ACE OF WANDS
1970 - 1972 (46 eps) / ITV (Thames
TV).
Series Creator: Trevor Preston.
Children's
adventure series. Telepathic stage magician
Tarot, and his two assistants, battle against villains
with magical powers.
With: Michael Mackenzie,
Tony Selby, Donald Lane-Smith, Judy Loe, Petra Markham,
Roy Holder,
See: http://www.aceofwands.net
THE OTHERS
15 June
1970 / ITV ("Armchair Theatre").
Writer: Richard Lortz / Director: Piers
Haggard.
A couple find themselves trapped in
a house. They eventually escape and stumble upon the
site of a fatal car crash. It turns out that they were
the occupants of the vehicle and have now passed over
into the spirit world.
With: Nigel Stock, Ann
Lynn.
MACBETH
21 Sep 1970 / BBC1.
Writer: William
Shakespeare / Director: John Gorrie / Producer: Cedric
Messina.
Shakepeare's classic Scottish ghost
play
With: Eric Porter, John Alderton, John Thaw,
Daphne heard, Hilary Mason, Janet Suzman, Michael Goodliffe,
John Woodvine.
ANGELS ARE SO FEW
5 Nov
1970 / BBC ("Play for Today").
Writer: Dennis Potter /
Director: Gareth Davies.
A
scruffily-dressed man claiming to be an angel comes
to stay at a family's home.
With: Tom Bell, Christine
Hargreaves, Susan Richards, Eric Chitty.
Read
a comprehensive review at The
Mausoleum Club ("Play for Today"
section).
Play
for Today - TV cream guide.
TO LAY A GHOST
28 April
1971 / BBC2 ("Out of the unknown").
Writer: Michael J Bird / Director: Ken Hannarn.
A young couple
move into a new house. But whenever the husband takes
a photograph of his wife a ghostly figure appears in
the print. A Psychic researcher is called in to
investigate.
With
Lesley Anne Downe, Peter Barkworth.
Michael
J Bird tribute site.
625 Org guide - To lay a ghost
THE CHOPPER
16 Jun
1971 / BBC2 ("Out of the unknown").
Writer: Nigel Kneale / Director: Peter Cregeen.
A journalist
is disturbed by the engine noise made by a phantom motorcycle
and its ghostly rider.
With: Patrick Troughton,
George Sweeney, Margaret Brady, David Wood, Ann Morrish.
THE UNINVITED
23 Jun 1971 / BBC2 ("Out
of the unknown")
Writer: Micheal J Bird
/ Director: Eric Hills / Producer: Alan Bromley.
A
middle-aged, middle-class couple undergo a series of
terrifying hallucinatory experiences in their flat.
With:
Shirley Cain, Geoffrey Palmer, Hilary Mason, Bobbie
Oswald, David Sinclair, David Allister.
Michael
J Bird tribute site.
RASPUTIN
24 Oct 1971 / BBC2.
Writer: Ronald
Eyre / Director: Alan Cooke / Producer: Cedric Messina.
Drama
about the infamous Russian healer and mystic who exercised
such a strong influence in the court of Csar Nicholas.
With:
Robert Stephens, Isabel Dean, T P McKenna, Peter Barkworth,
Lally Bowyers.
1971-77 / BBC1.
Producers: Lawrence
Gordon Clark, Rosemary Hill..
The classic and definitive TV anthology
of the supernatural. The episodes were:
(1) The
Stalls of Barchester (1971).
(2) A Warning
to the Curious
(1972).
(3) Lost Hearts (1973).
(4) The
Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974).
(5) The
Ash Tree (1975).
(6) The
Signalman
(1976).
(7) Stigma (1977).
(8) The
Ice House (1978).
See
individual entries for details.
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Guardian
review (17 Dec 2005)
THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER 
24
Dec 1971
( rpt 1972, Dec 2004) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Writer/Producer/Director: Lawrence Gordon
Clark.
Wooden carvings on the stalls of Barchester
cathedral mysteriously come to life after the Archdeacon
is murdered. Based on a story by M R James.
With
Clive Swift, Robert Hardy.
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ESCAPE INTO NIGHT
19 Apr - 24 May 1972 (6 eps)
/ ITV (ATV).
Writer: Ruth Boswell
(based on the novel by Catherine Storr) / Director: Richard Bramall.
Children's
series. While recovering from an accident, Marianne passes
the time by making drawings of an imaginary place. The
drawings come to life in her dreams, where she discovers
a crippled boy who is trapped upstairs in a house.
Marianne must help him escape before the sinister "Watchers" get
to him......
With: Vikki Chambers, Steven Jones, Patricia Maynard, Sonia Graham,
Edmund Pegge.
Note: Some Episodes have now surfaced on "Youtube". The UK film "Paperhouse" is based on the same story.
