A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas

  • 1971
  • 3 Seasons
  • 30 Episodes
  •  7.4  (7)
  •   Returning Series

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.

A Ghost Story for Christmas
Seasons
The Room in the Tower
8. The Room in the Tower
December 24, 2025
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…
Woman of Stone
7. Woman of Stone
December 24, 2024
Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.
Lot No. 249
6. Lot No. 249
December 24, 2023
An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Count Magnus
5. Count Magnus
December 24, 2022
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
The Mezzotint
4. The Mezzotint
December 24, 2021
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.
Martin's Close
3. Martin's Close
December 24, 2019
Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.
The Dead Room
2. The Dead Room
December 24, 2018
Aubrey Judd, veteran radio presenter of The Dead Room, soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
The Tractate Middoth
1. The Tractate Middoth
December 25, 2013
A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.
Ghost Stories for Christmas - The Definitive Collection

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Description
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.
  • Premiere Date
    December 24, 1971
  • Rating
    7.4  (7)