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Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination

★ 5.8/10•1966•1h 0m•12•Drama•Mystery
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 29, 1966

Episodes

E160m

The Lost Stradivarius

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

Jan 29, 1966

E260m

The Body Snatcher

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

Feb 5, 1966

E360m

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.

Feb 12, 1966

E460m

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?

Feb 19, 1966

E560m

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.

Feb 26, 1966

E660m

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.

Mar 5, 1966

E760m

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.

Mar 12, 1966

Recommendations

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Night Gallery
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Creeped Out
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Dark Shadows
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Night Visions
Goosebumps
The Teacher
Crooked House
Nancy Drew
Father Brown
The Rainmaker
Agatha Christie's Marple
Marchlands
The Twilight Zone
Death Comes to Pemberley

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