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Shades of Darkness

1983–1986 · 2 seasons

A hushed, unsettling hour of period unease where something quietly wrong lurks beneath polite drawing-room calm.

Created by: Peter Smith, John Glenister
Genres: Drama
Starring: Maggie Ford, Joanna David, June Brown

Overview: With Norma West, Annette Wilkie-Miller, Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins. An anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.

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Created by: Peter Smith, John Glenister
Genres: Drama
Starring: Maggie Ford, Joanna David, June Brown

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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
death
memory
isolation
fate
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	5
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Created by: Peter Smith, John Glenister, Simon Langton, Brian Parker, Gordon Flemyng, Peter Hammond
Written by: Edith Wharton, Alan Plater, Derek Mahon, Ken Taylor
Starring: Maggie Ford, Joanna David, June Brown, Norma West, Ian Collier, John Duttine, Chrissie Cotterill, David Hargreaves
Length: 2 seasons, 10 episodes, 60 min each
Network: ITV1
Languages: English

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