Tales of Mystery (1961)
- Genre
- anthology series, fantasy television program
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 3 seasons, 29 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Hammer House of Horror (1980)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.