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A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Friday, December 24, 1971

Ended: Wednesday, December 24, 2025

When does A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 come out?

A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 premiered Friday, December 24, 1971 on BBC One and ended Wednesday, December 24, 2025. The season has 19 episodes.

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A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 release schedule

A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 episode release dates
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1. The Stalls of Barchester

An ambitious cleric murders an aged Archdeacon at Barchester Cathedral. However, he is soon being stalked by a sinister black cat and by a hooded figure both of whom seem to be embodiments of carvings on the cathedral's choir stalls.

Friday · 54 years ago

2. A Warning to the Curious

An amateur archaeologist travels to a remote seaside town in Norfolk to search for the lost crown of Anglia, but after unearthing it is haunted by a mysterious black figure.

Sunday · 53 years ago

3. Lost Hearts

An orphan moves into the house of his uncle, but is disturbed by visions of a pair of ghostly children. Is their message a warning to be fearful of his uncle's obsession with immortality?

Tuesday · 52 years ago

4. Treasure of Abbot Thomas

A respected theologian and his protégé unearth clues to find the hidden treasure of a disgraced monk in an abbey library. Should he have heeded his own advice not to go treasure hunting?

Monday · 51 years ago

5. The Ash-tree

An aristocrat inherits his family estate and is haunted by visions of his ancestor's role in a witchcraft trial.

Tuesday · 50 years ago

6. The Signalman

A railway signalman tells a curious traveller how he is being troubled by a ghostly spectre that seems to predict calamity.

Wednesday · 49 years ago

7. Stigma

Whilst clearing the ground for a new lawn, a family find a huge flat rock in their garden. It is so heavy it needs a crane to remove it. In doing so, they release a spirit which has terrible consequences for the family.

Wednesday · 48 years ago

8. The Ice House

The story concerns a health spa visited by Paul (John Stride) , strange incidents occur with members of staff whom Paul notices are all icy cold to the touch. The Brother and sister owners seem otherworldly , as do the residents, and they have a strange relationship with two vines.......

Monday · 47 years ago

9. A View From a Hill

A historian has a disturbing experience after borrowing a pair of binoculars belonging to a missing outcast and venturing up a notorious landmark.

Friday · 20 years ago

10. Number 13

An academic researcher repudiates local superstitions surrounding a devilish house. However, repeated visions and noises during the night suggest he may be proved wrong.

Friday · 19 years ago

11. Whistle and I'll Come to You

Leaving his ill and ageing wife in a care home, a retired astronomer revisits one of their old coastal haunts, but after discovering a ring on the beach is soon haunted himself.

Friday · 15 years ago

12. The Tractate Middoth

A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents.

Wednesday · 12 years ago

13. The Dead Room

Aubrey Judd, veteran radio presenter of The Dead Room, soon realises that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.

Monday · 7 years ago

14. Martin's Close

Adaptation of a ghost story by MR James. 1684. John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge' George Jeffreys. However, this is not a cut-and-dried murder case.

Tuesday · 6 years ago

15. The Mezzotint

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.

Friday · 4 years ago

16. Count Magnus

The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.

Saturday · 3 years ago

17. Lot No. 249

An Oxford University student becomes obsessed with an ancient Egyptian mummy.

Sunday · 2 years ago

18. Woman of Stone

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses it as folklore, but on Christmas Eve, he feels drawn to the church, leaving Laura alone.

Tuesday · 1 year ago

19. The Room in the Tower

For 15 years, Roger Winstanley has been haunted by an unsettling, recurring dream: an invitation to spend the night in the house of an acquaintance, where an unseen terror lurks and the figures who populate the dream seem to age in real time. Nightmare and waking life seem to finally collide when an invitation to the dreaded "room in the tower” becomes all too real…

Wednesday · 10 months ago

A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 guest stars

  • John Hurt

    John Hurt

    James Parkin

  • Gemma Jones

    Gemma Jones

    Alice Parkin

  • Lesley Sharp

    Lesley Sharp

    Hetty

  • Sophie Thompson

    Sophie Thompson

    Carol

  • Robert Hardy

    Robert Hardy

    Archdeacon Haynes

  • Clive Swift

    Clive Swift

    Dr. Black

  • Peter Vaughan

    Peter Vaughan

    Mr. Paxton

  • Denholm Elliott

    Denholm Elliott

    The Signalman

  • Peter Bowles

    Peter Bowles

    Peter

  • Pip Torrens

    Pip Torrens

    Squire Richards

  • Mark Letheren

    Mark Letheren

    Dr. Fanshawe

  • David Burke

    David Burke

    Patten

  • Greg Wise

    Greg Wise

    Professor Anderson

  • Paul Freeman

    Paul Freeman

    Mr. Harrington

  • Tom Burke

    Tom Burke

    Edward Jenkins

  • Charlotte Comer

    Charlotte Comer

    Alice

A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 FAQ

When does A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 come out?

A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 premiered Friday, December 24, 1971 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1?

A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 has 19 episodes.

Are new episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas Season 1 released weekly?

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