Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers
1985 British television series
- Peter Jones
- Michael Weigall
- Charles Flynn
10 July 1985 (1985-07-10)
Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers is a thirteen-part British television series looking at strange worlds of the paranormal. It was produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network and first broadcast in 1985. It was the sequel to the 1980 series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.
The series is introduced by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in short sequences filmed at his home in Sri Lanka. Individual episodes are narrated by Anna Ford. The series was produced by John Fairley and directed by Peter Jones, Michael Weigall and Charles Flynn.
In 1984, G.P. Putnam's Sons published a hardcover book with the same name, authored by Simon Welfare and John Fairley, 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 Mysterious Universe, broadcast in 1994.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Warnings from the Future?" | 3 April 1985 (1985-04-03) |
| 2 | "Things That Go Bump in the Night" | 10 April 1985 (1985-04-10) |
| 3 | ""From Mind to Mind"" | 17 April 1985 (1985-04-17) |
| 4 | "Stigmata – The Wounds of Christ?" | 24 April 1985 (1985-04-24) |
| 5 | "Ghosts, Apparitions and Haunted Houses" | 1 May 1985 (1985-05-01) |
| 6 | ""Have We Lived Before?"" | 15 May 1985 (1985-05-15) |
| 7 | "Fairies, Phantoms and Fantastic Photographs" | 22 May 1985 (1985-05-22) |
| 8 | "An Element of the Divine" | 5 June 1985 (1985-06-05) |
| 9 | "Walking on Fire" | 12 June 1985 (1985-06-12) |
| 10 | "Message from the Dead?" | 19 June 1985 (1985-06-19) |
| 11 | "'The Roots of Evil'" | 26 June 1985 (1985-06-26) |
| 12 | "Metal-Bending, Magic and Mind Over Matter" | 3 July 1985 (1985-07-03) |
| 13 | "Strange Powers The Verdict" | 10 July 1985 (1985-07-10) |
Home release
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.[2]
External links
- Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers at IMDb
References
- ^ "Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers". TheTVDB.com. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ Lambert, David (21 August 2013). "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe – Individual Releases for 3 Shows from VEI's 'Clarke Collection'". TV Shows on DVD. TV Guide Online. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
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Arthur C. Clarke
- Prelude to Space
- The Sands of Mars
- Islands in the Sky
- Against the Fall of Night
- Childhood's End
- Earthlight
- The City and the Stars
- The Deep Range
- A Fall of Moondust
- Dolphin Island
- Glide Path
- Imperial Earth
- The Fountains of Paradise
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- Cradle (with Gentry Lee)
- The Ghost from the Grand Banks
- The Hammer of God
- Richter 10 (with Mike McQuay)
- The Trigger (with Michael Kube-McDowell)
- The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
- The Last Theorem (with Frederik Pohl)
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| Rama series |
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| A Time Odyssey |
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collections
- Expedition to Earth
- Reach for Tomorrow
- Tales from the White Hart
- The Other Side of the Sky
- Tales of Ten Worlds
- The Nine Billion Names of God
- Of Time and Stars
- The Wind from the Sun
- The Best of Arthur C. Clarke
- The Sentinel
- Tales from Planet Earth
- More Than One Universe
- The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
- Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
- The Lost Worlds of 2001
- The View from Serendip
- The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010
- How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (comics)
- 2010: The Year We Make Contact (film)
- The Nine Billion Names of God (short film)
- Rendezvous with Rama (video game)
- "The Star" (TV episode)
- The Songs of Distant Earth (album)
- Rama (video game)
- Childhood's End (TV miniseries)
- Arthur C. Clarke in media
- Sir Arthur Clarke Award
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Geostationary orbit
- Clarke's three laws
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
- Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe
- Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
- God, the Universe and Everything Else
- Great Basses wreck
- 4923 Clarke
- Serendipaceratops
- GRB 080319B
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