The Most Sophisticated Victorian Horror Series (Part Two)

[@JANGLEPOP1]

Great summary once again. Hopefully with your enthusiastic reviews people will search out and buy the DVD..they really should!

[@Fenrisaconite]

WOW the actor playing Walter in that vampire episode looks distractedly like Carl Barât, down to the blue eyes! Especially at 21:22 Thanks for the summary videos on this show! It looks pretty interesting and I think I'll track it down and give it a watch.

[@GradKat]

Gordon Jackson, not Gregory. Good video, though. I remember seeing some of these episodes on TV in the seventies. Now I’m inspired to rewatch them on DVD.

[@stevenmcnicoll5060]

Great piece. Loved this series .Saw it originally in 1977, it was on BBC1 and followed later on BBC2 with Dracula Frankenstein and Friends. Classic horror double bill . I was seven and it was the first time I was allowed to stay up late. I was hooked. A great time for spooky telly. Happy days.

[@janllh24]

Me too, funny to think there were others

[@MeraLee82]

Loved this series on your channel - I need to teach down the DVDs of this show, it looks amazing.

[@rosie3946]

I've been loving your videos on older TV horror - I actually binged them a day before you uploaded part one of this video, I was psyched! Do you have any plans to cover the Ghost Story for Christmas strand?

[@AstileDohertyProductions]

@@rosie3946 perhaps

[@m.p.6039]

It's nice to see Miss Lemon in another role (outside of the Poirot series).

[@helennoakes3675]

Absolutely love your delivery!

[@guillaumebabey4484]

Apart from the strange selection of anti-children lines betraying a potential personal stance by the one Astile Doherty, I am thankful of this relatively lesser known KZbinr for bringing our attention to these great British TV productions! Noteworthy trivia, Mary Lawrence played by Pauline Moran is better known by all as miss Lemon from Agatha Christie's Poirot.

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

I was 12. I loved these! This was my favourite episode!

[@meimei8718]

I actually don’t mind the ham-fisted Frankenstein “twist.” It’s a show which seems to be experimenting and I don’t hate it at all. Thanks for the video

[@geekie168]

That doll will haunt all our dreams. It's great!

[@s-a-r-a-h]

the chaos bisexual episode is ICONIC

[@applin121]

If you like this then you ought to take a look at Schalken the Painter, also available on a BFI dvd. It also stars Jeremy Clyde and John Justin

[@inisipisTV]

That's from director Lawrence Gordon Clark's Christmas Ghost stories TV series for BBC. All of them are a treasure. Actor Denholm Elliot stars in Charles Dicken's The Signalman.

[@ManOfPrayer]

@@inisipisTV Actually that’s incorrect. It wasn’t an episode of A Ghost Story For Christmas but part of the BBC’s Omnibus series.

[@rickykilby4672]

Don't think it was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark either.​@@ManOfPrayer

[@Kevin-1969]

I watched these on dvd, I remember watching them as a 8 year old in the summer of 77, only the last two are good. Dorabella is the one I remember most, it is by far the best, head and shoulders above the rest. Mind you the Gordon Jackson story is the next best one. I read a review once it said the series suffered from static direction. It would be 1980 before another series came which was Hammer House Of Horror

[@sepheronx]

i really like the tight script at 27:33

[@mgthestrange9098]

27:03 Is Dorabella an energy vampire?

[@Freakaboogie]

Dorabella is my favourite, too!!!

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

I loved Dorabella, my 2nd favourite episode.

[@jamesupton5601]

Well that's an xmas pressie for my brother sorted.

[@theophobos]

💚♍💚

[@rickykilby4672]

That would be Robert Hardy,he was a very hammy actor and overacted in almist everything he was in.Check out Demons of the mind from hammer,not a bad film at all but spoilt by Hardy's over the top performance.

[@ConstableHandsy]

This was so disappointing. I remember staying up to watch this with my brother and it was just thespians over acting. The werewolf one with Billie Whitelaw was as scary as The Magic Roundabout.

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

I am terified of old dolls with teeth showing. No problem with other dolls....or modern dolls with teeth showing! No idea why I find them so creepy. Any times?!

[@JaneEasterbrook-bn3ux]

I mean, any ideas. Stupid phone went doolally!

[@JoePublic-g9h]

Yeah look mean wasn't really a thing in 70s UK. Have you not seen Reggie Perrin & the mother in law joke.? Everybody is hyper sensitive these days they truly are. Tell me does bully banter among friends no longer exist these days or is that considered mean too.? I grew up being a porker & heard every fat joke known to man before I was 11. Do ya know why.? Bc much of it came from my dad & older brother. And so I grew thick skin & learned to be a master of self-deprecation by hitting myself with the fat jokes first disarming the school kids from being able to hurt my feelings. I was also therefore considered the calssiest of class clowns. Thus when I saw the Steve Martin & Daryl Hana movie Roxanne & he did the top 10 big nose lines I realised that his character & I were kindred spirits. I didn't neeed to be gay or trans or "non binary," whatever the hell that means, in order to fit in & have victim points & I'm a far better & more interesting person bc of it. Or so I'm told.

[@garyhaskins7482]

In the vampire tale did they use Dracula's castle as shown in scars of dracula and lust for a vampire from hammer film productions ? Love the documentary good narration