I love this series!
I can't believe there are no board posts on this show! "Mysterious World" ROCKS!
"Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?"
-Philip J. Fry from "Futurama"
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Yeah. This was an amazing series. The one before and not as much the later, Strange Universe. But all in all, mystery shows just aren't made of this caliber. I wish they had a complete listing of the shows and season like other shows like "In Search of" have.
I'm going to search for the DVD or VHS.
(My old username here was Rngrbabe35)
There are no DVDs of this to be found, but I found and bought all 6 volumes used (one at a time, over the course of several months last fall) on VHS at Amazon.com (through third-party sellers). They are:
Volume 1:
The Journey Begins (an introduction to the mysteries)
UFOs (UFO sightings, close encounters)
Strange Skies (canals of Mars, Planet Vulcan, Star of Bethleham)
Volume 2:
Monsters of the Deep (sea monsters)
Monsters of the Lakes (Loch Ness Monster, Ogopogo)
Volume 3:
The Missing Ape Man (Bigfoot, the Yeti)
Dragons, Dinosaurs, and Giant Snakes (other land monsters, such as Mokele-Mbembe and giant anacondas)
Volume 4:
The Great Siberian Explosion (Tunguska 1908)
Out of the Blue (fish, frogs, and the like falling from the sky)
Volume 5:
Ancient Wisdom (ancient Greek computer, Babylonian battery, Skull of Doom)
Giants for the Gods (Nazca Lines, huge desert drawings in Chile, the Cerna Abbas Giant)
Volume 6:
Riddle of the Stones (Stonehenge, Newgrange, other stone monoliths)
Cabinet of Curiosities (minor mysteries, like ball lightning, rocks moving by themselves in Death Valley, toads surviving imprisonment in stones)
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Years ago, I rented these and stuck them all on 1 VHS tape on SLP. Just ran across it the other day. Can't believe the tape still works :)
shareI'm trying to find a television adaptation I saw decades ago that apparently was based on Arthur C Clarke's "The Star", in which a team of astronauts land on a world whose inhabitants were wiped out by a super nova that was actually the Star of Bethlehem.
Is this related to Mysterious World at all? I saw it so long ago, I was thinking it was an episode of Amazing Stories, but I didnt see anything fitting it's description on AS's page.
Any help?
By now somebody must have informed you that the story was adapted (and emasculated in my opinion) for the '80s Twilight Zone. If not, let me be that person
It wasn't related to Mysterious World, but it could have been. The Star of Bethlehem is one of those things that pops up in conversations about UFOs.
Thanks, efrasnel, you are the first. (2 years later, I just happened to be checking my post history).
Yeah, I wasnt expecting and didnt remember the show I'd seen being spectacular (80s twilight zone after all) but the premise had intrigued me, and I couldnt remember what exactly I'd been watching. That's the kind of thing the 80s twilight zone is good for, I guess.
Thanks again.
Awesome show, I found a few episodes online here:
http://hollowvision.com/