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Ghost Stories for Christmas: Season 1

Miniseries 1975 - 2023
TV-PG

  • 2000-12-23T23:15:00Z on BBC Two
  • 30m
  • 8h 30m (17 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama, Mystery
Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts and narrates a series of four half hour ghost stories all based on stories by M.R. James. 'The Stalls of Barchester', 'The Ash Tree', 'Number 13' and 'A Warning to the Curious' are the tales told.

17 episodes

Series Premiere

2000-12-23T23:15:00Z

1x01 The Stalls of Barchester

Series Premiere

1x01 The Stalls of Barchester

  • 2000-12-23T23:15:00Z30m

While cataloguing the collections of Barchester Cathedral library, Dr Black stumbles across an intriguing box of papers belonging to former Archdeacon Haynes. In it, he discovers a hidden history of blood guilt and macabre supernatural revenge.

2000-12-26T23:15:00Z

1x02 The Ash Tree

1x02 The Ash Tree

  • 2000-12-26T23:15:00Z30m

Enlightened eighteenth-century nobleman Sir Richard Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits more than he bargained for when he comes into possession of a stately home dominated by a sinister old ash tree.

2000-12-29T23:15:00Z

1x03 Number 13

1x03 Number 13

  • 2000-12-29T23:15:00Z30m

Dissatisfied with his hotel room, Professor Anderson demands to be moved to number 12 where he can work undisturbed. But, infuriated by the ghoulish noises made nightly by his neighbour, he is soon driven to investigate the diabolical secrets of the old hotel and its mysteriously vanishing room 13.

Season Finale

2000-12-31T23:15:00Z

1x04 A Warning to the Curious

Season Finale

1x04 A Warning to the Curious

  • 2000-12-31T23:15:00Z30m

Christopher Lee reads a chilling tale by Victorian writer MR James. A horrific account, based on a true story, of the discovery of the last of the legendary East Anglian Crowns.

1975-12-23T22:00:00Z

1x05 The Ash Tree

1x05 The Ash Tree

  • 1975-12-23T22:00:00Z30m

Enlightened eighteenth-century nobleman Sir Richard Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits more than he bargained for when he comes into possession of a stately home dominated by a sinister old ash tree.

1976-12-22T22:00:00Z

1x06 The Signalman

1x06 The Signalman

  • 1976-12-22T22:00:00Z30m

Adaptation of a short story by Charles Dickens. A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is being troubled by a spectre that seems to predict calamity.

1977-12-28T22:00:00Z

1x07 Stigma

1x07 Stigma

  • 1977-12-28T22:00:00Z30m

1978-12-25T22:00:00Z

1x08 The Ice House

1x08 The Ice House

  • 1978-12-25T22:00:00Z30m

2005-12-23T22:00:00Z

1x09 A View from a Hill

1x09 A View from a Hill

  • 2005-12-23T22:00:00Z30m

Adaptation of the classic ghost story by MR James in which a man visits his friend and has an unsettling experience after borrowing some binoculars and venturing up Gallows Hill.

2006-12-22T22:00:00Z

1x11 Number 13

1x11 Number 13

  • 2006-12-22T22:00:00Z30m

1x12 Whistle and I'll Come to You

  • 2010-12-24T22:00:00Z30m

James Parkin has just left his wife in the care of a nursing home. Pensive and emotional, he travels to their old favourite destination for rambling, an off-season British seaside town. There he encounters an apparition on a desolate beach, which begins to haunt him - with terrifying consequences.

2013-12-25T22:00:00Z

1x13 The Tractate Middoth

1x13 The Tractate Middoth

  • 2013-12-25T22:00:00Z30m

The chilling story of Dr Rant, whose wicked streak continues from beyond the grave. Based on the festive ghost story by MR James.

2018-12-24T22:00:00Z

1x14 The Dead Room

1x14 The Dead Room

  • 2018-12-24T22:00:00Z30m

Aubrey Judd, veteran radio presenter of The Dead Room, soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.

2019-12-24T22:00:00Z

1x15 Martin's Close

1x15 Martin's Close

  • 2019-12-24T22:00:00Z30m

2021-12-24T22:00:00Z

1x16 The Mezzotint

1x16 The Mezzotint

  • 2021-12-24T22:00:00Z30m

Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum, is offered a mezzotint on approval from an art dealer. The engraving shows an English manor house. Curious about the piece, he receives it and shows it to his colleagues. In turn, they each see a piece of fine art but with something grotesque in the subject matter. The mysterious mezzotint slowly reveals a disturbing story

2022-12-23T22:00:00Z

1x17 Count Magnus

1x17 Count Magnus

  • 2022-12-23T22:00:00Z30m

Sweden, 1863. A country not much visited by Englishmen. An exception is the inquisitive Mr. Wraxhall, whose innocent rummaging through the archives of the noble de la Gardie family takes a sinister turn.

2023-12-24T22:00:00Z

1x18 Lot No 249

1x18 Lot No 249

  • 2023-12-24T22:00:00Z30m

It's 1881, and Old College, Oxford plays host to three very different academics. But can Bellingham's experiments bring the breath of life to the horrifying bag of bones, Lot No 249?

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