Each program is introduced and book-ended by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in short sequences filmed in Sri Lanka. The bulk of the episodes are narrated by Gordon Honeycombe.
In January 2008 the original series was released on DVD in the UK by Network and Granada. It features all of the 13 original episodes unedited and remastered in Digital Quality.
Clarke’s Cabinet of Curiosities. A collection of unrelated subjects and a summing up – including the sailing stones of Death Valley, the alma, entombed toads, ball lightning in-which physicist James Tuck appears.