A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 21 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 32 min/episode
Drama
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 on BBC Four.
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Stream
Britbox Apple TV Channel
Seasons
Season 1
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.
Season 2
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…
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Network
BBC One
Production
BBC
Keywords
ghost storyghostchristmas horrorhorror anthology