A Ghost Story for Christmas
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A Ghost Story for Christmas

“Classic adaptations from the BBC”

★ 7.3/10 TMDB Premiered 1971-12-24 3 seasons 30 eps

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.

Last Episode Aired 2025-12-24
S1E19 — 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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