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A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1

December. 24,1971
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A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and later revived in 2005 on BBC Four. 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 Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 17 - Lot No. 249
First Aired: December. 24,2023

An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.

Episode 16 - Count Magnus
First Aired: December. 24,2022

The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

Episode 15 - The Mezzotint
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 14 - Martin's Close
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 13 - The Dead Room
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 12 - The Tractate Middoth
First Aired: December. 25,2013

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

Episode 11 - Whistle and I'll Come to You
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 10 - Number 13
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 9 - A View From a Hill
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 8 - The Ice House
First Aired: December. 25,1978

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.......

Episode 7 - Stigma
First Aired: December. 28,1977

Whilst clearing the ground for a new lawn, a family 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.

Episode 6 - The Signalman
First Aired: December. 22,1976

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

Episode 5 - The Ash-tree
First Aired: December. 23,1975

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

Episode 4 - Treasure of Abbot Thomas
First Aired: December. 23,1974

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?

Episode 3 - Lost Hearts
First Aired: December. 25,1973

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?

Episode 2 - A Warning to the Curious
First Aired: December. 24,1972

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.

Episode 1 - The Stalls of Barchester
First Aired: December. 24,1971

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.

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