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The boy runs to the road and there’s his dad’s truck but just as he reaches it the truck drives off – dad has the doppleganger in the passenger seat. From memory it also had Brian Capron (Corrie's Richard Hillman) in a small role before he became Mr Kirkwood in Grange Hill though he isn't listed on the imdb.
It’s a simplistic story of good-vs-evil but the telling is unusual, the performances stronger than usual and Richard Hanford’s direction constantly inventive and unexpected. While this sequence can be seen as dealing with the familiar trope of people messing with things they know nothing about, Garner adds in a chilling aside, neither Peter or Sally have seen a ghost but then Sally adds “I’d be more bothered if a ghost had seen me.
if anna home of TVS created the strand at the time did thames asked permission from her to use the 'dramarama' name in 'spooky' before it started? KIDS' GHOST STORY about an old house recently moved into by a family who then experience poltergeist activity soon after. While his teacher Mr Lilly (Wayne Norman) is off showing a former teacher at the school (Faith Brook) around the building, Kevin is distracted by strange noises and objects being moved around in the room. The children eventually discover a sealed room in the house (after noticing the window to it one day) which had been sealed for centuries, and has a skeleton of a 17th century soldier in a red uniform lying in the double bed in the middle of the dusty, cobwebbed and dark room.
One of the stories, Thames' "Dodger, Bonzo And The Rest" from 1984, proved so popular that it was spun off into its own series and Christmas special the following year - the series starred Lee Ross and recounted life in a large foster home.
The boy decides to challenge his own fear of finding out exactly what is inside the cupboard in the dark corner of his room. Remember being scared stiff by The Clifton House Mystery as well as some of the Dramarama episodes when I was a kid. As usual, I would like to extend a heart-felt thank you to Network for taking the trouble to licence and master these marginal interest pieces. Don’t Let Me In is a scary text story about a boyfriend who sends text messages to his girlfriend in the middle of the night, warning her not to open the door for him. Edit: Not sure if it was part of the same line up, but there was also another ghost story around the same time about a family who find a bricked up room in their new house, and in side is either a helmet or a skeleton in a bed?
The unsettling camera work certainly helps but the narrative weaving of innocent pastimes like playing scrabble into something far more sinister is highly effective.All in all, even viewing the episodes in a single setting as a fully grown and highly cynical adult, they were wildly entertaining.
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