Television Heaven guide - Escape into Night
THE INCREDIBLE ROBERT BALDICK
2 Oct
1972 / BBC ("Drama Playhouse").
Writer: Terry Nation / Director:
Cyril Coke.
Robert Baldick is
an eccentric Victorian aristocratic given to investigating
mysteries. He
is called upon to help solve a series of murders which have
taken place in the cellar of a ruined abbey.
Starring:
Robert Hardy.
DEAD OF NIGHT
5 Nov - 17 Dec 1972 (7
eps) / BBC2.
Producer: Innes Lloyd.
An anthology
of chilling tales:
(1) The Exorcism.
(2) Return Flight.
(3) Bedtime.
(4) Death cancels all debts.
(5) Smith.
(6)
Two in the morning.
(7) A Woman Sobbing.
See
below for details of surviving episodes.
THE EXORCISM
5
Nov
1972 / BBC ("Dead of night").
Writer
& Director: Don Taylor.
Two
couples spend christmas at a country cottage where they
encounter the ghosts of a destitute family who had lived there years
before and had starved to death. Events move to an unexpected and
deadly conclusion.
With: Clive
Swift,
Anna Cropper, Sylvia Kay, Edward Petherbridge.
Screenonline.
RETURN FLIGHT
12
Nov 1972 / BBC ("Dead of Night").
Writer: Robert Holmes / Director:
Rodney Bennett.
A modern-day airline
pilot has a ghostly encounter with a wartime bomber
crew.
With: Peter Parkworth.
A WOMAN SOBBING
17
Dec
1972 / BBC ("Dead of night").
Writer: John Bowen / Dir: Paul Ciappessoni.
A young
woman hears noises coming from the attic at night.
With:
Anne Massey, Tommy Boyle, Ronald Hines.
A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS
24 Dec 1972
(rpt 1974, 1992, Dec 2004) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Writer / Producer / Director: Lawrence
Gordon Clark (based on a story by M R James).
An amateur archaeologist
unearths buried treasure on the Norfolk coast but is
menaced thereafter by an unseen presence.
With: Peter
Vaughan, Clive Swift.
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THE STONE TAPE
25 Dec 1972 / BBC2.
Writers:
Nigel Kneale / Director: Peter Sasdy.
Supernatural
drama. A team of scientists working on a new recording
medium investigate a haunting at a Victorian mansion.
With: Jane
Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bryant, Michael
Bates.
THE HAUNTING
5 Apr 1973 / BBC1 ("Menace").
Writer:
Ken Hughes /Director: Gerald Blake
Episode in
a drama anthology called "Menace" (Plot synopsis
to follow).
Starring Anthony Bate.
THRILLER
1973 - 1976 / ATV.
A
long running "suspense" anthology (6
seasons) which occasionally forayed into the realm of
the supernatural, especially in series 1 (see below).
POSSESSION
21 April 1973 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer: Brian Clemens / Director: John Cooper
Businessman, Ray Burns, and
his wife Penny buy a house in the country. But strange
manifestations make them suspect that the place
may be haunted
With: John Carson, Joanna Dunham, Hilary Hardiman, Athol Coats, James
Cossins, Richard Aylen.
SOMEONE AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS
28 April 1973 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer: Brian Clemens / Director & Producer:
John Sichel.
Two female students acquire cheap lodgings
in an old Victorian boarding house but are unnerved
by the odd behaviour of the other tenants. To add
to their unease, it turns out that the previous occupant
of the flat, a young woman, went missing
under mysterious circumstances.
With:
Donna Mills, Judy Carne, Francis Wallis, Alethea Charlton.
COMFORTABLE WORDS
17 May 1973 / BBC1 ("Menace")
Writer:
Fay Weldon / Director: Brian Lighthill.
A
mother and her child are menaced by an unseen presence.
Starring:
Michele Doltrice.
A PLACE TO DIE
26 May
1973 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer: Terence Feely (Story by Brian Clemens)
/ Director: Peter Jefferies.
Bruce
and Tessa Nelson move to a country village. But
Tessa discovers that their lives are in danger
from a group of Devil Worshippers.
With:
Bryan Marshall,
Alexandra Hay.
SPELL OF EVIL
16 Jun 1973 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer:
Terence Feely (Story by Brian Clemens) / Producer &
Director: John Sichel.
After the sudden
death of his wife, businessman Tony Mansell finds love
again through a marriage agency. But his new partner
turns out to be a witch whose intentions are not what
they seem.
With: Diane Cilento, Edward De Souza, William Dexter, Jeremy Longhurst, Jennifer Daniel, Iris Russell.
LEAP IN THE DARK
1973, 1975, 1977 and 1980 / BBC2.
Directors:
Colin Godman, Michael Croucher, Anne Owen.
An anthology
of supernatural tales which stretched over 4 seasons.
