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- Follows the adventures of a Swiss family shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island in 1801. It is loosely based on the classic novel by Johann Wyss.
- "Mysterious World" was a 1980 series of investigation of unexplained phenomena and mysteries around the world.
- Luke Firbeck is determined that his settlement in the outback is going to be his kingdom. He is ruthless. He has a deep attraction for his sister, Jassy.
- A musical adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel about a British concert party.
- The premise of the show was all about fitting in, featuring a polite little elephant who was colored blue after an accident with his mother's fountain pen in the bath. Little Blue went to the local school with human children.
- A popular member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why, so a police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard, and discovers they may be more to the victim than met anyone's eye.
- Dominic Bulman, a 16-year-old cadet in 19th century England tries to discover the secret of his parents' murder.
- Hedda Gabler (Dame Diana Rigg) is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman (Denis Lill). Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg (Philip Bond), turns up on the scene with tragic results.
- Mr Humphreys, a modest clerk, unexpected inherits a country mansion from an obscure uncle. In its grounds lies a maze and when he explores it, the new owner disturbs something frightening at its center.
- Gideon is a duckling laughed at because of his unusually long neck, but finds that his intelligence earns the respect of the other animals. "If you're clever, people soon find they need you."
- When Count Raoul De Vriac (Richard Johnson) and Duke Esteban (James Villiers), having been close friends since their youth, want their respective children to marry each other, the young couple concerned, Adrienne (Mary Chilton) and Miguel (Daniel Chatto), are not happy with this arrangement, for, although fond of each other, they both love someone else. Just when all seems lost, the beautiful and vivacious Marquise Eloise (Dame Diana Rigg), who had been a close friend of both noblemen, arrives unexpectedly at the Count's home and takes charge of the affair - to the complete satisfaction of all.
- For Hadleigh, time has run out and there's nobody left who can help. He is on his own - win or lose.
- When Hadleigh receives an extraordinary offer for Melford from an extraordinary man, he's certain that Stella Clisby is involved. Is she for or against him?
- Hadleigh tries to get away from it all in Cornwall, only to discover that attractive women - like trouble - can crop up anywhere, anytime!
- Inept handyman Dennis is selling his wife Vera's car, and Neil comes to buy it, except it's for his wife Pam. However, Pam would rather buy it with money of her own, which she doesn't have, because she gave up her promising career to bring up their son. Dennis, who's still in the clutches of his mother who lives with them, is driving his wife up the wall with his irritating jollity. Neil becomes friends with Dennis, giving him doubtful advice, and Vera seems close to the end of her tether, and always.... always there seems to be someone's birthday.
- 198025mTV-G7.7 (23)TV EpisodeArthur C. Clarke explores and explains mysteries of the first, second, and third kinds. Eclipses, ball lightning, the Lock Ness monster, giant stone balls of Costa Rica, ancient Baghdad batteries, the rude man of Cerne, and frogs and fish raining from the sky, are the stories that begin this thirteen part series.
- 198025mTV-G8.3 (26)TV EpisodeArthur C. Clarke dives into the mysteries of the deepest and darkest realms of earth. Encounters with the great sea serpent, the giant squid, the giant octopus and the megamouth shark are explored. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G8.1 (22)TV EpisodeTales of gigantic monsters lurking in more than 70 lakes around the world, such as: Nessie in the Loch Ness, Scotland, and Ogopogo in the Okanagan Lake, Canada. After considering the accounts and evidence, the question of believability concerning Loch Ness as well as the entire collection - he weighs the possibilities: Fact or hoax or merely mistaken identity. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- This episode explores extraordinary technologies from ancient civilizations that were either ahead of their times or forgotten in the ruins of history. This includes the Baghdad Battery, the Antikythera Mechanism, and Stone Balls of Costa Rica and the "Skull of Doom," which appears in the opening credits for the series. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G7.6 (17)TV EpisodeA collection of mysteries in this season finale includes the moving stones of California's Death Valley, entombed toads and ball lightning. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G7.7 (20)TV EpisodeSightings and excavations of the giant anaconda, the woolly mammoth and the tale of the De Loys' ape, an unknown primate named after the Swiss geologist who photographed it in 1920. