Mark Gatiss
Director
A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971)
Specials
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.
Released Dec. 24, 1971
Episode 32 min
10+
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Keywords: tmdb.ghost-story, tmdb.ghost, tmdb.horror-anthology, tmdb.christmas-horror, imdb.ghost, imdb.christmas, imdb.supernatural-power + 2 more, imdb.non-horror-host, imdb.uk-non-horror-host
Watch Providers: Britbox Apple TV Channel
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Whistle And I'll Come To You
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…
May 7, 1968, midnight
S0E2 - Schalcken the Painter
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Dec. 23, 1979, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 32 min.
Season Runtime: 640 min.
Released: Dec. 24, 1971
Last Air Date: Dec. 24, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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