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A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971)

December. 24,1971

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

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A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

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Seasons 3 : 2013

8 Episode

Episode 1 - The Tractate Middoth

December. 25,2013

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

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Episode 2 - The Dead Room

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.

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Episode 3 - Martin's Close

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.

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Episode 4 - The Mezzotint

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.

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Episode 5 - Count Magnus

December. 24,2022

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

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Episode 6 - Lot No. 249

December. 24,2023

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

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Episode 7 - Woman of Stone

December. 24,2024

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.

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Episode 8 - The Room in the Tower

December. 24,2025

For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…

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Seasons 2 : 2005

3 Episode

Seasons 1 : 1971

19 Episode