TV show

A Ghost Story for Christmas

Name: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Genre: Drama
Released: 1971-12-24
Duration: 32 min
Rating: 7.3

1971 32 min / per episode 3 seasons · 30 episodes

Drama

73%

Audience score8 votes on TMDB

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“Classic adaptations from the BBC”

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

Creator: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Status: Returning series
First air date: 24/12/1971
Original language: English

Seasons and episodes

Specials

5 episodes · 1968

Over the years, different releases of the stories on DVD have included standalone ghost stories broadcast in the UK.

Season 1

19 episodes · 1971

The first season includes five adaptations of stories from the four books by M. R. James, published between 1904 and 1925. The The sixth film, The Signalman, is an adaptation of a