The Best Episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas
Every episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas!
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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "A Ghost Story for Christmas" is "Whistle And I'll Come To You", rated 7.2/10 from 1690 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Whistle And I'll Come To You" aired on 5/7/1968 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Stalls of Barchester".
7.2/10 1,690 votes#1 - Whistle And I'll Come To You
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 5/7/1968
On a winter holiday in Norfolk, a solitary, eccentric professor finds a whistle carved from bone in a graveyard. Back in his hotel room, gloating over his find, he raises the whistle to his lips, heedless of the terror it may summon…
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 938 votes#2 - The Stalls of Barchester
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/24/1971
An ambitious cleric murders an aged Archdeacon at Barchester Cathedral. However, he is soon being stalked by a sinister black cat and by a hooded figure both of whom seem to be embodiments of carvings on the cathedral's choir stalls.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#3 - A Warning to the Curious
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/24/1972
An amateur archaeologist travels to a remote seaside town in Norfolk to search for the lost crown of Anglia, but after unearthing it is haunted by a mysterious black figure.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#4 - Lost Hearts
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/25/1973
An orphan moves into the house of his uncle, but is disturbed by visions of a pair of ghostly children. Is their message a warning to be fearful of his uncle's obsession with immortality?
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#5 - Treasure of Abbot Thomas
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/1974
A respected theologian and his protégé unearth clues to find the hidden treasure of a disgraced monk in an abbey library. Should he have heeded his own advice not to go treasure hunting?
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#6 - The Ash-tree
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/23/1975
An aristocrat inherits his family estate and is haunted by visions of his ancestor's role in a witchcraft trial.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: David Rudkin
NaN/10 0 votes#7 - The Signalman
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/22/1976
A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is being troubled by a ghostly spectre that seems to predict calamity.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: Charles Dickens, Andrew Davies
NaN/10 0 votes#8 - Stigma
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/28/1977
Whilst clearing the ground for a new lawn, a family find a huge flat rock in their garden. It is so heavy it needs a crane to remove it. In doing so, they release a spirit which has terrible consequences for the family.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writer: Clive Exton
NaN/10 0 votes#9 - The Ice House
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/25/1978
The story concerns a health spa visited by Paul (John Stride) , strange incidents occur with members of staff whom Paul notices are all icy cold to the touch. The Brother and sister owners seem otherworldly , as do the residents, and they have a strange relationship with two vines.......
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#10 - A View From a Hill
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/23/2005
A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#11 - Number 13
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/22/2006
An academic researcher repudiates local superstitions surrounding a devilish house. However, repeated visions and noises during the night suggest he may be proved wrong.
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Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#12 - Whistle and I'll Come to You
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/2010
Leaving his ill and ageing wife in a care home, a retired astronomer revisits one of their old coastal haunts, but after discovering a ring on the beach is soon haunted himself.
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Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#13 - The Tractate Middoth
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/2013
A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
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Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#14 - The Dead Room
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/2018
Aubrey Judd, veteran radio presenter of The Dead Room, soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#15 - Martin's Close
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/2019
Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.
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Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#16 - The Mezzotint
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/2021
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#17 - Count Magnus
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/24/2022
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
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Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#18 - Lot No. 249
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/24/2023
An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Director: Mark Gatiss
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#19 - Schalcken the Painter
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/23/1979
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A