Dead of Night
 

I'm a huge fan of horror anthology TV series. For me there is nothing better than either that or a portmanteau on a cold October Sunday afternoon.


Dead of Night is one anthology series I haven't seen, well not much of. The Exorcism is on youtube, not officially mind. It ran for one series in 1972, 7 episodes were broadcast only 3 of these survive and in October a DVD with these 3 episodes will be released. The episodes are The Exorcism, Return Flight, A Woman Sobbing. It is currently available through Amazon for £13.20, yesterday it was £19.99. The same production team also did The Stone Tape which was supposed to be the eight episode in the Dead of Night series but wasn't broadcast as part of the series.

sounds like one to pick up, i'll try checking out exorcism on youtube.

Dead of Night - The Exorcism - YouTube


Just watched it, fantastic stuff. Epitomizes what was so good about these types of programmes in the seventies. Great script and acting to compensate for low budgets. Will look forward to seeing the rest!

Also I really want the suit Hyacinth bucket's husband is wearing!

Supernatural
 

While pre-ordering Dead Of Night I also saw this anyone seen it?

Supernatural is also going to be a MUST BUY.

SUPERNATURAL (2-DISC DVD)

Werewolves, vampires and ghosts haunt the living in this long-awaited double-disc presentation of the much sought-after BBC horror series Supernatural).

Originally broadcast on BBC 1 in 1977 and rarely seen since, this classic series ran for eight terrifying episodes. In each, a different prospective member of the Club of the Damned is required to tell a story that will chill the blood of the club's members, and their application for membership would be judged on how frightening the story was. Failure to induce terror in all who attend would lead to the death of the storyteller...

A timeless example of British Gothic horror at its best, Supernatural boasts a superb cast of acting talent, including Billie Whitelaw, Jeremy Brent, Robert Hardy, Gordon Jackson, Sinead Cusack, Denholm Elliott and Ian Hendry.

First ever DVD release of this much sought-after and highly acclaimed BBC TV series

Contents

Disc One

1. Ghosts of Venice with Robert Hardy and Sinead Cusack
2. Countess Ilona with Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry and Edward Hardwicke
3. The Werewolf Reunion with Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry and Edward Hardwicke
4. Mr Nightingale with Jeremy Brett and Lesley-Anne Down
Disc Two

5. Lady Sybil with Denholm Elliott
6. Viktoria with Catherine Schell and Judy Cornwell
7. Night of the Marionettes with Gordon Jackson, Kathleen Byron and Vladek Sheybal
8. Dorabella with Jeremy Clyde

Shall look to buy this as well....

Snap Ron. :lol:

Still, a fine post is always worth repeating. :cool:

oh sugar pops,we must of posted the same time.kudos

At least this way no one will miss it. :nod:

I missed Supernatural, I only saw Dead of Night on Amazon the other day, I think it was a recommendation, I'd been looking for the series earlier in the year though so I was rather excited to see it! I had to search for Supernatural after Demdike sent me a message about it. I've pre-ordered it but I'm hoping it will go down but you never know with Amazon, it is more likely to go up! I'm annoyed they didn't suggest it. I blame them.

:lol:

I only noticed it because Amazon did suggest it to me.

Its not out until the middle of November if i remember correctly so perhaps it only came on site today.

Possibly, they haven't suggested it to me all day though, I'm on there all the time! It was annoying as it was near the bottom of the search list because of that TV series. I think Amazon are trying to stop me from ordering so much stuff through them, I think I have about 25 items coming this week thanks to my obsession with subscribe and save! I mean each time I order something they say Thank You but how do I know they mean it?

I'm really looking forward to Dead Of Night. Exorcism is excellent ( as is A Woman Sobbing ). The Beeb were fantastic at horror during the 70s, but were also equally fantastic as having no brains and wiping loads of this kind of stuff ( Out Of The Unknown, Menace, The Mind Beyond, Late Night Horror etc ). Supernatural (imo ) isn't classic BBC horror, but I'll be buying it all the same. I really hope these sell well enough to have what's remaining in the BBC vaults released on dvd.

slightly off topic but Amazon gave me a 44pence refund the other day for one of my pre orders which was all well and good but they must of sent me 6 emails telling me this was happening,they seemed quite pleased with themselves,where as I was all "MEH" about it.

It would seem the BFI are spoiling us classic horror tv fans.

CLASSIC GHOST STORIES (DVD)

After the success of their Ghost Stories for Christmas collection, the BFI presents another volume of classic BBC adaptations of the chilling work of M R James

These partially-dramatized readings by actor Robert Powell (Jesus of Nazareth, Mahler, Tommy) were originally broadcast to terrified audiences during the Christmas of 1986. Finally made available here for the very first time on DVD, these blood-curdling tales include such classics as 'The Mezzotint' , 'The Ash Tree' , 'Wailing Well' , 'The Rose Garden' and 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' .

Also included as an exclusive bonus on this release are the M R James episodes from the 1980 BBC TV series Spine Chillers - 'The Mezzotint' , 'A School Story' and 'The Diary of Mr Poynter' presented by celebrated actor Michael Bryant (star of the 1974 Ghost Story for Christmas episode The Treasure of Abbot Thomas ).

Special Features

First time on DVD of these BBC TV adaptations of classic M.R.James stories
All five episodes of the rare BBC TV series Classic Ghost Stories (1986)
Three episodes of Spine Chillers (1980), produced by the BBC's Jackanory team
Illustrated booklet with new writing and full credits

Yes the Dead Of Night episodes mentioned are pretty good, but I was very disappointed with Supernatural which I generally found slowly paced & some episodes were just boring.I will certainly be buying too though it having only seen time coded versions on YT.Perhaps a revisit to the series may improve my opinion now I know what to expect.

Both duly noted.

HAUNTED which features two television plays screened in December 1974 on ITV is also worth a look.The first play starring Jeremy Brett is the best & is from a story by Kingsley Amis.He also wrote THE GREEN MAN made into a quite decent BBC mini-series in the 1990s (Also on dvd).
Haunted [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: Jeremy Brett, Lesley Dunlop, Lynne Miller, Stuart Wilson, Angela Thorne, Matthew Pollock, John Irvin, Michael Apted: Film & TV

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Man-DV...+albert+finney