UK, 24 March 1979-13 May 1988
9 series, 112 episodes, average 25m
videotape, 16mm film, colour, 4:3
mono, English
A British anthology television series with many genre episodes.
Premise
Regular Crew
Anglia Television
Regular Cast
Roald Dahl (host [series 1-2])
John Houseman (US host [series 3-8])
Episodes
Season One
Man from the South (24 March 1979)
Mrs Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat (31 March 1979)
William and Mary (7 April 1979)
Lamb to the Slaughter (14 April 1979)
The Landlady (21 April 1979)
Neck (28 April 1979)
Edward the Conqueror (5 May 1979)
A Dip in the Pool (12 May 1979)
The Way Up to Heaven (19 May 1979)
Season Two
Royal Jelly (1 March 1980)
Skin (8 March 1980)
Galloping Foxley (15 March 1980)
The Hitch-hiker (22 March 1980)
Poison (29 March 1980)
Fat Chance (5 April 1980)
Taste (12 April 1980)
My Lady Love, My Dove (19 April 1980)
Georgy Porgy (26 April 1980)
Depart in Peace (3 May 1980)
The Umbrella Man (10 May 1980)
Genesis and Catastrophe (17 May 1980)
Mr. Botibol’s First Love (24 May 1980)
Back for Christmas (31 May 1980)
The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby (7 June 1980)
The Man at the Top (14 June 1980)
Season Three
The Flypaper (9 August 1980)
A Picture of a Place (16 August 1980)
Proof of Guilt (23 August 1980)
Vengeance is Mine Inc. (30 August 1980)
A Girl Can’t Always Have Everything (9 November 1980)
Parson’s Pleasure (30 November 1980)
The Stinker (7 December 1980)
I’ll Be Seeing You (14 December 1980)
The Party (19 December 1980)
Season Four
Would You Believe it? (5 April 1981)
Vicious Circle (12 April 1981)
The Boy Who Talked with Animals (19 April 1981)
The Best of Everything (26 April 1981)
A Woman’s Help (3 May 1981)
Shatterproof (10 May 1981)
The Sound Machine (17 May 1981)
Never Speak Ill of the Dead (24 May 1981)
The Best Policy (31 May 1981)
The Last Bottle in the World (7 June 1981)
Kindly Dig Your Grave (14 June 1981)
Completely Foolproof (21 June 1981)
There’s One Born Every Minute (5 June 1981)
Bosom Friends (12 June 1981)
A Glowing Future (19 July 1981)
The Way to Do It (26 July 1981)
Hijack (26 December 1981)
Season Five
Blue Marigold (25 April 1982)
The Eavesdropper (2 May 1982)
Operation Safecrack (9 May 1982)
Run, Rabbit, Run (16 May 1982)
Stranger in Town (23 May 1982)
The Moles (30 May 1982)
Decoy (6 June 1982)
Pattern of Guilt (13 June 1982)
A Harmless Vanity (20 June 1982)
Death Can Add (27 June 1982)
Light Fingers (4 July 1982)
Death in the Morning (11 July 1982)
What Have You Been Up to Lately? (18 July 1982)
The Absence of Emily (25 July 1982)
In the Bag (1 August 1982)
A Man with a Fortune (8 August 1982)
Who’s Got the Lady? (15 August 1982)
The Skeleton Key (22 August 1982)
Season Six
A Passing Opportunity (9 April 1983)
The Memory Man (16 April 1983)
A Sad Loss (23 April 1983)
Clerical Error (30 March 1983)
Heir Presumptuous (7 May 1983)
Where’s Your Sense of Humour? (14 April 1983)
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (21 May 1983)
The Vorpal Blade (28 May 1983)
The Wrong ‘Un (11 June 1983)
The Luncheon (19 June 1983)
The Tribute (25 June 1983)
Hit and Run (10 May 1983)
Youth from Vienna (2 July 1983)
Turn of the Tide (3 September 1983)
Season Seven
The Dirty Detail (12 May 1984)
The Best Chess Player in the World (19 May 1984)
Proxy (26 May 1984)
Have a Nice Death (2 June 1984)
Number Eight (9 June 1984)
The Last of the Midnight Gardeners (16 June 1984)
The Gift of Beauty (30 June 1984)
Wet Saturday (7 July 1984)
Sauce for the Goose (21 July 1984)
Bird of Prey (4 August 1984)
I Like It Here in Wilmington (8 November 1984)
Accidental Death (19 August 1984)
The Reconciliation (16 September 1984)
The Mugger (14 October 1984)
The Open Window (21 October 1984)
Season Eight
People Don’t Do Such Things (30 March 1985)
In the Cards (14 July 1985)
Nothin’ Short of Highway Robbery (21 July 1985)
Scrimshaw (28 July 1985)
Season Nine
Skeleton in the Cupboard (18 December 1987)
The Colonel’s Lady (8 January 1988)
The Surgeon (15 January 1988)
The Verger (22 January 1988)
The Facts of Life (29 January 1988)
Wink Three Times (15 April 1988)
The Dead Don’t Steal (22 April 1988)
The Finger of Suspicion (29 April 1988)
A Time to Die (6 May 1988)
Mr. Know-All (13 May 1988)
References
Books
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.359, 366
- Horrorshows: The A-Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre by Gene Wright p.263 – credits, review
- The World of Fantasy Films by Richard Myers p.143
