A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

17 episodes
Horror

A strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and later revived... More

A strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and later revived in 2005. With one exception, the original instalments are directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and the films are all shot on 16 mm colour film. The remit behind the series was to provide a television adaptation of a classic ghost story referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas.

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A Ghost Story for Christmas episodes

The Stalls of Barchester

An ambitious cleric murders an aged Archdeacon at Barchester Cathedral.... More 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.

A Warning to the Curious

An amateur archaeologist travels to a remote seaside town in... More Norfolk to search for the lost crown of Anglia, but after unearthing it is haunted by a mysterious black figure.

Lost Hearts

An orphan moves into the house of his uncle, but... More 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?

Treasure of Abbot Thomas

A respected theologian and his protégé unearth clues to find... More the hidden treasure of a disgraced monk in an abbey library. Should he have heeded his own advice not to go treasure hunting?

The Ash-tree

An aristocrat inherits his family estate and is haunted by... More visions of his ancestor's role in a witchcraft trial.

The Signalman

A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is... More being troubled by a ghostly spectre that seems to predict calamity.

Stigma

Whilst clearing the ground for a new lawn, a family... More find a huge flat rock in their garden. It is so heavy it needs a crane to remove it. In doing so, they release a spirit which has terrible consequences for the family.

The Ice House

The story concerns a health spa visited by Paul (John... More 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.......

A View From a Hill

A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair... More of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.

Number 13

An academic researcher repudiates local superstitions surrounding a devilish house.... More However, repeated visions and noises during the night suggest he may be proved wrong.

Whistle and I'll Come to You

Leaving his ill and ageing wife in a care home,... More a retired astronomer revisits one of their old coastal haunts, but after discovering a ring on the beach is soon haunted himself.

The Tractate Middoth

A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew... More book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.

The Dead Room

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

Martin's Close

Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John... More 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.

The Mezzotint

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward... More Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.