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  • 1968-05-06T23:00:00Z on BBC
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s. For ten years viewers were chilled and terrified by atmospheric literary adaptations as well as sinister contemporary tales.

6 episodes

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a sceptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle. Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk horror.

1972-12-25T00:00:00Z

Special 2 The Stone Tape

Special 2 The Stone Tape

  • 1972-12-25T00:00:00Z30m

An electronics company looking for a new recording medium discover that ghosts in their research building could inspire the new format they were after.

1979-02-04T00:00:00Z

Special 3 Casting the Runes

Special 3 Casting the Runes

  • 1979-02-04T00:00:00Z30m

After a television series lampoons a famous demonologist, its producer and cast soon find themselves threatened by mysterious, malevolent forces

Special 4 Schalcken the Painter

  • 1979-12-23T00:00:00Z30m

Schalcken the painter sees his one true love, Rose, wedded by contract for a sum of money to a man who may or may not be a ghost. When she escapes and returns home, she is pursued by her ghostly lover

2007-12-15T00:00:00Z

Special 5 The Haunted Airman

Special 5 The Haunted Airman

  • 2007-12-15T00:00:00Z30m

An injured RAF Flight Lieutenant suffers from repeated horrific nightmares while recuperating at a remote mansion in Wales. However, he begins to suspect his psychiatrist or aunt may be responsible

Special 6 The Turn of the Screw

  • 2009-12-30T00:00:00Z30m

A governess, incarcerated in a mental asylum, tells a doctor of the possession of her two pupils by a former governess and her lover

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