The series consisted of 8 episodes each one hour long (when broadcast without advertisements):
- The mechanical paradise - The influence of technology on art from 1880 to 1918
- The powers that be - The relationship and conflicts between modern art and authority
- The landscape of pleasure - Artists' visions of paradise 1870s to 1950s
- Trouble in utopia - Modern architecture
- The threshold of liberty - Surrealism
- The view from the edge - Expressionism
- Culture as nature - Pop Art
- The future that was - The commercialisation of Modern Art.