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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 4 Mins Read

    Dead of Night

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    This BBC2 anthology series presenting seven chilling stories of the supernatural debuted on Saturday 4 November 1972 with ‘The Exorcism’ and thereafter screened on Sunday nights.

    Only three episodes – ‘The Exorcism’, ‘Return Flight’ and ‘A Woman Sobbing’ – survive. All other episodes were wiped due to the BBC’s lack of an archiving policy at the time.

    The Exorcism

    Four nouveau-riche middle-class friends – Edmund (Edward Petherbridge), Dan (Clive Swift), Rachel (Anna Cropper) and Margaret (Sylvia Kay) – gather for an enormous Christmas dinner at an isolated cottage.

    Suddenly, there’s a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes them violently ill.

    Then things really get strange as the ghost of a poor woman who starved to death with her children in the cottage in the 17th Century, seeks retribution.

    Edmund
    Edward Petherbridge
    Dan
    Clive Swift
    Rachel
    Anna Cropper
    Margaret
    Sylvia Kay


    Return Flight

    Whilst coming into land after a routine charter flight from Hamburg to Luton, recently-widowed pilot Captain Hamish Rolph (Peter Barkworth) suddenly takes evasive action to avoid a WWII Lancaster bomber. But neither his co-pilot nor air traffic control saw such a plane.

    It seems to be a straightforward case of hallucination and early retirement for Rolph, but he is determined to prove otherwise and clear his reputation.

    Written by Robert Holmes.

    Captain Hamish Rolph
    Peter Barkworth


    Bedtime

    Newly married couple Lorna (Sarah Badel) and Geoffrey Hamilton (Neil Stacy) find a deal that is too good to pass up on an antique Victorian brass bedstead. They soon find, however, that it is exerting a strange influence over their lives.

    Lorna begins suffering from a bad case of the optical shakes and bursts of electronic muzak – which is a sure sign of either incipient schizophrenia or the Unknown™.

    Written by Hugh Whitemore.

    Lorna Hamilton
    Sarah Badel
    Geoffrey Hamilton
    Neil Stacy


    Death Cancels All Debts

    World-famous writer Powys Jubb (Sebastian Shaw) finds himself waking up at 4:20 every morning when his clock stops ticking. He soon becomes convinced that someday he will die at 4:20 AM.

    Written by Peter Draper.

    Powys Jubb
    Sebastian Shaw
    Mariella Jubb
    Nora Swinburne


    Smith

    When Michael (John Castle), a journalist, decides to do a story on a serial killer named George Joseph Smith – whose crimes as the ‘Brides in the Bath’ murderer horrified and appalled the England of his time – he discovers that the past is living on in the present.

    Written by Dorothy Alison.

    Anne
    Stacey Tendeter
    Michael
    John Castle
    Tessa
    Gwen Taylor
    Voices
    Gerald Cross
    Denis McCarthy
    Mrs Hunter
    Ruby Head


    Two in the Morning

    Wisbech (Peter Jeffrey) is an underwriter in an insurance office who finds himself pursued by his double (quite literally in the case of a protracted pursuit down motorways)

    Supporting roles came from Frederick Hall as the Manager, Donald Douglas as Hazelhurst and Marianne Stone as Mrs Frith – an apparently sympathetic lady who gave the impression of being less a sounding board than an extremely sinister listening post.

    Written by Leo Lehman.

    Wisbech
    Peter Jeffrey
    Hazelhurst
    Donald Douglas
    Mrs Frith
    Marianne Stone
    Manager
    Frederick Hall
    Grandman
    John Nettleton
    Dr Fortescue
    Ralph Nossek
    Partner
    John Gregg


    A Woman Sobbing

    Shortly after Jane Pullar (Anna Massey) moves her family to a country house in Sussex so she and her advertising executive husband (Ronald Hines) can raise their two young children away from London, she begins hearing the sound of a sobbing woman coming from the attic at night which no one else can hear.

    Is it a symptom of her depression or is her home haunted? In her attempts to discover the truth she becomes increasingly paranoid

    Written by John Bowen.

    Jane Pullar
    Anna Massey
    Frank Pullar
    Ronald Hines
    Inge
    Yokki Rhodes
    Gas Fitter
    Tommy Boyle

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