Ghost Stories for Christmas - Season 1

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.

8 Episodes

The Stalls of Barchester

Season 1 - Episode 1

While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Ar...

A Warning to the Curious

Season 1 - Episode 2

An archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain...

Lost Hearts

Season 1 - Episode 3

A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experie...

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

Season 1 - Episode 4

The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of Medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an Abbey library. Studying a ...

The Ash Tree

Season 1 - Episode 5

"The Ash Tree" tells the tale of when an aristocrat inherits his family haunted estate.

The Signalman

Season 1 - Episode 6

A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.

Stigma

Season 1 - Episode 7

"Stigma" tells the tale of when after a young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle workmen disturb an anc...

The Ice House

Season 1 - Episode 8

Paul, recently divorced, seeks sanctuary at a country retreat run by a sinister brother and sister.