UK, 5 March 1966
Series 1, episode 6
videotape, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
Series: Mystery and Imagination (1966-1970)
A British horror television episode directed by Robert Tronson.
Plot Summary
When the orphaned Stephen moves to with his wealthy Uncle Abney, he finds himself haunted by a pair of ghostly children. It seems that the ghosts, a gypsy boy and an orphaned girl, had been staying at Abney's house when they met their untimely ends. Is Abney responsible, and if so what could it have to do with his obsession with immortality?
Credits
Crew
Director: Robert Tronson
ABC Television
Producer: Jonathan Alwyn
Written by: Giles Cooper
Based on the Story by: M.R. James
Script Editor: Terence Feely
Designer: David Marshall
Cast
David Buck (Richard Beckett)
Richard Pearson (Mr Abney)
Megs Jenkins (Mrs Bunch)
David Dodimead (rector)
Freddie Jones (Parkes)
Francis Thomson (Stephen Elliott)
Doy Young (girl)
Darryl Read (boy)
