How The BBC Created Hammer
Far from Hammer being the populariser of material from the stolid BBC, it was the adaptation of existing popular BBC shows that allowed Hammer to succeed, as Derek Johnston explains….
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It went through the wall!: Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Jon Dear, writer and co-host of the Nigel Kneale podcast, Bergcast, takes a detailed look at the classic 1958 BBC television production of Kneale’s Quatermass and the Pit…
A Nationwide Séance: The Unremitting Terror of Ghostwatch (1992)
Graham Williamson heads back to Halloween 1992 for the BBC’s broadcast of Ghostwatch and examines how Stephen Volk’s ghost story still endures despite only a single airing in almost 30 years…
Horror Imagery in I May Destroy You (2020)
Graham Williamson explores Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You, the hit BBC series, and finds ‘a recurrent thread of horror imagery around the edges of the show’…
A Warning to the Curious (1972)
Perhaps the best remembered of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series, Daniel McGachey explains why A Warning to the Curious still retains its ability to unsettle…
The Stalls of Barchester (1971)
Richard Higson discusses why, of all the films in the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series, The Stalls of Barchester is the episode he keeps returning to…
Whistle and I’ll Come To You (1968)
Graham Williamson examines Whistle and I’ll Come to You, the unofficial first instalment in the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series…
[Review] The Battersea Poltergeist (2021)
Highly popular BBC podcast, The Battersea Poltergeist, revisits the infamous mid-50s haunting and attempts to uncover the truth behind the remarkable story. Graham Williamson reviews the podcast for Horrified…
Ghosts In Time: revisiting Moondial (1988)
Time-travel or ghost story? Robert Taylor takes a look at Moondial, a classic children’s drama that puts the resilience of children, in the face of adversity, at its heart…
The Signalman (1976)
Paul Childs explores The Signalman, the 1976 episode of A Ghost Story for Christmas adapted from Charles Dicken’s tale, and ponders the inescapability of fate…