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Shades of Darkness

UK / Granada / 8x60m-e / 1983/86 (27 May 1983 - 21 June 1986)

Producer: June Wyndham-Davies / Executive Producer: Michael Cox / 

An anthology series of spooky and menacing dramas, mostly period. 

1. THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL [27 May 1983]

Script: Ken Taylor / Story: Edith Wharton / Director: John Glenister 

Following the death of the previous maid, Emma Saxon, a young girl is employed at a country mansion where strange things start to happen...

With:- Joanna David [Hartley] / Norma West [Mrs Brympton] / Ian Collier [Mr Brympton] / Roger Llewellyn [Mr Ranford] / Charlotte Mitchell [Mrs Blinder] / Clive Duncan [Bob Burling] / June Brown [Emma Saxon] / Diane Whitley [Agnes] / Malcolm Raeburn [Ted Roberts] / Bernard Atha [pharmacist] / Alick Hayes [vicar]

 

2. THE INTERCESSOR [3 June 1983] 

Script: Alan Plater / Story: May Sinclair / Director: Peter Smith 

A writer doing some research at an old farm house is disturbed by the crying of a child late at night. But he's assured that there are no children in the house and hasn't been for many years...

With:- John Duttine [Garvin] / Maggie Ford [Mrs Falshaw] / David hargreaves [Mr Falshaw] / Chrissie Cotterill [Rachel] / Annette Wilkie-Miller [child] / Peter Hughes [MacKinnon]

 

3. FEET FORMOST [10 June 1983] 

Script: L.P. Hartley, Alan Plater / Director: Gordon Flemyng 

At a house warming party, a story about a ghost waiting to be carried over the threshold like a bride is told and meets with ridicule from most of the guests. But that night, it seems to be coming horribly true... 

With:- Jeremy Kemp / Joanna Van Gyseghem / Peter Machin
Heather Chasen / Carol Royle

 

4. AFTERWARD [17 June 1983] 

Script: Alfred Shaughnessy / Story: Edith Warburton / Director: Simon Langton 

An American couple buy a haunted house in Britain and soon have some strange guests. 

With:- Michael J. Shannon / Kate Harper / Penelope Lee / Rolf Saxon / Meg Ritchie

 

5. THE MAZE [24 June 1983] 

Script: C.H.B. Kitchen, Ken Taylor / Director: Peter Hammond

Why is a mother so concerned that her child not play in the maze in the grounds of their mansion? What horror is lurking inside?

With:- Francesca Annis / Sky McCaksill / Nellie Hannam / James Bolam / Duncan Preston / Philip Sayer / Amanda Boxer

 

6. SEATON'S AUNT [1 July 1983] 

Script: Walter De La Mere, Ken Taylor / Director: Brian Parker 

A terrified young boy is placed in the care of his aunt when his parents die. He soon comes to believe that the woman is a witch in league with the Devil himself...

With:- Paul Herxberg / Mary Morris / Peter Settelen / Emma Jacobs / Adam lal / Joshua De La Mere / Alexandra Wilkie-Miller

 

7. BEWITCHED [8 July 1983] 

Script: Alan Plater / Story: Edith Wharton / Director: John Gorrie 

A sickly man living alone in a country cottage befriends the ghost of a dead girl. But the locals soon come to believe that he's fallen victim of witchcraft.

With:- Eileen Atkins [Mrs Rutledge] / Alfred Lynch [Saul Rutledge] / Sylvester Brand [Ray Smith] / Gareth Thomas [Orrin Bosworth] / Alfred Burke [Reverend Hibben] / Mary Jo Randall [girl] / Mary Healy [Loretta Bosworth] / Martin Hesford [Andrew]

 

8. THE DEMON LOVER [21 June 1986] 

Script: Derek Mahon / Story: Elizabeth Bowen / Director: Peter Hammond 

When a young man sets out to fight in the First World War, his lover vows that they will be reunited, no matter what might happen to him. She soon comes to regret her noble sentiments...

With:- Dorothy Tutin [Kathleen Drover] / Robert Hardy [William  Drover] / Adrienne Corri [Delia Graham] / John Fortune [Eric Farnham] / Arabella Weir [Anne Page] / Hugh Grant [Robert Drover] / Amanda Waring [young Kathleen] / Angela Thorne [Mary Dash] / Miranda Richardson [Gina]

It's worth bearing in mind that many of the shows featured within our pages can be found on video at Blackstar.

 
 
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