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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Producer(s)
  
John Fairley

Original network
  
ITV

Network
  
ITV

Genre
  
Television documentary

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No. of episodes
  
26

Running time
  
25 minutes

First episode date
  
15 July 1995

Narrated by
  
Carol Vorderman

Language
  
English

Directed by
  
Peter Jones Michael Weigall Charles Flynn

Similar
  
Arthur C Clarke's World of, Childhood's End, In Search of

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was a popular 26-part television series looking at unexplained phenomena across the universe. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom by independent television network ITV. It premiered on July 15, 1995. It was the sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World and Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers.

Contents

The series is introduced by acclaimed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in short sequences filmed at his home in Sri Lanka, with individual episodes narrated by Carol Vorderman. The series was produced by John Fairley and directed by Peter Jones, Michael Weigall and Charles Flynn.

Episodes

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe consisted of 26 episodes.

  1. "Snake Charmers, Wolf Children and Holy Men"
  2. "On the Trail of the Big Cats"
  3. "Where Giants Walked"
  4. "Relics of the Saints"
  5. "Mysteries of the Sea"
  6. "Psychic Detectives"
  7. "Keys to the Past"
  8. "The Burning Question"
  9. "A Crop of Circles"
  10. "At Death's Door"
  11. "Callers from the Cosmos"
  12. "The Evil Eye"
  13. "Secrets of the Pyramids"
  14. "Mysteries of the Maya"
  15. "Squaring the Bermuda Triangle"
  16. "Doom of the Dinosaurs"
  17. "Cracking Codes: Writings, Runes and Other Riddles"
  18. "Zombies: The Living Dead"
  19. "Strange Powers of Animals"
  20. "Into Thin Air"
  21. "Baffling Bombardments"
  22. "Meeting Mary: Visions of the Virgin"
  23. "Secrets of Ancient Worlds"
  24. "Spirits of Place: Hauntings and Ghosts"
  25. "True or False: More Than Meets the Eye"
  26. "Mysteries of the North"

DVD release

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was released on DVD on March 11, 2003.

A collection DVD Box Set of all three Arthur C. Clarke documentary series, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers and Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was released in July 2013 by Visual Entertainment, which also re-released them separately in September 2013.

References

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe Wikipedia
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