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The Best Episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1

Every episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 2 - A Warning to the Curious
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E2

    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:Unknown

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  2. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 1 - The Stalls of Barchester
    6.8/10(1114 votes)

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown

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  3. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 3 - Lost Hearts
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 4 - Treasure of Abbot Thomas
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 5 - The Ash-tree
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E5

    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

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  6. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 6 - The Signalman
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E6

    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

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  7. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 7 - Stigma
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E7

    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

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  8. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 8 - The Ice House
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 9 - A View From a Hill
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E9

    A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 10 - Number 13
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 11 - Whistle and I'll Come to You
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 12 - The Tractate Middoth
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E12

    A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 13 - The Dead Room
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 14 - Martin's Close
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 15 - The Mezzotint
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 16 - Count Magnus
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E16

    The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 17 - Lot No. 249
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E17

    An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.

    Director:Mark Gatiss
    Writer:Mark Gatiss

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  18. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 18 - Woman of Stone
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E18

    Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.

    Director:Mark Gatiss
    Writer:Mark Gatiss

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  19. A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode 19 - The Room in the Tower
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E19

    For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"A Warning to the Curious" is the best rated episode of "A Ghost Story for Christmas" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/24/1972. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "The Stalls of Barchester".