Category: British TV
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Ghostwatch was a British supernatural mockumentary first broadcast on BBC 1 on Halloween night of 1992. Presented as live – although actually part of the BBC’s Screen One anthology drama series – the show aimed to provide definitive proof of the paranormal. It was hosted by TV stalwart Michael Parkinson, a very familiar face to…
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Children of the Stones is a seven-part British children’s drama, first broadcast on ITV in 1977. It tells the story of scientist Adam Brake (a pre-Blakes 7 Gareth Thomas), and his son Matthew, who arrive in the sleepy village of Milbury which is surrounded by a mysterious neolithic stone circle. Very quickly, they find that…
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The Nightmare Man is a four-part sci-fi / horror TV series which was first broadcast on BBC1 in 1981. It was based on the novel, “Child of Vodyanoi” by David Wiltshire and adapted for TV by Dr. Who legend Robert Holmes. Set on a small Scottish island (but actually filmed in Cornwall), a series of…
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The Signalman is a short film which was first broadcast on the BBC in 1976, as part of the broadcaster’s ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ strand. It was based on “The Signal-Man” by Charles Dickens, adapted for TV by Andrew Davies and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The film introduces us to The Signalman, played…
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Doomwatch was a British sci-fi TV series which ran between 1970 and 1972. It was created by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler, who were both well known for their work on Dr. Who. 38 episodes were made over the course of three series, but only 24 survived, and one episode has never been broadcast. The…
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The Stone Tape is a 1972 British horror drama, written by Nigel Kneale and directed by Peter Sasdy. It was first broadcast on U.K. TV on Christmas Day of that year. A team of researchers for an electronics company move into an old Victorian mansion. Amongst the team is Jill, a sensitive computer programmer, and…
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Sapphire and Steel was a British supernatural / fantasy TV series which was broadcast on ITV between 1979 and 1982. There were 34 episodes in total, divided into six separate stories, or “Assignments”. The focus of the programme was on Sapphire (played by Joanna Lumley), and Steel (played by David McCallum), a pair of ‘operatives’…
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The Mad Death is a 1983 BBC drama, based on the novel of the same name, about the effects of a rabies outbreak in the U.K. Episode one sets the scene nicely, with a French woman successfully smuggling her cat into the U.K. Unbeknownst to her, her feline friend has already been infected with the…
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The Omega Factor is a short-lived BBC drama which first appeared in 1979. Tom Crane is an investigative journalist who appears to possess untapped psychic powers. Whilst investigating the death of his wife, who perished in a mysterious car accident, he unwittingly becomes involved with Department 7, a secret government agency (aren’t they all), who…
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