YMMV / Eyewitness

• Awesome Music:
  • The theme song, an energetic, bouncy beat that perfectly encapsulates the fantastical wonders of the Eyewitness Museum.
  • The episodes' own leitmotifs are no slouches themselves, perfectly suiting each subject.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • At the end of Dog, the dog hero finds his owner, and the two play together while walking in the museum hallway.
  • In Bird, the duckling hatching and learning to walk. So cute.
  • Similarly, the Maiasaura babies hatching in Dinosaur.
• Special Effects Failure: You can ocassionally see the blue screen in the corner of the museum's walls that have stock footage on them as the camera moves to or from them, especially in the first season.
• Unintentional Period Piece: To be expected from a show from The '90s.
  • Some episodes make reference to Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • A shot of Manhattan's skyline shows the Twin Towers front and center.
  • The Mountain episode alludes to the Lima–Huancayo in Peru railway as the largest railway in the world. However nearly a decade after the episode aired, in 2006 the Qinghai–Tibet railway opened in China taking its place as the highest in the world with its elevation at 5,068 m (16,627 ft)
  • The Islands episode states that Ascension Island's populations of nesting seabirds have been decimated by feral cats. These have now been completely eradicated and birds are returning to the island.
  • The Natural Disasters episode makes reference to Hurricane Andrew, which struck in 1992, as one of the costliest hurricanes to ever strike the US. Since the series ended in 1997, several more hurricanes have caused far more damage to the US, beginning with Hurricane Katrina in 2004 (125 billion USD in damages versus Andrew's 27.3 billion).
  • The Dinosaur episode confidently states that we know dinosaurs are covered in scales. The episode aired in 1994, only just before the first fossils of unambiguous feathered dinosaurs were uncovered in 1996.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: It may seem primitive now, but the Eyewitness Museum has quite the Eye Candy for a show made in the mid 90's.