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Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
1980 · TV series · documentary · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World is a thirteen part British television series looking at unexplained phenomena from around the world. It was produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and first broadcast in September 1980. 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. The series was produced by John Fanshawe, John Fairley and directed by Peter Jones, Michael Weigall and Charles Flynn. It also featured a unique soundtrack composed by British artist Alan Hawkshaw. In 1981, Book Club Associates published a hardcover book with the same name, authored by Fairley and Welfare, where the contents of the show were further explored. It featured an introduction written by Clarke as well as his remarks at the end of each chapter or topic. In 1985, a paperback of this book was released by HarperCollins Publishers. The series was followed by Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers in 1985 and Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe in 1994.
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Clarke made a TV series in the UK called "Arthur C. Clarkes Mysterious World". If you've never heard of it, I highly recommend you check it out!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke's_Mysterious_World
As a child I very much enjoyed watching Project Blue Book (called Project UFO in the US) [0]. As I remember the episodes, the investigators would often come up with a rational explanation for the events by the end of the episode, but then just before the credits the viewer would see some piece of evidence the investigators had missed which would throw into doubt the rational explanation, making you wonder if just maybe...
Also enjoyed Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_World