Dead of Night (TV series)
| Dead of Night | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Thriller / Horror |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Innes Lloyd |
| Running time | 50 mins |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC2 |
| Original release | 5 November – 17 December 1972 |
Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972.
History
Dead of Night ran for a single series in the autumn of 1972. Of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—"The Exorcism", "Return Flight", and "A Woman Sobbing"—are known to exist today in the BBC's archives. Another programme made by the Dead of Night 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.
BBC Four rebroadcast "The Exorcism" on 22 December 2007.
In October 2013 the surviving episodes were released on DVD by the BFI, with extras including a gallery of stills from the missing episodes, the downloadable scripts for all missing episodes and a booklet featuring essays and biographies by Lisa Kerrigan, Oliver Wake, Derek Johnston and Alex Davidson.
Cast
- "The Exorcism"
- Anna Cropper: Rachel
- Sylvia Kay: Margaret
- Edward Petherbridge: Edmund
- Clive Swift: Dan
- "Return Flight"
- Peter Barkworth: Captain Rolph
- Bernard Brown: Frank Warley
- Diana Fairfax: Rosalind Warley
- Artro Morris: Samuels
- Denis Lill: Froggat
- "Bedtime"
- Sarah Badel: Lorna
- Terrence Hardiman: Piers Wickett
- Jacqueline Pearce: Sarah Hopkirk
- James Smillie: Keith Hopkirk
- Neil Stacy: Geoffrey Hamilton
- Yutte Stensgaard: Gertrud Wickett
- "Death Cancels All Debts"
- David Baron: James Halt
- Lucy Griffiths: Florence
- Sebastian Shaw: Powys Jubb
- Nora Swinburne: Mariella Jubb
- "Smith"
- John Castle: Michael
- Christopher Hancock: Features editor
- Ruby Head: Mrs. Hunter
- Gwen Taylor: Tessa
- "Two in the Morning"
- Peter Jeffrey: Wisbech
- Donald Douglas: Hazelhurst
- John Nettleton: Grandman
- Ralph Nossek: Dr. Fortescue
- "A Woman Sobbing"
- Anna Massey: Jane Pullar
- Ronald Hines: Frank Pullar
- Julian Holloway: Sandy
- Yokki Rhodes: Inge
- John Lee: Priest
- Margaret John: Fay
- John Graham: Philip
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Exorcism" | Don Taylor | Don Taylor | 5 November 1972 |
| Archive status: exists | ||||
| 2 | "Return Flight" | Rodney Bennett | Robert Holmes | 12 November 1972 |
| Archive status: exists | ||||
| 3 | "Bedtime" | Simon Langton | Hugh Whitemore | 19 November 1972 |
| Archive status: missing | ||||
| 4 | "Death Cancels All Debts" | Brian Farnham | Peter Draper | 26 November 1972 |
| Archive status: missing | ||||
| 5 | "Smith" | Robert Knights | Dorothy Allison | 3 December 1972 |
| Archive status: missing | ||||
| 6 | "Two in the Morning" | Paul Annett | Leo Lehman | 10 December 1972 |
| Archive status: missing | ||||
| 7 | "A Woman Sobbing" | Paul Ciappessoni | John Bowen | 17 December 1972 |
| Archive status: exists | ||||
External links
- Dead of Night at the BFI Film & TV Database
- Dead of Night on IMDb
- "The Exorcism" at BFI Screenonline