UK, 4 January 1978-1 February 1978
1 series, 5 episodes, average 30m
videotape, colour, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television series based on the book by Alison Uttley.
Plot Summary
Penelope is sent from London to stay with her uncle and aunt in their Derbyshire farmhouse. She comes to suspect that the ghosts of the Elizabethan family that once lived there are haunting the house.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Dorothea Brooking
BBC
Executive Producer: Anna Home
Produced by: Dorothea Brooking
Adapted by: Diana De Vere Cole
Based on the Book by: Alison Uttley
Photographed by: John Walker, Niall Kennedy
Film Editor: Monica Mead
Sound: Ron Allen
Costumes: Ian Adley
Designed by: Walter Miller
Cast
Sophie Thompson (Penelope)
Elizabeth Bradley (Aunt Tissie/Dame Cicely)
Sarah Benfield (Tabitha)
Gerald James (Uncle Barnabas)
Simon Gipps-Kent (Francis Babington)
Mary Maude (Mistress Babington)
Episodes
The Door (4 January 1978)
The Kitchen (11 January 1978)
The Locket (18 January 1978)
The Tunnel (25 January 1978)
The Ribbon (1 February 1978)
References
Periodicals
- The Dark Side no.206 (2019) pp.24-27 – illustrated interview with Mary Maude (Come into the gore den Maude! by Jim O’Brien)
Books
- Serials on British Television 1950-1994 by Ellen Baskin p.151
- The Hill and Beyond: Children’s Television Drama – an Encyclopedia by Alistair D. McGown & Mark J. Docherty pp.112-113
