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 (Susan George) 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
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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
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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 that 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
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It’s Too Late Now
Inside a beautiful, isolated English country house, downtrodden Sarah (Rachel Kempson) turns a key, locking her writer husband (Kenneth Keeling) in his windowless cell-like study after years of suffering neglect and 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?
The husband is seen only from behind at the beginning, and subsequently heard only as an offscreen voice.
Written by novelist Andrea Newman.
Sarah
Rachel Kempson Husband
Kenneth Keeling
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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
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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
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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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