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- StarsDoug AlldridgeA whistle, when blown, conjures up...what, exactly? Nothing good.
- 1971–197845m6.7 (938)TV EpisodeDirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsRobert HardyClive SwiftThelma BarlowWhile cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.
- 1971–197850m7.2 (1.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsPeter VaughanClive SwiftJulian HeringtonAn archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsSimon Gipps-KentJoseph O'ConorJames MellorA young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams in which he sees a young girl and boy who are missing their hearts.
- 1971–197837m6.9 (735)TV EpisodeDirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsSheila DunnAnne BlakeFrank MillsThe Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of Medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an Abbey library. Studying a stained glass window they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced Abbot.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsEdward PetherbridgePreston LockwoodBarbara Ewing"The Ash Tree" tells the tale of when an aristocrat inherits his family haunted estate.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsDenholm ElliottBernard LloydReginald JessupA lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsKate BinchyPeter BowlesMaxine GordonA young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
- DirectorDerek ListerStarsJohn StrideElizabeth RomillyGeoffrey BurridgePaul, recently divorced, seeks sanctuary at a country retreat run by a sinister brother and sister.
- DirectorLuke WatsonStarsMark LetherenPip TorrensDavid BurkeIn fact Dr Fanshawe is not on holiday. As an archaeologist, he has been engaged by the squire to catalogue a private collection of local artefacts.
- DirectorPier WilkieStarsGreg WisePaul FreemanDavid BurkeIn order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregarding the lack of a number 13 as provincial superstition.
- DirectorJonathan MillerStarsMichael HordernAmbrose CoghillGeorge WoodbridgeClassic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical 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.
- DirectorMark GatissStarsLouise JamesonJohn CastleEleanor BronOn his deathbed vicar Rant makes a secret confession to his niece Mary Simpson. Some twenty years later young librarian William Garrett is asked by elderly John Eldred to locate a book called 'The Tractate Middoth' but a mysterious cloaked figure takes the book from the shelves and Eldred panics and leaves. On a second attempt to find the book Garrett is confronted by the mysterious borrower, a rotting ghost, the encounter causing him to faint. He goes to the seaside to recover and, by coincidence, stays with Mrs Simpson and her daughter. He learns that she is the cousin of Eldred, who cheated her out of an inheritance when Rant died though a will in her favour was actually made and hidden in the pages of the Tractate Middoth . Eldred finally obtains the book but Rant, witnessed by Garrett, exacts vengeance from beyond the grave.
- DirectorMark GatissStarsSimon CallowAnjli MohindraSusan PenhaligonLong-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter Aubrey Judd discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
- DirectorMark GatissStarsPeter CapaldiElliot LeveyWilf ScoldingJohn Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge', George Jeffreys. But this is not a cut-and-dried murder case, because the innocent young girl Martin is accused of killing has been seen after her death.
- DirectorMark GatissStarsRory KinnearRobert BathurstFrances BarberA museum curator receives a very disturbing engraving that changes each time he and his colleagues look at it.
- StarsLee InglebyMark GatissBeth GoddardA ghost story about a cursed house. The cursed house - Geap Manor - weaves together three ghost stories set during Georgian times, the 1920s and the present day.
- DirectorAndy De EmmonyStarsJohn HurtGemma JonesLesley SharpAfter finding an intriguing ring on a deserted beach, retired academic James Parkin soon becomes the victim of a supernatural revenge. But who is the avenger?