Spine Chillers - Season 1

Spine Chillers - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes20
DatesNov. 17, 1980 - Okt. 1, 1981

Episodes

The Red Room
Season 1Episode 115 min

The Red Room

Today Freddie Jones tells The Red Room by H. G. WELLS 
' Looking round, one could well understand the legends that had sprouted in the room's black corners. My candle was a little tongue of flame in its vastness, that left an ocean of mystery and suggestion beyond its island of light ...'

Nov. 17, 1980
The Yellow Cat
Season 1Episode 215 min

The Yellow Cat

Today John Woodvine tells More Spinned Against by JOHN WYNDHAM 
' Lydia entered Edward's spider-room about once a week, partly to tidy and dust it, and partly to enjoy detesting its inhabitants in a pleasantly masochistic fashion.'

Nov. 18, 1980
The Music on the Hill
Season 1Episode 315 min

The Music on the Hill

Today Jonathan Pryce tells The Music on the Hill by SAKI Sylvia Seltoun had achieved her ultimate ambition in marrying Mortimer Seltoun , and settling with him at his manor farm, Yessney. But there was a furtive, sinister ' something' that hung around Yessney ...

Nov. 20, 1980
The Mezzotint
Season 1Episode 415 min

The Mezzotint

Today Michael Bryant tells The Mezzotint by M. R. JAMES 
' Begging your pardon, sir, but it ain't a picture I should 'ang where my little girl could see it, sir ... if she was to ketch a sight of it she would be in a taking and no mistake.'

Nov. 21, 1980
The Treasure in the Forest
Season 1Episode 515 min

The Treasure in the Forest

Today Freddie Jones tells The Treasure in the Forest by H. G. WELLS 
Hooker shivered as his eye rested on the figure of the dead China-man. ' Let's get out of this place.'

Nov. 24, 1980
The Devil's Ape
Season 1Episode 615 min

The Devil's Ape

Today John Woodvine tells The Devil's Ape by BARNARD STACEY 
'... and then something happened. Something we couldn't see, but felt - something that made us afraid with a sweating fear. Some- body - something - came into the room...'

Nov. 25, 1980
Sredni-Vashtar
Season 1Episode 715 min

Sredni-Vashtar

Today Jonathan Pryce tells Sredni-Vashtar by SAKI 
' Conradin was dreadfully afraid of the lithe, sharp-fanged pole ferret, but it was his most treasured possession. Its very presence in the tool shed was a secret and fearful joy ...'

Nov. 27, 1980
A School Story
Season 1Episode 815 min

A School Story

Today Michael Bryant tells A School Story by M. R. JAMES
'A moment ago, there was a man sitting on the window-sill. He was wet all over - and I'm not at all sure he was alive!'

Nov. 28, 1980
In the Avu Observatory
Season 1Episode 915 min

In the Avu Observatory

Today Freddie Jones tells In the Avu Observatory by H. G. WELLS
Was the thing, whatever it was, inside or out? Then something flapped almost into his face, and the sense of some strange bird-like creature hovering a few yards from him was indescribably terrifying.

Dez. 1, 1980
The Running Companion
Season 1Episode 1015 min

The Running Companion

John Woodvine tells The Running Companion by PHILIPPA PEARCE 
' For years now, Mr Adamson 's hatred had been with him, not only when he ran, but all day, and often at night, too. Sometimes in his dreams it seemed to him that his running companion, his hatred, stood just behind him, or at his very elbow.'

Dez. 2, 1980
The Pennance
Season 1Episode 1115 min

The Pennance

Today Jonathan Pryce tells The Penance by SAKI 
In hunting to death a small tabby cat, Octavian had done a thing of which he scarcely approved himself. But Octavian kept chickens -at least he kept some of them; others vanished, leaving only a few bloodstained feathers to mark their going.

Dez. 4, 1980
The Well
Season 1Episode 1215 min

The Well

Today Michael Bryant tells The Well by W. W. JACOBS 
She dropped a stone down the well, and said ' Fancy being where that is now, clutching at the slimy sides, with water filling your mouth, looking up to the little patch of sky above.'

Dez. 5, 1980
The Stolen Bacillus
Season 1Episode 1315 min

The Stolen Bacillus

Today Freddie Jones tells The Stolen Bacillus by H. G. WELLS 
The bacteriologist took up a sealed tube. ' Here is the living thing - bottled cholera.' 
' It is a deadly thing to have in your possession.'

Dez. 8, 1980
Sin of Omission
Season 1Episode 1415 min

Sin of Omission

Today John Woodvine tells A Sin of Omission by R. CHETWYND-HAYES
"A flat head rose up, and small, watery-blue eyes glittered with malevolent intent, while jaws opened to their fullest extent, and Mr Faversham was permitted to view a pink-lined cavern that was equipped with two yellow, pointed fangs..."

Dez. 9, 1980
The Diary of Mr Poynter
Season 1Episode 1515 min

The Diary of Mr Poynter

Today Jonathan Pryce tells Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
The boy laughed, a laugh in which the snarl had nearly driven out the chuckle, and then plunged out of view into a yielding tangle of weed and fern.
'What an extraordinary wild animal' thought Van Cheele.

Dez. 11, 1980
The Flowerings of the Strange Orchid
Season 1Episode 1615 min

The Flowerings of the Strange Orchid

Today Michael Bryant tells The Diary of Mr Poynter by M. R. JAMES 
' There was about it so horrible an air of menace that, moaning with fear, he rushed from the room.'

Dez. 15, 1980
More Spinned Against
Season 1Episode 1715 min

More Spinned Against

Today Freddie Jones tells The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H. G. WELLS 
They found him lying dead in a mangrove swamp with one of these orchids crushed up under his body. Maybe that plant cost him his life to obtain.

Dez. 16, 1980
The Hounds of Fate
Season 1Episode 1815 min

The Hounds of Fate

John Woodvine tells More Spinned Against by JOHN WYNDHAM 
' Lydia entered Edward's spider-room about once a week, partly to tidy and dust it, and partly to enjoy detesting its inhabitants in a pleasantly masochistic fashion....'

Dez. 18, 1980
Jerry Bundler
Season 1Episode 1915 min

Jerry Bundler

Today Jonathan Pryce tells The Hounds of Fate by SAKI 
' What do the folk around here say about me?' asked Stoner. 
' They be bitter agen you, mortal bitter. Aye, 'tis a sad business, a sad business.'

Dez. 19, 1980
Gabriel Ernest
Season 1Episode 2015 min

Gabriel Ernest

Today Michael Bryant tells Jerry Bundler by W. W. JACOBS 
' My father used to declare that the last time he slept here, the ghost of Jerry Bundler lowered itself from the top of his bed and tried to strangle him.'

Okt. 1, 1981

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