Tales of Mystery (1961)
- Genre
- anthology series, fantasy television program
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Each episode adapts a short story by Algernon Blackwood about supernatural events. An actor portrays the author and introduces the tale. The show ran for three seasons in the early 1960s.
eerieold-fashionedslow-burnatmosphericmelancholicmysteriousunderstatedquietly unsettling
What happens
Tales of Mystery was a British supernatural television drama anthology series based on the short stories of Algernon Blackwood. It was broadcast by ITV (Associated-Rediffusion) and ran over three seasons from 1961 to 1963. Produced by Peter Graham Scott, each episode was 25 minutes long and introduced by John Laurie (as the author himself). None of the 29 episodes broadcast survive in any television archive, however. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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