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 are trapped for the night on a deserted office floor by a disgruntled employee who has hacked the elevator system.
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
