Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers is a popular thirteen part British television series looking at strange worlds of the paranormal. It was produced by Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 for the ITV

ITV

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 network and first broadcast in 1985. It was the sequel to the 1980 series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World

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....

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The series is introduced by acclaimed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

 in short sequences filmed at his home in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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. Individual episodes are narrated by Anna Ford

Anna Ford

Anna Ford is a retired English journalist and television presenter, best known as a newsreader....

. The series was produced by John Fairley and directed by Peter Jones

Peter Jones (actor)

Peter Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.-Early life and career:Jones was born in Wem, Shropshire and he was educated at the Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College. He made his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory...

, Michael Weigall and Charles Flynn

Charles Flynn

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It was followed by Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe was a popular eighteen part television series looking at unexplained phenomena across the universe. It was first broadcast in 1994 in the UK by independent television network ITV. It was the sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World and Arthur C...

, broadcast in 1994.

Episodes

1. Warnings from the Future - 3 April 1985
2. Things That Go Bump in the Night - 10 April 1985
3. From Mind to Mind - 17 April 1985
4. Stigmata: The Wounds of Christ - 24 April 1985
5. Ghosts, Apparitions and Haunted Houses - 1 May 1985
6. Have We Lived Before? - 15 May 1985
7. Fairies, Phantoms and Fantastic Photographs - 22 May 1985
8. An Element of the Divine - 5 June 1985
9. Walking on Fire - 12 June 1985
10. Message from the Dead - 19 June 1985
11. The Roots of Evil - 26 June 1985
12. Metal Bending, Magic and Mind Over Matter - 3 July 1985
13. Strange Powers: The Verdict - 10 July 1985