Mystery and Imagination

5.5
19661h

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.

Production

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Seasons

7 Episodes • Premiered 1966

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1. The Lost Stradivarius

A certain tune, played on a particular violin, invokes an evil 18th-century occultist.

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2. The Body Snatcher

In the early 19th-century, an eminent professor seeks (illegally) to obtain dead bodies for his anatomical research.

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3. The Fall of the House of Usher

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Finn arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

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4. The Open Door

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in fact the boy's imagination or is it real?

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5. The Tractate Middoth

A young librarian is hired by the impatient John Eldred to find an old tractate — so that Eldred can cheat the real heirs out of their estate... but the book is haunted by the ghost of its previous owner.

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6. Lost Hearts

An orphan taken in by an elderly cousin is haunted by the ghosts of two children and learns that the house holds a terrible secret.

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7. The Canterville Ghost

An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.

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