Discovering Alabama

Discovering Alabama is a series on Alabama Public Television about Alabama's natural history.^[1] It is hosted by Doug Phillips, a naturalist-educator with the Alabama Museum of Natural History which produces the show. Broadcast since 1985, the show has won four Southeast Emmy Awards.^[2][3] It the longest running show on Alabama Public Television and one of the station's most popular.^[4][5]

The show has aired more than 100 episodes in its 40-year history.^[6] As of 2019, 76 episodes were digitized and posted online.^[7]

The show has a partnership with the Alabama Department of Education.^[8]

Phillips wrote the 2002 book Discovering Alabama Wetlands^[9][10] with photographs by Robert P. Falls and a foreword by Edward O. Wilson. In 2006 Phillips book Discovering Alabama Forests was published.^[6] He was inducted into the university of Alabama Hall of Fame in 2023 for his work on the show.^[5]

Selected episodes

• Alabama's state capitals (2023)
• Whooping cranes (2023)
• "Tuscaloosa" (2019), about the history of Tuscaloosa^[11][12]
• Flint River (2016)^[13]
• Alabama in Space (2010), regional Emmy Award winner 2010^[14]
• Wildlife history (2004)
• Long Leaf Ecosystem (1998)^[15]