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Edition: Box Set
Genre: Television
Sub-Genre: Drama
Region Code: Region B
Certificate: 15
Label: BFI
Actors: Preston Lockwood, Christopher Blake, John Stride, Peter Bowles, John Herrington, Frank Mills, Lalla Ward, Barbara Ewing, Paul Lavers, Clifford Kershaw, Jon Laurimore, David Beames, Edward Petherbridge, Denholm Elliott, Geoffrey Burridge, Sheila Dunn, Reginald Jessup, Michael Bryant, Elizabeth Romilly, Kate Binchy, Bernard Lloyd, Carina Wyeth
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark, Derek Lister
Number of Discs: 3
Audio Languages: English
Subtitle Languages: Hard of Hearing English
Broadcast in the dying hours of Christmas Eve, the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series was a fixture of the seasonal schedules throughout the 1970s and spawned a long tradition of chilling tales, which terrified yuletide viewers for decades to come. After the best-selling release of Volume One last year, this much-requested follow-up gives five more festive landmarks their Blu-ray debut, having been newly remastered by the BFI from original film materials. As well as two MR James adaptations, the series includes the celebrated version of Charles Dicken's The Signalman starring Denholm Elliot, as well as specially written stories set in the contemporary 1970s. These influential films, all but one directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, were written by some of the best scriptwriters working in British TV in the 1970s: John Bowen, David Rudkin, Andrew Davies and Clive Exton.
Special Features: Booklet, Commentary: 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas': Simon Farquhar (TV historian); 'The Ash Tree': Johnny Mains (author); 'The Signalman': Jon Dear (TV historian); 'Stigma'/'The Ice House': Kim Newman and Sean Hogan, 'A View from a Hill' (2005, 39 min); 'Number 13' (2006, 40 min); 'Ghost Stories for Christmas With Christopher Lee' (2000, 30 min); Introductions to 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas', 'The Ash Tree', 'The Signalman' and 'Stigma' by Lawrence Gordon Clark (director)
