Dread, Desolation and Urban Isolation: Shadows of Fear
Andrew Screen tackles Thames Television’s early 70s anthology, Shadows of Fear, which eschewed the supernatural for more psychological horrors…
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Stingless Stories: Scorpion Tales (1978)
Scorpion Tales occupies a lower tier in the pantheon of great British horror television of the 1970s, but did it deserve more than a single series? Andrew Screen investigates the programme’s six-episode run…
The Forgotten Terrors of The Frighteners (1972)
Long-neglected anthology series, The Frighteners (1972), utilised cultural concerns of the period in telling its pitch-black horror tales. Andrew Screen takes a closer look at the series’ 13 episode run…
Do you want the killer, or will anybody do?: Jack the Ripper (1988)
1988’s Jack the Ripper was the very definition of event television and recently returned to public attention via re-broadcast on Talking Pictures TV. Dean Newman takes a scalpel to ITV’s two-part masterpiece for Horrified…