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G7.3 (18)TV EpisodeMystifying geoglyphs, giant pictures covering large areas on the ground, appear across the globe, many created by ancient peoples. They only become recognizable at great distances or are situated away from the common sight of man. Some remind us that many civilizations held beliefs that dealt with ideas well beyond everyday life, while others concern rituals and legends. Many, because of scale, were obviously not meant for mere humans of Earth to see. Large scale geometric lines and animals are drawn in the sands of the Peruvian Desert. The name of the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, England, is revealed by Clarke. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- Clarke devotes this episode to a story old as man: something falling to Earth from the sky. The cases vary and so do the possible solutions as to how and why strange or unlikely objects fall out of it. Some answers seem fairly simple while others defy easy analysis. Nevertheless the famed author displays a variety of cases and offers possible scenarios to explain the phenomena. The bizarre occurrences include incidents of fish, frogs, massive blocks of ice and hazelnuts falling from out of the clear blue sky. Clarke investigates an incident of fish raining down in his own back yard in Sri Lanka. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- Investigations into mysteries of celestial bodies such as an unknown civilization on Mars, the lost planet Vulcan and the identity of the Star of Bethlehem. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G7.9 (20)TV EpisodeWe explore the largest naturally occurring explosion, which sent shock waves around the world and is known as the Tunguska event of 1908 in Siberia. Still to this day there is uncertainty as to the true nature of the incident and its possible implications concerning the expectations should such an event again take place. Our investigation suggests one explanation that the explosion was caused by the impact of a comet fragment or other ice-rich body that exploded about the ground, in as much as there was no crater nor impact material left behind on the ground. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G7.8 (20)TV EpisodeThis episode looks at evidence for both Bigfoot in North America and the Yeti, or abominable snowman, in the Himalayas. There are several interviewees and also consideration is given to the famous film of Bigfoot. Arthur C. Clarke offers his take on the evidence, recognizing that alternate explanations are possible. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- 198026mTV-G7.6 (18)TV EpisodeArthur C. Clarke examines theories behind the pre-historic mysteries of stone circles and standing stones in Britain. These ancient stones are shrouded in a secret of time. Their purpose, their builders and the very source of the stones themselves are still subject to debate. Clarke invites us to hear the legends and theory concerning the famous site sites as Newgrange, Stonehenge and Avebury. Originally broadcast in September 1980, Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World brought an innovative approach to exploring natural and supernatural phenomenon. After 13 episodes, the series sadly came to a close. Our team at Gaia diligently pursued the acquisition of Mysterious World in order to save it from obscurity. Gaia is proud to re-present this groundbreaking series and restore the sense of wonder and intrigue that it once brought to our mysterious world.
- It's 1829, Jason Firbeck, a retired naval Leiutenant, recently widowed arrives with his family - Samuel, his elder son, Luke, his second son and Jassy his daughter - in NSW, where land granted by influential friends, supposedly awaits him.
- Jason Firbeck, shocked to discover land assigned to him is occupied by another, tries to sort out the legal aspects of ownership.
- Luke has taken control of the family and has occupied land in the wilderness. The family have thus become 'squatters'.
- The Firbecks have been squatters for two years. The building of a timber homestead is finished and an area of land cleared. The arrival of an uninvited guest causes complications for Luke because of an association he builds up with Jassy.
- In squatters territory it is law of the strong that prevails and Cormac Doyle, an English-hating Irishman, sets his sights on occupying Luke's kingdom.
- In New South Wales in the 1830s convicts were granted "Tickets to Leave" to find employment on their own account. However one mistake, the slightest misdemeanor, and the ticket could be withdrawn.
- The Governor has set up a committee to inquire into squatting and the possible granting of Tenancy Rights to the squatters.
- For Jassy, life as a housekeeper to her squatting family has become unbearable. Jason watches anxiously as with each day she grows more tired, more depressed, and more listless.
- It has not rained for four months. Sheep and cattle are dying and settlers are facing ruin. Luke, taking advantage of the dry state of the river bed, is struggling to build an immense dam. However his ambitious plan is plagued by tragedy.
- In common with all squatters, Luke is finding the aboriginals troublesome. His sheep are being speared and anger against the aboriginals is growing.
- Luke's brooding restlessness is apparent to all who know him with, perhaps the exception of his family who are accustomed to ignoring his many moods.
- Luke has shot a bushranger, leaving his pregnant lover swearing vengeance upon him.
- In Lieutenant Elliot's command is a veteran corporal about to retire from the army.