Series
Mystery and Imagination
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Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 7 epS2 · 5 epS3 · 6 epS4 · 3 epS5 · 3 ep
- 1The Lost Stradivarius29 Jan 1966 · 60mA certain tune, played on a particular violin, invokes an evil 18th-century occultist.
- 2The Body Snatcher5 Feb 1966 · 60mIn the early 19th-century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain dead bodies for his anatomical research.
- 3The Fall of the House of Usher12 Feb 1966 · 60mConvinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Finn arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
- 4The Open Door19 Feb 1966 · 60mColonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in fact the boy's imagination or is it real?
- 5The Tractate Middoth26 Feb 1966 · 60mA young librarian is hired by the impatient John Eldred to find an old tractate — so that Eldred can cheat the real heirs out of their estate... but the book is haunted by the ghost of its previous owner.
- 6Lost Hearts5 Mar 1966 · 60mAn orphan taken in by an elderly cousin is haunted by the ghosts of two children and learns that the house holds a terrible secret.
- 7The Canterville Ghost12 Mar 1966 · 60mAn American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.
Details
- Created by
- Raymond Collier, Jonathan Alwyn
- First aired
- 29 Jan 1966
- Last aired
- 23 Feb 1970
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- ITV1
- Episodes
- 24
- Votes
- 5 on TMDB
