UK, 10 December 1970
75m
videotape, 16mm film, colour, 4:3
mono, English
Series: Play For Today (1970-1993) – series 1, episode 8
A British horror television episode written by John Bowen and directed by James MacTaggart.
Plot Summary
BBC script editor Norah Palmer who decides to sell up and move to a house in a small village in the south of England. There she meets many of the eccentric locals and begins a relationship with Rob, a very strange young man who practices martial arts in his underpants in the woods. She soon becomes pregnant and, after a last-minute change of heart, cancels her planned abortion to return to the village where it becomes clear that she's been the pawn in a strange conspiracy and begins to fear for her life and that of her unborn child.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: James MacTaggart
BBC
Produced by: Graeme McDonald
Written by: John Bowen
Script Editor: Ann Scott
Cast
Anna Cropper (Norah)
Bernard Hepton (Fisher)
Amanda Walker (Madge)
Julian Holloway (Jake)
Freda Bamford (Mrs Vigo)
Andrew Bradford (Rob)
Cyril Cross (Peter)
Robin Wentworth (Wellbeloved)
References
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.357
