It was produced by the BBC, DK Vision (the video production arm of Dorling Kindersley)[1] and Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Dagul's scores for season 3 also incorporated stock music tracks and cues by Dick DeBenedictis.

The Hero is an animal, character, or object which drives the action of the episode and is continually referred back to throughout.

The UK narration was kept in the American releases of these interactive DVDs, which were distributed by the Library Video Company through its Schlessinger Media division.

There are also four Eyewitness Virtual Reality software titles based on the series: "Cat", "Bird", "Dinosaur Hunter", and "Earth Quest".

Eyewitness has also been dubbed into other languages for broadcast internationally, including Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Indonesian, and Finnish, among others.

The American version of this compilation (narrated by Martin Sheen) was not scheduled to air in the United States as of 1995,[4] but it was eventually released as a standalone Video CD.