Produced by Chris Le Grys and directed by Emma Bodger and Brian Farnham for BBC Children's, the series was created by Jim Eldridge, who wrote episodes alongside co-writers Stephen Hallett, Christopher Wicking, Carolyn Sally-Jones, and John Jackson.

The other members of the project are Mark Roberts (Adam Jessop) and Song-Li Harris (Amy Yamazaki), two teenagers with psychic abilities, and Dr Mary Holland (Mandana Jones), who used to have special powers in her own teen years but no longer does.

During this time it was reported that Disney were interested in a possible co-production deal, following the success of their previous award-winning collaboration with BBC Children's on Microsoap, but this was abandoned.

[2] The series was most frequently praised as a successor to The Tomorrow People, though some such as Action TV's Kieran Seymour perceived there to be considerable variation between episodes by different writers.

No official reason was ever given for Powers' non-renewal; this and the mirrored fate of similar ITV series Life Force was lamented by McGown in a retrospective on British children's fantasy and science fiction television for the Screenonline project, stating that the BBC had cancelled it after "one excellent run".