British telefantasy of the 1950s
Mostly based on the now defunct Telefantasy List website plus a few bonus ones I've found that weren't listed on there.
Missing 'Two Ghost Stories by M.R. James' (BBC, 1954) and 'The Red Grass' (1959).
Missing 'Two Ghost Stories by M.R. James' (BBC, 1954) and 'The Red Grass' (1959).
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- StarsBransby WilliamsJohn RuddockJohn BentleyOn Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsAlan JuddDesmond LlewelynJack LiveseyTelevision adaptation of the novel by R.L. Stevenson about the upright Dr Jekyll whose experiments lead him to discover a way to separate out good and evil in a man, and lead to him becoming the persona of the immoral Mr Hyde when taking the substance. However, he finds that the splitting begins to occur of its own accord and he loses control over it.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsBernard MilesColin GordonDesmond KeithA tramp falls asleep in the woods and dreams of observing a range of insects - each representing various human characteristics. Based on Karel and Josef Capek's satirical, allegorical play.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsWee Georgie WoodCarole LorimerBarry MacGregorAfter acting in a performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", two children meet a real-life Puck who takes them on a wild adventure.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsToke TownleyPat FieldMichael AshwinAn adaptation of a 1917 fantasy play by J. M. Barrie, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsBruce GordonNeil WilsonBarry MacGregorBroadcast live, not recorded
- StarsJohn GabrielRichard PearsonValentine DyallAdventures of a human boy befriended by a Martian boy who crashlands on Earth.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsJudy DysonRichard GooldenAlan JuddBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsMaurice BannisterDavid KossoffDonald PleasenceA young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.Broadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsDouglas WilmerErik ChittyRobin BaileyBroadcast live, not recorded
- StarsMargaret BartonKathleen BoutallMargery BryceBroadcast live, not recorded
- StarsPaul EricksonVernon GrayCharles RichardsonBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorStephen HarrisonStarsPhilip GuardJack WatlingUrsula HowellsA group of nuclear scientists face a moral dilemma when they discover that as well as making electricity, their government also wants to make nuclear bombs with their products.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsReginald TateIsabel DeanHugh KellyFollows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.2/6 episodes exist
- StarsJack RodneyHarold JamiesonRobert AyresA man dies and is brought back to life with a dose of adrenalin, but he now lives five seconds ahead of anyone else.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsAnthony ValentineJohn QuayleColin CampbellBroadcast live, not recorded
- StarsFrank AtkinsonCarol OlverMabel ConstandurosBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsJudd HoldrenVivian MasonTed ThorpeTwo newspaper reporters battle a plot by the evil Dr. Grood to conquer the world.Wiped
- DirectorEric FawcettStarsAlfie BassDavid KossoffAlan TilvernThe ghost of a poor warehouse clerk who died from the cold persuades a tailor to steal a coat.Wiped
- StarsTerence AlexanderDonald EcclesHenry OscarBe careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.Wiped
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellYvonne MitchellIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- DirectorChloe GibsonStarsJanet BarrowMargaret BoydJohn BreslinBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPeter CushingStanley BakerEric PohlmannA scientist searches for the Yeti in a Himalayan fastness, and is soon at odds with an adventurer who wants to find the Creature for less exalted reasons.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsHugh GriffithNorman TyrrellPeter ReevesOn Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.Wiped
- StarsJohn RobinsonMonica GreyHugh GriffithProfessor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.
- StarsPeter KerrJohn StuartGreta WatsonWiped
- DirectorLeonard BrettStarsBasil ApplebyAlfred BurkeGeoffrey ChaterTodays theme is the last reunion.
- DirectorDennis VanceStarsWalter RillaUrsula DaneraLaunce MaraschalMankind's plans for further expansion into outer space in the year 2021 are threatened by an unseen alien force.Broadcast live, not recorded
- 1954–195626m6.2 (91)TV EpisodeDirectorBernard KnowlesStarsBoris KarloffEwan RobertsDoris NolanMembers of a Britsh mountain climbing club are seemingly terrorized by an abominable snow man after film of tracks belonging to the creature are released. March struggles to accept the nature of the creature, and what it's real motivations are.
- 1954–195626m6.5 (51)TV EpisodeDirectorBernard KnowlesStarsBoris KarloffEwan RobertsVirginia DowningA phony spiritualist believes she's truly summoned a real ghost.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsBoris KarloffEwan RobertsMary ParkerMarch's niece witnesses her husband die in a plane crash. Soon after she begins to complain she can hear his voice in the night and others in the house become convinced her husband has returned as a ghost.
