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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 3 Mins Read

    Tales of Unease

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    1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 1 (UK)
    7 x 30 minute episodes

    This seven-part Friday night anthology series from LWT was based on black humour, savage irony and matter-of-fact menace. These weren’t horror stories per se but were certainly intended to leave the viewer feeling uneasy.

    Ride Ride

    A young art student takes a beautiful girl home after a dance but discovers that she is no longer on the pillion of his motorcycle.

    Derek
    Anthony Jackson
    Susan 
    Janet Lees Price
    Gerald
    James Hazeldine
    Arth
    Myles Reithermann
    Sarah
    Susan George
    Girl
    Fiona Gaunt
    Mr Stone
    James Ottaway


    Calculated Nightmare

    Two business executives – Harker (John Stratton) and Johnson (Michael Culver) – are trapped for the night on a deserted office floor by a disgruntled employee who has hacked the building management system. With no phones, no elevator and the air conditioning drying out their mouths and dampening their spirits, it’s a beautiful exercise in blackmail.

    Harker
    John Stratton
    Johnson
    Michael Culver
    Moira
    Ursula Mohan
    Dave
    Larry Dann
    Flint
    Peter Madden


    The Black Goddess

    Working in a coal mine, Iestyn Morgan (David Lloyd Meredith) suspects that his fellow miner, Bill Rees (Ronald Lewis) is losing his mind as he often rambles about seeing ‘The Black Goddess’ – an evil spirit which haunts the workings demanding a human sacrifice. Bill’s talk becomes terrifyingly real when the two men are trapped in a pitfall.

    Bill Rees
    Ronald Lewis
    Iestyn Morgan
    David Lloyd Meredith
    John Daniels
    David Davies
    Tommy
    Brian Griffiths


    It’s Too Late Now

    Inside a beautiful, isolated English country house, Sarah (Rachel Kempson) turns a key, locking her writer husband (Kenneth Keeling) in his windowless cell-like study after years of suffering dejection.

    Frightened, yet amused by her first positive action in 20 years of marriage, she wonders what she will do when he realises his predicament. She will let him out, of course – or will she?

    Sarah
    Rachel Kempson
    Husband
    Kenneth Keeling


    Superstitious Ignorance

    Penny (Tessa Wyatt) and Edward (Jeremy Clyde) are eager to purchase their dream house. However, the landlady (Eve Pearce) warns them about weird occurrences in one of the upstairs rooms.

    Edward
    Jeremy Clyde
    Penny
    Tessa Wyatt
    Mrs Laristo
    Eve Pearce
    Faithwell
    Leonard Trolley
    Child
    Richard Caruana


    Bad Bad Jo Jo

    Louche and cynical, Kayo Hathaway (Roy Dotrice) has created a wildly successful comic strip featuring “Bad Bad Jo Jo”, a murderous hulking white racist, and his cackling mother.

    Hathaway is about to go into tax exile but decides to entertain a couple of fans. The two fans like to dress up as the characters and act out their fantasies. Hathaway is their next victim.

    Kayo Hathaway
    Roy Dotrice
    Frank Jones
    Richard Pendrey
    Dennis
    Ian Trigger


    The Old Banger

    John (Terence Rigby) and Susan (Pinkie Johnstone) Partridge take their old car to a scrap yard, only to keep seeing it again in the streets they are using.

    John Partridge
    Terence Rigby
    Susan Partridge
    Pinkie Johnstone
    Eric
    Neil McCarthy
    Mechanic
    Richardson Morgan
    Scrap dealer
    Denis Cleary

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