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Staying in a London hotel in 1875, Julia is awoken by the voice of a girl from a nearby room. On entering she discovers a girl who is ill in a 1970s-style room with unusual appliances. While she is in there, a fire breaks out and the room she had been staying in is burned to a shell. The next
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A man brings home a distorting lens and places it on the window. One by one his children begin to see visions of the past through it. Claiming it to be impossible, he finally sees it himself and orders the people within to leave them alone. The lens promptly melts.
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Two schoolboys in a Welsh mining village find themselves locked in the school after hours. A series of supernatural events occur and they discover an old skull hidden away. Bringing it out into the open and giving it a resting place, the doors open and they leave.
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Sue and Gerry find themselves stranded in an old waiting room at a railway station. They find themselves back in 1925 and witness a train crash. On returning to 1975, they find the same events beginning to play out.
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A man with strange powers named Mr Stabs arrives at a house with his servant. On finding an old bank robber's shoes, he begins to take on his character until the bank robber himself returns from the grave.
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Karen, Dawn and Phil are visiting a Tudor mansion and decide to stay the night. They begin acting strangely as the former occupants of the house begin to take them over.
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morning, the landlady is shocked to find Julia alive and well, but insists that no such room exists. Julia surmises that she was saved by a ghost from the future.
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TV Award under the category of Drama/Light Entertainment. The series missed out on winning on both occasions, to
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between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three series, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children.
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Arriving at her Uncle's house, Jill becomes obsessed with the story of a witch who was killed there.
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character. Series 2 was released in June 2011, and Series 3 was released in October 2011.
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was released by Corgi in 1979. It featured adaptations of seven episodes:
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Starring: Georgina Kean, Wendy Gifford, Neville Barber and Jasper Jacob
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The series was also notable for reviving the character of Mr. Stabs (
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from London to the country as a child, returns to face his fear.
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An old man plots to vandalise a park and blame it on children.
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A girl imagines herself as a maid in a Victorian doll's house.
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A retired gamekeeper tells his grandson about the horn dance.
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Two princes are given a quest for magic to save the kingdom.
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A house is haunted by a blind Greek man named Stratos.
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Starring: John Sanderson, Julia Lewis, Murray Brown
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Thames Television
ITV
television
Thames Television
ITV
J. B. Priestley
Fay Weldon
PJ Hammond
Joan Aiken
Jacquetta Hawkes
Penelope Lively
Joan Greenwood
John Nettleton
Gareth Thomas
Jenny Agutter
Pauline Quirke
Brian Glover
June Brown
Rachel Herbert
Jacqueline Pearce
Gwyneth Strong
Russell Hunter
Ace of Wands
The Boy Merlin
BAFTA
Ballet Shoes
Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
Roger Marshall
Leon Thau

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