Season 1 was a documentary series, the rest were a mix of documentary
and drama as follows:
(1) The Rosenheim
Poltergeist (19 Sep 1975)
(2) The
Search for Pat MacAdam (26 Sep 1975)
(3)
The
Battle for Miss Beauchamp (3 Oct 1975)
(4)
The
Vandy Case (10 Oct 1975)
(5) Dream
me a winner (14 Jan 1977)
(6) The
Fetch (21 Jan 1977)
(7) The
Ghost of Ardachie Lodge (28 Jan 1977)
(8)
Undercurrents
(4 Feb 1977)
(9) Parlour Games
(11 Feb 1977)
(10) The Mind's Eye
(18 Feb 1977)
(11) Jack Be Nimble
(4 Sep 1980)
(12) Poor Jenny
(8 Sep 1980)
(13) The Living Grave
(9 Sep 1980)
(14) Come and find me
(10 Sep 1980)
(15) Room for an inward
light (11 Sep 1980)
(16) To
kill a King (12 Sep 1980)
(17) Watching
you watching me (5 Oct 1980).
Note: Each
episode has its own entry in the Haunted TV guide though
not many details are available as yet.
THE WITHERED ARM 
7 Nov 1973 (rpt 2002 and 15 Jan 2003 - as part of "English file" for BBC schools) / BBC ("Wessex Tales").
Writer: Rhys
Adrian (based on the short story by Thomas Hardy) /
Producer: Irene Shubik
/ Director: Desmond Davis.
Period
drama. In a remote 19th century rural community, a
young newly-wed awakes one morning to find strange and painful marks on her arm.
She consults a local wise man who
prescribes a ghoulish cure.
With: Billie
Whitelaw, Yvonne Antrobus, Esmond Knight.
Read
the original story here.
LOST HEARTS
25
Dec 1973
(rpt 1974, 1994) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Writer: Robin Chapman
/ Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark.
An
orphan goes to stay at the house of his rich uncle.
But he discovers it to be haunted by the ghosts of two
children who previously lived, and died, there.
With:
Simon Gipps-Kent.
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ONE DEADLY OWNER
16 Feb
1974 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer: Brian Clemens / Director: Ian Fordyce.
Model Helen Cook splashes
out on a Roll Royce only to find that the car is supernaturally
possessed.
With: Donna Mills, Jeremy Brett, Robert Morris, Laurence Payne, Eric
Lander, Michael Beint.
PENDA'S FEN
21 Mar 1974 / BBC2.
Writer:
David Rudkin / Director: Alan Clarke / Producer: David
Rose.
Set against the backdrop of a rural English
landscape, a young man has his conservative views
about nationhood, patriotism, and sexuality challenged
by a series of hallucinatory encounters with angels,
a mythical pagan king called Penda, and the spirit of
Edward Elgar.
With: Spencer Banks, John Atkinson,
Georgine Anderson, Jennie Hesselwood, John Scott.
Screen
online review.
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
1974 / ITV.
Writer:
Robin Miller (based on the short story by Oscar Wilde) / Director: Walter Miller.
Supernatural
comedy drama.
An American family move into an English mansion only
to find it haunted by one of its former aristocratic
owners.
With: David Niven, Flora Robson, James
Whitmore, Audrey Linley, Maurice Evans.
THE FERRYMAN
1974 / ITV ("Haunted").
Writer:
Julian Bond (Based on a story by Kingsley Amis) / Director: John
Irwin.
Following the publication of his latest
novel about a murderer called "the ferryman",
a writer decides to spend a weekend with his wife in
the country. But events in the real world start to
mirror the plot of the novel with potentially fatal
consequences.
With: Jeremy Brett, Natasha Parry.
Review at E-film
critic review
POOR GIRL
1974 / ITV - Granada ("Haunted").
Writer: Robin Chapman
( based on astory by Elizabeth Taylor) /
Director: Michael Apted.
Period drama. An Edwardian Governess accepts
a post at a large country house. But
a series of disturbing psychic experiences make her
stay a less than happy one.
With: Lynne Miller,
Angela Thorne, Stuart Wilson.
ORSON WELLES GREAT MYSTERIES
6 July - 7 Sep 1974 (11 eps),
18
Sep - 16 Dec 1975 (13 eps),
30 April & 24
July 1976 (2 eps) / ITV (Anglia) .
Producer:
John Jacobs.
A drama anthology featuring some
supernatural episodes - namely:
2. The
Leather Funnel (13 July 1974): A man is warned
off marrying his fiancée by a series of dreams .
With Simon Ward, Jane Seymour, Christopher Lee.
11. The Monkey's paw (7 Sep 1974): A wish-fulfilling
trinket brings ill-fortune to its unsuspecting
owners. With Michael Kitchen, Megs Jenkins.
