In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.
- Pamela Early
- (as Bríd Brennan)
- Emma Stableford
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- TriviaIt earned the dubious honour of being the first TV programme to be cited in the British Medical Journal as having caused Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children.
- GoofsWhen the Policewoman enters the house you can see her smiling like shes out of character.
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[last lines]
Michael Parkinson: The studio's... completely dark. Just... just blackness. All the lights have failed. The... the power's gone off.
[phosphorescent glow rises]
Michael Parkinson: We've... got some lights in the studio. I don't know... there's cameras, but I don't know which one's working... I mean... there are no... No camermen! I mean... it's difficult to know even if anybody's still... still with us, but if they are, this is the scene in this studio... this totally deserted studio.
[cats start to shriek in background]
Michael Parkinson: Autocue's still working...!..."Round and round the garden... like a teddy bear?"
[stiffens]
Ghost: [speaking through Parkinson] Didn't believe that story about Mother Seddons, did you? Fee... fie... foe... fum.
[cats shriek as camera dies]
- ConnectionsEdited into Screen One: Ghostwatch (1992)
Over thirty years on, Ghostwatch still works, it still manages to scare and entertain. Such a shame that The BBC has lost the ability to produce original content such as this.
I'm not sure it's listed here, but this was past of The BBC'S Screen One drama series.
Is it me, or does this feel like an early version of Paranormal Activity, a genre that many of us became a little obsessed with.
Now, as a twelve year old, I can remember watching this with my parents, and being sent to bed, as it was considered too scary.
There is some content here that's genuinely unnerving, and more than a few disturbing scenes. Plenty of dialogue that wouldn't be used in such a dramatisation bow.
Considering that many of the cast are presenters, I think they did a very fine job, Parky is particularly good. Only Craig Charles is a little irritating, he's the one person sending it up, everyone else involved played it straight.
I know I shouldn't have kept on chuckling away at all of the glory hole jokes, but they do seem amusing now.
9/10.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Dec 29, 2023
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