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Mystery and Imagination

Series 3

1968 · 6 episodes

  1. 1. Casting the Runes

    1968-03-25 · 60m

    Volatile and short-tempered Mr Karswell never forgets a slight. As he is also a man capable of summoning demons from Hell to do his bidding, his quarrel with Dunning may have unfortunate consequences.

  2. 2. The Listener

    1968-03-30 · 60m

    Reeve is a studious man hyper-sensitive to noise. Lodgings in a quiet cul-de-sac initially seem to be the answer, but he soon begins to suspect he is not alone.

  3. 3. A Place of One's Own

    1968-04-06 · 60m

    The elderly Smedhursts buy the old Bellingham House, rumoured to be haunted by a maiden believed to have been murdered by her guardians.

  4. 4. The Devil's Piper

    1968-04-13 · 60m

    A bagpipe player pays his rent but doesn't get a receipt before his landlord dies. The Devil then persuades him to go to Hell and get his recently deceased landlord to sign the receipt.

  5. 5. The Telltale Heart

    1968-04-20 · 60m

    A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

  6. 6. Feet Foremost

    1968-06-29 · 60m

    Anthony Fairfield goes to stay with a friend, only to encounter a ghostly woman seeking vengeance for a past injustice.

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