BBC One 1971 - 3 seasons 38 eps TV-PG Returning series

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971 - 3 seasons 38 eps TV-PG

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35 min

S3 · E1 · Dec 25, 2013

The Tractate Middoth Episode 1

A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.

28 min

S3 · E2 · Dec 24, 2018

The Dead Room Episode 2

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.

31 min

S3 · E3 · Dec 24, 2019

Martin's Close Episode 3

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.

29 min

S3 · E4 · Dec 24, 2021

The Mezzotint Episode 4

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.

30 min

S3 · E5 · Dec 24, 2022

Count Magnus Episode 5

The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

29 min

S3 · E6 · Dec 24, 2023

Lot No. 249 Episode 6

An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.

30 min

S3 · E7 · Dec 24, 2024

Woman of Stone Episode 7

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.

30 min

S3 · E8 · Dec 24, 2025

The Room in the Tower Episode 8

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…

8 episodes in Season 3

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A Ghost Story for Christmas