25. Trial for murder (30 Apr 1976): The ghost
of a murder victim appears to be affecting the jury
foreman at the murderer's trial. With Ian Holm,
Jennie Lin.
Introduced by
Orson Welles.
Orson
Welles Great mysteries (BFI).
THE TREASURE OF ABBOT THOMAS
23
Dec 1974
(rpt 1983, 1993, Dec 2004) / BBC1 ("Ghost story for xmas").
Writer: John Bowen
/ Director Lawrence Gordon Clark.
A
scholar searches for treasure rumoured to have been
buried by a sorceror.
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MR HUMPHREYS AND HIS INHERITANCE
1975 (rpt 13 Jun 1977) / ITV
(Yorkshire).
Writer / Director
/ Producer:
Tony Scull.
A short adaptation of an M R James ghost
story (for schools). Note: This drama can be found
as an extra on the DVD release of "Casting
the Runes".
Starring Geoffrey Russell.
The
story is available on-line at Litgothic.
NURSE WILL MAKE IT BETTER
11 Jan 1975 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer:
Brian
Clemens / Director: Shaun
O'Riordan.
A family engages a nurse to look after their
daughter who was crippled in a riding accident. But
the nurse turns out to be a practioner of the dark arts
who offers the daughter a pact with the devil.
With:
Diana Dors, Cec Linder, Linda Liles, Michael Culver, Andrea
Marcovicci , Ed Bishop.
http://www.ufoseries.com/films/nurse.html
THE BREAKTHROUGH
15 Jan 1975 / BBC2 ("Playhouse").
Producer: Irene Shubik
/ Based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier.
A scientist at
a remote military research establishment builds a machine
which can capture the life force of a person after death.
With: Simon Ward.
MRS ACLAND'S GHOSTS
1975 / BBC2 ("Playhouse").
Writer:
William Trevor / Producer: Irene Shubik.
A man
receives a letter from a woman he doesn't know, who claims to have seen
ghosts. As a result she has been confined to a mental
institution.
SKY
7 Apr - 19 May 1975 (7 eps) / ITV
(HTV).
Writers:
Bob Baker & David Martin.
Children's fantasy drama series. Teenagers discover
an alien with supernatural powers who has been sent
on a mission to help planet Earth.
With: Marc Harrison, Stuart Lock, Cherrald
Butterfield.
Memorable
Children's TV.
WON'T WRITE HOME MOM - I'M DEAD
26 April
1975 / ATV ("Thriller").
Writer: Dennis Spooner (Story by Brian Clemens)
/ Director: James Ormerod.
After
a young man goes missing, his girlfriend starts to have
psychic experiences which lead her to believe that
he may have been murdered.
With: Pamela Franklin,
Ian Bannen, Suzanne Neve, Oliver
Tobias, Dallas Adams, Lesley North , Norman Scace.
AGAINST THE CROWD: MURRAIN
27 July 1975 / ATV.
Writer:
Nigel Kneale.
A young country vet begins to suspect
that a witch may have cast a spell on the surrounding
countryside.
With: Una Brandon-Jones, Bernard
Lee, David Simeon.
SHADOWS
3 Sep 1975 - 1 Nov 1978 / ITV (Thames).
Long
running children's supernatural / horror drama anthology
series.
Series 1 (3 Sep - 15 Oct 1975):
(1) The Future Ghost. (2) After School.
(3) The Witch's Bottle. (4) The Waiting room*. (5) Optical
Illusion (6) Dutch Schlitz's shoes. (7) The Other Window.
Series 2
(28 July 1976 -
1 Sep 1976):
(1)The Dark Streets Of Kimball's Green. (2) Time out of mind.
(3) The Inheritance. (4) Dark Encounter. (5) Peronik.
(6) The Eye.
Series 3 ( 20 Sep 1978 - 1 Nov 1978):
(1)
Eleven O'Clock. (2) The
Rose Of Puddle Fratrum. (3) And Now For My Next Trick. (4) The
Boy Merlin. (5) The Man Who Hated Children. (6) The Silver Apple. (7) Honeyann.
THE ROSENHEIM POLTERGEIST
19 Sep 1975 / BBC2 ("Leap in the dark").
THE SEARCH FOR PAT MacADAM
26 Sep 1975 / BBC2 ("Leap in the dark").
THE BATTLE FOR MISS BEAUCHAMP
3 Oct 1975 / BBC2 ("Leap in the dark").
THE VANDY CASE
10 Oct 1975 / BBC2 ("Leap in the dark").
THE ASH TREE
23
Dec 1975 / BBC1 ("Ghost story for Xmas").
Writer:
David Rudkin / Director Lawrence
Gordon Clark.
A witch's curse reverberates through
the generations of an aristocratic family.
With EDWARD
PETHERBRIDGE.
Screenonline.
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