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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...
Genre:Drama
Network:BBC One

Best Episodes Summary

"Whistle And I'll Come To You" is the best rated episode of "A Ghost Story for Christmas". It scored 7.2/10 based on 1756 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/7/1968. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Stalls of Barchester".

  • Whistle And I'll Come To You
    7.2/101,756 votes
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    #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

  • The Stalls of Barchester
    6.7/10997 votes
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    #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

  • A Warning to the Curious
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    #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

  • Lost Hearts
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    #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

  • Treasure of Abbot Thomas
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    #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

  • The Ash-tree
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    #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

  • The Signalman
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    #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: Andrew Davies, Charles Dickens

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    #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

  • The Ice House
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    #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

  • A View From a Hill
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    #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

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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tractate Middoth
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dead Room
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    #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

  • Martin's Close
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mezzotint
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    #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

  • Count Magnus
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    #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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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    #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

  • Schalcken the Painter
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    #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