1976's The Signalman ,is perhaps the most critically acclaimed of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas adaptations. From a short story by Charles Dickens. About a solitary signalman, (Denholm Elliot), who works at a lonely country railway signal box .Haunted by a spectre warning of an impending incident. He meets a stranger ( Bernard Lioyd) who tries to reassure the signalman by trying to rationalise the supernatural, and to explain that there is nothing to fear.But the signalman is sure there, is something tragic about to happen.

When the lead star of 'The Gourmet Detective' show is mysteriously bumped off. A bunch of various T.V detectives from the seventies, are teamed up with a television detective of the nineties, to solve the crime."

After sucking his blood, a vampire named Eramus invites famous horror writer R. Chetwynd-Hayes to a secret club. Where various monsters gather to drink and dance. At the club Eramus regales Hayes, with three tales of terror. Involving a lonely creature- hunters of the undead- and a tale about a mysterious village.

Episode 3 of a 13 part T.V series from Yorkshire Television, in the U.K. First shown in 1980. "Arthur C. Clarke explores, and explains "supernatural" mysteries of the earth, the seas,,the sky and much much more.- This episode explores extraordinary technologies from ancient civilizations that were either ahead of their times or forgotten in the ruins of history.