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Dead of Night

1972 · 1 season

A quietly unsettling anthology of supernatural tales that lingers in the mind with its eerie atmosphere and deliberate pace.

Created by
Innes Lloyd
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Sebastian Shaw, Anna Cropper, Sylvia Kay
Overview
Dead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.

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Created by
Innes Lloyd
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Starring
Sebastian Shaw, Anna Cropper, Sylvia Kay
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • death
  • fate
  • memory
  • freedom
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • anthology
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror6
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, mystery
Created by
Innes Lloyd
Written by
Hugh Whitemore, Don Taylor, John Bowen, Peter Draper
Starring
Sebastian Shaw, Anna Cropper, Sylvia Kay, Edward Petherbridge, Clive Swift, Kenneth Kendall, Peter Barkworth, Bernard Brown
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes, 50 min each
Network
BBC Two
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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