Rob Morrison and Deane Hutton were selected as presenters and the segments were introduced as Humphrey B Bear's Curiosity Show.
[4][5] From 1972 to 1980 the format was a 60-minute show presented by Morrison, Hutton, Ian Fairweather, Alister Smart, Belinda Davey, Gabrielle Kelly, Dr Mark Dwyer and Lynn Weston.
The Curiosity Show won many national and international awards, including the coveted Prix Jeunesse in 1984, voted by peers from around the world as the best factual program for children.
The use of household materials was deliberate, in order to demystify science and ensure that children, wherever they lived, could make what they needed rather than rely on buying it, and this proved popular with the young audience who could easily replicate the demonstrations at home.
Both Morrison and Hutton always told viewers to get their parents' permission before building things or conducting experiments, especially if it involved the use of sharp objects such as knives or scissors or the use of flames or hot or dangerous liquids.
Morrison published more than 40 additional books, which included material from The Curiosity Show, including Nature in the Making, A Field Guide to the Tracks and Traces of Australian Animals (the first such field guide in Australia and still the only one to deal with all taxa), Clever and Quirky Creatures, It's Raining Frogs and Fishes, and many more for the school reading programs of various publishers.
Morrison's Field Guide to Tracks and Traces—and a segment he had prepared for The Curiosity Show on dingos at Uluru—led to his involvement in the Morling Royal Commission inquiry into the Chamberlain convictions.
On 12 July 2013, in conjunction with producer Enabled Solutions, they launched a YouTube channel, CuriosityShow, to make the episodes and segments available for a new generation of viewers.
The episode followed the original format of the program, supported by extra internet resources, with Hutton and Morrison performing experiments related to cereal, including making homemade cornflakes and cornflour-based non-Newtonian fluid.