Leap in the Dark

Genre

anthology series

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British anthology series with a supernatural theme that aired on BBC 2 across four series from 1973 to 1980. The first season featured documentaries while later seasons included dramatized stories of real paranormal cases and original dramas.

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What happens

Leap in the Dark is a British television anthology series with a supernatural theme. It was broadcast on BBC 2. It ran for four series - in 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1980 - consisting of twenty-four episodes in total. The first-series episodes were documentaries, series two & three were presented by Colin Wilson and consisted of docudramas re-enacting real-life cases of paranormal occurrences, and series four was original dramas, including episodes written by Alan Garner, Fay Weldon, and David Rudkin. Apart from the pilot episode, no episode of the first series exists complete due to wiping, and the episode The Battle for Miss Beauchamp, (pronounced 'Bee-cham'), in the second series, is also incomplete. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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