"Classic adaptations from the BBC"
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV Show1971•32dk•star7.4(7)•trending_up5
Drama
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.
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StatusReturning Series
First AiredDecember 24, 1971
Last AiredDecember 24, 2025
Episode Runtime32dk
Seasons2
Episodes22
TypeScripted
Origin CountryUnited Kingdom
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish
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S1 E19 • 12/24/2025
The Room in the Tower
For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…
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