Beasts (TV series)
Beasts | |
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Genre | Horror Anthology |
Created by | Nigel Kneale |
Starring | Anthony Bate Martin Shaw Pauline Quirke Michael Kitchen Patrick Magee |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Producer | Nicholas Palmer |
Running time | c. 50 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 16 October 20 November 1976 | –
Beasts is a 1976 British television series. Written by Nigel Kneale, it is an anthology of six self-contained episodes that feature the recurring theme of bestial horror. The series was made by ATV for the ITV Network.
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Episodes
# | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "Special Offer" | 16 October 1976 | |
Pauline Quirke stars as a shop assistant whose unrequited love for her manager prompts a paranormal revenge. | |||
2 | "During Barty's Party" | 23 October 1976 | |
Starring Anthony Bate, a middle-class couple's life becomes overturned by rats. | |||
3 | "Buddyboy" | 30 October 1976 | |
Featuring Martin Shaw and a disused aquarium haunted by the spirit of a dolphin. | |||
4 | "Baby" | 6 November 1976 | |
Starring Simon MacCorkindale as a newlywed whose wife's pregnancy falls foul of ancient witchcraft. | |||
5 | "What Big Eyes" | 13 November 1976 | |
Features Michael Kitchen as an RSPCA inspector investigating a man (Patrick Magee) who is trying to turn himself into a wolf. | |||
6 | "The Dummy" | 20 November 1976 | |
Shows the psychological effect on an actor (Bernard Horsfall) who regularly plays a monster in horror films. |
DVD release
The series was released on DVD by Network in 2006. This set also included a similarly themed TV play called Murrain that Kneale had written for ITV's Against the Crowd series in 1975.
External links
- Beasts at IMDb
- Beasts at the BFI's Screenonline
Categories:
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- 1970s British drama television series
- 1976 British television series debuts
- 1976 British television series endings
- ITV television dramas
- British anthology television series
- British supernatural television shows
- British horror fiction television series
- Television series by ITV Studios
- Television shows produced by Associated Television (ATV)
- English-language television shows