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All Episodes of Beasts

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Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976.

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Season 1

7.0/101 votes
Baby
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1976
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger.
Director: John Nelson-Burton
Writer: Nigel Kneale
5.0/101 votes
The Dummy
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/1976
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play.
Director: Don Leaver
Writer: Nigel Kneale
3.0/101 votes
Buddy Boy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/1976
When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Nigel Kneale
N/A/100 votes
Special Offer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1976
A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc.
Director: Richard Bramall
Writer: Nigel Kneale
N/A/100 votes
During Barty's Party
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/1976
A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: Nigel Kneale
N/A/100 votes
What Big Eyes
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1976
An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.
Director: Donald McWhinnie
Writer: Nigel Kneale