A Ghost Story For Christmas

  • : 1971
  • : 19
  • : 2
  • BBC One
  • Drama Horror Thriller

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2x1
A View From a Hill
Episode overview
23, 2005
A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.
2x2
Number 13
Episode overview
22, 2006
An academic researcher repudiates local superstitions surrounding a devilish house. However, repeated visions and noises during the night suggest he may be proved wrong.
2x3
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Episode overview
24, 2010
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.
2x4
The Tractate Middoth
Episode overview
25, 2013
A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
2x5
The Dead Room
Episode overview
24, 2018
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.
2x6
Martin's Close
Episode overview
24, 2019
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.
2x7
The Mezzotint
Episode overview
24, 2021
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.
2x8
Count Magnus
Episode overview
23, 2022
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
2x9
Lot No 249
Episode overview
24, 2023
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?
2x10
Woman of Stone
Episode overview
24, 2024
Edith Nesbit recounts the chilling tale of newlywed Victorians Jack and Laura and the legend of two marble tomb effigies, who are said to rise each year and walk.

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