bulky life support systems. Video equipment is a further encumbrance …
– From the narration, on the challenges of filming underwater
Nearly all share one basic design: each is a mobile set of jaws attached to a backbone and propelled by muscles and flexible fins. We humans are not designed for living underwater, even though we did evolve from the sea. Our diving gear brings us a little closer to being like a fish, but we still have a long way to go.
– Narrator Peter Hayden
Fishes use colour to attract, to camouflage and to warn.
– Narrator Peter Hayden
Sharp teeth — I hope they don't scratch the port!
– Wade Doak, on a female wrasse biting at her reflection in a camera lens