List of Episodes
Title | Directed by | Written by | Cast | UK Transmission Date |
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"Witching Time" | Tom Clegg | Davis Lloyd | Jon Finch, Patricia Quinn, Prunella Gee, Ian McCulloch, Lennard Pearce, Margaret Anderson | September 13, 1980 (1980-09-13) |
A lovely young witch from the past brings spine-chilling terror into the twentieth century and to the present occupants of the farmhouse in which she was born in the 17th century. She is a ghost, but flesh and blood, and passionate. She puts her mark on the young man now living in the farmhouse and can his wife fight such impelling opposition? | ||||
"The Thirteenth Reunion" | Don Leaver | Anthony Read | Michael Latimer, Julia Foster, Dinah Sheridan, Richard Pearson, Norman Bird, Warren Clarke, Kevin Stoney, George Innes | September 20, 1980 (1980-09-20) |
A reporter stumbles upon the bizarre truth behind the secret society and must now fear for her life. | ||||
"Rude Awakening" | Peter Sasdy | Gerald Savroy | Denholm Elliott, Lucy Gutteridge, James Laurenson, Pat Heywood, Gareth Armstrong, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Mort | September 27, 1980 (1980-09-27) |
Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) plays a lecherous estate agent who has recurrent dreams about his seductive secretary, a mysterious house and even more mysterious encouragement to murder his wife. | ||||
"Growing Pains" | Francis Megahy | Nicholas Palmer | Gary Bond, Barbara Kellerman, Norman Beaton, Tariq Yunus, Geoffrey Beevers | October 4, 1980 (1980-10-04) |
When they adopt a new son, it coincides with a series of odd events ans disasters for the father's research. | ||||
"The House that Bled to Death" | Tom Clegg | Davis Lloyd | Nicholas Ball, Rachel Davies, Brian Croucher, Patricia Maynard, Milton Johns, George Tovey | October 11, 1980 (1980-10-11) |
An old house is in a run-down state, unoccupied since it was the scene of a macabre murder, until new occupants move in. It is a house of horror, the shadow of the past bringing new terrors to the couple and a young child, with an unexpected twist at the end bringing even more horror. | ||||
"Charlie Boy" | Robert Young | Bernie Cooper & Francis Megahy | Leigh Lawson, Marius Goring, Angela Bruce, Frances Cuka, Michael Culver, Jeff Rawle, David Healy, Janet Fielding, Charles Pemberton | October 18, 1980 (1980-10-18) |
An ancient African idol possessed by the spirit of an evil sorcerer seems to take on a life of its own. | ||||
"The Silent Scream" | Alan Gibson | Francis Essex | Peter Cushing, Brian Cox, Elaine Donnelly, Antony Carrick, Terry Kinsella, Robin Browne | October 25, 1980 (1980-10-25) |
Peter Cushing plays a mad scientist who needs human victims to experiment with. His plan is to create a prison that contains no bars. There is no escape because something far worse awaits his victims when they run. | ||||
"Children of the Full Moon" | Tom Clegg | Murray Smith | Diana Dors, Christopher Cazenove, Celia Gregory, Victoria Wood, Robert Urquhart | November 1, 1980 (1980-11-01) |
A wealthy couple head off on holiday to the West County but get stranded. They find sanctuary in the woods where a woman played by Diana Dors cares for a number of mysterious children. The husband wakes in a hospital to be told the werewolf children were all a dream. However his now pregnant wife has changed, developing a taste for raw steak among other things. | ||||
"The Carpathian Eagle" | Francis Megahy | Bernie Cooper & Francis Megahy | Suzanne Danielle, Anthony Valentine, Siân Phillips, Barry Stanton, Jeffrey Wickham, W. Morgan Sheppard, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Wren | November 8, 1980 (1980-11-08) |
A young woman convinced she possesses the reincarnated spirit of a murderess walks the night seeking out new victims to fill an ancient prophecy for death. Features Pierce Brosnan in one of his early screen roles. | ||||
"Guardian of the Abyss" | Don Sharp | David Fisher | Ray Lonnen, Barbara Ewing, John Carson, Rosalyn Landor, Paul Darrow | November 15, 1980 (1980-11-15) |
Human sacrifice as part of an ancient rite is the unexpected consequence when an attractive antiques dealer unwittingly buys a mirror with mysterious evil power. | ||||
"Visitor from the Grave" | Peter Sasdy | John Elder | Kathryn Leigh Scott, Gareth Thomas, Simon MacCorkindale | November 22, 1980 (1980-11-22) |
A seance is held for a girl whose fiancée has been killed in a car crash. She not only hears his voice but comes face to face with his mutilated blackened body. Worse is to follow as she becomes the victim of a macabre heartless plot. | ||||
"The Two Faces Of Evil" | Alan Gibson | Ranald Graham | Gary Raymond, Anna Calder-Marshall, Philip Latham, Jenny Laird, Brenda Cowling | November 29, 1980 (1980-11-29) |
Setting off on their holidays, a family unwisely give a lift to a sinister hitch-hiker. After the car crashes, one man is dead and one man is injured. But which one? | ||||
"The Mark of Satan" | Don Leaver | Don Shaw | Peter McEnery, Emrys James, Georgina Hale, Peter Birrel, Conrad Phillips | December 6, 1980 (1980-12-06) |
A worker in a hospital mortuary becomes convinced that a conspiracy of evil has chosen him for the devil's disciple. Are his the rantings of insanity or a desperate cry for help from an innocent soul marked for Satan? |
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