Season 1 (1971)
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Episodes 17
The Stalls of Barchester
An ambitious cleric murders an aged Archdeacon at Barchester Cathedral. However, he is soon being stalked by a sinister black cat and by a hooded figure both of whom seem to be embodiments of carvings on the cathedral's choir stalls.
Read MoreA Warning to the Curious
An amateur archaeologist travels to a remote seaside town in Norfolk to search for the lost crown of Anglia, but after unearthing it is haunted by a mysterious black figure.
Read MoreLost Hearts
An orphan moves into the house of his uncle, but is disturbed by visions of a pair of ghostly children. Is their message a warning to be fearful of his uncle's obsession with immortality?
Read MoreTreasure of Abbot Thomas
A respected theologian and his protégé unearth clues to find the hidden treasure of a disgraced monk in an abbey library. Should he have heeded his own advice not to go treasure hunting?
Read MoreThe Ash-tree
An aristocrat inherits his family estate and is haunted by visions of his ancestor's role in a witchcraft trial.
Read MoreThe Signalman
A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is being troubled by a ghostly spectre that seems to predict calamity.
Read MoreThe Ice House
The story concerns a health spa visited by Paul (John Stride) , strange incidents occur with members of staff whom Paul notices are all icy cold to the touch. The Brother and sister owners seem otherworldly , as do the residents, and they have a strange relationship with two vines.......
Read MoreA View From a Hill
A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.
Read MoreWhistle and I'll Come to You
Leaving his ill and ageing wife in a care home, a retired astronomer revisits one of their old coastal haunts, but after discovering a ring on the beach is soon haunted himself.
Read MoreThe Tractate Middoth
A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
Read MoreThe Dead Room
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.
Read MoreMartin's Close
Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.
Read MoreThe Mezzotint
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
Read MoreCount Magnus
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
Read MoreLot No. 249
An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.
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