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A Ghost Story for Christmas
“Classic adaptations from the BBC”
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.
1971 7.4/10 community score 3 seasons · 30 episodes Returning Series
- Drama
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- First aired
- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes
- 30
- Status
- Returning Series
Latest aired episode
S1 E19
The Room in the Tower
Aired 30 min
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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Most recent seasons first
Season 3
8 episodes
First episode aired
Season 2
3 episodes
First episode aired
Season 1
19 episodes
First episode aired
Specials
5 episodes
First episode aired
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