A Ghost Story for Christmas

Specials

1968 · 5 episodes · 3h 25m in all

Over the years, different releases of the stories on DVD have included standalone ghost stories broadcast in the UK.

Episodes

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   1. Whistle And I'll Come To You

   7 May 1968 · 42 min

   On a winter holiday in Norfolk, a solitary, eccentric professor finds a whistle carved from bone in a graveyard. Back in his hotel room, gloating over his find, he raises the whistle to his lips, heedless of the terror it may summon…

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   2. Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance

   21 Jun 1976 · 17 min

   Mr Humphreys, a modest clerk, unexpected inherits a country mansion from an obscure uncle. In its grounds lies a maze and when he explores it, the new owner disturbs something frightening at its centre.

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   3. A Child's Voice

   13 Oct 1978 · 29 min

   A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.

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   4. Casting the Runes

   24 Apr 1979 · 49 min

   The producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist finds out that he has a curse put on her.

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   5. Schalcken the Painter

   23 Dec 1979 · 68 min

   Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?