- DirectorPaul DicksonStarsBoris KarloffEwan RobertsHugh WilliamsA 12 year old boy insists his dead father told him to kill his mother's new fiancée.
- StarsPeter WilliamsPeter SallisJohn WoodOffers three minute plus eerie tales. Peter Williams narrates.
- StarsMoultrie KelsallJohn BannermanJohn YoungWiped
- StarsDennis PricePhilip RayOliver JohnstonBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorHal BurtonStarsJohn ArnattEarl CameronPeter CopleyBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsJack MayRuth TrouncerKenneth HydeBroadcast live, not recorded
- StarsJohn StuartMatthew LaneDon McCorkindaleThe story followed the exploits of four siblings who live in a small house on the inside rim of Earth Satellite One.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsHelen CherryWilliam LucasDavid GarthScientists discover a formula giving access to the fourth dimension - the unification of time and space - and, with others, are transported to the abstractly arid Planet X.Wiped
- StarsSarah LawsonLaurence PayneRonan O'CaseyUnexplained and gruesome deaths among climbers of the Trollenberg are investigated.Broadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorJohn KnightStarsAdrienne CorriRaymond HuntleyLorenza ColvilleDeep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado and find themselves in a web of betrayal and revenge that changes their friendship forever. Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.Broadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorStephen ClarksonStarsKeith AndersonBob Danvers WalkerBasil DignamA convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsNigel ArkwrightGeorge BancroftNicolette BernardBroadcast live, not recorded
- StarsJennifer WilsonGreta GyntDavid LangtonBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorWilfred EadesStarsPeter CarverAnton DiffringReginald JessupA scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.Broadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorTania LievenStarsDennis PriceKatie BoyleErik ChittyJ. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsHumphrey LestocqGeorge ToveyJohn RaeBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorTania LievenStarsRuth KettlewellCyril LuckhamIan MacNaughtonWiped
- DirectorWilfred EadesStarsMaurice DenhamJohn RobinsonRobert AyresSenior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean?
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsDonald HoustonIan CurryPatricia JesselBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorJames FermanStarsFrances DayThora HirdBrian OultonJack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, the youth kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under the trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsJune ThorburnJohn FabianPeter SallisFilm ''Cinderella'' based on the novel by Charles Perrault
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsIan HunterFanny RoweAnn FirbankDyson has a dream about a nuclear war and having to shoot his horrifically injured wife and daughter.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsTim TurnerLisa DanielyDeborah WatlingWhile working on an invisibility formula, British scientist Dr. Peter Brady (Tim Turner) suffers a tragic accident which turns him invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so while working on a method to regain his visibility, he undertakes missions for his government stopping bad guys.
- StarsAndré MorellCec LinderAnthony BushellA team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
- DirectorPeter DuguidStarsAndrew CruickshankFulton MackayIrene SuntersBroadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorPeter Graham ScottStarsJohn RobinsonCharles Lloyd PackEric LanderThe world stands on the brink as a runaway freighter rocket, containing high explosives, is due to detonate over London at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999.
- StarsClifford ElkinNigel ArkwrightBetty Huntley-WrightA man steps through his attic door in his new London home and ends up 150 years in the past, where he is accused of being a French spy.Broadcast live, not recorded
- DirectorJohn RhodesStarsCharles Lloyd PackJoyce CareyPeter MyersAn eccentric inventor joins the space race.Wiped
- StarsAnn ToddPhil BrownRobert BrownA British family living in an isolated valley in the aftermath of a nuclear war finds that their idyll is shattered when a detachment of American troops arrive.Broadcast live, not recorded
- StarsDaphne SlaterDerek GodfreyNora NicholsonJust who is the mysterious Mary Rose - a creature of this earth or something altogether more ethereal?Broadcast live, not recorded
- 1959– 25m5.5 (72)TV EpisodeDirectorRoss MacKenzieNeil McGuireStarsFredric MarchBasil RathboneAlexander GaugeBasil Rathbone stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in a short television Christmas Carol performance. Spare, but elementally complete, its host, Fredric March, provides connecting narratives between the scenes.
- StarsMaurice KaufmannMaxine AudleyPhilip BondHard-driven scientist David Whittaker finds himself battling for the survival of the world against a disease spreading from a tropical island caused by a legendary spider-goddess.
- DirectorErnest MorrisStarsRhodes ReasonGene AndersonEric Francis
- DirectorHenry KaplanStarsSean ConneryBarbara ChilcottNoel WillmanA Salem woman accuses her ex-lover's wife of witchcraft.Sequences exist but complete programme is lost
- DirectorLionel HarrisStarsBernard BarberGladys BootPamela BrownA young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.