NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - 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...#2 - 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...#3 - 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...#4 - 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...#5 - 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...#6 - 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...#7 - 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/100 votesLoading...#8 - 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/100 votesLoading...#9 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - 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/100 votesLoading...#13 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - 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/100 votesLoading...#15 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - 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: Mark Gatiss
NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Woman of Stone
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/24/2024
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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - 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
6.7/10997 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.2/101,756 votesLoading...#20 - 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 Worst Episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas
Every episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"A Warning to the Curious" is the worst rated episode of "A Ghost Story for Christmas". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and written by N/A, it aired on 12/24/1972. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Lost Hearts".