All Episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas
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Season 1
6.7/10947 votesLoading...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/100 votesLoading...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/100 votesLoading...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/100 votesLoading...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/100 votesLoading...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/100 votesLoading...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
NaN/100 votesLoading...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/100 votesLoading...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.......
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NaN/100 votesLoading...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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...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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NaN/100 votesLoading...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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NaN/100 votesLoading...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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NaN/100 votesLoading...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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...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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NaN/100 votesLoading...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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...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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NaN/100 votesLoading...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