The program is divided into three segments; one for each period of the band's history under a particular 'leadership':

1. At the Gates of Dawn (1965-1968) - Despite the cringeably awful prologue '1965: And the Story So Far', this segment is a real gem. Great comments from the Floyds - as mentioned before, their musings on Syd are the most insightful I've seen apart from the 2001 Barrett Omnibus. I especially liked hearing from Andrew King and Joe Boyd, whose comments put the Floyd's early history in a much wider perspective than the band alone could have done.

The most tantilizing bit is a 1967 'Tomorrow's World' clip on Mike Leonard's light experiments. We're treated to an eyeful of theirs truly draped across some comfy chairs, playing a loose free-form jazz number with all the enthusiasm of a young band doing their laundry. The picture/sound quality is so clear it's breathtaking...but the bad news is, it's edited. The Omnibus producers apparently decided this rare footage (only the single existing whole-cloth Syd-era performance, apart from 'Look of the Week') was less interesting to Floyd fans than a bunch of lighting machines. O the rapture.

2. Wish You Were Here (1968-1985) - This is the longest segment, and rightfully so, since Waters held the longest tenure as 'frontman'. Rather unfortunate, then, that he's not around to narrate his own reign of terror, because the producers filled the gap with a bunch of people I'd never heard of babbling about how cool Pink Floyd are. I mean, come on. If I wanted to hear other people talk about the Floyd I'd hang around newsgroups or something.

Biggest complaint: the early Waters-era stuff gets very short shrift, when it's not ignored altogether...we rush from 'Meddle' to 'Dark Side' in a record thirty seconds. No new stories for the later albums, either: it's the escaping pig story for Animals; Wright's firing for The Wall, etc etc. Nice for the newbies, but for the rest of us these old chestnuts are staler than last week's meatloaf.

3. Heart of the Sun (1985 - ????) - By far the shortest segment, at just under a minute in length. The ending narration belies any modesty its brevity might imply, however - to paraphrase: "'Momentary' Lapse rawked. 'Division Bell' rOOlz. Rick's rehired; Syd's still crazy; Roger's a big fat failure and we still play his songs on our tour of the known universe. Ha ha, neener neener.'"