7.5/10119 votes#1 - More Than Meets The Eye
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2005
When psychology lecturer and psychic mediums specialist Robert Bridge takes his students to a clairvoyance evening, he meets troubled psychic Alison Mundy. Sceptical about her abilities, Robert decides to study Alison and contemplates writing a book about her after sitting in on one of her readings. But he is completely thrown when Alison claims to see the spirit of his dead son Josh.
Director: Maurice Phillips
Writer: Stephen Volk
7.8/10106 votes#2 - Lower Than Bones
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2005
An eight-year-old girl goes missing and her distraught parents make an emotional televised appeal. The next day, when Alison says she has seen the child's ghost in the supermarket, the police are deeply suspicious - then they discover a drowned body.
Director: Maurice Phillips
Writer: Stephen Volk
8.2/10102 votes#3 - Daniel One & Two
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2005
On the ward of a hospital psychiatric unit, Alison meets Daniel, who is being held after an attack on his girlfriend. He desperately tries to persuade Alison that the man responsible for the assault was the other Daniel - Daniel Two. Doctors are convinced the young man is a pathologically violent schizophrenic, but Alison has serious doubts.
Director: Charles Beeson, Martyn Friend
Writer: Stephen Volk
7.8/1080 votes#4 - Misdirection
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2005
On the first day of her new job at an old people's home, Alison finds a photo of Robert's dead son Josh, belonging to his mother, Jenny, and realises that Josh steered her towards the job in another attempt to make some kind of emotional contact with his father. Alison befriends fellow nurse Connor, who is being tormented by the ghost of a former patient, who jumped to her death from a window because he wouldn't help her die peacefully.
Director: Martyn Friend
Writer: N/A
7.9/1079 votes#5 - Sleeping With The Dead
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2005
Sandra Petch is petrified and thinks that her flat is haunted, but when Alison comes round to try and help she witnesses the terrifying tableau of a man smothering his wife to death. Robert is curious and the three spend the night there, waiting to see what will happen. As Alison falls asleep, she enters a nightmare where she relives the last moments of the murdered woman's life.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen Volk
8.1/1092 votes#6 - The 7:59 Club
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2005
Alison thinks that she is being haunted by the victims of the train crash which nearly killed her six years before. But she soon finds out that she is being followed by the survivors of the disaster, who want her to help them communicate with their lost loved ones. Robert and she come into contact with the afterlife in a way that will change their lives for ever.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Stephen Volk
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University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaMystery
Network:ITV1
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"More Than Meets The Eye" is the best rated episode of "Afterlife" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 119 votes. Directed by Maurice Phillips and written by Stephen Volk, it aired on 9/24/2005. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Lower Than Bones".